... 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. Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia says that one is considered overweight when his or ... fat. In 1956, the President's Council of Physical Fitness implemented broad-based fitness goals for all young people and supported such slogans as "When the...

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Many people around the world still view the United States as the land of opportunity and promise, including those who have immigrated into the U.S. Almost all of whom immigrated into the U.S. do so in search of a better life. Of those people, many of ... what many had felt during their journey. She described her arrival into the States as waking up from a bad nightmare and coming out of hell into paradise. Many refugees felt the same way about the U.S. Mary Antin describes the U.S. as "The Promised Land". Antin and her family fled czarist Russia to avoid oppression because of their Jewish he...

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Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad Pat and Hugh Armstrong, authors, in their article "Canada's System Is A Model For Health Care Reform", reprinted in Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints, argues that the Canadian health care system is ... be able to get the best doctors and excellent treatment needed. You are probably thinking, if the government is in charge of choosing your doctors then America isn't being the land of the free any more. True, but the way the Canadian system is they are all treated equal. In America the low-income families that can't get medical attention because ... ...

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... of their country is not so simple. Why is there a separation between blacks and whites? Why does the television always show African countries as land of disease, hunger, starvation, malnourishment and pollution? Why do the newspapers report and highlight pictures of malnourished children suckling at their mothers breasts, ... these often die out before they hit the western media. These negative issues have reached such an extent that little African American children view themselves as being "bad." A TV show that I had seen once was very influential; a research was conducted with four ch...

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... valleys and hills, are the soul of the earth. Without these lands the world would not go on. Then the next few lines state that the land is only as the good young men in each place. This means to me that everywhere around the world there has to be the farmers and these men ... of agriculture who's hard work and determination show in the land. 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. Most people today are only worried about getting that 90K paycheck a year ... . No one goes to realiz...

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... Americans, as well as foreigners, flocked to the mid-western part of the United States. They flocked to this area hoping to gain free or cheap land promised to them by the United States Government. Most of the "pioneers" left cities and factory jobs to venture out into the American prairies and become ... farmers. They left their homes, not only because the land was either free or cheap, but also because they wanted to leave the hardships of city life. However, as most would find out, prairie life had ... so lucky. Some died of starvation. Some returned to the cities in which they came...

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... been invaded by a very powerful group of people. Before anything drastic could be done these people had invaded your shores and had creeping inward upon your land. At first they acted with scorn and called us names and disrespect. After several groups of our people revolted against these invaders they decided to negotiate ... in the U.S. is on of the most forgotten atrocities in our history. Calling ourselves Americans is basically a lie since we are not Natives to this land. Some even try to justify these actions on Natives by pointing out that the Native Americans had attacked and raid...

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... other words, whether you"re one of the 87% of soldiers in Cambodia, or, one of the 30% of innocent women and children who are killed on average by land mines land mines kill who ever when ever. Something that can cost less than five American dollars to produce your average AP (antipersonnel mine), is generally small in diameter, frequently less than ... next step could be there last. Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan are also badly mine fertile countries that are known to have very bad problems with land mines. The vast majority of c...

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... with their fruits and vegetables. White farmers saw the Japanese's success as a threat to them. Even though the Japanese could not own or lease land, the Issei (first generation Japanese in the United States) farmers were able to remain competitive with the whites because of their skill in growing ... cooperate if they had common economic problems, and ability to endure long hours and bad living conditions. The Japanese had a lot of determination to make it big in America. They saw the United States as the land of opportunity. They wanted that opportunity to get rich and have a good lif...

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... a "melting-pot" because of our diversity in people, and rightly so. For many of our greatest achievements would not have been possible without immigrants. Although American was portrayed as a golden land full of hope and opportunity, by the time the second big wave of immigrants arrived, it was almost as much of a struggle to live in the US as in their ... their favored religion without too much fear of persecution. They were only partially safe from discrimination because they lived in large numbers in one concentrated area. On top of the bad decisions of others, immigrants had to deal...

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... do not see anybody else dealing with the situation differently than Columbus. Either way lives would have been lost or people would have fought for there land. The strong seem to survive though, that is why we have our country and still celebrate holidays such as Independence Day. Independence Day marks the day ... from England. This Independence came at a great cost. Thousands of English lives were lost. Just as Columbus had taken thousand of Indian Lives for this land, we took thousands of lives from the English. Yet we still celebrate this Holiday with fireworks, parades, and the clo...

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... have transcended to their present day descendents. The concerns of the last century Native Americans were that white men were infringing and stealing their land, while they were constantly trying to defend it. In their speeches of the last century, attitudes and the goals of Native Americans are reflected ... as brothers-in-need escaping wicked men in their own countries. Then the white man became greedy and selfish. He said "they wanted more land; they wanted their country." Later he tells how they brought their poison (liquor) in return for their hospitality. Red Jacket also stated th...

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... a very large portion of former Mexican land. People who were once Mexican citizens for decades now overnight became American citizens. Mexicans were also around that time experiencing land consolidation. This made most Mexican Americans unhappy and the decision to move north to the United States was not looking as bad as it once did before the land consolidations. Those Mexican citizens who were not ... experiencing the land consolidations could not overlook the large possibilities and opportunities that fill the large country to their north. The transportation at the time was beginning...

