helloooooo? anyone here

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:17 pm

o well ur no fun u posed to guess but ok it was to many anyway imma give em all ten min each kuz umm u kno i gotta save the best fo last lol he gon get about 60 min or more but umm ne way

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LMAO tmi

i think it's slick em tho affraid

:runs out the post:

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:20 pm

o gurl u so narsty i wasnt even talkin like that ....or was i ....ummmm tongue

well shoot i dnt no who imma choose t b last

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have a three some then lmao.....rotf...jk

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:22 pm

lol gurl u aint playin well ummm gurl i dnt think they ready fo dat no way

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u dont even know who it's gonna be so how u know they aint ready? Suspect

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:25 pm

kuz aint none of mah boo's ready well one might b but the others aint so yea

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k....

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:32 pm

yup yup fasho

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come up wit anything?

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:34 pm

wat u talkin bout gurl

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who is it gonna be?? Suspect

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:37 pm

o mah real boo he live in texas lol

Guest

really??

im tell ur x..sike jk

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:39 pm

wat???

but yea im talkin bout mah ex though ummhumm i saw him baby he's kute

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lol..u saw em???

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:43 pm

no he has a myspace and i saw him on thur and we start bak talkin or wat not so yea

Guest

oh dang..well that's koo

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:44 pm

yea its iight but yea

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u trying to have something wit him?

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:47 pm

yea i guess and he ask me bakk out but i said lets not rush things and i aint talk to him since.........it the same guy that i was tellin u about and he went to jail and stuff

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oh dang...well hope he understand where u coming from u know??

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:50 pm

well i dnt think and i alreay kno his game he gon kall one day out the blue so yea wen he kall imma let him have

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yeah i feel ya

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:56 pm

and i aint playin....have u heard that song no mo complaining by mila j...........well that the song i got im repeat rite now

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naw i havent heard it

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:58 pm

well yea that my song ite thur fo reall well it should b on mah page

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yeah so i could listen to it

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:01 pm

yea wen u get a chance lol but yea there are to many song to fit the way im feelin but u knoi hada pik the best one lol

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yeah i know

that's what i like bout music

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:04 pm

yea me to but yea thats why i kould b a writter kuz wen i rite i be writter..lol.....my teacher always b like JUST a paragraph no more then that ok CHELSEA i b like ok mister

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lmao fo real

i write books when i write letters

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:12 pm

yea shoot i jus b havin somemuch to say it aint that im writin alot to get a good grade jus gotta get mah point across

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yeah i feel ya

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:29 am

lol yep yep fa sho

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my essay came out pretty good..u wanna read it??

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:27 am

yea yup fa sho lol

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alright i aint the best but here it is..

Gangs in the United States

“Street gangs are active ninety-four percent of the time in medium-to-large sized

cities,” according to the FBI. The first known gang was called the “Five Points,” which

evolved in the 1980’s in New York. Since then gangs have rapidly grown. One of the

most dangerous gangs in the United States is Marasalvatrucha, or MS-13. Their favorite

weapon is the machete which is used to chop off people’s hands. A machete is a large

heavy knife. These gangs are a factor for our community. Families are concerned for their

children; some are even killed cause of gang violence. Gangs grow due to the lack of

love, peer pressure, and people trying to fit in.

When I say lack of love I am talking about family love. “Some gang members are

from single parent families or families that don’t pay attention to them, so they find a

new family in a gang,” according to the judges of the 19th Judicial Circuit. My brother

Robert, also known as “Risky,” felt he was missing love. He grew up without a father and

he always felt that he needed something else. My mother, Leticia, would give him what

he wanted, but that still was not good enough. Robert first belonged to a crew, which is a

group of people working together. It was more of tagging, or graffiti, than violence. Then

he joined the gang called “Maravilla,” a well known gang here in the streets of Los

Angeles.

