The Burial of The Dead "April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. ... Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. ... Eliot's "The Waste Land." ... Implications of death later are more obvious as 'the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief'; the plosive harshness of 'dead' and other words in this section such as &a...

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Nevertheless leaving the world of Feluda and entering Tintin's does not really alter the feeling of anticipation since Tintin almost does something similar in the story "Land of the Black Gold". ... However, all three of them are framed, arrested and taken for interrogation as soon as they land. ... Nonetheless Tintin manages to escape when he passed out due to exhaustion and was presumed dead. ... However 'Land of the Black Gold" can be accepted as an exception. ... However in 1948 the Land of the Black Gold took off again which new illustrating colorized pictures....

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The restricted movement and constant surveillance of and over Okinawa people in their own land by foreigners diluted unison amongst them (Nelson, 2013). ... Graeber (1997), in contrast to Nelson, looks at the Merina people of Madagascar, who strongly believe that it is important to maintain a unity between the living and the dead in order to sustain their history and identity. ... The relation between the dead and the living gets jeopardised if the tombs are destroyed. The Merina people of Madagascar believe in always remembering the dead and celebrating them, they do this by reburying their...

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Within our social structure society has deemed that eating other humans as a means of a regular diet is dead wrong (criminal cannibalism). ... Most tribes, like the Tupinamba (an ethnic group in Brazil), would invade other tribes due to a disagreement concerning land rights and then feast on their enemy's corpses if they were victorious. ... In a different implication, cannibalism is thought to symbolize "reverence for the dead, an incorporation of the spirit of the dead into the living descendants, or a means of insuring the separation of the soul from the body."" ... Soon, greedy rubber...

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The conflict between Arab and Israelis over the holy land of Palestine is regarded as one of the most significant and complex events that had occurred during the 20th century. ... Eventually the Jewish were given the land of Palestine, however many events and partitions had taken place in order for the Jewish to "legally" acquire the land, whilst to receiving it rightfully. ... Subsequently, a week later, Roosevelt was dead and had been replaced by Vice President Harry Truman, which resulted in the course of the partition of Palestine having a dramatic shift. ... Furthermore, the UNS...

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A tropical lagoon is bordered by land on at least one side and is blocked from the sea by different types of barriers. ... (fig. 3) Inter-reef lagoons have barriers, reef complexes, which form on broad platforms and may not have land nearby. ... Salinity is usually lower near the land and greater near the sea. ... The salinity of a lagoon depends on seasonal rainfall, fresh water flowing from the land, evaporation, and the exposure to seawater. ... A direct association can be made between living and dead flora and fauna in low-energy lagoons, while transportation of skeletal fragments fr...

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In the summer of 1676, as the violence dispersed and a clearing between the hatred and torment was visible, thousands were dead.... King Philip's war was a terribly violent and destructive conflict, which was sparked by the desires of maintaining cultural identity and preserving power and authority, both in societal and religious capacities upon what one believed to be his land. ... (Drake 3) They traded openly, worked together in establishing villages, and notoriously, the Indians aided the Puritans in teaching them the ways of the land, and in guiding them through the difficult New En...

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During Abram's trip to Indonesia he noticed that to his surprise, the shamans played much more of a role as a mediator between the land and the people than they did as healers. The shamans made sure that "the village never takes more from the living land than it returns to it- not just materially but with prayers, propitiations, and praise" (Abram 5). ... The reason this is detrimental to our relationship with nature is because it changes our view of the earth from a sacred place where the living and the dead reside, to just a place for us to make our home. ... "For almost ...

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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). ... Within a few hours over 2,000 people were dead. ... 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 ...

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Some reformers are saving the countryside through land trusts which prevent sprawl that will eat up good farmland. ... Suburbanites buy up land rights from farmers and set aside land in a trust in perpetuity so that it can never be developed. ... This is because rain and irrigation take chemical fertilizers that the people use in their lawn into streams and lakes, where the excess nutrients contribute to algae bloom and produce aquatic dead zones. ...

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" The concept created by the Puritans that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" in reference to the ones Natives were not "saved" peaked during the late nineteenth century with a "nearly genocidal assault on Native American civilization (Olson & Wilson, 1986). In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. For example, in 1867 a treaty gave joint reservation land of nearly three million acres to the Kowas, Comanches, and Kiowa-Apaches. This treaty closed the land...

