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48 entries 3/15/10

1/20/2011 First thinking about something by Martin Luther King Jr. I expect to learn something new about what he has done to make a difference in many lives. first thing I notice in the article was that Dr.King was trying to give opportunity to poverty. they wanted this march on Washington and the Pentagon to change the values that were given to these people. He believed that after the ended that poverty was left with broken promises.

1/24/2011 For my future I want what everybody else wants, to be successful. In the future I see myself in good health taking care of myself remaining drug-free. I see my self living near the city, preferably metro- Atlanta, I see myself still close to my family and at a steady job with a stable income. I want to be do something that I love so I would able to put my heart into it. On a typical day I see yself leaving for work early in the morning coming back mid-afternoon, so then I could enjoy the rest of my day with friends and family.

1/26/2011 I have been reading the book by sister soulja. I have read two of her books so far and everytime I have started one it becomes hard for me to put the book down. He books bring you into the lives of the character making it feel as though you are there with them. Reading "No Disrespect" was bringing me into the life of the main character, Sister Soulja, and the atmosphere she grew up in. She started out living middle class, but when her father loses his job and becomes depressed, her mother, sister and brother move downtown in the ghetto. She finds out that she has to start growing tough skin to survive there.

Life changing moments are the hardest to go through, yet can be the most rewarding. (anne)

1/31/2011 She continues to get use to her surrounds and start to see a change in her family. Her mom is starting to date neighbor guys and her sister and brother begin to slack off in school. She tries to stay on them but when she decides to go to college, she thinks of where her family will end up. But right before she goes to college she finds out that her mother is pregnant and that they are moving in with her grandmother. She thinks this would be a good change for the family because grandma is a minister at her church and dont really put up with the non-sense.

2/01/2011 She ends up oing to college and meet all sorts of people. Unlike normal college students she enjoys learning new things and attend class, she especially is finding it necessary that they offer African American courses. So as she start getting accustomed to the college, she started falling for this senior who interest her with his mind, not his looks. As the year went on they would see each other every couple of weeks, but when they were together they really had a connection that was hard to break.

2/02/2011 As the summer came they made there relationship offical and they spent all their time together. So a couple months into their relationship Nathan, Her boyfriend, couldn't find a job after graduating and started to become depressed. His depression lead him away from her, so one day he called her up and said that he had to become a man before he could be in a relationship. So he ended up dumping to her and they never spoke again.

2/03/2011 She took the break up really hard, she became depressed and start shutting friends from her school out. so as another year rolled around she decided to go to summer school so she would be able to stay busy. so as she signed up for her classes she wondered where she would stay since she couldnt stay in the dorms, thats when this senior told her how much she admired her and would be honored to have her as a house quest. That summer as she stayed with her she began to learn much about her roommates life style. She played men to get money and support her high-class life style.

2/04/2011 As the summer came to an end her roommate lifestyle started to catch up with her. She ended up getting caught up in the game and was left by herself. But Carmen was about to move back on campus and get out of that drama for good. Sometimes she considered why she didnt rub off on her, but she realized that maybe it was for good that she not get into those situations.

2/05/2011 her graduation date was coming up soon she begin to think about what she wanted to do after she graduated. She ended up running into this pastor that heard good word of her, and he wanted her to run this program out of the church that would help the youth in the area. So as she begin running the program she meet this guy thatt had this confidence about him that she begin to fall in love with.

2/07/2011 As they start spending more time together they get to know each other better they begin to find out thinkgs about each other. They go to lunch everyday together and have amazing conversations about life and where they see there relationship in the future. She thinks she knows all about him until he tells her about his child, at first this shocked her and she didnt know if she could handle a kid and a the kids mother. But she decides not to let this interfer with there relationship. So one day he doesnt call her and she suspects something is wrong, soon she found out that he had been arrested for murder.

2/08/2011 As she gets the details she finds out that the cop has been harrassing him for years, so when they heard of a murder in the neighborhood he suspected that he had something to do with it. So as Carmen makes calls and collect money for his bail they release him and she is so happy that she didnt have to pay to bail him out and that he wasnt charge with murder.

