The Land is Ours

for this man who left the hospital without losing a dime. Although this seems like an utterly ridiculous situation, this is a reality for many countries with universal healthcare. In her compilation of pessimistic, ranting essays called This Land is Our Land, Barbara Ehrenreich fulminates about the so-called malicious “enemy” (Ehrenreich 144), or the American private health insurance industry, in the chapter “We Have Seen the Enemy- and Surrendered.” Ehrenreich radically discusses the problems…

the Jewish people. “To Our Land” speaks about the struggles the Palestinian people had when they were kicked out of their homes and forced to leave. He writes to his old home and old life. He starts off by writing, “to our land, and it is the one near the word of God.” He is most likely talking about being near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where the Koran was created. He could also be talking about the Jewish bible which was created in his old land. The next line says, “to our land, and it is the one…

migrated to are the same. People may look at you differently because of your name, customs, traditions, and even your accent. You then may feel alienated from the world, even though America is branded as the great big melting pot. In “Immigrants in Our Own Land” by Jimmy…

Why should the government take our land? The United States government should not take our land. The government should not take our land because the land is not the government's land, the land could have been in the family for a century, and that piece of land could be a farmer’s land and that may be his lifestyle. First, the land is not the United States government. If an owner buys a piece of land, then that is the owner’s property. Plus if the land is the government, then why did the people…

Reality can be difficult to face. People constantly speak of changing, but many don’t, due to the hardships that come along with it. Through these poems "I Am Offering This Poem", "Who Understands Me But Me", and "Immigrants In Our Own Land", Jimmy Santiago Baca explains to his audience the story of growth that he undergoes. The memoir begins informing the readers on the early life of Baca then transitions to how it shaped him to get through the tough problems that prison threw at him. With…

extra-terrestrials land on our planet in our pre-history? Did they sexually mix or genetically experiment and educate our Homo sapiens/Neanderthal ancestors changing the course of our evolution and supercharging our intelligence? Was there a level of knowledge on Earth in our prehistory which far exceeds what we have today? Did extra-terrestrial(s) arrive with their amazing knowledge from its civilisation? Did their knowledge also develop from an extra-terrestrial seeding in a similar way to…

line; it showed the relationship between Americans and America. Frost begins by setting out the big argument of 1st in the poem: “The land was ours before we were the lands.” He proceeds to…

For a long time human ignorance and our ethical values have destroyed and diminished the land that surrounds us. In the “Land Ethic” by Aldo Leopold, the need for an ethic directed towards the creatures and land around us is stressed upon. Leopold mentions how a lack of an ecological conscience, a valuation problem, and a restricted vision of community result in the hindrance of a comprehensive land ethic. The absence of our care for our natural surroundings can also be seen in the four forms…

relationship with the land that we find ourselves on. The Earth is the foundation of all humanity. It provides us with our food, our habitat and most of all it contributes to our sense of identity. In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath the author explores the relationship between the people and the land, examining who holds the ownership, the power that the land has over the people and the consequences of abusing mans relationship with earth for his own greed. A man without fertile land has…

This sub-section outlines the land tenure and kinship traits of the Wampup and Gabsongkeg villagers (Wampar group). As highlighted in Section 8.2.2, the Geaganson and Orognaron tribe own most of the land through patrilineal lineage. Lineages claimed areas where their ancestors settled when they came to the Lower Markham Valley. Later during the colonial era, the Australian Administration claimed some of these lands belonging to the Geaganson and Orognaron tribe for agricultural usage especially…