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?

Slavery- Glogster

Background on Gangs

What do you know about gangs?  That they are a group of people that protect part of a neighborhood they seem to use Drugs, Alchohol, and Party alot.



What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc. when i use to live in Los Angeles i use to see alot of people get involved in gangs and and urn into crips or bloods..

Project Implicit Test

The interpretation is described as 'automatic preference for Light Skin' if you responded faster when Light Skin faces and Good words were classified with the same key than when Dark Skin faces and Good words were classified with the same key. Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic preference may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. Alternatively, you may have received feedback that 'there were too many errors to determine a result'.

*** What were your results?

Picture Provided

*** Were you surprised by your results? Why?

 cause im Rasict and i didnt know

*** Why do you think your results were what they were?

Bad they say i dotn like dark skinned people

*** What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?

that they should ask more different questions not the same issh...

*** How might this connect to the concept of immigration?

people not accepting other and they get deported

10 myths

1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
Of the more than 31 million foreign-born people living in the United States in 2009, about 20 million were either citizens or legal residents

2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
Back then they only had like open immigration system where they check people it was legal.

3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
Anyone who has documents has the ability to cross over a border to stand in line and check in.

4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
People had to learn another language during the world war 1 and use it to teach their future kids.

5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
Peolple mkore than 50,000 immigrants became citizens and became Americanized because they had to suffer the
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
People settled from different parts of the world and got jobs from the Americans and got implantated into the new life
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
People thought that people got into more trouble if they were immigrants

8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
they thought since they were immigrants they didnt have to pay taxes

9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal
they aernt immigrants their just not legal

Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

undocumented immigrants: that  atleast evey home has an undocumented person living there. Undocumented women got paid minimum wage and didnt have any health insurance.

poultry workers: a quarter of the poultry workers have no papers or are either not registered. all the hours that they work are not paid and cannot get claimed because then they lose their job.

farm workers: 60% of the farm workers have no documents. the farmers get pesticide infections or have injuries and their work doesnt cover them.

sex abuse on the job: Women were not treated with equality they had to have sex with their supervisor in order to keep thier job. they got paid less and did not have any coverage