However, there is only the account of the opinionated, gossiping Nelly to recall how "Hindley hated him, and to say the truth [she] did the same," and how "from the very beginning, [Heathcliff] bred bad feeling in the house" there is little other evidence to support this, especially considering Cathy's almost immediate attachment to him. ... The discrimination of gypsies was common in the 1800s, and they were considered to be vastly inferior to common people, and especially to the wealthy middle class land owners Heathcliff deals with. ...

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Cambodia is also going through a post-civil war, which leaves them in no place to counter the bad effects of global warming. ... Without enough arable land to share between everyone character displacement takes effect and forces people to move to new environments and land. ... Although floods are creating less arable land it creates more densely and higher quality arable land in less land area. These dense areas are extremely high in soil nutrition and are ideal forms of arable land. ... The temperature not only kills crops but dries the land of its water causing droughts. ...

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The grass was very rich and fertile and the grass was the main source of food for the giant buffaloes that roamed the land. ... As the dust storms got worse the ranchers who owned the land started to see their profits disappear and so they then decided to leave the area and they sold the land to crop farmers. But the grass in that region had never been farm land before so when you combined the drought, the heat and the wind it made for a very bad situation. ... I believe that the author Timothy Eagan did a great job in explaining to me the reader the different issues that were involved in the ...

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Aborigines had no concept of land ownership and were driven from the land most desirable to the Europeans, into the harsh climbs of the Australian outback. ... Aborigines have begun to make headway in reclaiming rights to what is theirs, especially land rights. ... These saw negotiations on land between native title-holders and the land users themselves. ... This included both Aborigines and companies using the land for monetary gain, all rights to land were treated fairly and considered. ... What is most alarming is that in comparison to non-indigenous Australians, Aborigines make up a small ...

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For example, rainforests once covered fourteen percent of the earth's land surface and now they cover a mere six percent (Taylor, 2001). ... One cause for destruction is Brazil's intricate highways through the rainforest because these highways have opened up the interior for the wrong people, people who want the land for farming, ranching, logging, and mining. ... With so many causes for deforestation, there are an abundance of bad results, too. To illustrate, some results would be air and water pollution, soil erosion, malaria epidemics, tribes being kicked out of their land, and...

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With so many new immigrants there was a huge demand for more and more land to build homes and settlements on, but unfortunately the majority of land already belonged to the First Nations and Métis people. The European government decided that to get the land from the Aboriginals they would start creating treaties. ... The terms of the treaties say that the Natives would have to surrender and give up their land to the British in order to receive 3-12$ when signing the document as well as 3-5$ a year, reserve land to live on, establishing schools on reserve land, clothing each year for t...

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Not only that the poem uses various adjective and adverb to inculcate Christianity religion in the writing but also the imagination of Religious beliefs such as God love, kindness and hope in rewards for any consequences with idea of good and bad behaviors. ... King Hrothgar who sees to the protection of the land could be portraying as Lord. In addition to beginning of the poem, the writer uses an idea about how the God created the earth in a brilliant flat circle with water which is correlated to how God created the earth in the bible, and saw that light was good which represent the gleaming ...

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His land ethic has become a modern classic and may be treated as the standard example of environmental ethics. ... However, it was an essay in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, "The Land Ethic," in which Leopold explicitly claimed that the roots of the ecological crisis were philosophical (Davis 73). ... The Sierra Club defends the environment and upholds a global environmental ethic on many issues; such as global warming, air pollution, water pollution, cleaner energy, land population, and human rights. ... In July of 1970, the White House and Congress worked together to...

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In the late 1580's witch hunting had become especially bad in Switzerland and the Netherlands. ... The pre-conditions such as the belief in witches, crop failure, death, famine, bad weather and sickness and infertility amongst animals can be easily triggered. ... The idea was that the poor and lowly would go around and beg at the doors of the wealthy land owners, when the land owners turned the poor away and refused to help them, the poor would curse the rich in revenge. ...

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He felt that crops grown on land treated in this way resisted the pests that were rife in the region, and that this resistance was passed onto the livestock when they were fed on such crops. ... Roosevelt during WW II, and Progressive Party candidate for president in 1948, he possessed a deep passion for land and ecology. Serving as Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 to 1940, the Soil Conservation Service was established under him in 1935, with the primary aim, "to conserve fertility, prevent soil erosion and promote good land use- according to Wallace. ... In the 1930's, a 'back to ...

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Producing such huge numbers of green coffee beans called for government involvement, with administrative and legal departments enforcing laws that would protect property and grant land concessions. ... To maintain the capitalist regime, Salvadoran government was controlled by the conservative party which represented the interests of oligarch land owners (Baylora-Herp, 1983). The oligarchy led government's need to expand coffee plantations led to expropriations of land from local peasants which left some communities dispossessed with no other means of subsistence. ... In El Salvador indu...

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I will look at whether it was superior tactics used by the Greeks that led to victory or was it the bad tactics used by the Persians that led them to defeat. ... There is no doubt that Persia had superior numbers but exact figures are impossible to find because the sources from the period are known to have exaggerated massively to make the Greek victory seem more triumphant than it was, Herodotus is especially guilty of this, his own estimate of the combined strength of the Persian army and fleet was 5, 283 220 men which is logistically impossible for the time not just for the actual land spac...

