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    than I ever wanted to” (Cash 82). Jess’s character in A Land More Kind than Home‚ experiences moments of adulthood that includes emotional turmoil and witnessing events that will forever change his future. Jess’s growth on adulthood gradually rises throughout the story. Jess is a nine-year-old boy who experiences fear‚ guilt‚ and sadness when he sees‚ hears and knows about his town and his family. When Jess witnesses an event at his home and in the church‚ Jess will see the world in a new horrific

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    Land Pollution

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    What is land pollution? Land pollution is the deterioration (destruction) of the earth’s land surfaces‚ often directly or indirectly as a result of man’s activities and their misuse of land resources. It occurs when waste is not disposed off properly‚ or can occur when humans throw chemicals unto the soil in the form of pesticides‚ insecticides and fertilizers during agricultural practices. Exploitation of minerals (mining activities) has also contributed to the destruction of the earth’s surface

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    Land Rights

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    Question 1: The land rights debate in the 1970’s was a tough and hard-fought journey for the Aboriginal people. In the 1967 Referendum‚ Australians showed their support for the Aboriginals‚ by voting to change the Constitution to include the indigenous in the Census and giving overriding authority to the Commonwealth government regarding Aboriginal affairs. Ralph Hunt‚ of the National Coalition Party and Federal Minister in 1971 stated ‘To just set aside land because Aboriginal groups and tribes

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    Aboriginals and the Land

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    ABORIGINALS AND THE LAND For a non aboriginal person‚ it is very hard for me to understand how vital the land is to the survival of the aboriginal culture. The Aboriginal people have a very close relationship with the land. They believe that he land was created by their ancestors for them and is very sacred. They also believe that the land is equal to them and hat everything comes from the same spirit world. The Aboriginal people passed down stories of the land through Dreamtime stories and artworks

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    Land Reclamation

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    INTRODUCTION Land reclamation means the modification of inadequate land area‚ by leveling‚ draining‚ etc.‚ so as to permit man to use that land. The practice of land reclamation has changed since the 1940’s‚ because of increasing demand for industrial‚ residential‚ and recreational land near urban centers. Prior to the last two decades‚ land reclamation embodied land drainage‚ flood protection and prevention‚ and irrigation primarily to further agriculture. Today‚ floodplains‚ swamps‚ abandoned

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    Land Reform

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    the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). This paper aims to explain why land reform is slow here in our country. This will also try to shed light on what agrarian reform is and will give the clear and precise Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. Furthermore‚ this paper will also tackle the issues involving the fairness of social justice in the agrarian reform. A part of this paper is also given for the land conversions and other ways to circumvent CARP. Outline: I. Introduction & Objectives

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    At Home but Not at Home

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    At home but not at home Nicole Constable The main aim of the article is showing that in case of migrants (specifically Filipinas in Honk Kong) the concept of home is not as simple and unambiguous as it may seem. Constable presents different conceptualizations of the notions “space”‚ “place” and “home”. He follows the conception of Ackbar Abbas‚ who writes‚ "We think of a place in terms of definable physical characteristics and situatedness‚ at most as a symbolic structure. A space by contrast

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    Land Administration

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    A REVIEW OF LAND ADMINISTRATION REFORMS IN NIGERIA. BY:- MARTINS T. ADENIPEKUN DEPT. OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT‚ LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC‚IKORODU‚ LAGOS. martinsadenipekun@yahoo.com‚ 08023167702‚ 08036317528. ABSTRACT Administration of land is as ancient as the creation of man. In Nigeria‚ the socio-economic and political factors had overtime brought about different administrative reforms put in place to foster developments. Certain patterns of land administration had emerged in Nigeria before

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    Why Are People So Racist?

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    Why are people so racist? I’ve been wondering that for a very long time and I think that it is time to stop and be nice to each other. In this paragraph‚ I am going to be talking about my opinion on racism. My first argument is why would people be so mean to other human beings. Why I think people are so mean is‚ because they are different and people don’t like a difference in things. It’s just not nice to judge someone because they are different and they aren’t the same as you. it’s like hating

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    Tianshu Wang Racism without Racists In the first chapter of his book Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States‚ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argues that color-blind racism‚ a new racial ideology which emerged in the late 1960s (16)‚ has become “a formidable political tool” for “the maintenance of the racial order” and “white privilege” in the “post-Civil Rights era” (3). According to his argument about color-blind racism‚ in contemporary America

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