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This is the list of choices my teacher gave us. We have to pick four books to read throughout the year. Any opinions on book I defianatley should or should not read? By the way, I’m a freshmen in honors english and I hate reading.. if that matters. Thanks!

Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Posionwood Bible
Hosseini, Khalad A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini, Khalad Kite Runner
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the United States
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Nabokov, Vladimir
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Dostoevsky Brothers Karamozov
Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence

Tolsky Anna Karina
Paton Cry the Beloved Country
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Atwood, M The Handsmaid Tale
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Plath The Bell Jar
Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Salinger Franny and Zooey
Alverez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

Atlas Shrugged Rand
Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
Dubliners Joyce
The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain

Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dante Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying

Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt

Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land.
O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt’s America.
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travel
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Yusunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Shepard, Alan Moon Shot: The Inside Story
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth Having Our Say

Tell Her Fuck it your not a gofer n your reading way of the shadows by brent weeks its a very very very good book especially if you like action/fantasy

Amor Sincero – Guyi y María Álvarez

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This is the list of choices my teacher gave us. We have to pick four books to read throughout the year. Any opinions on book I defianatley should or should not read? By the way, I’m a freshmen in honors english and I hate reading.. if that matters. Thanks!

Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of Butterflies.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees.
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Posionwood Bible
Hosseini, Khalad A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini, Khalad Kite Runner
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the United States
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Nabokov, Vladimir
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Dostoevsky Brothers Karamozov
Wharton, Edith Age of Innocence

Tolsky Anna Karina
Paton Cry the Beloved Country
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Atwood, M The Handsmaid Tale
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Plath The Bell Jar
Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
Salinger Franny and Zooey
Alverez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls

Atlas Shrugged Rand
Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
Dubliners Joyce
The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain

Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert The Stranger
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dante Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying

Fielding, Henry Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Faust
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll’s House
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt

Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land.
O’Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry Call It Sleep
Kuralt, Charles Charles Kuralt’s America.
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travel
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Thackeray, William Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here
Turgenev, Ivan Fathers and Sons
Yusunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Shepard, Alan Moon Shot: The Inside Story
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth Having Our Say

i think you should pick
Dracula
Animal Farm
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
and the Picture of Dorian Gray

they are all great books, and i think you’ll like them a lot

Federal authorities said this afternoon they have arrested eight people — and are seeking a ninth — with ties to the Drew Street clique of the Avenues gang on suspicion of drug trafficking and human smuggling.

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement served search and arrest warrants Tuesday night and this morning at locations in the Imperial Valley and Los Angeles.

One of the sites in the 2800 block of Avenue 34 in northeast L.A. was the base of operations for the alleged smuggling ring and served as a "drop house" before illegal immigrants were taken to their final locations, ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said in a prepared statement.

The ring charged people up to $4,500, provided phony immigration papers and smuggled the human cargo into the United States from Mexico by concealing them in trucks and hidden compartments of vehicles.

Some of the defendants face up to 30 years in federal prison if convicted on all counts.
A federal grand jury indictment names Teodoro Alvarez-Estrada, 56, and his wife, Aquilina Alvarez, 56. They were arrested after a search of their northeast Los Angeles home turned up three firearms, including a semiautomatic handgun and a .357 Magnum revolver, ICE officials said.

Also arrested were Eduardo Alvarez-Marquez, 35, of Los Angeles, and Holtville residents Martina Araceli Carreon, 44, and Jose Carreon, 47. Others in custody included Calexico residents Ruben Servin-Mejia, 37, and Maria Toledo-Fierros, 49, and Yesenia Rubi Mendoza-Gonzalez of Mexicali, Mexico.

The investigation into the smuggling ring began in August 2008 from information developed by the Los Angeles Police Department and federal authorities in their probe of crime tied to the Avenues street gang.

The ring is alleged to have smuggled over 200 illegal immigrants into the U.S. annually. Federal investigators said at one point the alleged smugglers were negotiating with Avenues gang members to bring Maria Leon, matriarch and shot-caller of the Drew Street clique, into the United States from Mexico.

Leon, now serving an eight-year federal prison sentence for racketeering crimes related to the Avenues street gang, eventually used another smuggling group, federal authorities said.

“This case illustrates the disturbing ties we’re increasingly finding between local street gangs and criminal organizations,” said Kevin Kozak, deputy special agent in charge of the Los Angeles ICE office. “ICE is working not only to target and dismantle violent street gangs, but also the criminal organizations that support the gangs’ illegal activities.”
Blanca Zendejas Nienhaus, an ACLU of California spokesperson, told about 15 people who huddled in the square during a rain-soaked morning press conference. "This has led to an atmosphere of terror where immigrants are afraid to contact police."

Racial profiling has a bad rap. This system is employed in Israel in the airline industry and they have never had a terrorist take control or destroy an airplane.

If you investigating a Korean gang, or a Mexican gang, or a White Supremacist gang….. shouldn’t you look for suspects that fit the description??? People in regular society discriminate and racially profile each other on a daily basis, shouldn’t the police?

