The passage to India over land was long, slow, and dangerous. ... A colony is a settlement in one land supported by another land, and imperialism is the practice of building empires to support trade. ... Livingstone first planned to become a medical missionary in China, but the Opium Wars made China a bad place for a westerner with good intentions. ... The Bantus attempted to fight for their land, but their spears were no match for the Europeans' guns. ... Members of other races were forbidden to live, work or own land in areas belonging to other races. ...

• Word Count: 2251
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• Grade Level: High School

Our knowledge has changed and our land has changed, but our way of thinking in some areas remains pretty much the same. ... They achieved some confidence to start some protests like the Stono Rebellion in 1739, where one hundred slaves attempted to escape to Florida as a result of the bad treatment and the conditions they lived in. ... Their trip to the land of freedom is not so different that it was 400 years ago. ...

• Word Count: 1523
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• Grade Level: High School

It is so bad, that ghetto neighborhoods share the same characteristics of old former colonies in the third world (Leon pg. 33). ... More importantly, according to Bodley, " even with a tenfold population increase, subsistence resources still would have been marginally adequate if land were equitable distributed. If Goborgari had been organized as an egalitarian, domestic-scale culture, land resources and the risks of food production would have been shared equally" (Bodley 366). ...

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The flowing rivers coming off of giant mountains, filled with thousands of years worth of sediment rock, the vast tracks of land, the wildlife, the minerals that lay beneath this precious jewel, and the labour force already in place to provide physical removal of these valued goods. ...

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These posts were exclusively commercial with instructions from Leopold to claim as much land as possible for the Congo. ... In eighteen seventy- nine Stanley competed aggressively with the French explorer Savorgnan de Brazza for land gains in the Congo. ...

• Word Count: 2347
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

If this were to be you in this situation wouldn't you like a way out of this cruel treatment into a land where you can be free and live like normal people. ... As ancient empires like those of Greece and Rome expanded, seizing control of one land after another, many of the conquered people were sold in slave markets. ... If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell, if he could." She led so many people from that hell and into the "Promise Land." ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The world is depicted as a cold, desolate waste land blanketed in ash. ... The medium of film is utilized beatiful by the director as they make a distinction between the good and the bad through colors. ...

• Word Count: 1484
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• Grade Level: High School

Sometimes bad weather conditions could influence communications; atmospheric interference could alter high frequency radio communications. ... It is well known that because of the curvature of the earth the land radars will stop to track planes over a few hundred miles off the shore. ...

• Word Count: 1817
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• Grade Level: High School

Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). The globalization definition given makes tourism the cause and effect of globalization. Tourism can be argued to be one of the world's largest industries that continues to develop rapidly. Tourism is generally involves travel for recreation, leisure, religious, famil...

• Word Count: 1995
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate