The Land is Ours

within every cell of each creature. “Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body” explains why and how evolution has become a fact of our everyday lives, and to not acknowledge that everything we are comes from our pasts would be futile. This book allows for a better comprehension on the basis of our bodies and how they work internally. By understanding how and why we work, we are better able to understand where we stem from, while also understanding how the…

Africa activity: 1.) How closely does your map reflect what actually happened? For the most part, the map composed during our class period did not closely reflect what actually occurred in Africa. The French empire was on the money, conquering predominantly Northwest Africa in both maps. However, during our class period the British had conquered an insignificant amount of land in comparison to what they were supposed to have controlled, with almost no presence in Africa. In history, Great…

motives involving why a country would want to practice imperialism, three of the major causes of imperialism are for a nation to gain more land, to sell more of a nation’s product, and to regulate a country whose seemed to have lost infrastructure (government and culturally). First, one of the largest causes for new imperialism was for a nation to gain more land and authority. To begin with, nations were interested in the idea of claiming and taking over other nations so that their nation…

queen. That would be a horrible life without key points of our history and the constitution. That’s what we would be like. Freedom is amazing but people take it for granted. To me freedom is special but when it all comes down to it to me freedom is INTELEGENCE. Key points in our history start freedom. It all started because of trade routs Great Britain tried to find the north passage to get to china faster but they came across a new land. They thought it was Indonesia so they called the people…

choose to go to college, have free or affordable healthcare and they can own their own land, which are considered reservations. Our teams counter arguments for the U.S government neglecting Native Americans would be first, their healthcare is poor at best and not actually free for all natives. Second, they were and still are today put at an economic disadvantage compared to any other ethnic group. And lastly, their land was stolen illegally and they were forced to live on reservations if they…

historical. Many of our forefathers were educated men. These men came with knowledge and enough influence to put into action the U.S. Constitution; for the protection and betterment of our great nation. One such clause of the U.S. Constitution is the Supremacy Clause. The Supremacy Clause was philosophically influenced by the “Great Charter” or Magna Carta. The premise of the Magna Carta was to promote the actions of “due process” protecting the right of the persons living in the land it is…

fight malnutrition, poverty, climate change, etc. They have to potential to provide edible plant vaccines that can be used as immunizations against infectious diseases. They protect the Earth in many ways. Bigger yields help create a better use of the land. They…

including morality and how to live in society. The ideas and texts presented allowed us all to question how others and ourselves act in the world around us, as well as how to understand how to balance our needs with the needs of others. In this course, it allowed me to think more deeply about pressing issues in our country and around the world, as well as make stronger arguments backed up with either quotes or sources. In this course, we had created a final video project that related to the…

built over native lands. If these were built then we would destroy the Native Americans land in order to make these pipelines. The pipelines would be a much better way of transporting oil then we have now and would help us. This also would affect a lot of natives in the area. We want to construct a oil pipeline from North Dakota to Texas. If we were to build this pipeline it would be running right through their community. The government slowly been taking more and more of their land. They…

kanaka.” The phrase literally translates as, the land is a chief, and the people are its servants,” which defines the relationship that Native Hawaiians have with their ecological environment. Prior to western contact, native Hawaiians structured their society around the ideology that the land they inhabited was their superior and that it was their responsibility to serve as its stewards. This ideology was formed from the understanding that the since the land provides the resources to sustain…