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The beliefs and values embraced by Thomas Jefferson in his Letter to James Madison can be seen by some as archaic and insensible to a growing society. Although America’s values on the basis of economy and society have shifted somewhat, a few of his ideas can still be interwoven into how America regards itself. Another writing of Jefferson’s will be referenced in the course of this essay, since it has a clearer sense of why Jefferson felt the way he did about agrarian societies. This writing is…

In 1835, Ladd & Co. is the first successful sugar plantation company in Hawaii and marked the beginning of the sugar industry. Ladd & Co. began their sugar company in Koloa, Kauai, in which they signed a lease with King Kamehameha III for a 980 acres of land. The Founders of Ladd & Co. wanted to fortune for the sugar that they created. “Sugar provided the Hawaiian Islands with a foundation, playing a key part in bringing the Islands into a cosmopolitan society.” Sugar became the dominant…

The name Ullman and Woolman were interchangeable throughout the years, however, Woolman became the preferred spelling for Thomas and his family, from the time of his leaving the family home in Foley and moving to Parry Sound proper on his marriage to Rebecca on January 28, 1880. There he started out as the near ubiquitous lumberman and a new dad. Edith was born just a comfortable nine months later on November 13, 1880. It was too tough a go for him in the mills and he uprooted his family and…

payment of $1,000 (Trask, 2006). Article II of the treaty outlines the territory the Sauk and Fox tribes ceded to the United States, which covered large areas in present-day northwestern Illinois and southern Wisconsin (Kappler, 1904, p. 74). In all, the total area of land the tribes ceded to the United States was 50 million acres (King,…

There will always be a factor that prevents people of different ethnicities from integrating with each other. Whether it is the color of a person’s skin, their economic status, or their religion and culture. Ethnic relations are the relations between race and economics as well as the relations between different ethnicities. In the past, segregation was a part of everyday life. White people held the majority of the population and therefore felt that they were superior to those who were not white…

Canada in 1950s – a respecter of human rights “A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer,” said Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher (Seneca, Moral Essays, Vol.3, 1935). Intentions of an event are usually more important than results in determining the righteousness of the event because one has control over the intentions but not the outcomes. Action done out of philanthropic purpose is justified even though the result unexpectedly hurts others’…

In the 1950s, there were many wealthy Chinese moved to Hong Kong illegally due to the civil war. After 1997, the SAR government launched a new migration scheme which allows 150 mainland residents move to Hong Kong every day. According to Census and Statistics Department, the percentage of net migration to total population increased is 71.5% in 2005. The problem of not enough housing estates for the rapid growth in population arosed. Other than that, the growing number of locals moved from rural…

industry in Palestine is being controlled and restricted by the Israeli government. Israel continues to use the Palestinian agriculture as a means to inflict collective punishment on the Palestinian people to confiscate more land in the Occupied Territories’ (OT). Israel continues to confiscate Palestinian agricultural land and aquifers by denying Palestinian civilians access to their crops and their harvest (UN General Assembly, 2014). The Palestinian land had even been inundated with waste…

not nearly as glamorous as what I was used to. Other than that, I was somewhat confused as to why I was forced to land in another country and then cross the border into Palestine. As I would later understand, there is no airport in the Palestinian territory, and the only other airport was in Israel. If I had landed in Israel, I would have faced a multitude of problems with the Israeli government. As we arrived at the border of Jordan and the West Bank of Palestine, I began the six-hour process…

Like many cultures, the American Indians passed down their own beliefs which describe the creations of Earth and people. Depending on the tribe, location, history, lifestyle and external influences each story contained its own unique variation. The following will compare and contrast the Cherokee and Navajo belief in creation as well as delve into the viewpoints of each tribe and their relationship with the earth, animals and other people. It is hard for a person to understand why particular…