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    Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian provides a harrowing and sarcastic but ultimately very real, look at the history of Indigenous peoples in North America from the time of first contact to the present. King details the relationship between non-Indigenous peoples and Indigneous peoples, establishing a subversion of history in which this relationship has continuously exploited and dominated over Indigneous people. At times a deeply personal account on his own conflicted activism, and at other…

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    Kim Il Sung are perhaps the two most influential Koreans of the 20th century. They were leaders of two opposing sides on a divided Korean peninsula. Park was the leader of South Korea, known as The Republic of Korea (ROK), and Kim was the leader of North Korea, known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since the Korean War, their countries have been in a stalemate characterized by a switch between periods of polarizing tension and times of cooperation and possible…

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    Japanese women, they were eligible to participate the repatriation of Japanese to Japan. Additionally, the North Korean government also allowed Sakhalin Koreans to join North Korean nationalities. If these Sakhalin made decision to accept either offers, it would made their way easier to back to South Korea. However, the statistics in the article illustrates that “ about 28,000 obtained North Korean citizenship.” (Choi, 120) This indicates that the reason why Sakhalin insisted to stay in Russian…

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    Paleo-Indians Case Study

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    1. Paleo- Indians were the first people to migrate to the new world. They were to have followed other animals from their home to the new world. They were very smart, archaeologist found tools they created and used for various aspects of their lives. The Paleo-Indians are known for their “three sisters” agriculture. “Three Sisters” agriculture is the farming of maize, beans, and squash. They developed the “three sisters” agriculture because they are plants that help each other grow healthy. In…

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    Major landforms: For the majority of the South Korea, the terrain is mostly mountainous, hilly, basined area and is less than 500 meters above sea level. Because Taipei Mountain Range runs along the eastern coast, it plants several mountain range forming hilly area within the lower altitude. The highest mountain of South Korea is Hallasan in the center of Chejudo, with the altitude of 1,950 meters. Smaller mountains ranges, like Seoraksan and Mount Wutai, are known for their beautiful scenery.…

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    Are Bacon’s actions justified and is it right? Many historians believe Bacon’s Rebellion was unjustified and wrong, but many other historians believe his actions are benevolent. Bacon’s attack on the Natives is correct because the government was neglecting the citizens, teaching Natives the use of firearms, and the Natives stealing major crops from the citizens. Bacon played a major part in history, especially in the year of 1676 when Bacon’s Rebellion started. The rebellion started out by the…

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    By starting this, European settlements in South and North America began accumulating rapidly. This eventually led to tout modern nations that we know of today. Columbus also started the Columbian Exchange. After Columbus sailed the ocean it no longer was a barrier for people. It was if the Pangaea had been…

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    My name Lin Dao and I am writing to you from Hanoi which is located in Vietnam. You must be wondering why I took the liberty of finding out where you worked and decided to contact you specifically. The two part being is that I have recently watched a documentary called “Regret to Inform”. I am sure that, as a history teacher, you have seen this heart wrenching documentary about a woman whose husband died during the American War, or the Vietnam War as you call it, and how she contacted other…

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    El Salvador Description

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    El Salvador Location Where is the place? The longitude and latitude of El Salvador is 13° 42° North and 89° 12° West. El Salvador is located in the continent, North America. The hemisphere that El Salvador is located around is the Western Hemisphere How far away from home is it? El Salvador is about 2-4 hours away from Pennsylvania. You would travel 1,665 miles to get to El Salvador from Pennsylvania. What countries are neighbors of El Salvador? The countries that are nearest to El Salvador…

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    The Native Americans and the United States’ Government's relationship was not off to a great start in the 1800’s. When the settlers first came to America, the Natives viewed them as untrustworthy. The suspicions were confirmed, when the settlers started to expand into the Natives land. This caused conflicts and they were only solved by violence. Finally, the Americans and Natives came to the biggest conflict of all, The War of 1812. This was a war in 1812, between the Natives and the white…

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