Andrew Jackson was convinced that he was helping the Natives by forcing them out of the land they have thrived on for many, many years. He believed that by doing this, the Native Americans will “enable them {Native Americans} to pursue happiness in their own way” (Document A). This ...
To buy the land.;To pay for the original breeding stock.;To pay large stud fees.
The strength of the ancient states rested mainly on agriculture. The Bible does not speak of the "flesh pots" of Egypt, "when we did eat bread to the full" (Exodus 16:3), for nothing. As in most traditional cultures, over 90% of Egyptians would have lived on the land and engaged...
and for one targeted at casual gamers, it offers lots in the way of questing and exploration. There are natives to befriend, ancient statues to collect, trees to fell, tools to acquire (and upgrade), bartering to do, caves and forests to venture into,...
no single chain ofmeaning and intention can be found; interpretations and influences are alwaysmultiple. Thirdly, these presentations lose all sense of contingency, reducingunique historical processes to their known–and thus in principle, predictable–results. As Peter Gay has put it:“To say the ...
What did the lotus eaters do?A storm sent by Zeus sweeps them along for nine days before bringing them to the land of the Lotus-eaters, where the natives give some of Odysseus's men the intoxicating fruit of the lotus. As soon as they eat this fruit, they lose all thoughts of home ...
What is it that makes them lose their english speaking ability once the phone connects with their ear? Second thing. I did french for two years until the teacher suggested I try german. I can speak one or two phrases in each language and count to ten in both. And that's it. A 30 ...
Many Japanese people don’t have the opportunity to communicate with foreigners, so when they do, they tend to change their attitude a bit. Foreigners react in different ways to this — some feel they are being treated special, while others are uncomfortable. So says the we...
Ever since I was a small girl in school, I’ve been aware of what the school textbooks say about Indians. I am an Indian and, naturally, am interested in what the schools teach about natives of this land. One day, I read that a delicacy(美味) of American Indian people was dried fis...
When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science. Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some ...