Then the next few lines state that the land is only as the good young men in each place. ... I think that this poem can totally relate to the people of today in the United States and how bad our pollution is and how dirty our land can get. ... This also makes me think about our lands and how bad we as people treat it. ... Imagine if our land suddenly became tarnished. ... How fertile the land would be because of the brave soldiers who fought diligently for their country. ...

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Every American president has made good and bad decisions. ... This gave the federal government the power to trade the land west of the Mississippi, which was Oklahoma, for the Indian land in the south-eastern areas. ... Many Indians, however, didn't want to leave their beautiful ancestral land in Illinois for the barren land of Oklahoma and Kansas. ... Army pressured Black Hawk into the Wisconsin territory and killed 850 of his warriors at the Battle of Bad Axe. ... This tariff was supposed to make Adams look bad because it was well known that tariffs were despised in the south and favore...

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Optimism is the ability for you to go on when bad things happen. ... Since we as Americans are optimistic, we don't let bad things suffocate us. ... Even our forefathers were optimistic of our future and visioned a land of freedom and equality. ... Yes, America is the land of the free. ... No matter how bad things are stretched out to be, America and its people will always bounce back into place. ...

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Feelings Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a full account on the annihilation of the American Indian from the 1860's to the 1890's. I like the book for its information but I did not enjoy reading it. I appreciated the story from the perspective of the American Indian. From reading Bury My Heart at ...

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Landmines The definition of a land mine, can be defined, as a device designed to kill or maim the person who triggers it. In other words, whether you"re one of the 87% of soldiers in Cambodia, or, one of the 30% of innocent women and children who are killed on average by land mines land mines kill who ever when ever. ... Although the civil war in Angola is over, on average 120 people are killed a month there due to land mines. ... Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan are also badly mine fertile countries that are known to have very bad prob...

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One of the fundamental differences between the two peoples" philosophies lay in the question of land ownership. "The Europeans, taking their preconceived views with them to America, believed in the concept of land ownership. They believed that a land that is not owned could be claimed, and from then on could be sold at will." ... The Indian viewpoint was that land is supposed to be beneficial to all of them. ... In order to understand the huge differences, it is not a bad idea to take a look right back to the late fifteenth century, the era in which Europe was looking to expand and found ne...

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Red Jacket shows great respect for the land and fear of the white man taking it without invitation. ... He said "they wanted more land; they wanted their country." ... Later he talks of bad men who were rejected from the east and sent to the west. ... Present day Native Americans still possess respect for the land and resentment towards the white man. ... The Cavalry forced them out of their native land causing them to become nomadic. ...

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During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ...

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In the period after the War of 1812, during the so-called "Era of Good Feelings", the United States was with faced many good things, but seemed to be outweighed with bad things such as a failing economy, the beginning of sectionalism, and more issues with foreign policies, therefore the label of the "Era of Good Feelings" does not seem accurate. ... The biggest hit to the economy was by far the Panic of 1819, which stemmed from the over speculation in Western land. Over speculation occurred and people would have their land foreclosed. Once the banks owned the land, they cou...

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Although the allies did achieve victory, due to imcompetent commanders and bad decisions many more allies were killed while prolonging the Normandy invasion. The first day of the land on Normandy, June 6, proved to be a good start. ... Although the Germans' had some weaknesses the Allies didn't land on Normandy with open arms and no risks. The Allies had to land on open beaches giving the Germans a clear view of Allies on the beach. ...

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Since the Native Americans had a bad reputation and were seen as devil worshipers to the Spanish they needed to be converted to Christianity. ... The conquistadors and Spanish settlers were given grants of land and the Indians that lived in each part of them were considered their land. These parts of land had an owner that would convert and Christianize these Indians if the Indians worked for them. ... When the English got to the Americans they didn't want to take over the land like the Spanish but they wanted to be apart of them. ... The Spanish knew they wanted to take over land and the...

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Seen by the world as a land of freedom and opportunity, the United States is the most popular place to immigrate. ... Immigrates are not all bad. ... Everyone must understand; not all immigration is bad. ...

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The fiftieth state in the United States of America is Hawaii. The Hawaiians want independence from the United States. They want to be their own separate country. I don't think they should be allowed to just leave the United States. I feel both countries would be affected in bad ways by them lea...

