Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
They were originally founded in Los Angeles CA, they were then organized in El Salvador.
They are a gang that want Revenge from life and kill people brutally beating them.

2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara Salvatrucha?
The people or Members that got arrested and deported then recruit and make a bigger piece of that gang.
People that have been deported also get mad and they release a rage together that runs the streets filled with blood and dead bodies.

3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect
The girl who they mentioned was killed because she ionformed the FBI about some of the Activivities that they did as a Gang.

Week 4 Vocabulary Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

2) Construct - Make, build, create

under 300 men constructed one of the tallest city buildings in "San Diego''

                                                                

1) Identify - Recognize, spot, name

we had to identify a quick image for every vocabulary word we have.

3) Significant - Important, major, noteworthy

the picture in the cover of the aluminum fallacet is important to the owner because if not it would of been beaten up :)

Why I recycle!

1. How much trash does one American produce each year?
atleast 5 pounds a day
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution

Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.
to use less
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
to use again after its been used once
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
to use the things your used already thrown away.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage helps you organize trash
**Paper schools and business use it for everything to communicate
**Landfills are areas that have trash in a tub that creates art
**Recycling re-using the things again so you dont waste another one
**Energy its what we rely on to use electronical items or light

Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of 4.6 pounds (2.1 kilograms) per day per person
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
32.5 percent, was either recycled or composted
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
The United Kingdom ranks highest, burying about 90 percent of its solid waste in landfills.
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
One of them is throwing trash like wherever and the other one is Art.
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
so that any potential leakage from the landfill will not enter the groundwater or watershed

6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
so that the water or the waste doesnt go around the place and people just ignore it because the it would become trash again.

7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?