In the movie Dead Poets Society, A young man by the name of Neal Perry goes out to play "Puck" in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", against his father's strict orders not to. ... The last category of Romantic Values is Exotic Land. In the movie North Shore, the natives of Hawaii live by the land, and close to the ocean. ... The movie of Dead Poets Society shows this value well, when Charlie Dalton paints Indian symbols on his body to celebrate his new found identity know as "Nuanda". ... From Thoreau to Dead Poets Society they have all taught me to live life with a different meaning. ...

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Many then saw their land and property sold before their own eyes. ... At each allowed stop, the dead were buried. ... 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. ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ...

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"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The whites had confused them, and tricked them into giving them the Native's land. ... Looking Glass is dead. Toohulsote is dead. The old men are all dead." ...

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Many then saw their land and property sold before their own eyes. ... At each allowed stop, the dead were buried. ... The Americans decided they needed more land. ... And then all American children know that The only good Indian is a dead Indian. ... Jackson spiced everything up for the people in his speeches but in real life ironically forgot that if it were not for an Indian he would be dead himself. ...

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They was dead. ... The repeating silence came upon us again and we all got up and started walking away leaving everything behind us like the dead do. ... We went after it and thankfully found five horses, a sorta' beatin' up house, and five dead people. ... This feeling was strange, but we had to start over it was a dead man's land back there. ...

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Most of the American Army was farmers and store keepers who were un experienced Some of the Americans would even go so far to keep suicide when they saw their family's dead. The battles won by the British generals would end in a profit of 100 acres of land British soldiers would often steal if they were not fed too much. ... However it gets a bit gruesome and he takes out all his frustration by constantly attacking an already dead British officer. ... I also enjoyed the part when he walks into the fort and he gets back his soldiers and all the British men get is 18 dead men. ...

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America is known as the land of opportunities. ... People living within the United States still live their lives as they would in their native land. ... Mexicans too celebrate a type of Halloween, but theirs mainly focuses on the remembrance of their dead ancestors, which is called the Day of the Dead. ...

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People have been fighting for many different reasons, some simple like land or religion or reasons that we may never know. ... For instance the death toll on allied troops was 282,000, on just Americans the toll was 55,000 not including the 365,000 civilians dead resulting in 1.3 million casualties of war. ... This was a result of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers dead, 200 Allied troops dead, 90 American soldiers dead, and 175,000 Iraqi prisoners. ...

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One of the biggest land problems they were faced with was set in Texas. ... Seeing this situation the Cherokee decided to fight for their land. ... The fighting started and by sundown it is said that there were 18 natives dead and 3 Texans that were killed. ... The Cherokee nation was treated very unfairly when it came to their land rights in Texas. Even though they were there first they got stepped on and were not able to keep their land. ...

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It is a declaration of independence; a document stating that the group of individuals signing it agrees to its conditions and wishes to live in a free land. ... If we were to have lived in the 18th century, most of us today would already be dead. ...

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POP MUSIC HAS IT RIGHT America is the land of opportunity. Children are raised and taught that America is the best and they can do whatever they want. At this moment, our country is in a very good place. Although our economy is struggling slightly, we are at war and war seems like a logical way ...

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In this attack, British warplanes were to bomb the Germans from the air while 6,000 troops and 50 tanks moved from the sea to land using landing crafts. ... At the end of the nine-hour raid, 907 Canadians were dead and 1,874 were taken prisoner by the Germans. ...

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In his culture she might as well be dead, "she was now untouchable, damaged goods. He, her own brother, was already talking as if she was dead, like she was a memory" (573). ... He came to further his education, not expecting this land to be pregnant with racial tensions. ... These selections clearly show that the second generation will not have to suffer as their parents did in bringing them to "the promised land" where they will find "freedom and opportunity." ...

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The second section of the book is called "The Officer in Charge of the Dead.... Caputo also describes soldiers showing off the dead bodies of their enemies that they defeated and were almost seen as trophies. ... The last section Caputo titled "In Death's Grey Land" and it is in this section when he gets reassigned to his rifle company. ...

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We need to revive "the dream that's almost dead." ... "Tangled in that ancient endless chain" our country scurries around grabbing land and gold attempting to satisfy the need. ... He pleads people of America to redeem ourselves and make it the land it never was. ...

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During the 1960's civil rights protest took place. In particular two civil rights leaders stood out the mos,. Malcome X and Martian Luther King Jr. Although both fought for black freedom, each had different theories of getting it. Malcom X was born in Omaha, Nebraska 1925. While growing up M...

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Regarding unsustainable communities and lifestyles, the blame lies mainly with two specific phenomena, American's love affair with the automobile, and the "American Dream" of owning a home and land outside of the city. ... The "American Dream" of owning a home and land is something almost all Americans aspire to. ... For example, a moratorium on construction projects that contribute to urban sprawl could effect a more efficient use of land and lead to more compact growth. ... Is...

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America is supposed to be the land of freedom, acceptance and equality, but, in reality, is quite far from that. In the words of Gavroche, from Les Misrables, "...everyone's equal when they're dead..." ... This can be shown through the ignition of the publics hope by President Ford's New Deal "...Cheer every kiddy up/Fill every stocking with laughter/We haven't got room for any more gloom/Let's ring every bell from its rafter/And chime across the land/Tomorrow's at hand/Those happy days that we were promised/Are finally here..." ... People have more freedom to pur...

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The Europeans immediately recognized the immense wealth of natural resources that this vast and diverse land had. ... The Europeans immediately recognized the immense wealth of natural resources that this vast and diverse land had. ... A Wampanoag Indian described the impact as " A long time ago they had wise, men which in a grave manner taught the people knowledge, but they are dead, and their wisdom is buried with them, and now men live a giddy life, in ignorance, till they are white headed, a...

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Owl Eyes is one of the few that show up at Gatsby's funeral and responds, "Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on" and "the poor son of a bitch" (183). ... The valley of ashes is a long stretch of desolate land, which has been used by big industries from New York as a dumping ground for their industrial ash. ...

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The Jungle Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is the story of a Lithuanian family that immigrates from their home city in Lithuania to the city of Chicago. The novel begins with the strong description of a wedding in which Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus are united in Holy Matrimony. The two of the...

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Peter Jefferson was a land surveyor and his mother was of the old Virginia aristocracy. ... Thomas had the tombstone read: If in the house of Hades, men forgot their dead Yet will I even there remember my dear companion. ... Jefferson proposed several bills some of which are: The bill abolishing entails-- repealing laws permitting land and other wealth to be set aside for the benefit of one line of descendants , who might enjoy the profits as they so chose but who could never sell or divide the estate. ...

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He believed that because the population of the United Stated was growing at such a rapid rate, people would soon have less amounts of land. ... The act offered the Indians land west of the Mississippi in return for evacuation of their tribal homes in the east. ... About twenty-five percent of the Indians were dead before they reached their new lands in Oklahoma. ...

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This war between the Koreas was a mortifying war that not only permanently split a nation apart but was also responsible for the loss of more than 1,560,000 soldiers and civilians that are missing, captured, wounded or dead. ... Air, land, and sea forces were sent to support the South Koreans but the real help came from the air force. ... With the South Koreans gaining more and more land each day, a lot of mixed feelings grew. ...

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The Vietnam War contained over fifty million American soldiers dead and most Vietnam War veterans have attempted suicide. ... For example, a verse of the lyrics are "Got in a little hometown jam, so they put a rifle in my hand, Sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man." ... Springsteen is referring to the fact that he got into some trouble back at home, so they sent him off to the foreign land of Vietnam to fight in the war. ...

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