Land rights are about land but for all indigenous people, and especially Australian Aborigines, it is more than this. ... The land rights movement is connected inextricably to the land based nature of Aboriginal spirituality (Mudge 1997 55). ... The Aborigines view the land as sacred. ... The Aborigines believe that the land is not dead, but instead is alive with the power and the Ancestor Spirits that live in it. ... Indigenous people belong to their land, and their land belongs to them (Pyine 2001 33). ...

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Hades also has the title of the ruler of the dead. ... It was separated from the land of the living by the myriad rivers: the Styx, which means hateful, the Lethe, which means forgetfulness, the Acheron, which means woeful, the Phlegethon, meaning fiery, and the Cocytus which means wailing (The Columbia Encyclopedia). Hades ruled over the Underworld and the dead by himself until he fell in love with the very beautiful goddess Persephone, daughter of the goddess Demeter. ... In his travels through the land of the shades, and when he abducted Persephone from earth, he used his eerie chariot ...

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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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When using the Trebuchet armies used pots if burning lime, boulders, severed human head, captured soldiers, diseased cows and dead horses. ... The war took place in order to gain controal over the Holy Land. ... None of the armies knew what the Holy Land consisted of and had no plan on how to captured this land. BY the end of the first crusade the army captured a small strip of land. ...

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But when he ended up in the Land of the Dead, he felt remorse for all of his men that he didn't give the proper burial to. ... Upon arriving at the Land of the Dead, Odysseus doesn't show a lot of care for his crew and he has a lot of hubris. After the Land of the Dead, Odysseus is more caring towards his crew, he becomes more sensible, and he has less hubris. After the Land of the Dead, Odysseus makes wiser decisions, showing that his hubris is waning even more. ... In the Land of the Dead, Odysseus realizes that he had damned his dead crewmates, and he learns that he will die...

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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, after having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent to the land of Tossuk Vlad as ambassador by the Caliph of Baghdad. ... He journeyed on camelback many months into the land of barbarian people. ... Later they carry the dead king's body out to the shore where the ship is. ... In the Arabic religion and traditions they do not celebrate a person's death or burn the dead body. ... After the dead is buried they read a sura of the Koran. ...

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Frome's land is barren and isolated from the town, like in the book, and Zeena is portrayed as sickly, frail, and old. ... His land is dead, and his house is cold and falling apart. The dead trees seem to gather around Ethan's house, further adding to the inhospitable nature of his land, bringing out the theme of naturalism; the way that Ethan's land is set up is almost a parallel to Ethan's character, isolated and oppressed. ...

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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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But when the king become old and ill his crop and his land begins to fade. ... Then Orbison goes on to say that Dodge is the king of his land and he has been ill and dying for a long time and that Vince comes around and Dodge leaves his soul and kingdom to him and the land was prosperous once again. ... I can see at the end when Dodge is dead and Vince in laying on the couch that they are in the same position that Dodge's and Vince's identical stature might give way to the idea that Vince has not only inherited the land but Dodges essence or his soul to make the land more prosperou...

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The grim reaper represents Antigone's welcoming of death and her respect for the dead overpowering her respect for the living. She states that she must please the dead far long than she must please the living. ... For I will forever be in the favour of the dead. ... He thinks himself equal to the gods, but never has the rule of man touched the land of the dead. ... I would rather face death by the hands of man than face the wrath of the dead for eternity. ...

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"Blurr'd by the creeping mist, for all abroad,/ Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full,/ The white mist, like a face-cloth to the face,/ Clung to the dead earth, and the land was still./ For hither had she fled, her cause of flight" (Tennyson 269). Here the mist is coming over the land so it is not visible. The mist gives a feeling that everything is dead. ... "In that close mist, and cryings for the light,/ Moans of the dying, and voices of the dead." ... After the battle the mist clears and everyone is dead. ...

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(Worster, 12) Lured by the promise land of rich, plentiful soil thousands of settlers brought farming techniques to profit from every inch of land. ... Animals were found dead and their stomachs were filled with dirt. ... Some families thought it was the end of the world, some were found dead, and others turned to the Bible. ... It was created to help encourage the farmers into staying with their land. ... Perhaps the most valuable lesson learned from the Dust Bowl-take care of land. ...

