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    James Fenimore Cooper lived in a time of Indians‚ prejudice‚ and the Great Frontier. Many people of his time did not understand the ways of the Indians and frontier life‚ so they created a taboo and stereotypical view that Indians were brutal‚ lesser people and that the frontier life was for savages. Back then the ideal life was not that of a woodsman but that of a sociable noble‚ with high honor and values. Though Cooper shared some of the same values and ideas‚ he held an admiration for the

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    Vulnerable populations Despite efforts and goals in the United States to reduce or eliminate disparities in healthcare by 2010‚ significant disparities‚ including risk factors‚ access to healthcare‚ morbidity‚ and mortality‚ continues in vulnerable populations. For example‚ studies find that Americans living in poverty are much more likely to be in fair or poor health and have disabling conditions‚ and are less likely to have used many types of healthcare. I believe that more effort

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    Teaching Native American Youth Laurie M. Freeman University of Phoenix Teaching Native American Youth ` Information literacy and technological literacy are necessary for educators in the constantly changing global world. Scholarship‚ practice‚ and leadership are important concepts in teaching Native American/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youths because these students come from a different cultural background and succeed better with culturally based schooling. Freeman and Fox (2005) said AI/NA students

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    Some of the conquests of the Spanish on the Native Indians were brutal. While most conquistadors and Spanish people treated the Indians badly‚ one names Las Casas did not. He defended them. Why My Congressman/Congresswoman Matters to Me. Our congressmen and congresswomen are some of the most important parts of our government. Normally‚ when one thinks of members of congress‚ it seems as though the members are nothing but a group of people arguing from different political

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    mis-conception regarding the Spanish conquest. In debunking these myths‚ Matthew Restall works with three themes regarding the conquest. First‚ that the European discovery of the Americas was one of the greatest events in human history. Second‚ that the conquest was the achievement of "a few great men‚" which he subsequently describes as "a handful of adventurers." These two themes lead to a third theme‚ or question. "If history’s greatest event - the European discovery and conquest of the Americas - was achieved

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    March 6‚ 1755 Dear Diary‚ Today was very hectic. Me‚ my husband and our 3 daughters have been trying to flee the American Revolution‚ and finally we have found land to settle on. The land is very rough and isolated‚ nothing like it was back home‚ however we are grateful for what we have been given. My family is very scared about what awaits us‚ but I must stay strong for them. Many are panicked and confused‚ as we had to leave numerous possessions behind. My husband‚ Peter has been very helpful

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    clear the site for his ‘chosen people’. This is but one example of how the introduction of disease would forever change the existing Indian America into a ‘new’ America the Natives would barely recognize and would face an everlasting struggle to be part of. The impact of Old World diseases is one of the most critical aspects to understanding the history of Native American Indians. Old World pathogens

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    Vulnerable populations are defined as those at greater risk for poor health status and health care access‚ vulnerable groups are categorized by: • Disease: e.g.‚ HIV‚ cancer or any chronic health conditions‚ • Age groups: e.g.‚ the elderly‚ children • Demographics e.g.‚ homeless individuals • Racial and ethnic minorities‚ • low SES populations • And those without adequate potential access to care (e.g.‚ the uninsured or those without a regular source of care) (NCBI‚ 2005). The health

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    S The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention‚ Discovery‚ Conquest‚ Colonisation‚ Spiritual Conquest‚ and Extermination. For the indigenous people of Central

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    One of the more interesting aspects of South American exploration that to some degree gets glossed over is the way in which the Spanish seized control of the indigenous population. In his book Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest Steve Stern attempts to shed light on this brushed over area of South American conquest. Stern’s book focuses on the Huamanga during the 16th and 17th century taking us through the initial conquest‚ Spanish-kuraka alliances‚ the Taqui Onqoy crisis

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