Gang violence is one of the main causes foe teenage deaths in society today. Gang violence can hurt everyone around the person who decides to join a gang as well as them. Gangs sometimes do not even know why they have animosity towards other gangs. Most kids these days’ join gangs just to fit in. Some of them do not take gang violence serious until someone dies or gets hurt. By then it’s too late‚ and they feel the need to retaliate. Gang violence is everywhere. It is in neighborhoods‚ cities‚
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148-151 Santillanes‚ Gary. “Releasing the Spirit: A Lesson in Native American Funeral Rituals.” October‚ 1997. The University of Minnesota. December 14‚ 1998. http://www.umn.edu U.S. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Land Management. Who Were the Anasazi?. August 18‚ 2008. http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc
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Another mound culture‚ the Eastern Woodlands owed much of their prominence to farming. These people emerged as premier city builders and their towns spread out for hundreds of miles in every direction from their hub near modern day St Louis. At Cahokia more than 100 flat topped mounds were covered with religious temples and elite dwellings. By the middle of the 13th century‚ the Aztecs moved south from Mesoamerica’s northern frontiers and settled into Central Mexico. These people built large temples
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tools and materials across a wide region of hundreds of kilometers. By around 500 A.D.‚ the Hopewellians‚ too‚ disappeared‚ gradually giving way to a broad group of tribes generally known as the Mississippians or Temple Mound culture. One city‚ Cahokia‚ just east of St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ is thought to have had a population of about 20‚000 at its peak in the early 12th century. At the center of the city stood a huge earthen mound‚ flatted at the top‚ which was 30 meters high and 37 hectares at the
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Ch1 Review 1. The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait. 2. The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the Olmec. 3. Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city? St. Louis. 4. The agricultural practices of pre-Columbian tribes in the Northeast were characterized by a rapid exploitation of the land. 5. The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century
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drastically changed by European’s but what was life like before? In this presentation I’ll be touching base on what life was like for six major groups of Native American’s. American Indians built a city along the Mississippi River known as the City of Cahokia. It covered more than five square miles and was made of 120 earth mounds‚ or pyramids. It was a commercial and government center whose residents established trade routes through the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley. Other tribes such as the Hopi
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forced the Indians to adapt to settling into villages. They built homes and grew simple crops such as corn and beans. They also created pottery to store their abundance of crops. The largest civilizations in North America were the Pueblo- Hohokam -Anasazi Indians of the southwest‚ the Aden-Hopewell Indians of the Ohio River Valley‚ and the Mississippians of the Mississippi River. In South America the Mayas‚ Aztecs and Incas developed more advanced civilizations. The Aztecs became wealthy due to vast
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had created the America’s. The continents have been on Earth since its beginning. Looking at it from a continental view‚ American history began with the Paleo Indians migrating from Siberia to the Native Americans forming cities and empires‚ like Cahokia and the Aztec Empire. The America’s had a history before Columbus made way on his expedition‚ so why do people look at 1492 and think that American history should start there.
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We are who we are because of Native Americans; their history is critical for this generation to acknowledge and understand. Native Americans can teach us many things that are of great worth to us. When we learn about Native Americans‚ we can understand what values we should have‚ what to learn from the past‚ and who we are today as a country and as an individual. The stories from and of Native Americans can communicate values that are important for the students of this country to obtain. Everyone
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The first time Monsieur came to call‚ I was nervous‚ but vowed to Angelique that I would not show it. Mon père invited Monsieur de Lafontaine to our last barbeque of the season‚ which was usually a small affair with twenty to thirty invited guests. I alone‚ was to entertain Louis de Lafontaine in the sitting room that morning for an hour prior to other guests arriving. That would give him ample time to talk one on one with me and then he would know whether he wanted to pursue a relationship or not
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