When the land was purchased it need to be cleared and worked. ... The government traded the Indians land in Oklahoma in exchange for their land holdings in the south and the east. ... This division of land into 160 acre parcels freed up a surplus of unclaimed land that the government could now offer up at bargain prices to the land-hungry white speculators. ... We drove them out of the east by cheating them out of their land. ... Good and bad, we must live with our heritage. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is very bad because our farmland is the driving force that keeps our nation alive. ... From 1970 to 1990 nineteen million acres of rural land were developed into urban land in the state of Oregon alone(Statesman). ... Fifty nine percent of the world's growth and development is taking place on prime land. ... Farmland provides a buffer between residential areas and areas such as highways and industrial land. ... The Clinton administration passed a bill called the Better American Bonds Act, this consists of 9.5 billion dollars in funding to protect rural land and make our urban lan...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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). ... 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 1970, the White House and Congress worked together to...

• Word Count: 1423
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many developing countries are located in parts of the world where the soil is bad, the weather is not consist enough to help with crop growth, and there is a lack of efficient farming equipment. ... From a person using a piece of land too much, the soil that was once full of minerals loses its effectiveness and is not able to produce health crops. Once they use up all that land, they must find somewhere else to grow crops. ... Trees must be cut down to use that land to grow the crops on. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Should the United States have gun control or not? Imagine today, somebody or the government came into your town and started taking possession of all your personal firearms. Just so they could keep you under their control. What would you think or do about this? In the summer of 1768, ...

• Word Count: 1414
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• Grade Level: High School

Boys like to show off talents now and it isn't necessarily bad  but in 2081  equality  amongst everyone is essential.  ... Harrison  is breaking the rules of his government, and he's also breaking the rules of gravity: "Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well. "  This answers George's question from earlier: "The minute people start cheating on laws, what do  you think happens to society?"  ... By showing us the unhappiness of George's existence, Vonnegut asks us to question our own passivity and perhaps eve...

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the reality is decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffle to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched up nineteenth-century houses that smell always of cabbage and bad lavatories. ... This eliminates the idea that war is waged for the conquest of land and much-needed resources. ...

• Word Count: 1960
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Both have their good and bad points, although the main focus I am presenting will acknowledge socialism in better terms than the capitalist economy. ... They owned a considerable amount of assets, like land, oil, and factories. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

FAMILY AND SOCIETY 1. Select three major societal and/or economic changes that have had a significant impact on the family. Describe the changes and how families been affected? Family and society have come across many changes during our history. Every change that occurred has affected what ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School