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Reasons for Entering the War It initially entered the War over control of Mancuria and Korea as Russia wanted more power and land expansion. ... They faced crippling redemption payments for land and unrealistically high taxes which would often outlive the peasants themselves and had to be handed down generations. Their treatment left them feeling bitter and resentful as they thought that this new legislation would give them the land they thought they were owed at no cost to themselves, and soon became disillusioned with the prospect of their hard fought-for liberty. In addition to this, ba...

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Through the photographers perspective and intent of portraying the land we call home gives the individual the opportunity to feel and experience what they get from the photos whether its intended or not. ... Changing speeds from the people of America to the land of America the land holds its own meaning through experiencing the topography as if you were there living in that same moment in time, trying to understand the reality of that and the meaning behind it is what Robert Adams did with his landscape photography. ... Adams photos show the rural west and the living conditions understood from...

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The peasants did not have the same advantages, and the ability to better their lifestyles severely limited as they have to pay tax to the Lord of the land on which they lived, there came, and the church. ... Young tells the tale of a woman who had only a small morsel of land, one cow and a poor horse, but had to bear extortionate taxes that they could not afford, to one Lord they had to pay three chickens and 20 kg of weight, to another Lord they had to pay 60 kg of oats, one chicken, and five pence, as well as the taxes to the King. ... In many cases peasants did not own the land on which the...

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Sources list Hadrian as a cultural and independent emperor, but to summarize his years of emperor as "good" or "bad", would mean to study and explore his ways of ruling and how he was influential to the people of Rome. This small assessment of Hadrian's time as emperor is very limited, and though historical sources list his many great deeds for the city of Rome, but like every emperor, he had his weaknesses, and a number of arguments are clear, when labeling him simply "good" or "bad". ... Politically, this cannot label his decisions as emperor as "good" or "bad"; he provided them with th...

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Those policies cause some bad impacts on Hong Kong people's lives. ... Hong Kong has little and limited land supply which result in crowded living environment, if more and more mainlanders enter Hong Kong, it is easy to notice that Hong Kong people would have further limited spaces in average. ... Secondly, market homogenization is also a bad effect of economic integration between Hong Kong and Mainland China. ...

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These adverts however, see Busta Rhymes finding that his idle thumbs can land him in some sticky situations. ... The adverts all feature him getting into trouble because he can't keep his hands still and he always ends up pressing a button and ending up being in some sort of bad situation. ... Busta Rhymes is defined as a bad boy rapper', with the bad experiences of the hood' pushing him on to succeed. The advert is playful and they are almost satirising the image of Busta Rhymes as they show him clumsy situations and not as the bad boy' that he is...

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It is the influences of British Law on Indigenous Australians post colonialism that have led to the genocide, oppression, racial discrimination, dispossession of land, high rates of incarceration and intergenerational trauma and disadvantages that have plague the Indigenous people of Australia for far too long. ... This simple act of claiming land that the British contested was 'unoccupied' has led to the devastating oppression of Indigenous Australians. ... In British law there is a legal distinction made between the acquisition of territory and land (Behrendt, 2009, p.6). This dis...

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In that case the U.S. heightened racial and class divisions by working to reverse the highly popular land redistribution and land reforms of the Guzman government, which had begun to ease such frictions. ... Indeed part of the purpose of operation PBSUCCESS was to ensure the continued export of agricultural products from the United Fruit Company's land holdings in Guatemala, and reverse the domestically focused social and economic reforms of the Guzman government. ... Operation PBSUCCESS is a case study that illustrates Centeno's arguments in his "Blood and Debt" inasmuch...

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With limited resources and no other alternatives, citizen began to build shelters on uninhabited land. At the time the land they settled had little value and lacked government services. ... To make matters worse, residents received little compensation for what seems highly valuable land or at least it is to the Chinese government. ... Review pacification and evictions As previously mentioned, most perceive slums and favelas as being wholly bad and full of crime. ...

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They do not own the land, they belong to it. ... In the opening scene, there is an overhead shot that captures the swamp in Central Arnhem Land. ... This description of nature ends up foreshadowing the bad events that are going to occur in the short story through the use of pathetic fallacy. ... " Essentially, although Weller illustrates that his Indigenous characters have a connection to nature, the strength of this has clearly deteriorated from that of the world that de Heer presents; the sacred relationship between the people and the land seems to have been tainted. ...

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The British only fought for country and land. ... It's like the old maxim of the fox and the hare- the fox (England) may run for its dinner (land), but the hare runs for its life (independence and freedom). ... The biggest player of all on the British side, (at least in starting things up) was King George III, who at the beginning had just been defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill (the Brits had won, but at the cost of "more than 1,000 casualties in an appalling slaughter" (8)) and George was determined to save his colonies, so he was increasing "both his land and naval ...

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ABP was established in 1969 at the request of five widely diverse farm groups as these companies realised that their goals were identical; to increase beef demand, both domestically and internationally, and to guarantee long-term access to valuable resources, such as land and water, as they were seen as the two most valuable resources to the cattle industry (Alberta Beef Producers, 2004). ... Farm land, which includes streams and grazing pastures, are consumed from the environment and the resulting cattle beef is exported back to the environment as food for citizens within, and outside, C...

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Most farmers were fighting for better conditions not redistribution or collectivization of land. ... He was also responsible for a number of land reforms, the Agricultural Land Reform Code of 1963 in particular. ... The failure of which may not necessarily be caused by a flaw in the ideology, but a number of different factors such as corruption and a number of bad decisions made by the administrations. ...

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