Out of these five, however, I believe that Simon Bolivar was the most influential for the following reasons: He assisted more countries than the others, he had a bigger following than any of the other five, and thirdly, his ideas of liberating slaves was radical for the time. ... Other liberators were known for freeing just one significant country, like how Toussaint L'Ouverture freed Haiti, Miguel Hidalgo freed Mexico, and Dom Pedro helped liberate Brazil. ... For this reason, I believed he helped a lot more than the others did, though each in their own way was influential. ... Accordin...

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People think it will be easy to accomplish it, but they have no idea what people who come here to America go through to accomplish where they want to be, and sometimes they don't achieve their goals. I interviewed my grandmother Maria and she told me her perspective of the American dream and everything she did to try and accomplish her goal. ... Maria didn't only leave her home (Mexico) for a better education, for herself as well. ...

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And they seemed to want also to establish their rule in that area. ... They wanted them out of the way; they wanted their land. ... And the women were raped by Europeans as mentioned in the second voyage of Columbus "We sent the other Cannibals together with the two slaves to Spain Having her in my room and she being naked as is their custom, I began to want to amuse myself with her- (p.43-Columbus-The Second Voyage). ... For instance, The indigenous population of Mexico, for example, was more than 17 million when Cortés landed in 1519. ... When they arrived in Americas, they establish...

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