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and what were they to do. So since they proved they “witches”, then there would be more witch hunts. The loss of acres for the farmers help cause the witchcraft trials. In 1640 the acres from families were pretty good, especially in 1653 ish. Then from there on, the acres were decreasing and the Salem witchcraft trials started in 1692. The whole reason why the acres were lowering was because people were starting to accuse people of being witches which then to the trials in…

Miral Heights Alternative Subdivision General Information New name: Crakatoa General: approx. 151,000 m2 (37 acres) Location: 49°6’21.82 N 117°41’2.76 W. Elevation: 521m. BEC zone: ICHxm (hot and dry). Site Characteristics: One ephemeral creek and one year-round creek (headwater at 1260ft) Randall Creek. Site is 1.6km from highway 3 and 443m from landfill. Minimal shade, direct south facing properties in shallow bowl with some sheltered areas. Varied terrain for livestock purposes and flat…

includes practices for light, beech competition, and herbivory. To test to see how much light sugar maples need, they set up an experiment with three repetitions of five treatments. The treatments ranged from a clear-cut acre (100% light) to an acre receiving 25% light. For each acre, half was sprayed with herbicides for the beeches. For herbivory, they set up a deer exclosure. Interestingly, within the exclosure, there were many birch saplings and trees with little maple. Exclosures only…

make your life more comfortable. It would be even worse if you had children. Their new homes were surrounded with acres and acres of sugarcane, that needed to be cut and stripped by hand. Many workers would even get cuts and bruises by cutting sugar cane with proper tools and wearing gloves. This proves that sugarcane is very dangerous. Just imagine your house surrounded with acres and acres of sugarcane! Horror right? All the immigrants would find themselves in a new world of labor. Peasant…

The graph shows how the “number of acres burned in each state as a proportion of that state’s total land area has changed over time”. In states such as California and Oregon an average of 1.37% acres and 2.56% acres respectively, burned more from 2000-2014 than from 1984-1999. As you can see, the western states (Oregon and California) have high percentages of increased acre burnage. The longer durability and stronger fires have become a major for threat…

their properties below fair market value. Sadly, by 1910, Blacks had acquired fifteen million acres of land, but a century later, own less than seven million acres and less than one percent is farmland. The decline in Black land ownership includes issues related to complex property ownership, inaccessibility to legal counsel, and unjust, violent, and legally exploitive techniques. Whether it is an acre, parcel or city block, land ownership is of vital importance because the United States…

canyons; cliffs some are jutted more than 150 feet into the earth. That is not suitable for farming but it will attract some popularity at the park. The Providence Canyon State Park there is 1,108 acres of land that everybody in America can see the fantastic park. Just imagine looking over cliffs and all the acres of land that you see. That would be amazing to feel the soil in the ground and walking on it. Seeing Providence…

Environmental justice has advocated and made visible the practice of disproportional siting hazardous waste facilities in low income communities of color throughout the United States. Most of the time the state corporate actors are the ones responsible they are the ones who decide where to place the hazardous waste; the state corporate is more concern with where to place the hazardous waste rather than the health and safety of the community, people and their environment. In 1987 a report was…

a truck to be delivered to a pumpkin patch. Rox was boarded into the truck bed and his heart began to pound frantically when he realized how much smaller he was than the other pumpkins. The truck took Rox and the others to Pumpkin Acres, a pumpkin patch with 100 acres of pumpkins, corn mazes, games, and a petting zoo. Rox was amazed by the massive area he was foreign to. His adventurous side got the best of him and off he went to explore and discover. But as Rox rolled along the bigger pumpkins…

Gallaudet University is a liberal arts university in Washington D.C. comprised of mostly Deaf and hard of hearing students. It was founded first in 1856 on two acres simply as housing for 12 deaf students. It was not until the following year that it became the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. It did not become Gallaudet College until 1954, and was named after the superintendent. In 1986 it was renamed Gallaudet University after the President Ronald Reagan…