2/08/2011 So when he got out he had promised her that they would marry the following week, she thought it was sudden but it was true love and she wasnt going to stand in the way of that. So that friday he showed up to her house late and told her that he was a drug dealer and that some people was out to get him he needed some money to keep his mom safe, sh she ended up giving him $3,000. And he called her regularly for her protection they could hangout much.

2/09/2011 So when she came back from summer camp with the kids she found a number in his pocket and called it. She found out that he had been playing her the whole time and was married to his childs mother and also that he just used her to get the money. He told her that he didnt love her at all and that he didnt want anymore contact with her. That was the last time they spoke. She took this breakup extremely hard and became depressed, so she started focusing more on her career.

2/10/2011 She started to come to the fact that all the good men were taken and she only had two choices. She had to share a man or not have one at all, so she told herself if a guy did come into her life she would want all honesty out on the table and if he was in a relationship then he would have to tell his girl friend that he also had her on the side. I think it was kind of pitiful for her to drop her standards. But she soon realized that she didnt want to share a guy and wanted him all to herself. So he ended up leaving her and she wasnt so heartbroken this time because she didnt really love him, she just considered what they had to be just a fling.

2/11/2011 she started looking at her life and realized that she hadnt had to many good experiences with guys and decided that she might just end up alone, and she was starting to accept it. She knew that she was a head strong and very intelligent indivdual and what ever guy she did end up with would deserve her, and she wouldnt settle with another guy again.

2/14/2011 This book starts out with lady name Pooh who has thhe perfect life, she has the perfect husband and the perfect child. But things go wrong and its just her and her son. She knows she has to find work or they would be put out of there apartment and she doesnt have anybody else to stay with. So she sees the ad in the paper for a wanted excort and shes not to sure what it is but she thinks that it cant be to hard, and she also would do anything to provide a better life for her son.

2/14/2011 So she calls in and is put on the schedule for the following night. She shows up the first night and is scared, but she starts to think of all the things she could buy for her son with the money. So as the knight comes to an end she ends up with about $1,500. And she figured she would just do this untild she could find steady work somewhere else making decent money.

2/15/2011 So once she seen how much her boss was making off the money then she decided that she could get her own crew together with her own clients and end up making more money while spending more time with her son. So in no time she found her some girls and clients and had the business running out of her house. She was respected because she gave others the respect they deserve unlike all the other excort services.

2/15/2011 She ended up bringing in no less than four thousand dollars a day. She thought with her new financial growth that she qould be able to move out the ghetto and live in a safe area for her son to go outside and play in the yard.

2/16/2011 She starts looking for a new home for her and her son to live when she passes this house that is perfect for the two of them. She she ends up moving in a month later and threw all her old furniture away and bought all brand new things for her apartment. For the first time she feels like she could actually make a better like for her son then what she had. she also never thought that she would be doing this by herself.

2/17/2011 She always thought that Chino( her baby father who she loved and they owned there own beauty salon, then he started accusing her of cheating and the had a bad falling out now they dont even speak and he says that the baby isnt his) would take care of her and she would be a stay at home mom. But since she wasnt able to do that she form hate towards Chino, but at the same time she still wanted to talk to him and have him part of her life.

2/17/2011 So as she gets deeper into the business she starts to make more money and decides to let her friend buy into part of her business. so she charges him a start up cost that would be due before he could have any part of her business. She begins to realize that the workers are like family to her so as there form of line doesnt earn respect but she respects them for everything, on the other side they respect her too. She took many of her workers out of the danger of the streets and had them working out of hotels rooms.

2/18/2011 She ends up wanting in the drug gang she sees how much money is being handled and she decides that she wants a cut. so through her connections that she has made she gets straight through to the source. she finds this as a advantage and disadvantage becasue first she doesnt have to pay a middle man, but on the down side anything that goes wrong falls back on her.

2/19/2011 As she weighs the options she sees that she could just do it for a season to save up money, enough to get her and her son out of the state to start a new life, with a new beginning. So she gets some of her most trusted people who know how to sell the products to work on her team, she believes that these few men are on her side and know that this is only a temporary thing.

2/20/2011 She always believed something was up with him though because he didn�t have a car. He was dependent on her for survival. But the time came for her and she knew that she wanted to get out the business; she was tired of taking the risk when she didn�t need to.

