Land of the Free and Home of the Fat Our nation possesses a serious disorder that is infecting people of all ages and knows no limits based on income or ethnical background. ... One definition of the word fat, as defined by The American Heritage Dictionary, is "the best or richest part: "living off the fat of the land"". The American population has exploited this definition of the word fat, and has surpassed the healthy limit of "living off the fat of the land", causing the majority of Americans to become obese. ... In 1956, the President's Council of Physical Fitness implemented bro...

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Land tends to heat up and cool down much more rapidly than water, and the air masses that affect Albuquerque are dominated by this continental effect. ... I would be expected to foresee when a bad freeze is coming, so the people can get prepared (save what crops they can, etc.). ...

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Hunger remains due to such causes as bad harvests, wars, injustice, environment and the mixing up of priorities. ... Sudan in 1991 was a land in turmoil as Sudanese troops fought a rebel army and the country ran out of food. ... Governments increased the amount of land set aside for so called "cash crops" such as coffee, cotton and peanuts, leaving little land for growing food Africans actually ate. ... In order to maintain the same standard of living, farmers are cultivating more land for "cash crops", leaving less land for domestic crops. Furthermore, "cash crops" rob soil of nutrients le...

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The war took place in order to gain controal over the Holy Land. ... None of the armies knew what the Holy Land consisted of and had no plan on how to captured this land. BY the end of the first crusade the army captured a small strip of land. ... In conclusion, the Middle ages may have been a time of growth but the bad out weighs the good. ...

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Then the next few lines state that the land is only as the good young men in each place. ... I think that this poem can totally relate to the people of today in the United States and how bad our pollution is and how dirty our land can get. ... This also makes me think about our lands and how bad we as people treat it. ... Imagine if our land suddenly became tarnished. ... How fertile the land would be because of the brave soldiers who fought diligently for their country. ...

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Is Hal good or bad? ... Because the French violated the rules of war, Henry's attempt to conquer the French land was validated. ... Are they good or bad? ... Portrayed as bad people inhabiting the land of England, the French attempt to defend their land by any means. ... The English were trying to conquer their land for selfish reasons. 3. ...

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He was so sorry, he even tried to apologize to his wife but in fact he was a very bad man for doing what he did with Abigail Williams. ... He would convict people even though he knew they were innocent to get their land to make money off their land. ... He lied so that his name would not be looked upon as a bad person. ... He like the land his friend's land said they were his. He always tried to take land even though it wasn't his. ...

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Tobacco is bad for your health and it takes up allot of land. ... Also chewing tobacco is bad for you. ... Also the growing of tobacco takes up a lot of useable land that could be used for farming crops, housing, or even planting trees and other flowers. ... Also I have learned that second hand smoke is bad for you too. ... We can use the land for farming crops, housing, and for the reproducing of trees and other flowers. ...

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They had much love for the land because they lived off it and it kept them alive. 2.) ... Throughout the movie there were good and bad whites. Timmons is one example of a bad white. ... I don't think land should be given because that would be unfair to people who live their now. In our modern times, America needs all the land it can get for its rising population and constant expansion. ...

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This represented both good news and bad news for the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin solved the problem of land ownership very well. In his April Theses, he swore to return all the land to the peasants. Using the Decree on Land, 540 million acres of land was taken from the tsar, nobles, church, and private landlords then distributed between the peasants. ... Overall, I think Lenin's consolidation of power had many more good points than bad. ...

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The Spanish government started giving certain people tracts of land as gifts and obligations, they were also given the right to force the Indians that lived on that land to work a certain amount of time a year and the right to tax the Indians on the land. ... The land owner would usually accept a trade. ... They were trying to gain as much land as possible, and I think that in general it wasn't a bloody scene. ... There were some bad things that the Spanish brought with them, like diseases. ... It is too bad that the Spanish couldn't have treated the Indians in a truly Chris...

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In 1988, in Yellowstone Park a forest fire burnt down 4,300 square kilometers of land. ... Forest fires destroy about three million acres of land each year! ... Farmers use fire to get trees out of their land for a field because it is the cheapest and easiest way to get rid of trees in your field and fertilize your crops. ... Forest fires also used to claim land for farmers a long time ago by burning around it to keep people out. (J, 1) Some really strong forest fires can even drive people out of their homes, they could even of been a good fire and turned bad. ...

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Usually when the month rolls around I hold my breath and hope that nothing bad happens. ... My dad drove me in his Toyota Land Cruiser, that we still own today, to Children's Hospital in Oakland, I had no idea where I was going or what I was doing, I was completely oblivious of what was wrong with me. ...