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It is a vile and evil business that blights everything it touches, robs peoples of its lives and futures, and forces many good people to do bad things against their better natures. The whole thing was so bad, no matter how you look at it, that we can't ever let anything like this ever happen again." ... st read for people considering enlisting in the services or even generals who have been anticipating sending land forces to do battle. ...

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When the land was purchased it need to be cleared and worked. ... The government traded the Indians land in Oklahoma in exchange for their land holdings in the south and the east. ... This division of land into 160 acre parcels freed up a surplus of unclaimed land that the government could now offer up at bargain prices to the land-hungry white speculators. ... We drove them out of the east by cheating them out of their land. ... Good and bad, we must live with our heritage. ...

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Many then saw their land and property sold before their own eyes. ... (Brill, 43) At the point of a gun, the pace killed many of the old, exposure and bad food killed most. ... The Americans decided they needed more land. ... The Mississippi Band of the Choctaw had escaped being removed, but had their land stripped down to 500 acres, and in five years none of that land was in Indian hands. ... A land based on freedom and equality but something like this can happen. ...

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But they never got a chance to get into the promise land. ... In one of his speeches he told the world that subordinate groups would one day reach the promise land, just like Moses told the Israelites that one day they would make it to the promise land. The promise land was like equal rights for all mankind in the United States. ... Segregation in the United States changed history in both good and bad ways. The bad part about segregation was the powers that developed .The superiority over the ordinates and the Ku Klux Klan that was organized. ...

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The Indians, which were actually Native Americans, shared precious information with the settlers about agriculture and hunting on the land, which was crucial for survival. ... I personally feel bad for the Native Americans. ... They did all of this only to have the peace broken by greedy strangers with guns and tricky explorers giving booze and making deals for land. ... To this day islands and regions still bare the names that Columbus gave them, and when the news of these places got back to the mainland, people flocked by the thousands to start a new life in a new land. ... Even though he...

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Before anything drastic could be done these people had invaded your shores and had creeping inward upon your land. ... Calling ourselves Americans is basically a lie since we are not Natives to this land. ... Native Americans had no idea why the Europeans could fight for land, "Death makes us owners of nothing is what the Native Americans believed. They also couldn't understand on how one person or group can "own" land since they couldn't "own the sky". ... This allowed Congress to pass a variety of other laws, directed towards assimilating Native Americans, so that they would become...

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Until you get word that you need to pick up all your belonging, basically change your whole life style and will be removed from where you live and placed in a foreign land. ... That foreign land is America and that nine year boy is Guy. ... It hurts bad guy says even till this day when I think back about it, it upsets me. ...

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He decides to venture into the land of the gods. ... In the future he and his people will lead more expeditions into the land of the gods. ... The point of these two stories is too much technology can be a bad thing. ...

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I identify with Anna Akhmatova's poem "I am not one of those who left the land" because I agree with the poem's theme, "you should never give-up on what you believe in". ... For instance, this quote, "I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies" relates to me because even though I was not present, I saw many people who were and they did not abandon their homes even in the shadow of terrorism. ... Especially for the scattered people who did manage to exit the towers safely the attack, I feel bad because they are forced to live though that trauma eve...

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Mexican authority had a very difficult time enforcing their laws because of the sheer size of the land and the amount of people that were violating the rules. 2) The Texas Revolution created a tense but open-to-trade relationship between the United States and Mexico. ... Relations between the two countries did decrease after the Texas revolution and this affected the Santa Fe trade in a bad way. ... The Mormon settlements established discipline and cooperation, which was needed for the settlement to survive in the harsh land. ... The United States gained 500,00 square miles of land as a re...

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Poor environment, climate change, limited access to water, bad food production are factors forcing many people to leave their countries and come to America. Whole islands could disappear in the near future due to increasing ocean levels: The President of the Maldives, an Indian Ocean island, has already publicly stated that he may have to look for land elsewhere if his country "drowns". ... Despite being a melting pot and a land of opportunity, immigrants are not always treated with respect when they come to the U.S. ... Without Immigration , America would not even be the land it is today, I ...

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The fortunate can receive a college degree in a field, and the less fortunate may follow in their parents footsteps or pursue their own personal career either taking over the family business (which may not be a bad choice) or work extremely hard for insignificant pay. ... This social stratification dates back to when the Kings ruled the land. ... The Lords had a set amount of land that the King had given them and they were to have their own little society within that small amount of land. The peasants of course had to live off the land and take graciously whatever animals the l...

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