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King Richard believes that he should take over John of Gaunt's land when he dies instead of Bullingbrook. Since King Richard has exiled Bullingbrook he, Richard, believes that he himself deserves the land. ... Is not Gaunt dead? ... (Act 2 scene 1 lines 189-199 and 205-208) In this passage, York is attempting to tell King Richard that Gaunt is dead and Herford (Bullingbrook) deserves to inherit the land because he is a "well-deserving son". ... If King Richard has absolute monarchy then there is no one there to stop him from taking over the land. ...

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The background is full of dead trees and land in despair in a style that probably is hard to imitate in today's movie production without actually building the set. The dead land serves as foreshadowing for what lies ahead once Toms house is reached. The gray color in the sky and the dead rolling hills that lead up to it create a mood that is hard to capture. ...

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Revenge is very messy because somebody will and has to get hurt first to desire revenge, and it leads to a cycle that cannot and will not end until everybody is dead. ... Instead of allowing the Furies to wreak havoc and destruction upon the land, Athena gives them land of their own to control. She gives the Furies a new job that makes them benefit from upholding and supporting the new system.The new system allows for people to have a fair trial, and it does not leave everybody dead in the end. The old system where justice equaled revenge was out of date and not practical because in the end ...

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For one thing, Lincoln is never named as the subject within the context of the poem; his death becomes representative of all the war dead. ... The coffin is seen passing, the great cloud darkening the land, the cities draped in black, the sea of faces silent and solemn, and the mournful voices of dirges strongly rising. ... The he-bird, the lone singer, sat there calling out on Land to return his mate and shaking out carols of "lonesome love". ... The sun, day and land suggest life and the physical, while the moon, night and sea represent death and the spiritual. On the seashore where the sea ...

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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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THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ In the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mordecai Richler clearly intends to portray his main character as a failure. Duddy understands perfectly well that a man must pursue his dreams, which is why he is one of the most motivated young man of his time. From the...

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This passage is very powerful. It illustrates the horrendous crimes of the Nazis. In their "Final Solution" they succeeded in destroying the Jews- not only those who were massacred, but also those who survived. Elie Wiesel is unable to recognize the shell that stares back at him in the mirror. Alth...

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The Crusades was a series of wars that were fought over the ownership of the Holy Land and Jerusalem. ... The first Crusade began when the Seljuk Turks took control of the Holy Land and didnt want the Christian to live on the land more. Byzantine Emperor Alexius the first received assistance from the Pope and formed and army to help push the Seljuk Turks out of the Holy Land. ... refers to cremation of dead bodies. ...

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In the beginning stage of American history, explorers' motives for coming to the new world was typically to find land and provide a better life for their families and themselves. The only problem with this thought is that people were already living on this land. The only option of owing the new land was to take it from the people who were already settling there. ... At the time this was the only way they knew how to acquire the land. ... Some many people died and so fast that it was expressed "the living was not able to bury the dead". ...

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In the land of the Danes, there was a disturbance in King Hrothgar's hall, Heorot. ... After discovering of what has happened in the land of the Danes, Beowulf was the one brave soul who decided to do what he can to save the great hall. ... With this opportunity, he choked her until she was dead. ... When Hygelac heard of his great victory, he was honored with a great banquet that would foreshadow his future in the land of the Geats. ... For forty years, Beowulf, reliably, led the land of Geats in peace and harmony until his final heroic battle against the Firedrake. ...

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He speaks of how America is supposed to be the land of love but how it never was that to him. ... For example "the negro bearing slavery's scar" and "the red man driven from the land" and it also mentions "the immigrant clutching the hope I seek". ... The poem speaks of young men who dream of growing up and making their own profit but finding the world an "ancient endless chain of profit, power, gain, of grab the land". ... He says how the dream is almost dead today because of slavery and all the other injustices in America at that day and age. ... America is supposed to be a ...

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I put up with the fear, the cold, the rats, the dead bodies, the gas, the smell, the lice and the loud ringing in my ears from all the gun shots and bombs. ... There are so many dead bodies everywhere, we can't bury them. ... Today sharp at three o'clock the order came down for us to load our rifles and to prepare to run across No Man's Land. ... Have a nice non-dirty, stinky, rat and lice infested, dead bodies, muddy, loud, filthy life. ...

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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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