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Born in Los Angeles, Grown in Koreatown, From Lincoln Heights

Currently residing/studying at the Univ. of CA, Irvine

Me llamo Nelly

scottlava: “Honestly mate, you look sterling.”

Hopefully by listening to punta I’ll be able to concentrate on my studying.

bryan-j-guardado: Don’t you wish your mom was Honduran! 😛 Baleadas for breakfast 😋 Omg I can smell las tortillas. Se me sale la baba <3
I was afraid of eggplants when I was younger.
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Mil horas - La Sonora Dinamita

anarcho-queer: Pentagon Study Finds Sharp Rise In Military Sexual Assaults The problem of sexual assault in the military leapt to the forefront in Washington on Tuesday as the Pentagon released a survey estimating that 26,000 people in the armed forces were sexually assaulted last year, up from 19,000 in 2010, and an angry President Obama and Congress demanded action. The study, based on a confidential survey sent to 108,000 active-duty service members, was released two days after the officer in charge of sexual assault prevention programs for the Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery for grabbing a woman’s breasts and buttocks in an Arlington, Va., parking lot. In a separate report made public on Tuesday, the military recorded 3,374 sexual assault reports last year, up from 3,192 in 2011, suggesting that many victims continue not to report the crimes for fear of retribution or a lack of justice under the department’s system for prosecution. Pentagon officials said nearly 26,000 active-duty men and women had responded to the sexual assault survey. Of those, 6.1 percent of women and 1.2 percent of men said they had experienced sexual assault in the past year, which the survey defined as everything from rape to “unwanted sexual touching” of genitalia, breasts, buttocks or inner thighs. From those percentages, the Pentagon extrapolated that 12,100 of the 203,000 women on active duty and 13,900 of the 1.2 million men on active duty had experienced some form of sexual assault. In 2010, a similar Pentagon survey found that 4.4 percent of active-duty women and fewer than 0.9 percent of active-duty men had experienced sexual assault. Women in combat zones are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by the enemy. My topic for Public Policy Analysis is expanding health care coverage for servicewomen (H.R.1389). I’ve been collecting various sources for my paper, including the recent report released by the Pentagon, and aside from reading about Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the man in charge of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program, who was arrested for sexual assault, the increase in assault shows that the DoD’s efforts are complete failure. Although the MARCH Act expands health care coverage for abortion, the GAO found that military service providers need more training on how to treat injuries stemming from sexual assault. Prevention methods must be improved, but how? Pamphlets and awareness are definitely not working. Also, many cases go unreported because victims fear retaliation, so the way the DoD handles cases must be changed too.
Me and my zucchini.

My dad was talking to my tio Jose on skype and replied with “ya huele a mole” when my tio asked about me.

Baths are exquisite.