... many miles of burned forests leaving a shortage of wood, but an ample amount of "most sought after of colonial trees ", the white pine. The English colonists would utilize the white pine for crucial purposes such as ship construction. On page 28, William Wood elaborates on how the Native Americans' woodland burning ironically resulted in another appreciated asset of the forest by the English colonists. The "thickets " created by the Native Americans' burning of the underbrush is ... with nature and culturally in touch with their environment and surroundings, their ability to produce and...

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... those who support the destruction of the Indonesian rainforests. One of the most repeated words in the article is "destruction." From saying that "Indonesia has one of the fastest rates of forest destruction in the world" to stating that "Mattel's toy packaging is linked to the destruction of rainforests in Indonesia," the author attempts to render Mattel's methods of toy packaging in a negative light and support Greenpeace's denouncing the the packaging that ... is diminishing Indonesian rainforests. Another instance of the author attributing negative characteristics to Mattel is when ...

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