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    related to Aboriginal rights have been fixed. Aboriginal land rights saw an improvement after 1980. There are two different types of land claims - comprehensive claims and specific claims. Comprehensive claims give Aboriginal people the right to claim land because their ancestors once owned it. Specific claims give the right to claim land due to the government not fulfilling an obligation under a treaty. An example of a comprehensive land claim case is the Nisga’a group. In 1991‚ the BC government

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    the British Empire in 1763 was controlling land speculators in both Europe and the British colonies whose activities often led to frontier conflicts.[2] Many Native American peoples—primarily in the Great Lakes region—had a long and close relationship with France‚ and were dismayed to find that they were now under British sovereignty. Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763–66) was an unsuccessful effort by Native Americans to prevent Great Britain from occupying the land previously claimed by France. The Proclamation

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    From all the various themes the book My Promised Land by Ari Shavit introduced in just the first sections‚ it invoked my memory of past lectures‚ personal experiences‚ and thoughts on the matters surrounding the State of Israel and its inception. Reading through these pages I found myself dancing around Ari’s combination of words that described scenes of devastation and of a humiliated Palestinian population after or depiction from his grandfather about of the disease and despair found in the faces

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    LAND SURVEYOR’S RIGHT TO ENTRY Surveyors have an unusual yet longstanding right of entry that you should be aware of as one of the tools assisting your ability to Protect Your Boundaries™. Licensed Land Surveyors and their staff‚ working within the Province of Ontario‚ have a statutory right to enter onto private property in order to perform a survey. Often employees of an Ontario Land Surveyor meet resistance when exercising this right of entry. Neighbours may object and have been known to

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    Water‚ land and air pollution Water pollution Water pollution is usually caused by human activities. Different human sources add to the pollution of water. There are two sorts of sources‚ they mostly come from pipelines or sewers and then into the surface water. Nonpoint sources are sources that cannot be traced to a single site of discharge. Examples some sources are: factories‚ sewage treatment plants‚ underground mines‚ oil wells‚ oil tankers and agriculture‚ acid deposition from the air

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    Aboriginals have always had a strong link between them and the land with the belief of the Dreamtime and the art‚ symbols‚ rituals and totems that came with it. After the white settlement‚ the way in which aboriginals lived their everyday life took a dramatic turn. It had affected their culture for many generations with a disconnection with the land to them. Captain cook arrived to Australia in 1770 and it was believed that there was at least 750 000 Aborigines living in 600 different tribes in

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    The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 was probably one of the most prominent of the land runs. Although there were seven land runs in Oklahoma altogether‚ with the 1983 Cherokee Strip Land Run being the largest land run in the history of the United States. In 1889 Congress amended the Indian Appropriations Bill that would authorize President Harrison to proclaim two-million acres of land open for settlement‚ called the “Unassigned Lands.” This was land previous promised

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    300 UNIT TITLE: LAND LAW 1 CREDIT HOURS: 3 TRIMESTER: I ACADEMIC YEAR: 2012/2013 CLASS HOURS: TUESDAYS: 8AM – 11AM ROOM: KH 05 LECTURER: K. N. MBURU (KANYARATI HALL‚ UPPER CAMPUS‚ 4TH FLOOR) Email: kenadvocate@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. PURPOSE OF THE COURSE: This course reviews the concept of land as property‚ the common law and statutory definitions of land‚ the various property

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    CASE STUDY: STARBUCKS SELLING COFFEE IN THE LAND OF TEA (p. 127-128) Question 1 Many of the same environmental factors‚ such as cultural factors‚ that operate in the domestic market also exist internationally. Discuss the key cultural factors Starbucks had to consider as it expanded into China. The key cultural factors Starbucks had to consider is that Chinese’s culture of tea drinking. They decided to market coffee and the brand Starbucks as China’s “new sophistication”. As being a communist

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    its history to answer the following in COMPLETE SENTENCES: 1) What’s the name of the game and has it changed over the years or had any other name? Candy Land‚ also known as Candyland‚ is a two to four player board game where the players race to the finish line‚ striving to be first. 2) When and where did the game originate? Candy Land was invented by Eleanor R. Abbott around 1948 as a means of entertainment for children recuperating from polio. Abbott created this game herself while she was

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