With new land to plow and toil comes new interested people, and by that I mean the Europeans. ... Lord Baltimore made it clear that he really wanted religious freedom in Maryland he did give many public offices and land to Catholics, but although Clocker is said this is not what bothered him, he was determined to have his own land. ... This really begs the question, were things really that bad over in England for people to risk their lives for something better? ... While in servitude Clocker also learned about tobacco farming, which needed two things: lots of land and lots of labor. ... Th...

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"Land of the Kiwi" Land of the Kiwi is a film that discusses the physical features of the islands more commonly known as New Zealand. ... Humans discovered the "land of the kiwi" only about 1200 years ago. ... The indigenous fauna of New Zealand included no mammals on land except for the bat. ... The kiwi is nocturnal and as a result has bad eyesight, but has a very sensitive beak and whiskers like a cat that help it find food and guide it in its travels. ...

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Land of Opportunity America confronted the colonists with unforeseen problems. ... If that was not bad enough, they also took time on the Sabbath for many recreational activities in the place of scripture reading and spiritual upliftment. ... They had much of the land that the Puritans wanted for expansion, so they had to come up with a reasoning within their religious beliefs to expel the natives out of the area. ... In England the Puritans did not have the opportunity for expansion in land and they found it in America. ...

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However, there is only the account of the opinionated, gossiping Nelly to recall how "Hindley hated him, and to say the truth [she] did the same," and how "from the very beginning, [Heathcliff] bred bad feeling in the house" there is little other evidence to support this, especially considering Cathy's almost immediate attachment to him. ... The discrimination of gypsies was common in the 1800s, and they were considered to be vastly inferior to common people, and especially to the wealthy middle class land owners Heathcliff deals with. ...

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Peasants worked the land. ... In theory, all land in the kingdom belonged to the monarch; the church also owned a substantial amount of land. ... Lords rented some of their land to peasants who cultivated the land for them. ... When Herbert Spencer stated, "Feudalism, serfdom, slavery are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man...... Unfortunately, as Spencer further articulates, this kind of system progressed into just another bad state for man-one lacking freedom. ...

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Cambodia is also going through a post-civil war, which leaves them in no place to counter the bad effects of global warming. ... Without enough arable land to share between everyone character displacement takes effect and forces people to move to new environments and land. ... Although floods are creating less arable land it creates more densely and higher quality arable land in less land area. These dense areas are extremely high in soil nutrition and are ideal forms of arable land. ... The temperature not only kills crops but dries the land of its water causing droughts. ...

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The Europeans were accustomed to own land and laid claim to it while they considered the Indians to be nomads with no interest to claim land ownership. ... Racism meant assuming bad things about someone just because of the color of his/her skin, and it is the main ingredient in cultural disunity. ... First, a racist has "bad intent." ... "Bad intent" will show how prejudice is not necessarily racism. ... These hasty conclusions about "bad" and "good" intent led to more misunderstandings between the two cultures. ...

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Every American president has made good and bad decisions. ... This gave the federal government the power to trade the land west of the Mississippi, which was Oklahoma, for the Indian land in the south-eastern areas. ... Many Indians, however, didn't want to leave their beautiful ancestral land in Illinois for the barren land of Oklahoma and Kansas. ... Army pressured Black Hawk into the Wisconsin territory and killed 850 of his warriors at the Battle of Bad Axe. ... This tariff was supposed to make Adams look bad because it was well known that tariffs were despised in the south and favore...

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The people who came over to the "new land- were very brave. ... This might have looked as "good intensions- to them, but they really can be bad if looked upon form the Indians point of view. ... He also said that "they are bad people, having no humanity but shape."" ... In the south the conditions were good for farming, but in the North, the land was rocky, and the temperature got very cold in winter. ... So they had to be willing to have the patients to put up with that bad farming weather and land, at times. ...

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The grass was very rich and fertile and the grass was the main source of food for the giant buffaloes that roamed the land. ... As the dust storms got worse the ranchers who owned the land started to see their profits disappear and so they then decided to leave the area and they sold the land to crop farmers. But the grass in that region had never been farm land before so when you combined the drought, the heat and the wind it made for a very bad situation. ... I believe that the author Timothy Eagan did a great job in explaining to me the reader the different issues that were involved in the ...

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Many saw it as good, others as bad. ... Finally, foreigners were brought in to buy, sell, and produce goods on Mexican land. ... By "well being" I refer to their money, food, homes, and land. ... The settlers who were paying for the land in Northern Mexico and Eastern parts of Mexico were monopolizing their goods such as sugar plantations and producing their own economies in a foreign land. ... Good, bad, happy, sad, were the many outcomes of this movement. ...

