During Abram's trip to Indonesia he noticed that to his surprise, the shamans played much more of a role as a mediator between the land and the people than they did as healers. The shamans made sure that "the village never takes more from the living land than it returns to it- not just materially but with prayers, propitiations, and praise" (Abram 5). ... The reason this is detrimental to our relationship with nature is because it changes our view of the earth from a sacred place where the living and the dead reside, to just a place for us to make our home. ... "For almost ...

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His autocratic rule was supported by the privileged nobles, who possessed land and serfs, and held all the chief offices in the Czar's administration. ... These problems were due to the poor devisions of land that were given to the peaseants, which lead to "Privilege Russia." The Revolution was to be a new starting point that even purely democratic problems, like the land ownership, cannot be solved without the conquest of power by the proletariat; but this in turn places the socialist revolution on the agenda. ... "I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinc...

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So to avoid his army being slowed down, Napoleon instated that his troops lived off the land as much as possible. ... Compounding this problem the wells had been polluted when Russian soldiers had thrown in dead horses. ... Even before Napoleon had reached Moscow almost one third or his troops and horses were dead or hospitalized due to starvation, disease and exhaustion. ... Others ransacked and even ate the dead. ...

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