Robert felt like this was his family. He spent more time with them than with his

real family. Although he knew that the crime rate was high, he did not care. Gangs often

do drive by shootings, not caring who it is they harm. My brother was a victim, he was

not armed and was in front of the hospital waiting for a taxi to take him home when he

was shot. Robert is now paralyzed from the waist down. This does not only occur with

men, but with women too. They join gangs for the same reason, for the sense of

“belonging to a family” and power, protection and respect. This happens to a lot of

families in the United States.

Gangs also emerge through peer pressure. Peer pressure occurs in school or

around the community. It does not necessarily have to occur in the family, but in most

cases it does. Family members follow the footsteps of older family members. My cousin

Angel followed my brother’s footsteps, just like my brother followed the footsteps of my

cousins Javier and Ulysses. Angel looked up to Robert and Javier. He was not able to join

the gang because he was arrested and sent to juvenile. He is serving a year for grand theft

auto. This did not only occur with my cousin Angel, my friend also followed her

brother’s footsteps. To get into a gang, girls needed to be: “beaten and kicked by gang

members, robbery of drive by shooting, getting tattoos, having to fight 5-12 gang

members at once, or having sex with multiple male gang members,” the study said.

These people need to think twice about joining gangs. What they do not realize is

that they are not just putting their lives at risk, but the lives of their family as well. It is

always in the news that someone innocent not involved in gangs have been killed due to

gang violence. This occurs in both the families that do and do not have gang members. If

a gang wants to harm a gang member, but cannot find them; they will go after the family.

Families are then scared that something might happen to them when they least expect it.

“Brenda “Smiley” Paz, a former gang member and FBI informant, was found

dead by the Shenandoah River in Virginia on July 2003. Paz, 17, pregnant, had been

repeatedly stabbed, her throat slashed so violently that her head was nearly severed. Paz

had left the federal witness protection program against the FBI’s advice. Authorities

allege that an MS-13 leader, Denis Rivera, 20, commissioned the killing from his jail

cell—while awaiting trial in another federal murder case—to prevent Paz from testifying

against him. Rivera has pleaded not guilty,” according to the U.S. News. Brenda put her

life at risk and it had consequences.

A lot of people try to fit in, that is why they join gangs. Some feel that it is cool to

be in a gang, they feel like they will earn respect. “Youth are joining gangs at a younger

age and remaining longer, the membership may exist between the ages of 6 and 60,”

according to the judges of the 19th Judicial Circuit. Gang members also feel that by

joining a gang they will make more friends, but they are actually making enemies. Some

people start wearing different color combinations, such as black and blue, to show what

gang they are representing. Some families are scared to walk down their neighborhoods

knowing that there is a possibility if they wear those colors that they will be harmed. In

the end none of these things are worth it.

Gangs have grown due to lack of love, peer pressure, and people trying to fit in.

Although my brother joined a gang, I did not follow his footsteps. Not only was it the

lack of love, but it was the neighborhood and the people he grew up with that had an

influence on him. I did not have any negativity around me, just in my family and through

friends. So why did I not end up like my brother? I saw what gangs caused and I did not

want to make that same mistake. I was able to stop peer pressure. There is no need to try

to fit in, just be yourself and everyone will take notice of the type of person they are

talking to. Gangs are everywhere! That does not mean you have to join them.

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:19 pm

gurl that was a good essay had all yo lil fact and stuff goin and yo lil questions...tryna b like a real riter

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lol thanks i hope i get a good grade on it

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:59 pm

shoot u should

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yeah but when i think i did good..i get a bad grade..so ionno

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:04 pm

u already got yo grade or u think u gon get a bad grade

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naw i havent but everytime i think i do good

the teacher gives me a C and i have to rewrite it

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:11 pm

o dang well least thsy givin u a chance to fix things

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yeah i know

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:05 pm

but yea mah teacher b doin that to me to he be puchin me kuz he kno's imma have them ap klasses next year so yea

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aww well then u see that's good

Subject: Re: helloooooo? anyone here Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:17 pm

yea i no rite lol yo i jus realized i said punchin instead pushin

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lol i didnt even notice lol i knew what u was saying