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Feelings Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a full account on the annihilation of the American Indian from the 1860's to the 1890's. I like the book for its information but I did not enjoy reading it. I appreciated the story from the perspective of the American Indian. From reading Bury My Heart at ...

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The land of Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, rightfully deserves to remain the sole Jewish state with no Palestinian control in any parts of the land. ... The media has given Israel a bad reputation over these past years of conflict. ... People should not end up under the impression that all Arabs are bad people out to destroy Israel. ... They needed a place to go and their old Holy land seemed like the perfect place at the time. ... The conflict looks like it will be never ending due to the fact that both believe the land is theirs. ...

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Bad leaders corrupt the world, and in response, the world revolts against, resulting in their fall. ... Through the decree of Frankish tradition, his sons would divide the inheritance and land. ... The land given to Carloman had been established and was stable already. ... For example, he established many laws that were both good and bad. ... Many ancient civilizations controlled their land in a similar fashion as Charlemagne. ...

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Cather repeatedly uses pieces of the land to represent the faith of Father Vaillant and Father Latour. ... Christ used the rock to compare to the land and the people. ... Cather uses this description to start using land to represent how the people will be in the Americas. ... They seem to be describing it as a bad experience for both Fathers. ... Cather used many details in her representation of the land to come up with beautiful tale....

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As he grows older he only finds peace in his land. ... However, both brothers agree to sell their father's land after he is dead. ... Wang's house and land lie outside the walled country town. ... He receives his livelihood and spiritual rejuvenation from the land. ... His sole source of stability is in his land, and this is why he always transforms a material gain into land. 2. ...

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During my great grandpa's illness, he had to sell all the land, except for 100 acres, for the needed income. ... At night he would have bad dreams of war and the sound of thunder terrified him. ... She dreaded it because she knew there was the possibility of having bad news in the mail. ... She just did not know if it was good or bad. ... I was amazed that her family owned nineteen hundred acres, which was a lot of land for back then, and still is today. ...

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After a human's death their soul would be in "the land of no return". ... Hinduism believed in good and bad karma, which was something positive or negative done in life. If someone had good karma in their past life it would carry on to their present life, same as bad karma. ... If someone was born a female in the caste system it is said that they had bad karma in a past life. ... Women in Sumer were allowed to own their own land, but weren't educated to become scribes. ...

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Wang Lung was a man of his land. ... No matter how bad the year was or how poor they became or whoever decided to ransack his home and steal everything, his land could never be taken away. ... But the land was still there. ... The more money, the more land. ... Out of the land we came and into it we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live - no one can rob you of your land. ...

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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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It is too bad the Greeks did not believe that. ... Creon states that the gods would be unhappy if a traitor to their country and land were to be buried. Someone that was a traitor to the Gods land would not be admired and even the gods would agree that the person should be punished. ... The fact is laws are made for a reason, be it good or bad. ... Being put in the position to punish his niece would have caused him unneeded stress in a time when the land was stricken with such despair that would have made him all the more disgusted with Antigone....

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This led to very low amounts of food, and in years where harvests were bad, famine resulted. ... In this system, land was divided into two equal plots. ... So, instead of dividing their land into two equally sized plots, they divided the land into three equally sized plots. ... Now, each year serfs were able to use sixty-six percent of land to grow crops instead of fifty, and as a result were plowing significantly less fallow land. ... In the Winter, wheat, rye, and other cereal grains were planted in a third of the land, and in the Spring, oats, barley, and most importantly, legumes were plan...

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Many then saw their land and property sold before their own eyes. ... (Brill, 43) At the point of a gun, the pace killed many of the old, exposure and bad food killed most. ... The Americans decided they needed more land. ... The Mississippi Band of the Choctaw had escaped being removed, but had their land stripped down to 500 acres, and in five years none of that land was in Indian hands. ... A land based on freedom and equality but something like this can happen. ...

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But they never got a chance to get into the promise land. ... In one of his speeches he told the world that subordinate groups would one day reach the promise land, just like Moses told the Israelites that one day they would make it to the promise land. The promise land was like equal rights for all mankind in the United States. ... Segregation in the United States changed history in both good and bad ways. The bad part about segregation was the powers that developed .The superiority over the ordinates and the Ku Klux Klan that was organized. ...

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Aborigines had no concept of land ownership and were driven from the land most desirable to the Europeans, into the harsh climbs of the Australian outback. ... Aborigines have begun to make headway in reclaiming rights to what is theirs, especially land rights. ... These saw negotiations on land between native title-holders and the land users themselves. ... This included both Aborigines and companies using the land for monetary gain, all rights to land were treated fairly and considered. ... What is most alarming is that in comparison to non-indigenous Australians, Aborigines make up a small ...

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