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However, Aeneas' motives are due to his love of peace, a noble cause, "You ask me for peace for the dead, whose destiny has been to die in battle", he explains to the Latin envoys in book XI, "I for my part would have been willing to grant them peace when they were still alive.... He personifies the coastline of Italy itself, suggesting that "The waves were amazed and the woods were full of wonder at the unaccustomed sight of far-glinting shields of warriors" Of course, this may just be a device employed by Virgil to highlight how grand Augustus' ancestor...

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Flying fame only 2nd the Lindberg, set aviation speed records, had performed the 1st outside loop, scored a first in blind flying', earned a doctorate of aeronautical science from MIT, in general if it had wings and looked like a plane - chances were good Doolittle had either flown or could fly it B-25s chosen could take off but they were too large to land on carrier so this was a 1 way mission so landings would be in either China or Russia; Doolittle estimates success at 50-50 Vladivostok 1st choice of landing spot but Stalin was already dealing with the Germans and didn't want ...

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At the end of one's life, after living the commandments and the Torah, modern Judaism allows that one will have a deliverance to the promised land, or what would be conceived as the ultimate holy. ... Jesus is believed to have died through crucifixion and then resurrected from the dead by God to illustrate forgiveness of human sin, the conquering of death, and denial of Satan. This act of redemption would be visualized by those who have faith in God, who then would likewise be resurrected from the dead to ascend into heaven. ...

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The robust Dutch economy and prosperous citizenry provided an extremely favourable environment in which artists could work, even if their principal patrons were no longer the small aristocratic class and the much-reduced Roman Catholic Church in this now official Protestant land. ... There are two dead birds, facing in opposite directions, like mirror images of each other; there are two pairs of vessels on the floor; and there are two living presences, the woman gazing down at her work and the tense, watchful cat. ... Like the coat and sword of the eavesdropper pictures, the hunting rifle prop...

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Is it still around, waiting to be achieved by those who work hard enough, or is it effectively dead, killed off by the Great Recession and the economic hardships that many Americans have come to face? ... King wrote this essay in 2011, for this book. dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability and achievement, regardless of social class or circum­stances of birth" (1931). ... Many liberal economists and activists say that the American Dream is dead, but I say that it's more alive and important than ev...

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The religious conations used in the poem help to create a direct link to the famous 40 year journey where Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land. ... The reference to Lazarus, who was raised from the dead, is suggestive of new life and a better future for the immigrants. ... It captures the hopes and fears of people spanning several generations as they look beyond the photographer to their promised land. ...

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Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... But the perception of the vision he had was only a dream and when he was looking back at it, he remembered how the last battle was, where he saw dead bodies of women and children scattered all over the ground and the soldiers pointing their guns. ... And Native Americans had every right to stand up for the land that was theirs....

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Many times throughout her reign, Catherine had struck down the Ottoman Empire, created the "Nakaz" of 1767 and annexed nations such as Crimea, Poland and Ukraine, and had added 200,000 square miles of land to Russia. In 1774, a Don Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachov had set out to claim the throne as the dead Peter the Great, which Catherine had crushed, and in 1775, she tightened her grip on Serfdom and forced it onto Ukraine where it hadn't been put into operation before. ... The book quotes: "Miranda was a praiseworthy princess and in her land there was perhaps only one major weakness - t...

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Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... But the perception of the vision he had was only a dream and when he was looking back at it, he remembered how the last battle was, where he saw dead bodies of women and children scattered all over the ground and the soldiers pointing their guns. ... And Native Americans had every right to stand up for the land that was theirs. ...

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There was a low angle shot of Ridjimiraril as he rose to "begin his death dance" accompanied by mournful singing and clapsticks, signifying the great respect indigenous people had for their leaders and the dead. ... 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. ... " 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 b...

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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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There are some excellent hotels and restaurants but the city of Aqaba is Jordan's resort town offering the only diving and snorkeling sites and some swim able beaches Jordan is located in the Middle East and is land locked between Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the West Bank of Israel. ... Forming part of the Great Rift Valley of Africa, it rises just over the Lebanese border and continues the entire length of Jordan form the Syrian border in the north, past the salty depression of the Dead Sea, and south down to Aqaba and the Red Sea. ... Phosphate mining, carried out from vas...

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Without their shipbuilding technology the Nordic societies would have only been a (relatively) underdeveloped and isolated group of people fighting each other for small areas of arable land on a cold, remote northern European peninsula. ...

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Two hundred years ago, society would have favored the cloning of men with strong backs and women who were built for childbearing since those were the physical types needed to open a new land. ... The issue of experimentation is not dead in human cloning. ... Some experts suggest that cloning would be justified to replace a dead child or to help save someone dying of an incurable disease through organ or marrow transplant (Sharp and Sharn). ...

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