2/21/2011 So during her fist run she was scared to death but knew she had a bulletproof plan, everything went smoothly and she seen that she recieved $50,000 off her first run. that was her goal amount but she still had to pay people off and save some money for the next run. So she thought that just doing a couple more would give them enough money to last her a while and could give her son whatever he hope for in his future even if that included college. She knew that if she kept him focus he would be able to do whatever he wanted and not just be another static.

2/22/2011 So she decides that she will just do this last run for chino and be out the business and out of the town the following week, but chino figures that he would keep her doing it so he could get some money coming in since his money had started to run out. So during one of her runs the cops got tipped of about what she was doing and found the drugs in her car and had somebody already to testify against her. She found out that one of the guys on her team ended up telling on her so that he could get out of jail on a felony charge. So as she is in jail everyone she knows start turning against her.

2/23/2011 Guys on her team start making deals to testify against her for deals on getting out and getting their sentences reduced. So as she makes her first court appearance she sees all the guys that turned their back on her when all she did was helped them get money to support there families, she became disappointed in all of them but especially chino because he was the reason for the run and then he turned around and stabbed him in the back.

2/24/2011

She has been in jail for months and as the book ends her soon is put in the custody of her mom, and her sister moved to the city she was in so that she would never miss one of her court days, and she had a lawyer on her side and a man to back her up and support her. So she is still awaiting trail and form the looks of it she might get a heavy sentence due to all the evidence and testifies that she has against her.

2/25/2011 This book really was interesting because it describe how someone�s kindness can be taking for weakness. She put a lot of people to work so they could live a comfortable life and take care of their families and not want for anything and in the end everyone turns on her and leaves her to take the charges on her own. But I also thought she was kind of crazy for trusting chino again after he left her with nothing and disclaimed their son and she still made extra runs for him, then he ended up leaving her again all alone with nothing.

2/28/2011 The chance she took start with a story of this young girl life, Rayquelle lives with her mom, step dad and two sisters. She did have a twin brother but he was killed when there were in the sixth grade and walking to school and he was hit by a speeding driver who ran up on the sidewalk and killed him. After that her mom became depressed and starts drinking from the time she woke up to the time she fell asleep.

3/1/2011﻿Rayquelle started to feel all alone but she begins to find love in other places. As her mom start depending more and more on drugs she begin to tell her that she wasn�t going to be nothing, that she hated her and that she wished that it was her that got hit rather than her brother.

3/1/2011 Feeling no love from her mom, and knowing that her step dad was never around, because he was a police officer and wasn�t home most of the time she knew that she wasn�t going to get loved at home.

3/2/2011 She always believed something was up with him though because he didn�t have a car. He was dependent on her for survival. But the time came for her and she knew that she wanted to get out the business; she was tired of taking the risk when she didn�t need to.

3/2/2011 So she went out looking for love, she didn�t know exactly what she was looking for but she did know that she wanted somebody to care for her. So one time while she was at home hearing her mother yell and screamed at her lie usually she decided to go to bed early so she could wake up and just leave to go to school to avoid her mother. But when she woke up she saw her mother hanging from the ceiling in her room.

3/3/2011 She thought that her mother hated her so much that out of all rooms she hung herself in her room. She couldn�t sleep in that room after that and begin living with her grandma, although her grandma had set rules she seem to follow and break them all at the same time. She would be in before the street lights came on but be right back outside once her grandma went to sleep.

3/4/2011 She always believed something was up with him though because he didn�t have a car. He was dependent on her for survival. But the time came for her and she knew that she wanted to get out the business; she was tired of taking the risk when she didn�t need to.

3/4/2011 That�s when she started finding out how to play guys. She knew that she could basically get what she wasn�t until the guy got tired of her or wanted to move on to something new. She knew this wasn�t love but she had fun and didn�t see anything wrong with it as long as she wasn�t the one getting hurt. So as time passed she ended up meeting this guy name Monty.

3/7/2011 Monty ended up falling for her and begins to spoil her with the latest clothes and anything else that she wanted. She knew that she didn�t love him, but she enjoyed the way that he treated her she thought that this was the feeling of love because she couldn�t do anything that he would not accept, but she found out that all things have to come to a end, so one day Monty told her that he was seeing someone else and he was leaving her.

