He further describes the stranger as an integral part of the economic sphere. ... Because he does not own land and trade is often regulated and restricted, the stranger attains mobility. ... He also believes this sense of "strangeness" can be found in other types of relationships, even the most intimate ones. ... He is not perceived as an individual, but a "stranger of a certain type." ... Simmel struggled with a precise definition of the stranger because at best it is the combination of the stranger's remoteness and nearness with respect to the group he approaches. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Land was purchased in Belem or Manaus without any preliminary survey, much as one would draw a hand in a poker game. ... Who in that region and in that atmosphere of speculative profit could have thought of undertaking the hard work of clearing the forest, preparing the land, planting young rubber trees, and caring for them during their period of early growth. ... The owner of the tract of land recruited his workers in Belem or Manaus, loaned them the funds with which to buy not only essential items of equipment but also tinned foods. ... Debt peonage is a great name for it and the worke...

• Word Count: 3885
• Approx Pages: 16
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was separated from the land mass of Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. ... After the Ice Age finished Ireland was mostly populated by settlers from Scotland, although there were probably those who came across when there was still a land bridge between the two countries. ... For Eire is an old Gaelic name for the country and land is Scandinavian, hence, Eire-land or Ireland as we know it today. ...

• Word Count: 10019
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 ...

• Word Count: 4461
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 5127
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate