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Horowitz’s counter-arguments to reparations are similarly ludicrous. Present- day companies, especially in the insurance industry, have admitted to being direct beneficiaries of “cotton money.” There are Americans who can trace their ancestry back to slave-owners, and some even take pride in this fact...
...pushing in recent weeks for more academic offerings in areas such as Latino studies, Native American Studies and Asian American Studies. These groups cast their efforts to expand Harvard’s academic offerings as a long-overdue measure in a nation increasingly composed of people who do not trace their families back to Europe...
...While the environmental and health impacts are hard to trace to specific pollutants, some effects are strikingly clear. The wells in and around Guiyu have gone bad. Locals consistently described the water as undrinkable, even after being boiled. A restaurant owner tells of a nearby village where residents drank the local water. "Their teeth have gone all black," she says. "They can't be brushed clean...
Impressionist Still Life is rich with meaning because many of the paintings, as well as being important aesthetically, have anecdotal significance. They trace friendships and artistic influences among the featured painters and tell personal histories. Fantin-Latour’s beautifully balanced composition of color compliments, “The Betrothal Still Life” (1869), was the artist’s proposal of marriage to Mademoiselle Dubourg. “Moss Roses in a Vase” (1882) is a touching still life Manet painted while dying, composed of flowers given to him by friends (most of whom were...
...interested, you can also trace the history of cocaine through the ages, from its beginnings as a treat for the royalty of the Andean Indians to its role as a "wonder drug" and its infamous inclusion in the formula for Coca-Cola...