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    Gaby Brakoniecki Brave New World Responses Question 1: What does the Reservation respresent to the government and citizens of Brave New World? To the government and citizens of the Brave New World (BNW), the Savage Reservation represents the history of the world as it was before the Nine Year’s War. Most of the citizens, and of course the World Controllers, are aware of the events of this war; they know about the anthrax bombs, the British Museum massacres, as well as the fact that almost everything

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    was there when the other people who are part of his company, including his children, were there. CB explained to us that he was able to work on the reservations still doing his masonry work laying bricks to build things for them. This is when he realized how different life on the reservation was from the way that he was living life off of the reservation. He told us that he wished he wasn’t sent to the boarding school so that he was more fluent in Ojibwe and so he could have been more aware of the

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    called the Lakota. The University of Nebraska did a study on Lakota reservation life and they stated that the United States was not very concerned about the land; they even said it was worthless. (Benjamin Jewell pg. 3) To the Indians, this land meant everything to them, even if the land did not produce much. The land the Indians attempted to have agriculture on was called, the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Pine Ridge Reservation is located on the border of Nebraska and South Dakota, right next to

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    Airline Reservation System Chapter 1 1.1 Introduction In today’s airline industry users or customers can reserve seat or book flight from any place in the world as long as they are connected to internet. The Innovation of technology has made traveling in the air easier for customers with airline reservation or booking just a click away. The fastest means of transportation today is by air. Thousands of people flock the airline industry this days

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    Reservation: Reservation for certain classes might be taken with a pinch of salt for the rest simply because there seems inconsistency with the equality which is so guaranteed by our constitution. But the essence behind reservation is no longer to bring back the archaic institution of differential classification, it is merely efforts made by the government to uplift the disadvantages section. The distinct classes for reservation that prevail are: 1. Scheduled Tribes. These are tribals with little

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    in the southeastern part of Montana. The Indian reservation that the Crow live on is 2.3 million acres. The Executive officials of the Crow tribe are Alvin Not Afraid, Jr ( Chairman ) Carlson Goes Ahead ( Vice-Chairman ) R. Knute Old Crow ( Secretary) Shawn Backbone ( Vice-Secretary ). The Crow Tribe government is made of three branches just like ours. Their branches are Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, and the Executive Branch. The reservation consists of three mountain ranges, two river basins

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    Native American Reservations Native Americans have extremely high rates of alcohol and drug abuse, especially by young people. “According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 9.2% of Native Americans ages 12 and older were current heavy alcohol users, the highest rate of any ethnic group. In 2015, approximately 346,000 Native Americans reported binge drinking within the past month” (Guarnotta). This increases the rates of youth dropping out of school, exceeding the rates of White

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    tried to survive in strange lands. Today, research suggests that poverty, crime, and the health care system on Indian reservations are the reasons why Native Americans are at higher risks for diseases, cancer, and even death. Poverty on the Native American reservations is constantly increasing due to unemployment. The high

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    struggling to get by. One of the women lives near an Indian reservation, Ray Eddy, while the other, Lila Littlewolf, lives in the reservation. Lila has been smuggling people over the border from Canada to the United States before, while Ray comes into contact with Lila and is forced to transport people from Canada to the United States. It is shown that it is not hard to transport people from both sides of the border, due to the reservation being on both sides of the border, which is separated by the

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    you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to”. There is not much hope living on a small indian reservation in upstate NY. My reservation resides near the Canadian and American border. I am a native american student, and where I am located we have duel-citizenship which creates much conflict within our people from coming back and forth through the borders. A good majority of the reservation has addictions to cope with within their struggles. Some people use and abuse drugs and alcohol, some

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