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    unruly and savage. Doing so would defeat the purpose of religious missions. Any lesson from Duchene on Native Americans would act as a justification of his own interactions with Native Americans. His interactions, or the interactions of religious institutions, involved kidnapping, or coercing, young Native American children and forcing them to assimilate through physical and mental abuse. Duchene’s teachings stick with Outland and plays an important role in Outland’s interpretation of Cliff…

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    In 1931, at the Smithsonian Institution, Adams put on his first unaccompanied museum exhibition where he presented sixty prints that he had taken of the High Sierra. The Washington Post gave him an exceptional review. In 1932, he had a display at the M.H. de Young Museum. This show was with Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston; together they made up Group f/64, which is an aperture setting. This group favored “pure or straight photography” instead of pictorialsm. In the fall of 1941, he began…

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    Book Report on The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough The Wright Brothers is an excellent masterpiece by David McCullough which gives the biography of the two Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright; who taught the world that humans could fly too by inventing the first flying aircraft. Though the book narrates a bit on their personal life and incidents in family, the main emphasis of the book is to explain the struggles faced by the two brothers for a period of 10 years on developing…

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    at that institution. As for coroner offices the opportunities of advancing are limited to technical lead, supervisor and manager positions. The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) added Forensic Anthropology in 2010. Anthropologists that are employed by the FBI are considered professional staff who are granted access to advanced technologies and equipment for cases. Openings for jobs in the FBI are frequently posted as well as Fellowship opportunities in museums such as the Smithsonian.…

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    scientific disciples, geology, genetics, and development biology. The theory of evolution was also the curator of human origins at the Museum of Natural History in New York. It was also described as, ”descent with modification,” at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in D.C. It was by an anthropologist and educator named Briana Pointer that specialized in the study of human origins. Sometimes it was described as, ”survival of the fittest,” as misleading. It was…

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    Through this trajectory of learning to be … while making and doing… I have always been more attached to the effort of trying to meet the needs of the artist as a person. I have learned that the art can survive only as long as the artist does… and my life in art and design began by serving those vulnerable creative communities who were tenacious enough to withstand the colonial legacy of destruction followed by our own apathy and indifference towards homegrown talent. I took a decision NOT to…

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    before modern colonization began. The author himself, Charles C. Mann, is a highly accomplished writer that has written for many big time companies such as The New York Times, Smithsonian, and even The Washington Post. He has received multiple writing awards from a vast majority of fields that range from the American Institution of Physics to the Lannan Foundation. In fact, 1491,…

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    Custom House History

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    000 to restore and repair the customs house. The project started in 1983 and was finished by 1994 (GSA). “Today, the building is being used by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the National Archives, and the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution) (New York Architecture…

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    Early People Theory

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    technological developments in travel like boats is how the first people arrived. After passing the western coast of modern day America the first people would have sailed down to Monte Verde. The evidence of Monte Verde is from a webstie of the Smithsonian Institution http://www.si/edu/encyclopedia)si/nmnh.origin.htm The South Pacific/Atlantic theory states the first humans started in Japan and Australia and came through the Pacific Ocean to get to South America. This of course would be sea…

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    An aviation enthusiast once said "Aviation is proof that given the will we can do the impossible" Eddie Rickenbacker. This quote comes from a man that served our country as an American Fighter Ace in World War 1. He had twenty-six aerial victories and he earned the Medal of Honor for being the best ace in the war. We still have to give credit to the first founders of aviation because without them we wouldn 't be where were are today. Aviation still consists of some of the technologies that were…

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