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... be wrong to suggest that they did not believe in the concept at all, "since often Indian chiefs would allot a piece of land to a particular family, on which they could build their home and farm with almost the same private property rights as the Europeans." The Indian viewpoint ... of them. This proved to be the largest cause of problems between the Native Americans and the Europeans. While the Europeans wanted to privatize every land that belonged to the different individuals, the natives "wanted to preserve their traditional way of life, sharing for the benefit of the tribe as ... wel...

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... know the Lord is always by our side, and we take larger steps to a positive future. Optimism is the ability for you to go on when bad things happen. We being optimistic give us opportunities for the future. We know yesterday happened, but we can always make today better. Someone anonymous once quoted ... " Don't sing of yesterday, yesterday is gone, tomorrow isn't written, make today your song." Since we as Americans are optimistic, we don't let bad things suffocate us. There is always air of hope to help us to breathe. Being united gives us strength towards forces that fight against uni...

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... Spanish conquest of the Americas focused on religion: on their need to convert Native Americans to the one true religion. Since the Native Americans had a bad reputation and were seen as devil worshipers to the Spanish they needed to be converted to Christianity. The Spanish were all about taking over the Americas ... people into different classes, from riches to rags. The conquistadors and Spanish settlers were given grants of land and the Indians that lived in each part of them were considered their land. These parts of land had an owner that would convert and Christianize these Indians...

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... treaty would have to be ratified by the Senate. The Cherokee were divided by 1835. Supported by Principal Chief John Ross, who fought the intruding of whites starting with the land lottery in 1832. A minority of less than 500 out of 17,000 Cherokee in North Georgia followed Major Ridge, his son John, and Elias Boudinot, who wanted removal. The Treaty ... United States Army began the invasion of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles- who whites referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes" - Occupied big tracts of land in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama...

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... Manhattan from the Indians. The Dutch called it New Amsterdam. The Dutch called the Colony New Netherlands. The English came and took the land away from the Dutch. The English called it New York. Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers looking for religious freedom. Industries The fertile ... land and water from the rivers helped the settlers of the Middle Colonies. The crops they grew were vegetable,fruit,and grain. Farmers ... and get rich by trading with the Indians. They thought they would get rich quick, and return to England. However, they were not successful. Times were very bad, beca...

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Immigrants that traveled across seas from other countries had it pretty tough coming to the great land of opportunity. The faced many hardships that most Americans never had to go through. Laws were even made in their ... Ellis Island station, which remained open until 1954. Italian immigrants experienced poverty in Italy during the late 19th century. The Italian land system was poor which resulted in difficulty for peasants and unskilled workers. The Italian government policy didn't benefit the people because it industrialized the ... land at the people's expense. Landlords controlled the l...

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... on Plymouth Rock, there were natives waiting there for them. Interested as they were, they stayed away from those pilgrims. Why?- Because they smelled bad. These civilized Europeans never washed themselves, whereas the natives would go down to the beach, and despite freezing water, these "savages" bathed themselves. Had ... a indigenous word for "crazy white man." This word was created for the white man after the government started purchasing land from the natives. In a culture where everything was shared and "every proprietor knows his own, yet all things are used in common amongst the...

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... very similar design that are set together in a neighborhood/community. Sub-divisions are easy to build, go up fast, and occupy a lot of land as well as serve the basic living requirements for a single person, couple, or small family. Sub-divisions were created by society for those who ... , that child's paradise, left standing at the end of a street. Many communities have no sidewalks, and nowhere to walk to, which is bad for public safety as well as for our nation's physical health. It has become impossible in such settings for neighbors to greet one another on ... smart growth" is the ...

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... and began what we know today as America. The Indians, which were actually Native Americans, shared precious information with the settlers about agriculture and hunting on the land, which was crucial for survival. The modern world today may not be so advanced if Columbus never made his voyage. Back in Spain it was a time ... them as intelligent people noting that they have been navigating the sea, and that he was amazed on the account they gave everything. I personally feel bad for the Native Americans. For the most part they were not violent people towards the explorers and tried to hel...

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... "re new at this." The Continental Army was recruiting just about anyone that would join, and in many cases had to bargain the service for future grants of land and money. To counter that, the northern colonies had gained their first experiences during the French-Indian war a few years earlier. Again, organization was not always present ... had gained great advantage in the war. While General Washington kept his struggle to keep the Continental Army whole, the British were busy composing their Southern strategy. They would land at Savannah then and Charleston a year later. They sent Britis...

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... are a living library. All sorts of advances in science get pulled out of esoteric species and their biology in these forests. Four percent of the dry land surface of the planet may have half the species on the planet." For most people they do not realize the causes of deforestation. They only want what ... money and get very upset. The companies then will follow up with lawsuits and court cases against the people and it also makes the people look bad to authorities. The movement attempts to share public opinions by having various organizations to support the movement. The public can writ...

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... Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado were experiencing an even bigger problem. The large amount of production on their farms and poor managed land created an environmental disaster when mixed with a drought. Millions of tons of dry top soil were being blown into the air. This region became known ... the house to find that it is empty. Muley Graves, a neighbor, explains to him that all the tenant farmers have been evicted from their land. Most of the families are moving to California, on the rumor that they can find work there. When Tom finally meets up with the rest ... Uni...

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