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This seemed logical people to be involved with witchcraft because they already had a record of being bad. ... Without men to support them or to claim their land there was nothing they could do to prove their innocence. ... When a witch was convicted their land was put up for auction. That's why women were mostly accused, so their land would be taken. The rich were also targets of the accusations, because they had a lot of land, and Salem was a town/village of very greedy people. ...

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Odysseus's adventure in Homer's epic, "The Odyssey," follows him on a journey where he meets an array of new people while traveling to new land. ... The theme of the voyager traveling in far-off land was very common in Greek mythology. ... This value was so important that it was actually a way of classifying mortals and even gods as good or bad; those who practice good Xenia being "good" and those who do not, as "bad". ... Those who practiced bad Xenia were often punished. Two characters who represent the "good" and "bad" Xenia are Telemachus...

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Optimism is the ability for you to go on when bad things happen. ... Since we as Americans are optimistic, we don't let bad things suffocate us. ... Even our forefathers were optimistic of our future and visioned a land of freedom and equality. ... Yes, America is the land of the free. ... No matter how bad things are stretched out to be, America and its people will always bounce back into place. ...

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It also made a disadvange to the both the mother land and the colony. ... The more land that England had, the more of a global empire. ... England got more land so they became a bigger world power. Some negative effects were that England had more land to protect. ... Overall in my opion imperialism cause more bad than good. ...

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Many of these landowners are being thrown off their land and left to fend for themselves. ... Characters: Landowners- Many of these landowners are being thrown off of their land and having technology replace them. ... The central conflict of the story is that all of these landowners are having their land taken away from them. ... Much of the story is told from a depressing viewpoint, describing the bad effects of what was happening. ...

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The third crusade began will the great Saracen leader Saladin retook the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the European Crusaders of the later crusades. Saladin had fought against these enemies in the first and second crusades, in which he defended but was unable to keep the Holy Land. ... Surprisingly Barbarossa agreed to help the Byzantinium and called for a 3rd crusade to recapture the Holy Land from the invading Saracens. ... Things turned bad when Frederick was drowned while crossing a river on the way to meet up with his allies. ... The English King came out with a crushing victory and now m...

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In the 1780's land was the predominant source of wealth in France and the peasant the typical producer and very hard-working of the age. ... According to historians, like George Rude, (P.23) " in France perhaps one in four of the peasants owned their land ". ... If he did not own his land he had to pay for the use of his landlord's mill, wine-press and bakery. In years of bad harvests and depression these obligations became intolerable. ... However what the cahiers were still lacking, they did not give enough representation for the most urgent and serious grievance of...

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Another consequence of smoking is bad hygiene. ... Smoking often results in bad breath and an odorous smell that linger on the body and clothes of the smoker. ... A less apparent influence of smoking is the bad effect to the environment. ... As a matter of fact, smoking is one of the direct contributors to air, water, and land pollution. ... Likewise, the various additives and chemical substances of tobacco would leach into the soil, polluting the land as well as plants. ...

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One of the reasons behind the crusades would be when the government wanted to free the holy land from the Muslims; this all began in Europe. ... The king and his people felt as though freeing the Christians from the Muslim rule and claim back the land stolen from them 500 years ago would be nothing less than a good deed. ... It's said that the first crusade created Latin states on the holy land. ... There were relationships troubled in the government after the crusaders won back the Holy Land. ... Wars taught the world that fights and battles take a toll but they also bring a big change a...

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Have you ever had the kind of friend that always forgave you for the largest outcomes, no matter how bad the repercussions were? ... This story takes place in Soledad, California in the mid 1900s where it was hard to live on your own; where everybody fell into a trance of owning their own land and being free from the rest of the world. That dream is what drove George and Lennie to work on someone else's farm in order to get the money to buy that big ol' piece of land. ... In the book, Slim asks George about his background with Lennie and throughout George going into detail about i...

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The pope intended to take over land from the Muslims and re-claim it as Christian territory. ... Needless to say, when the first crusade headed for the holy land, it was a thing to be remembered. ... Pope Eugenius III called a crusade to capture the territory, but his efforts were unsuccessful due to bad leadership and ineffective military. ... The success of the re-capture of the holy land in the first crusade reinforced authority of the church and strengthened the self-confidence of western Europeans. ... These holy wars had dramatic outcomes, and affected both the crusaders and the defende...

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The colony on the other hand is not as pleased with the outcome of imperialism on their native land. ... The main reason is because of the bad trade, meaning that land in Africa cost more money than it brought back in. ... It was a wealthy land that was taken over by Europe because they wanted Africa's wealth. When the colonizers came to Africa they took over the land by force. ... "When the whites came to our country, we had the land and they had the Bible; now we have the Bible and they have the land". ...

• Word Count: 903
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate