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    the months after that as we helped him prepare for his ward mission leader calling and to receive the Melchezedic priesthood. He remained sober for the years after that as he prepared to be married and sealed to another beautiful convert in the Guatemala City temple. I witnessed a miracle as Heavenly Father helped us reconnect just a week before my mission was ending, as Jorge lived miles away from my last area and only had a construction job there. When I saw him, I did not think about the…

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    Colossal Head

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    The Colossal Heads also appear to be wearing helmets, something that has puzzled researchers ever since they were discovered. The first Olmec head was discovered at Tres Zapotes where at the same time 'Stelae C' was discovered. Markings on Stelae C bear the Olmec calendar long count date which converts to 31 BC. This date on the stelae gives us a probable date for the placement of the Colossal Head. More gigantic heads like the one at Tres Zapotes, in addition to a number of massive stone…

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    % of the total immigrant numbers from the U.S. India, China, and Philippines account for about 5 % each, of immigrant population. Next coming El Salvador, Vietnam, Cuba, and Korea with a 3 % each, of immigrant population. Dominican Republic and Guatemala presenting 2% each of the immigrant population. These countries are counted in the top ten immigrant origins, totaling to about 60% of the U.S. immigrant population in 2014. Immigrants in the United States and their born children totals to 26 %,…

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    In Richard A. Koenigsberg’s “Love of War” he discusses the “X” factor. Koenigsberg defines the “X” factor as the sacred ideal that acts as a released transforming violent acts into forms of goodness. I believe that the X factor is just used as an excuse to obtain power from other cultures to control their natural resources. Governments leaders have used many excuses to convince their citizens to fight for their agenda but in the big scheme, the destruction of these cultures is fueled by greed…

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    Article three states “that everyone has the right of life, liberty and security of the person.” The Guatemala had more than 200,000 people killed over the course of the 36-year-long civil war. Article thre says “ everyone has the right to live”, and more than 200,000 died. “In late October 2012, FAFG archaeologists exhumed 65 women and children from one…

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    them since they existed at the same time within the same region, they also each have distinctive features which differentiates their cultures from one another. The major cities of the Mayan Classic period are within present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Belize and…

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    Jake Rosenbloom, Ian Kabra, Fiske Cahill,and Jonah Wizard. The bad characters are Ruthford Pierce, Cara Pierce, Galt Pierce,and the body guards. Now the setting. The setting takes place in many locations in this story. The story takes place in Guatemala; Cambodia; Attleboro; Delaware; New York; Ireland,and Maine‎. The Cahills are looking for ingredients to complete the serum. There a problem that some of the ingredients are from animals that are endangered or extinct and there is another problem…

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    The Mayan Writing System

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    the Mayan had a distinct approach to the scholars. Deciphering the writing represents and values who the Maya people really were. The Mayan writing was acknowledge and known as the emblem graph. The emblem graph represented certain cities around Guatemala. Spaniards colonized a better understanding of the Maya people using the Hieroglyphs. They were able to categorize the cities and discover which group belonged to what city. They were able to identify which city was at war with the other.…

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    I think that the all people opinions are important, regardless their political ideology, economic activities, religion, profession, ethnical group, social class or way of life, because the truth not is property of the few people is a constant social construction. The ideas about someone topic are necessary, and the actors, athletes and rock star had been life’s experiences that they can to give to children, mothers, fathers, family and the social groups. In any case, every person is free in…

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    In the early 60s, the United States and Latin American relations was at a very low point because of the precedent of the United States using military intervention to deal with Latin American because of the U.S. fear of the spread of Communism, especially in the western hemisphere. The Kennedy Administration’s attempted overthrow of Castro’s Cuba and the Johnson Administration’s occupation of the Dominican Republic are the best examples of the deterioration of U.S.-Latin American relations in the…

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