3/8/2011 She really didn�t care she had just graduated from high school and was ready to get out of her town and move on to better things. So during the summer as her plan to leave she found out that Monty and his brother had got killed in a robbery gone badly and that his girlfriend was also killed. She appreciated Monty for letting her go because that could have been her that was killed.

3/9/2011 So as she was in grad school she begin to date this guy name Chance since the day they meet they have been inseparable. They ended up moving in together and he proposed to her. She knew that she had found her soul mate with Chance and knew what love was. Although they didn�t know much about each other past they knew that they would be together forever.

3/10/2011 So one night while they were out at a restaurant she ends up running into her old roommate and they begin to catch up. So as her friend gets comfortable in her town she starts calling her more and checking up on her, which she think is kind of weird because she can�t really trust her.

3/11/2011 She one day her sister calls her and tells her that her step dad had died of a heart attack and that she needed to go to San Diego to plan for the funeral. She doesn�t know how to handle the news and can�t do anything but cry. So as she gets there her sisters pick her up from the airport. Chance decided to stay at home because he had an art gallery coming up, but he would be there the night before the funeral.

314/2011 So as they are walking in the house she finds out that her baby sister has had a serious heart attack and they call the ambulance to take her to the hospital. As they get there they found out that they have to give blood and the middle sister can�t give blood because she got HIV so Rayquelle had to donate blood for her sister.

3/14/2011 As they are sitting in the waiting room Tico, her old boyfriend comes in and tries to talk to her she tells him that she is getting married and that she needs him to leave. But she ends up finding out that her old roommate had told him I�m where she was and that her middle sister had started dating him after she had left for college.

3/15/2011 She also found out that he might have been the one that might have given her sister the disease. As all this news builds up she starts becoming depressed and that when her old roommates shows up on her doorstep.

3/15/2011 She tells her that she has this client for her and that she has to do it or she would tell Chance about her old life. She said just this once and gave her some powder to help clear her nerves so she could go through with it. As it turns out she starts talking to Chance less and having more clients and snorting more drugs.

3/16/2011 She always told herself that wouldn�t do drugs, but she look at it like she ended up getting dragged into them. one morning she woke up and she needed a hit really bad so she found it and as soon as she was about to breath it in, the doorbell rang knocking it on the floor, it was Chance and he flew out there to see her.

3/16/2011 She looked like a junky, after finding out about what was really going on in the family she just didn�t care anymore. So when she Chance she became embarrass and she didn�t want him to see her like this so as soon as he left the room she called her friend to get some more drugs.

3/17/2011 she ended up finding out that she had been doing heroin this whole time and had to go get some because she was going through withdrawals. So as soon as Chance feels asleep she snuck out to get the drug and would go to this last party and would come clean with Chance.

3/18/2011 she was at the party all the guys seen to show everybody else attention but her but she didn�t care she just wanted to get out of there. So as soon as everyone went in the rooms she decided that she would leave and go back and tell Chance.

3/18/2011 So as she got to the elevator she heard some foot steps behind her and before she knew it she had been dragged into a room and beating until she blacked out. She ended up waking up in the hospital and seen chance and her sister on her beside.

3/21/2011 Chance ended up finding out that her old roommate had did this and he wanted revenge. So as he left the hospital to find her he she ended up finding out that her step dad had been having a relationship with her middle sister and that her mom had found out about it and was going to leave but he said that he would lock her up on drug charges if she did.

3/21/2011 So as chance ends up going into the hotel room to find her he cuts on the light and sees that she is laying on the floor with her heart cut out. So he gets scared and goes back to Rayquelle�s younger sister house to change clothes.

3/22/2011 Once he gets back in the car he starts thinking about who could have done this to her and why. Then he sees that he and Rayquelles baby sister are being arrest.

3/22/2011 When they asked her why she killed her dad she told them that she was playing hide and seek with her sister and ended up hiding behind her parents door, she heard them arguing, she heard her mom say that she knew that he was molesting her child and she was leaving and didn�t care if she did get locked up.

