Land

Exploration has many effects not only on organisms, but also the atmosphere. . By exploring for natural resources such as oil and gas, we contribute to global warming. Burning fossil fuels depletes the ozone layer and encourages global warming. Findings show “Air pollution near ground level, and acid precipitation, are already causing widespread injury to humans, forests, and crops” (Grossman & Bryner). Another impact on the atmosphere and on the elements of life can be seen in the uranium New…

Indonesia is one of the countries with abundance of natural resources with large populations. According to World Bank (2013) Indonesia is lower middle income country with GDP around 868.3 billion US dollar and the population is 249.9 million, while poverty headcount ration at national poverty line is 11.3% on 2014. The contention appear that this wealth resources country get the benefit or even get worse with the plenty of their natural resources. The economic growth in Indonesia in period…

“This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood forests to the Gulfstream waters, this land was made for you and me” (Guthrie). Contrary to the lyrics in “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie, this land was apparently not made for “you and me.” America was only made for the “me” aspect of the song, “me” being the Americans. Thousands of years ago, the Americas were undiscovered by the Europeans. Now, this land withholds a great country.…

into America faced multiple challenges including conquering the land, battling natives tribes in a bid to secure settlements, while at the same time trying to stay true to their religious, entrepreneurial, and socio-ethical roots acquired in their former lands back in Europe. Through their writings, the soldier, administrator and adventurer John Smith, Poet Anne Bradstreet and Governor William Bradford depict an America whose lands were initially hard to subdue and inhabited by a people wary of…

In the article This Land is My Land: The Role of Place in Native Hawaiian Identity by Shawn Malia Kana’iaupuni and Nolan Malone, they discuss the significance of place to Hawaiian identity and cultural survival. Furthermore, this article also talks about the historical context of place. In addition, this article also highlights the Hawaiian’s physical, spiritual, and genealogical connections to the land and sea. The people of the land notion creates a sense of Hawaiian identity and becomes a…

This Land Is Your Land is a poem written by Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie in February of 1940; in April of 1944 it was eventually set to music and turned into a song. On the first reading of this poem, especially when one takes into account the song that was learned in childhood, it has a very patriotic feel to it, “This land is your land this land is my land / this land was made for you and me” (Guthrie 1:1, 1:4). Upon closer inspection, when the last three stanzas of the poem are taken into…

The melody mostly jingles on how the land is precious and the struggle to make it ours. Roosevelt reflects on the meaning of true fellowship and loyalty with one’s country; how a country needs full support to succeed. However, Guthrie would not be too friendly with Senator Smith’s point of…

This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: A Paper on Conflicts and Conversations Between Communities and Experts An apparent complication with the anthropological study and resource management of certain sites is the impact research has on the narrative it affects, and vice versa. While anthropologists may place value for scientific reasons, other groups may have more personal connections and consequently see values differently; not only that, but groups may have personal knowledge of places…

SUMMARY Land Use & land cover change processes occurs at the interface between human and environmental systems interacting with both of these systems and with each other by feedback. However, there are other systems involved in these interactions to include natural and socioeconomic changes. As such land management decisions must have a balance between optimizing the various opportunities and the challenges imposed by various external factors. This proves that land-use and landscape change…

Cody Dulac Professor Powell ENG200 April 28, 2017 Critical Analysis of This Land is Your Land This Land is Your Land is an American Folk song that was written in 1940 by songwriter Woody Guthrie. This Land is Your Land was written in response to the song God Bless America which songwriter Woody Guthrie disagreed. He wanted is own representation of a patriotic song that he felt would more accurately relate to American citizens at the time. In an article by Mark Allen Jackson, Jackson sates…