Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. ... Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looking the other way- and who, if not claimed within seven days, is "sent far away to the Never Land- (Barrie 101). The boys of Never Land are dead, and so Peter Pan, arriving at the window of the Darling family...

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The London directors instructed the settlers to, "deal," with the Indians by any means necessary, which started the notion that, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," (Morgan 118). ... Dale's policy of giving away free land to settlers encouraged white people to continue to take land that was not theirs, pushing Indians further and further West, away from the land and culture they were familiar with. ... In order to continue making profit they would need more land, and just when the Indians thought the white people had all the land they could possibly want, they wan...

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The worm's admonishment to "Waste no compassion on these separate dead!... Lines 11-14 Walcott shifts gears in these lines and returns to images of Africa's wildlife, in a reminder that the ibises (long-billed wading birds) and other beasts ruled this land long before African or European civilization existed. ... The settler built roads and a railroad, and, over time, dispossessed a great many Kenyans - mostly Kikuyus - of their land. ... To gain back self-government and their land, the Kikuyu Central Association sent representative Jomo Kenyatta to England in 1929. ... While Ki...

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"1 Up to two thousand people gathered in the park that day and bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Holding Company, and Wildflower played. ... This new type of music was known was "psychedelic rock" and some popular musicians of the era were the Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and The Rolling Stones. ...

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Where Rome is a capitalist wasteland from which Cesira can profit, Ciociaria is a fertile land that will enable both Rosetta and Cesira to flourish. ... Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... Cesira, in accepting the capitalist way of life, is spiritually dead, as regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social justice, since "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market- (CA 34). ... When Cesira an...

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This poem is employed as a monologue in which a soldier struggles with the memory of his now dead friend, who he will never see again. The letter is sent to a dead soldier's girlfriend and describes the horrific remains of the soldier, depicting resentment towards participating in the war. ... Additionally, his description of the dead soldier symbolizes a mind that's becoming less stable and sane, "You would not know him now" "Cover him, cover him soon!... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ... The dead soldier represents Will Harvey, ...

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Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community in Palestine to make a beginning to increase their power in Palestine. ... Land bought by the Jewish National Fund was held in the name of the Jewish people and could never be sold or even leased back to Arabs. ... The Arabs helped the Palestinians to try not to sell their land because of poverty. ... The land without people for a people without land was the words that the Zionists called for Palestine but this was false as that land was already home to 700,000 Palestinians in 1919. ... More than half the land, including the coasta...

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The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. ... Due to the effective air, sea, and land blockade that was in progress, Japan was unable to " maintain their industry, maintain their shipbuilding, and carry on their commercial life-(Alp 327). ... Without the support of his sea power and air power, his land forces cannot do anything except hold out in isolated beleaguered spots all over ...

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NAGPRA applies when human remains and funerary objects are recovered from federal or Indian land. It states that ownership or control of Native American human remains or objects shall be given to lineal descendents of the Native American or Indian tribe on whose land such objects or remains were discovered or Indian tribe which has the closest cultural affiliation and states a claim for such remains or objects to the study of the remains. (3) A coalition of five Native American tribes claim Kennewick Man as an ancestor and have requested that his bones be returned for proper burial under NAGRP...

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Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. ... This is a place where floods continually inundate the land and whole forests lift their heads above the tides and then disappear. ... Some even call it as bhatir desh, the land of eighteen tides. The land itself is inconstant, subject to radical transformation as a result of late summer storms and tide water. ... Kanai's narrative brings to life the character of his uncle, Nirmal Bose, who is dead before the story begins. ...

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The Crown wanted the Maori to give the right to purchase their land in return for their own property being guaranteed to them and having the same rights as any of the British migrants. ... Williams owned over 11,000 acres of New Zealand land and wanted to protect this land (Basset, Sinclair, Stenson - The Story of NZ, 1998) which could be a motive as to mistranslating the Treaty of Waitangi. ... "(Wakefield, EJ - Adventures in New Zealand, 1845) Edward Wakefield believed that the Hobson, Busby and Williams were deceiving the Maori people out of their land and the Treaty was purposefully ...

