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 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 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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The town received its name from a slave owner who disliked the land and decided to give it to one of his slaves who he had promised land and freedom if he were to do a few difficult chores. He persuaded the slave that the land was considered the bottom of Heaven and the best land there was. ... During their conversation, Sula had asked Nel who was really bad, herself or Nel. ... The community's guidelines for good and bad behavior can be seen through society's reaction to Sula. ...

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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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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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