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    is an embarrassment to our history. Removing Native Americans from their land when we first settled here was wrong because we caused them a lot of hardships, took something from them that wasn’t ours to take, and in the end we all the pain and suffering we caused them was really for nothing. People still believe today that taking away their land was the right thing to do because they think that we were technically the first people to settle here so it was rightfully ours to take. How people thought

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    In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected our third president. Thomas was president of thirteen of the original states. In May of 1805 Thomas sent Louis and Clark on their famous expedition we know of today as the Corps of Discovery. Louis, Clark and his crew journeyed for 2 years. They came back September 23, 1806. Before Thomas made a big change in the 19th century the Mississippi river separated the eastern territory from the northern territory which was owned by the French. In the Next few paragraphs

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    Holy Land And Religion

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    Me: Why is the Holy Land an important site for your faith? Moses: The Holy Land is important to me and my people because it was the land that had been promised to us by the one and only God. Our Great Temple once was a part of the Holy Land too. Jesus: The Holy Land is very important to me and my people because that is where my crucifixion took place and it is where I also rose again. Muhammad: The Holy Land is where I rose to Heaven this is why it is so important to me. Me: What is your perspective

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    prudent for monuments and park areas. All over the nation, citizens and politicians are debating whether or not public lands and parks should be able to be owned by states. While some think that the change in ownership would create new jobs and provide more land for development and resource mining, others feel that the downsizing would destroy natural wildlife habitats and steal the land from the American people and cultures. For 145 years, the national parks and monuments have been valued and shared

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    For starters, Tecumseh mentions that the Europeans came to the new land and brought their own rules which is not fair to the native inhabitants. Then, they started dividing the land in a way that “set them [Indians] against each other” and eventually weakened the nation. Then, Tecumseh provides a few examples of how cruel Europeans were and how Indians became victims of their

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    Food Production Biomes

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    be answered with another question, cool right? How does this affect us in the modern day? Our lands and biomes have been altered in the past, so how does this even affect us? It affects us because our land had been easily destroyed or “repurposed” for our needs but has been extremely difficult to be repaired. If we destroy a forest full or plants and animals to the very brim and replace it will flat tiled land filled with exclusively food, it will mess up the pre-existing ecosystem.

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    Endangerment/Extinction II. Abused/Abandoned Animals III. Over Farming/Land Misuse IV. Environmental Pollution V. Deforestation I. Animal Endangerment/Extinction A. Destruction of Habitat B. Pollution C. Hunting and Fishing II. Abused/Abandoned Animals A. Confined, Major Culprit Climate Change B. Huge Amounts of Manure, Pollutes Soil C. Dead Animals, Pollutes the quality of life for individuals who live close. III. Over Farmed/Land Misuse A. Soil Erosion B. Land Degradation C. Genetic Erosion IV. Environmental

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    strengthen their sovereignty. Many tribal territories contain great areas of water and native lands. Much of that land is used for agriculture, hunting, and fishing. Many other tribal terrains comprise of extractable resources. These resources may include oil, gas, timber, and so on. The political and economic self- determination and self-realism of a countless number of tribes depend on maintaining their land and its natural resources. NARF (Native American Rights Fund) makes great contribution to help

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    Kansas, and they’ll take the cattle to Chicago. This is what is important to our clients, the railroad workers. 2. Why do we need Colorado and Wyoming? Our client, the railroad workers think that Colorado and Wyoming are going to be beneficial because if we use that land, we can just build straight on over to Promontory, Utah instead of going all the way around. We could cut straight through to Utah if we had that land. Once we do this, people will have easier access to the West, so it’s a win-win

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    we need the land to settle because we have nowhere else to go. The settlers came in large numbers , looking for land to farm. Allowing the settlers to use the land of the Amazon will enable them to feed themselves. In the Brazil article, “ in the 1960s , the Brazilian government began encouraging poor people to move to the Amazon rainforest. The settlers came in large numbers, looking for land to farm.'' This evidence supports my sub-claim because it states that settlers can’t own land without proving

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