Given the job to ensure sovereignty over Maori for the Crown was Lieutenant Governor William Hobson, who was assisted in composing the treaty, over only a matter of days, by James Busby, the British Resident of New Zealand, amidst others. Missionary Henry Williams and his son Edward then translated the treaty into Maori on the 4th of February 1840. ... It is said that the translation made by Henry Williams was knowingly different in specific areas, which may have led to an increase of signatures from Maori rangatira. ... Many speculate that the word sovereignty in the treaty was deliberately m...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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It was his sense of duty, and the prospect of serving with one his fellow officers in the Grenadier Guards, Henry Clinton, that aided as motivation for him to go to America. ... Sir Henry Clinton personally welcomed Cornwallis upon his arrival in America. ...

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A true Anarchist: The Life of Emma Goldman Introduction To explain how Anarchism influenced everyday life for Jews in Amerika and especially the citizens of New York's Lower East Side, the ideas and visions of Anarchism's leaders must be thoroughly analyzed. To this end I would like to outline the lives of two of Anarchism's most important spokespeople who greatly influenced the Anarchist movement in America - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The reason why I chose these two people - especially Emma Goldman - is to be found in the extraordinary impression their liv...

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