... to do things on my own; I guess that's why I"m quiet. I begin to fail because I don't ask question. I get behind because I begin to fail. I had a good child hood; I was brought up with good moral. I don't necessarily follow all of those morals, but I know the difference between right and wrong. I have always been ... try to fit in even though we are different. For being Mexican/Bolivian my brother and I are pretty different from most Hispanics we know. All our cousins are into techno music and shiny shirts and shoes, and were into dirt biking and rock alternative music. Our parents ... ...

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... full of anti-censorship, liberation, and free will, the sky's the limit. Words of hate, bigotry, sexism, and racism grace today's airwaves with no questions asked. Eminem, a top rapper today, sings about killing gays, his mom, and his wife. Jay-Z rants about how many girls he's "bagged" in his hit single "Girls, girls, girls ... 't stand still, like fuckin helium Fake niggaz, they don't go platinum they go aluminum Got em cloned the fuck up son, that's why we losin em I'm lookin at this niggaz longevity."1 But, quickly after, the money got to artist like these" heads, and talk of "bling b...

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... muttered nerveously, thinking that he was going to get after me again about something being wrong with the way something looks inside the house. Unexpectedly my dad said, "Hey chief. How are you?" the same thing that he usually says to people that he knows, but forgets their names. Trying to ... keep things as short as possible I said, " I"m good, but I need to take out the trash though." So, I bagged up the smelly trash and walked outside in what seemed a mile to put the smelly trash into an even smellier trash. After that, I came back inside a " dear OL" dad," ... was inspecting the ...

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