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economy. The gold rush caused the building of railways to extract minerals. More recently, extraction of oil has provided the foundation of the Alaskan economy. Alaska is not an unsettled wilderness. In fact, it’s the longest-occupied part of the Americas. The Intuit and Yupik Eskimos and inland Athabaskan cultures have come after the native Alaskans.…

Alcohol abuse is a problem in indigenous societies, but some studies suggest that alcoholism parallels the problem of domestic violence instead of causing it, and that alcohol problems are also based in history and trauma, according to a 2000 article in “American Journal of Community Psychology.”…

Cuba is the largest country in the Caribbean region. Cuba is not advanced as it ought to be in 2014. Cuba’s land area is 42,803 square miles, 110,860 square kilometers. Cuba’s main land lies south of Florida in the Caribbean Sea by the Gulf of Mexico. Cuba has a lot of bays, beaches, and harbors. Cuban culture reflects on its Spanish colonial past and African influences. United Sates won the Spanish American War in 1898 the Cuban people were poverty or got rich. As some can see Cuba is not as…

movement would cause it to grow even more. Sitting Bull was highly respected by all Native Americans. This is due to his involvement in the Great Sioux Wars of the 1870’s. After winning the battle of Little Bighorn, he was also feared by the White society. Years after his famous battle, Sitting Bull was forced to surrender due to starvation in his tribe. They were then relocated and placed on a reservation. This reservation is where Sitting Bull…

This week's reading and lecture opens my eyes of course to how America was founded, and the different people groups that were among the first to settle in America. My interest was taken in the first people group known as the hunter-gatherers. The lives of the hunter-gatherers had to be wearing on their bodies and minds as they had to migrate along with the animals they hunted for food. Anything possessions had to be small, and living quarters were primitive, consisting of crude tents and huts,…

The United States of America has been named as a youthful country, given its genuine starting in the year 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was broadcasted. As a general rule, the adventure colonization, these United States have been experiencing starts before 1776. It is anything but difficult to take after the sequential timeline of the United States. Its colonization history frequently starts with Leif Ericson, who has accepted to set out to this area in the year 1000. At that point,…

mystery to how people came to the Americas. Some of these include, “The Bering Land Bridge”, “Coastal Entry”, “Atlantic Theory”, “Pacific Theory”, “African Theory”, and the “Creationist Theory”. Many of these theories are more valid than others. This paper will discuss one of these theories. The Bering Land Bridge is the most valid of these selections for multiple reasons. “The Bering Land Bridge” is the most valid theory for how Native Americans came to America, because of evidence from carbon…

This weeks reading takes a look at two specific ways in which globalization has shaped the American South by charting shifts in the demography and the economy. Raymond Mohl's Globalization, Latinization, and the Nuevo New South looks into the demographic changes of the region brought by shifting migration patterns in the 1980s and the willingness of companies to secure a low cost labor force has since culminated in a shift the black and white binary of the South into an ethnic plurality with the…

Western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the mid 1800’s to the end of the 1800’s because the government forced them to move to the middle of nowhere because there was no use to the land and the land that the Native’s were originally on, there was valuable uses to them. Another thing that affected the Native Americans was the Sand Creek Massacre, the Indians were at Sand Creek and one morning militia came and they started to shoot at the Indians and they killed men, women…

Growing up in Jamaica was not what some may think as ideal, it has been described as a Third World Country, but to me, it was just home. Third world indeed, poor, violent at times; a contradiction, with its sandy beaches, clear blue skies, delectable food, feel good music, and some of the hardest working people one can ever have the pleasure of meeting, who refused to stay where life may have placed them, but strived to climb above those circumstances and attempt to carve out a life…