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    person did not have to check a little box asking them to identify their ethnicity? There would be no race wars‚ no genocides‚ no Holocaust‚ no Rwanda‚ Just humanity all living for one cause. Instead of there being African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans a person could be American without hyphenation. The world would be post-racial like the most people believe the United States is today. Well‚ truth is the United States is not post-racial. America is not yet a post racial society;

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    Historian as curandera

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    Historian as curandera Abstract History is story we tell ourselves as Khalil Gibran Muhamad defined it ‚ or Story we tell ourselves about how past explains our present and the way story is told is shaped by contemporary needs as Aurora Levnis Morales nicely put it. Likewise it could be stated that we become stories we tell ourselves. Thus‚ history has role in construction of our identity. Given the importance of the story for us‚ could it be different story then the one we are told in mainstream

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    Andrew Carnegie: An American Captain of Industry By far the most profitable businessman during his age‚ Andrew Carnegie left his mark on industry‚ and profoundly impacted the expansion of business enterprise in America. Essentially‚ Carnegie rose from poverty to become one of the most influential‚ industrial tycoon’s in history by single-handedly building the American steel industry. During his time‚ Carnegie was known as being a prolific writer‚ but is most remembered for the entrepreneurial‚

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    Venture Capitalist

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    Venture Capitalist a) A Venture Capitalist is a professional investor. Venture Capitalist’s provide funding for new and growing businesses and can even provide senior level management to move the company or businesses even further. Most of the time a venture capitalist works for a firm and manages a fund and is looking for suitable investments for that fund. b) To become a venture capitalist you would have to have much knowledge and experience within the business field‚ so you would most

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    Post Civil War Analysis

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    After a nation went to war against itself and the North won‚ there were many issues that needed to be resolved. The civil war was fought against the Confederacy of the Southern states and the Union‚ Northern states over the future of slavery. After the war was over‚ there was a rift in the lives of many freed slaves in the southern states that lead to many conflicts. During the same decade‚ many of the Western states were dealing with similar issues on how to deal with the Native Americans‚ as the

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    The Advancement of “Equal Rights” in Post-Revolutionary America In 1998‚ Rosemarie Zagarri wrote a persuasive review of the advancement of women’s rights in post-revolutionary America called‚ The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America. Zagarri shows the struggle of early American women and their rise to equal rights with men by pointing out the dramatic relevance that gender or sex has on this topic. “Put simply‚ men’s rights involved liberties that allowed choices‚ while women’s

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    Angkor Wat Architecture

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    Angkor Wat is the largest ancient temple in southwest Cambodia that was constructed by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as a religious center. It was made out of enormous amounts of sandstone‚ as much as Khafres pyramid in Egypt (over 5million tons) and It was made soon after King Suryavarman II came to the throne and was finished shortly after his death‚ no more than 40 years. Angkor Wat lies 5.5 km north of the modern town of Siem Riep‚ and a short distance south from the previous

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    Angkor Wat Analysis

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    attractiveness. Meanwhile‚ Angkor Wat and Pyramids of Giza are two ancient buildings that are able to continue its legacies to the contemporary world. Angkor Wat and the Pyramids of Giza are the examples of the external and internal beauties in which its structures were completed by their respective developed foundation which includes the techniques‚ social structures‚

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    Cambodia's Angkor Wat

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    Cambodia’s Angkor Wat For several decades‚ certain man-made structures have been overlooked and unrecognized. Beautiful and amazing masterpieces like Stonehenge‚ the Eiffel Tower‚ and the Angkor Wat have been missing a sense of acknowledgement. Humankind’s architectural accomplishments have been given to the ancient wonders of the world. This list was decided about 2‚200 years ago. During those centuries‚ six of the seven wonders have been destroyed or may have never even existed. The Egyptian pyramids

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    The Red Baron

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    The red baron This is the story of Manfred Von Ritchofen a German 24 year old man‚ which in 1916 goes to war like many thousands of young men. He was a fight pilot that really fasts becomes famous because his victories. He and his friends‚ had their own code of honor characterized by an athletic ambition‚ an obsession with technology and chivalrous respectability. They decorate their airplanes with a variety of motifs. Manfred’s paints his airplane red‚ at first his superior are not happy with

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