As a high school student‚ I have to put much thought into the future. I was born in Guatemala‚ but I was raised in Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana all my life. We came from a very poor place where we had nothing‚ education was low‚ crime was high‚ and food was scarce. When we first came here we honestly didn’t have much. My Mother and I didn’t know English but at the time I was only 3 years old. My mother was carrying my sister so it was very tough at the time for her to find a job because she was expecting
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any of the subjects’ consent. Many of the subjects that were experimented on were prisoners. The US conducted many experiments on these people in which 696 subjects were male prisoners and female patients in the National Mental Health Hospital of Guatemala. Years later‚ President Barack Obama called Álvaro Colom‚ Guatemala’s president‚ to personally apologize for the U.S. government research activities‚ but that is just one of the many horrific prisoner experiments that have occurred throughout history
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the Maya Civilization. The Mayan Civilization was an ancient Native American civilization that grew to be one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americans. The people that were called the Maya were from the eastern and southern Mexico‚ Guatemala‚ Belize‚ El Salvador‚ and western Honduras. They were considered to be an advanced civilization because they built immense and impressive stone pyramids‚ temples‚ and sculptures‚
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The Renaissance in France began in the mid 1400s. During this time period‚ there was a renewed fascination in arts‚ philosophy‚ and humanities. The word “renaissance” is defined as rebirth‚ so it is fitting that there was resurgence in interest in these topics. The period also offered an expansion upon more rational views of life‚ as well as new ways of thinking and expression. There was an abundance of “artistic experimentation” during this time‚ resulting in new styles of dance‚ music‚ and even
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LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS (1800-1914) By: Kayla‚ Keith‚ and Jesus WHAT INSPIRED THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS? The American Revolution (1776) and the French Revolution (1789) inspired individuals in Latin American colonies to declare independence from Spain. WHY WOULD LATIN AMERICA WANT TO BREAK FREE? • Spain controlled trade and only used it to benefit Spain its self • Colonies were only allowed to trade with Spain and no one else • Under a complete control of Spain • Spain kept the money
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questionable practice. Hundreds of medical experiments have been performed by various doctors such as: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study by the U.S Public Health Service‚ the experiments conducted in Nazi Germany by Josef Mengele‚ the experiments performed in Guatemala by John Cutler‚ etc. Under no circumstances human experimentation is not justified. In addition‚ unethical experimentation should be outlawed because of the potential
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The Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota Medical School has healthcare goals that closely reflect my own. This campus is well-known for training physicians to serve rural Minnesota‚ which is the type of community I wish to be a part of. I love how this school emphasizes the ability of its medical students to be compassionate‚ empathetic‚ and be good communicators as there is more to being a physician than diagnosing patients. Duluth’s goal to produce physicians who provide for rural Minnesota
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Buddhism along the Silk Roads are examples of: A. Cultural Diffusion B. Self-Sufficiency C. Ethnocentrism D. Desertification 2) A British bank makes a loan to a South American nation. A United States corporation purchases large amounts of land in Guatemala. A Japanese investment firm becomes the major shareholder in a Bolivian silver mine. Which concept is illustrated by the situations above? A. Nationalization B. Isolationism C. Interdependence D. Protectionism 3) Global problems of uneven
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[pic] Description: Mexico City is the country’s largest city as well as its most important political‚ cultural‚ educational and financial center. This city was built on an island of lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325. And it was almost destroyed in 1521 but then it was rebuilt by the Spanish. [pic] [pic] [pic] This graph show as that in June it is a high temperature that reaches the 25°C‚ and also that on January and December the temperature it
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historical background is best characterized as cycles of rise and fall. A lot of achievements were made and city-states rose in prominence‚ but fell into decline and replaced by others. Originating in the Yucatan Peninsula and modern-day Guatemala‚ they covered Belize‚ parts of Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas‚ and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador. The topography of the areas varied from volcanic mountains‚ which consisted of the highlands in the South‚ to a porous limestone
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