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    What Jessica’s discovers about her German-American immigrant ancestors is relevant to her growth as a teacher and a person, they expand her one-sided view on being white, and being a teacher to Mexican-American students. As Jessica became more comfortable with her ancestors she became to discuss them more in social aspects, “‘I was just struck by how easy it was for him to get so many acres from the government back then.” “Well it probably wasn’t easy,” she stammered. “I mean, he had to came all

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    This paper summarizes the ancestral immigartion of my primary paternal ancestors. The Thompson surname in itself traces its roots back to Reverend William Thompson (abt. 1598 to abt 1666). Within this paternal lineage are the surnames Willis, Meade, and Stevenson. Reverend William Thompson The exact lineage of Reverend Thompson has not clearly been established through primary sources and was only correlated when a series of 128 chromosone paternal DNA tests showed exact matches with two difinitively

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    NOVA scienceNOW : 41 - First Primates is a video that mainly talks about Primates who are ancient ancestors of human beings. Primates came out on the Earth 55million years ago when dinosaurs extinct due to collision between an immense comet and the Earth. Plesiadapiform, which is a possibly the first ancestor of primates and human beings, firstly evolved with a mouse-size organism during 10 million years. It existed during the 10 million year with diverse evidences that can show its validity of first

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    Homo Sapiens sapienn Ancestor In tracing the direct ancestors of Homo sapiens sapiens, the five consequent Hominins I would include in the timeline of human evolutions: Australopithecus afarensis and africanus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Archaic Homo sapiens, and Homo Neanderthal. In 3.6 million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis is considered the earliest hominins that are close relative to Homo. Afarensis had slender body built, but relatively larger than modern humans, but with smaller brains

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    change of an organism, over time the organism have change to be more adapted to the environment that they are surrounded in order to live. By evolve that mean that their structure will change, for an example, their skeleton structure however the ancestor skeleton structure are some what similar to the more recent organisms. For instant, fossil is a great example for evolution, fossil is the remains of organisms that use to be alive, when scientist examine the fossil they found that there are similarities

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    In southern fiction there are many characters to be found that possess heroic, or idealized, views of their ancestors. These same characters are often times burdened by, or feel responsible for, the legacy left behind by their families. The ancestor’s beliefs are like ghost constantly haunting characters in southern literature. Fennell aptly quotes Faulkner in her article writing: No man is himself, he is the sum of his past. There is no such things really as was because the past is. It is part of

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    The Ancestor. A family loved one dies,she was different from everyone else. She had a history of using dark forces to help her through life. She became distant,but knew the existence of all pre-existing and existing family. She focused on one in particular,Sen. Sen was a kid who has been beat up,bullied and his parents died when he was 7 so he was adopted. By the Pikes. 8 years pass… then Sen's informed his great great aunt died last night. When he goes to school that day,he gets informed his failing

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    It is important for young people to learn about the struggles and adversities that their ancestors went through in order for them to be aware and take advantage of the opportunities that they made possible for them. In fact when students are conscious and mindful of their ancestors struggles countless beliefs and perceptions become to shift and new ones are generated. They are able to use their ancestors struggles as a constant reminder and motivation when wanting to overcome a hardship. Exposure

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    The Article Ancestors was published in August 2001 it was published by Archaeological Institute of America and was intended for anthropologists. This article informs readers that two new fossils where found in Kenya, which gives us evidence that we did not evolve from a single ancestor. This gives us new insight not only on how species evolve but more importantly where we came from. The author put pictures in the article to show the fossils and a map to show where they were found. The pictures give

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    The chapter 1 called "Up To The Starting Line" gives a brief report on the topic of evolution of the first human ancestors. The earliest stages of human evolution took place in Africa with abundant of fossil evidence to prove. We all originated in Africa around 7 million years age. Our closet common ancestor living are called the surviving species of the great apes that are chimpanzee, bonobo, and gorilla. But the most closets animal to humans are chimpanzee. The homo erectus was significantly close

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