3/23/2011 But then she seen her dad strangles her mom then go hang her in her sisters room to make it look like suicide. So she starts poisoning his medicine and it eventually killed him. But for chance they had a whole case against him, fingerprints and he was caught on photo leaving the premises

3/23/2011 Rayquelle then started going through with withdrawals and need her medicine so she convinced her sister that this would be the last time and that she wouldn�t do it again. Rayquelle ended up dying from mixed of high levels of heroin and the drugs that the hospital was giving her.

3/24/2011 Then Chance ended up getting all charges drop because one of the guys hired to kill the girl ended up confessing in a letter left after he committed suicide.

3/24/2011 And from that day on nobody has heard from or seen Chance. I think that Chance was so heart broken that she didnt feel comfortable telling him what was going on in her life. I didnt really like how the book ended, i thought she was going to get clean and go back to her old life of being happy and hving everything that she needs and wants.

3/25/2011 In the book sweeter than honey it starts out with this girl, Lace, talking about her life and how she has a sister name honey and they stay with there mom and step dad. Lace always thought that her mother was jealous of her because of her looks, but her mother confirmed it all the time.

3/26/2011 So one day they were watching TV and while her mom was out her step dad tried to come onto her and when he was caught in the act he just blamed it on Lace and her mother kicked her out because she said that she can�t have anyone in her house that would want her man.

3/27/2011 She as Lace slept on the front porch waiting for morning until her mom came out so she could ask if she could come back and apologize. But as the morning rolled around her mother came out and told her she needs to leave and stepped on her as she went to work.

3/28/2011 Form then she knew that she only had herself and that nobody cared about her. So from that day she trusts nobody and did what she had to do to get by.

3/29/2011 So as she hitched rides into Las Vegas she ends up meeting her first boyfriend. In the beginning of their relationship he was sweet and spoiled her now later in their relationship he started beating her daily and she knew she was better than that and she also knew that she had to leave.

3/30/2011 So one night she snuck out and never looked back again. Then she ran into her next boyfriend who was also sweet in the beginning.

3/31/2011 She thought that if she believed in love that this would be what it felt like. So as their relationship went on she seen that they were inseparable until one day he just had a bad day at work and came home and started beating on her.

4/1/2011 It then started to become something that happened every day. She started to feel like she didn�t just get out a bad relationship to get into the same thing.

4/2/2011 So she came up with a plan to get him back then leave and never look back. So she sent him treating letters and left threats around his house and left for good, the good thing for her is that she never saw him again.

4/3/2011 So then she found a job in the legal prostitution house in Nevada and found out that she was making pretty good money.

4/4/2011 She knew that it wasn�t right to sell her body but she knew she had to do what must be done to survive. So as she lived there she ended up saving up a lot of money and went into business with this big time guy named Anthony.

4/5/2011 She thought that she would just do this for a couple years, just enough to save up some money and get out of Nevada for good. So as she begin to recruit women for the job she thought that if she gets the best the customers will pay top dollar for them.

4/5/2011 I read this article on Google Reader about social work and it was very informative about the field that i want to get into. it was about this woman who was new in the social work job and really enjoyed what she did. but it had great affects on her life. i helped her save money and look at life different.

4/6/2011 So as years went by she ended up saving a lot of money and was living a comfortable lifestyle not wanting for anything and she also had a man too. He was an ex NFL player.

4/7/2011 He was broke and had no place of his own. He didnt tell lace that he would always say that his money was tied up in the stock and different investments.

4/8/2011 She always believed something was up with him though because he didnt have a car. He was dependent on her for survival. But the time came for her and she knew that she wanted to get out the business; she was tired of taking the risk when she didnt need to.

4/9/2011 She knew that it wasn’t right to sell her body but she knew she had to do what must be done to survive. So as she lived there she ended up saving up a lot of money and went into business with this big time guy named Anthony.

4/10/2011 So she decided that she needed a way to get out without a trace to her. But she also wanted to get one of her workers out with her she had grown to love her; she was her favorite out of all thirteen of them.

4/11/2011 She seen a lot of potential in her and believed that she deserved better in life. Anthony he wondered why Sunny had got involved in this business he thought that her parents were always going to keep her on the right track, but what he didn’t know was that he had fell in love with Sunny twin sister Summer and he thought that was her who was working for him.