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I am busting my brain over this. I read my Spanish textbook about this, but I still don’t understand how the last names in Spanish speaking countries work. Could anyone help me, please? Here is the picture: http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp277/lindsmith88/3-1.gif

La familia Vargas:
1. Maria Teresa Vargas Casona
2. Felipe Vargas Nunez
3. Alejandra Casona de Vargas
4. Gustavo Vargas Casona
5. Julia Guevara de Vargas
6. Rosita Vargas Guevara

La familia Garcia:
7. Joaquin Garcia Munoz
8. Hector Garcia Ramirez
9. Elvira Munoz de Garcia
10. Claudia Garcia de Moreno
11. Roberto Moreno Alvarez
12. Claudio Moreno Garcia

Felipe Vargas Nunez (#2) es _____ de Maria Teresa (#1) y Gustavo (#4). Es _____ de Alejandra Casona (#3). Es _____ de Rosita (#6). Alejandra Casona de Vargas (#3) es _____ de Maria Teresa (#1) y Gustavo (#4). Es _____ de Felipe (2) y _____ de Rosita (#6). Gustavo Vargas Casona (#4) es _____ de Felipe (#2) y Alejandra (#3) y _____ de Maria Teresa (#1). Rosita Vargas Guevara (#6) es _____ de Gustavo (#4) y Julia (#5). Es _____ de Felipe (#2) y Alejandra (#3) y _____ de Maria Teresa (#1).

lets see…so felipe must be the father (el padre) of maria y gustava. he’s the father-in-law of alejandra casona. he’s the grandfather of rosita. im not sure about #4, because alejandra should be the sister-in-law to maria teresa but not to gustavo cause that doesn’t make sense. #5, not sure either. wow i can see where you’re confused. this totally doesn’t make sense. i hope this helped! though i didn’t get very far either…

Un pequeño homenaje a Maria Alvarez Ponton Campeona del mundo de Endurance en Malasia 2008

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I am busting my brain over this homework. I read my Spanish textbook about this, but I still don’t understand it. Could anyone help me, please? Here is the picture: http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp277/lindsmith88/3-1.gif

La familia Vargas:
1. Maria Teresa Vargas Casona
2. Felipe Vargas Nunez
3. Alejandra Casona de Vargas
4. Gustavo Vargas Casona
5. Julia Guevara de Vargas
6. Rosita Vargas Guevara

La familia Garcia:
7. Joaquin Garcia Munoz
8. Hector Garcia Ramirez
9. Elvira Munoz de Garcia
10. Claudia Garcia de Moreno
11. Roberto Moreno Alvarez
12. Claudio Moreno Garcia

Felipe Vargas Núñez (#2) es _____ de María Teresa (#1) y Gustavo (#4). Es _____ de Alejandra Casona (#3). Es _____ de Rosita (#6). Alejandra Casona de Vargas (#3) es _____ de María Teresa (#1) y Gustavo (#4). Es _____ de Felipe (2) y _____ de Rosita (#6). Gustavo Vargas Casona (#4) es _____ de Felipe (#2) y Alejandra (#3) y _____ de María Teresa (#1). Rosita Vargas Guevara (#6) es _____ de Gustavo (#4) y Julia (#5). Es _____ de Felipe (#2) y Alejandra (#3) y _____ de María Teresa (#1).

When there are two surnames (last names), the first one is given by the father and the second one from the mother. For example, say your dad’s last name is Smith and your mother’s maiden name was Jones. Your name would be Lindsay Smith Jones. Every person in a family receives their name this way. When a woman marries, she retains only her father’s last name and adds her husband’s last name (again, father’s name only.)
Say you marry a guy whose name is Peter Johnson Brown. Your new name would be Lindsay Smith de Johnson. Your children’s last names would be Johnson Smith, and any daughter of yours who marries would take the husband’s first last name (and drop your maiden name) as you did with your husband.

To take it further, you can tell how you’re related to your cousins on both sides of the family by the last names. If both you and your cousin have the same FIRST last name, then you’re both children of brothers on your dad’s side (your dad and his brother).
If you both have the same SECOND last name, then you’re both children of sisters on your mother’s side (your mom and her sister.)
Let’s say your FIRST last name is the same as your cousin’s SECOND last name; then that would mean that your dad is the brother of your cousin’s mother.

I can see how this would give you a headache, so I’ve filled in the blanks for you.

Felipe Vargas Núñez (#2) es _padre_ de María Teresa (#1) y Gustavo (#4). Es _esposo_ de Alejandra Casona (#3). Es _abuelo_ de Rosita (#6). Alejandra Casona de Vargas (#3) es _madre_ de María Teresa (#1) y Gustavo (#4). Es _esposa_ de Felipe (2) y _abuela_ de Rosita (#6). Gustavo Vargas Casona (#4) es _hijo_ de Felipe (#2) y Alejandra (#3) y _hermano_ de María Teresa (#1). Rosita Vargas Guevara (#6) es _hija_ de Gustavo (#4) y Julia (#5). Es _nieta_ de Felipe (#2) y Alejandra (#3) y _sobrina_ de María Teresa (#1).

I’d like to translate this into spanish, but I’m not that great yet so I was wondering if someone could help me out with it? =)

- Her full name was Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, duchess d’Alba.

- She’s wearing a red sash and bow with her white dress.

- She has very long dark hair.

- She is on a beach.

- She has a small white dog.

Su nombre completo era María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvares de Toledo, ducessa de Alba

Ella esta usando una faja roja y combina con su vestido blanco.

Ella tiene un cabello muy largo y obscuro.

Ella esta en la playa.

Ella tiene un perro pequeño y blanco.