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    Introduction Recently Dakota Access pipeline is running the headlines. Native American tribes and their partners, drove by the Standing Rock Sioux, have been challenging the Dakota Access pipeline, a venture that would transport oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and Montana over the Plains to Illinois. The nonconformists, numbering in the thousands and including individuals from several distinct tribes, contend that finishing the pipeline would profane hereditary grounds, undermine…

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    manufacture products, but nature will never be recreated if forgotten about or abandoned. If the mistreatment of nature continues, it will never be fully restored. Cummings even admits that “doctors know a hopeless case”(12), meaning that the very pioneers of limitless technological growth: doctors, understand the disastrous effects of progression, but are unable to remedy it. Ending with the line, “there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go”(li.13-14) adds to the irony of the…

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    that their legacy reflects the changing face of America at the time. They are in parallel with the evolution of black culture, black society — and they are a mirror of the way America evolved, the way the game evolved,” Johnson says. “You know, the pioneers of the game, for all of us, not just…

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    Georgia O'keefe is known as the Mother of American Modernism. She was one of the first American artists to practice abstract art. O'Keefe created hundreds of paintings throughout her life and was a forerunner to modernism. O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. When she was 16, however, she moved to Virginia with her family. In 1907 she began studying at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Sadly, soon after she began college, her father went bankrupt, and her mother began to suffer…

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    1_ the local Americans got pushed out from claiming their land, Furthermore required to settle elsewhere. Also the whites brought through sicknesses for example, cholera, typhoid, and smallpox, which finished up slaughtering the local kin who gotten it and also blacks. They were cutting down those trees Also slaughtering the locals animals. This might have been the begin of reservation framework in the West. They secured limits to each tribes Furthermore endeavored should separate the Indians…

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    1st- On March 1st, 1841, Blanche K Bruce was born. He was a politician. He represented Mississippi as a Republican senator. He was the first elected black senator to serve a full term (1875-1881) 2nd- On the 2nd of March, 1867, Howard University was chartered. Chartered is when something is considered professional. Howard University a private historically black university and even though the majority of people that attend are african american, they accept all races. 3rd- On the 3rd of March,…

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    In December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the British East India Company were dump into the Boston Harbor by American patriots who disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. The American patriots were objecting tax on tea, that is, taxation without representation and the perceived East India Company’s monopoly. The Townshend Acts passed in 1767 by Parliament imposed duties on various imported products but they raised a big storm of non-compliance and colonial protest. The Boston…

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    José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913) was a pioneer expressionist illustrator who lived in pre revolution Mexico. Posada was known for his satirical and politically acute Calaveras that would become closely associated with the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Throughout the late 1800’s Posada became a voice and in some ways represented a frustrated lower class in Mexico. Before the revolution the lower classes were not literate and through Posadas illustrations were able to…

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    Lincoln, was also an establishment Blackwell participated in. Despite the end of her private practice in 1879, Blackwell began writing about various, noteworthy subjects such as family planning, cleanliness, women’s rights, and even her own biography (Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to…

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    From thriving music stage as New York, a young boy has moved to Los Angeles. Owning a perfect music training background that gave him an opportunity to become a member of the Teddy Bears band. And "To Know Him is To Love Him", a first song was written by that teenager, reached the No.1 hit song on the Billboard chart in 1958 (O'Hare 48). He is Phil Spector, a talent producer, songwriter, and a musician. In years later, Spector had a huge influence to the record producers, artists, and musician.…

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