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Beginning on February 20th, a two day period of violence erupted on both sides leaving an estimated hundred dead and hundreds injured according to health ministry in Kiev3. ... The Russian forces targeted Crimea, a large land mass south of Ukraine's mainland and west of the Russian border, due to the geographical separation from the mainland of Ukraine, which historically has been pro-Russian10. ... When Russia invaded Crimea and furthered troops into the main-land of Ukraine, it went against the interests of the international community. ... Russia, acting out of this fear of losing a cr...

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Simply put, Israel would not exist if Britain had not promised the land (liberated from the Turks with the help of the Palestinians in return for their independence) to the Jews (who contributed nothing to this liberation but stood ready to swoop in with a three thousand year old land claim). ... If your children are shot dead by Israeli soldiers, you can look forward to beating your head against a brick wall in search of justice, which will never come. ...

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Atlantis: The Lost Continent INTRODUCTION. For thousands of years a burning question has tantalized mankind: Did the lost continent of Atlantis really exist? Why did it vanish without a trace? Atlantis, said by some to be the world's oldest civilization, has never ceased to intrigue scholars, historians, and archeologists, and still remains a legend and a conundrum considered newsworthy today! The search for the truth has driven many men to the ends of the earth, possessed by this powerful and fascinating story: "It is almost as if, realizing that there now ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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Discoveries of fossil bones in sink holes and caves indicate that at least half, and possibly over two-thirds of Hawaii's land birds went extinct between the time the Polynesians arrived and when Cook arrived. ...

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Just to protect its ability to do business in a land already riddled with fierce animosities, the company found itself forced to defend trading posts with hired soldiers. ... The India that these British traders came to do business in was a thoroughly bewildering place, a vast expanse of land filled with millions of peasants ruled by a small number of princes--mostly Muslim--with power derived from a court whose opulence could put any in Europe to shame. ...

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Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". The main focus will...

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Drawing from mythological legend and rich historical data all of which is tied together through Shelley's own unique life and personal emotions, Frankenstein is a tale of what can happen when mankind oversteps his natural bounds and transcends from everyday life into the realm of fantasy and nightmares, into the land of gods and monsters. ... As a result, the distinction between the living and the dead was blurred and it was widely felt that inorganic matter could easily generate living beings. ...

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They held signs that said: "God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11," "America is Doomed," "Don't Pray for the USA," "Thank God for IED's," "Thank God for Dead Soldiers," "Pope in Hell," "Priests Rape Boys," "God Hates Fags," "You're Going to Hell," and "God Hates You. ... In compliance with local law enforcement instructions of picketing, their picketing took place on public land approximately 1,000 feet from the St. ...

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It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed over to Poland a large area of the Soviet zone of Germany, including land to which ...

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Hypothesis: Due to the dubious and unproved value as a deterrent to violent crime, the inequity and mistakes inevitable in any system of justice instituted and administered by fallible human beings and the degrading and hurtful impulse toward retribution and revenge that it expresses, the abolition ...

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He was eventually taken to the hospital, where he was announced dead. ... By boat or by land, thousands of unaccompanied minors cross the US–Mexico border into the United States each year, without legal immigration status and adult accompaniment (Wanson 2). ...

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Sparked off by a seemingly trivial affront " a versified insult, a brawl over the rights to a beached whale, unsanctioned wooing of a woman, or one party allowing livestock to graze a neighbour's land, " conflict generates highly complex structures where at every point there are many options for resolution. ... His mother invited him to stay there, though she said she could see that it would not help him much, since he was a wanted man throughout the land. ...

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His inability to realize certain things about his life will come through in a painful epiphany later in the story, after his dreams have been shattered by the harsh reality of Gallaher's character, just as the dreams of the Irish have been shattered and cloaked under a reputation of the past and a pride on those that are long dead. ...

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