4/12/2011 Anthony had feel in love with summer back in his days when he was younger, he had lost his parents so he had to provide for his self and summers parents didn’t agree with the life style and made them break up.

4/13/2011 He became depressed and shut out his feeling from all the hurt and that he was feeling for losing the love of his life, but what he didn’t know was that he left a son behind when he moved on.

4/14/2011 So one night Sunny got up the courage and said that she was going to be through with this and go tell Anthony that she was through, when she made it to his office she realized that she might not make it out alive.

4/15/2011 She was right he ended up shooting her because of all the hurt that she has caused him. So she called Benito, Lace boyfriend, and had had him come dispose of the body for $150,000.

4/16/2011 Benito was going to use the money to start him a new life somewhere in the south, but he couldn’t find where to take the body so he decided to take it to her house. When he got there he didn’t know that Summer was in the closet and he dropped the body on her and left.

4/17/2011 When Summer looked in the bag she seen that it was her sister and decided to go home and tell her parents, but what she didn’t know was that Benito had seen her coming out the apartment and followed her home and now he knew where she stayed.

4/18/2011 So he went and collected his money and decided to take it back over to Sunny house until the next day when he could get out of town. But Lace ended up going to the hospital to see her sister she found out that she was sick and didn’t have that much time to live.

4/19/2011 So when she was there she found out that her sister was molested by their step dad and that she was going to leave everything to her sister. She got furious and decided that she was going to get them back when she came back into town.

4/20/2011 As soon as she got back in town she suspect something was wrong and knew that she needed to be on guard. She ended up tying up him up and he confessed that Sunny was died.

4/21/2011 She as Lace slept on the front porch waiting for morning until her mom came out so she could ask if she could come back and apologize. But as the morning rolled around her mother came out and told her she needs to leave and stepped on her as she went to work. Form then she knew that she only had herself and that nobody cared about her. So from that day she trusts nobody and did what she had to do to get by. 4/22/2011 So one night she snuck out and never looked back again. Then she ran into her next boyfriend who was also sweet in the beginning. She thought that if she believed in love that this would be what it felt like. So as their relationship went on she seen that they were inseparable until one day he just had a bad day at work and came home and started beating on her.

4/23/2011 So as years went by she ended up saving a lot of money and was living a comfortable lifestyle not wanting for anything and she also had a man too. He was an ex NFL player. He was broke and had no place of his own. He didn’t tell lace that he would always say that his money was tied up in the stock and different investments. She always believed something was up with him though because he didn’t have a car. He was dependent on her for survival. But the time came for her and she knew that she wanted to get out the business; she was tired of taking the risk when she didn’t need to. 4/24/2011 So she decided that she needed a way to get out without a trace to her. But she also wanted to get one of her workers out with her she had grown to love her; she was her favorite out of all thirteen of them. She seen a lot of potential in her and believed that she deserved better in life. Anthony he wondered why Sunny had got involved in this business he thought that her parents were always going to keep her on the right track, but what he didn’t know was that he had fell in love with Sunny twin sister Summer and he thought that was her who was working for him.

4/25/2011 Anthony had feel in love with summer back in his days when he was younger, he had lost his parents so he had to provide for his self and summers parents didn’t agree with the life style and made them break up. He became depressed and shut out his feeling from all the hurt and that he was feeling for losing the love of his life, but what he didn’t know was that he left a son behind when he moved on.

4/26/2011 So he went and collected his money and decided to take it back over to Sunny house until the next day when he could get out of town. But Lace ended up going to the hospital to see her sister she found out that she was sick and didn’t have that much time to live.

4/27/2011 So when she was there she found out that her sister was molested by their step dad and that she was going to leave everything to her sister. She got furious and decided that she was going to get them back when she came back into town. As soon as she got back in town she suspect something was wrong and knew that she needed to be on guard.

4/28/2011 She ended up tying up him up and he confessed that Sunny was died. So as she was leaving she called to check on her sister and found out that she ended up dying as soon as she left. She knew that she needed to handle things so she could go back home for her sister funeral. So as she was showing up to work this cop lady called her and told her that she needed to do what she said and she would be able to get away. So she did and they had a plan to get Anthony for the murder and drug possession.