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America -A Land of Many Kims!, 2006.
Examines the popularity of the 'Kim' surname in the American-Korean community.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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Kim is one of the most common Korean surnames in both Korea and in America today. Wherever there is a Korean community, it is easy to find someone named Kim. This paper takes a look at some of the more famous Kim's who made a name for themselves in the United States.
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"However, not only New York hosts a vibrant community of people named Kim. For example, Dr. Benjamin Kim is a prominent physician in Salt Lake City Utah, a practicing Mormon as well as a surgeon with strong ties to the community, brought to Utah by his love of the intense fellowship and religious feeling evident amongst the Mormon community. He converted to Mormonism, and became part of the Utah Mormon American lifestyle and schema of beliefs."
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"Globalization: Wonder land or Waste Land?", 2008.
An analysis of Murray Weidenbaum's arguments regarding globalization in his T.S. Eliot Lecture, delivered at the University of London in January of 2002, entitled "Globalization: Wonder land or Waste Land?"
815 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper critiques Murray Weidenbaum's T.S. Eliot Lecture, delivered at the University of London in January of 2002, entitled "Globalization: Wonder land or Waste Land?" The paper discusses Weidenbaum's arguments in favor of globalization and the benefits that can be achieved for the world as a whole, by utilizing it to its full potential.
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"Given Weidenbaum's professional background and admitted bias, it is admirable that he manages to do precisely this - look at both the bright side and the dark side. His approach and suggestions are so realistic and pragmatic, and so unbiased, that it is hard to imagine that any but the most rabid fanatic on either side of the debate would not admit that he makes a valuable contribution with this speech. The strength of the speech derives from two aspects - the fact that he does manage to look at both sides, and that his suggestions have the refreshing ring of being attainable in the real world."
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Land of Dreams, Land of Troubles, 2004.
Traces the history of Japanese immigration to America, focusing on those who settled in California.
2,308 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 49.95
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This paper explores the end of the Meiji period in Japan and the beginning of the country's modern period (1867-1912), which ultimately led to Japanese seeking their fortunes in the West, especially the United States. It traces the history of these immigrants, their impact on the economy, and the pitfalls they encountered in the form of racism and discriminatory laws. This anti-Japanese feeling reached its peak in 1941 with the Japanese invasion on Pearl Harbour and the internment of all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast of the United States. The paper also looks at how the American government has since awarded reparations to those interned and how descendants of Japanese immigrants fare today in American society.
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"While many Japanese back in Japan initially waxed enthusiastic about the United States and its culture, the feeling in America was hardly mutual. As was typical of majority White America?s relations with Non-Whites, Japanese immigrants were scorned, and their culture denigrated. First, the United States had passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. This was followed by restrictive measures against the Japanese. As Californians and other West Coast White Americans clamored to stop the flow of Japanese to their region, the American Government relied on a rather ingenious and disingenuous clause in its commercial treaty with Japan to staunch the flow of Japanese Labor by refusing to issue permits for their travel to the Mainland. The Japanese, along with the Chinese, were called the ?Yellow Peril,? their competition for American jobs and resources keeping these jobs and resources from ?real? Americans."
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Land Use Planning, 2002.
This paper outlines the different methods of land use planning and land use management, especially the multi-criteria analysis model and how it affects the future of land management.
4,890 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 86.95
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This paper explains that the current and future land requirement of the population at large has increased manifold due to an increase in the population size as well as the nature of the utility of the land. The paper points out that one of the most recent methods for land planning is multi-criteria analysis, which allows the decision maker to choose from among useful and probable alternatives thus making faster decisions. The author believes that the basic model of multi-criteria decision is to increase efficiency of landforms and manage it for the future with the view to better the community living standards.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Multi-criteria Analysis Method
Literature Review
Local Level Initiatives
Technological Tools
Sustainable Development
Conclusion
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"The problem of land use planning stems from a multitude of issues and contingencies. Besides the population and environmental demands, social entities like business organizations and officials have to consider how land can be accessed. Transportation and labor are two aspects. Land on its own has little utility unless it is worked on through labor and technology. However the development of land is not so easily achieved unless the authority plans before hand how the problem of land use is going to be resolved. Transportation network for instance has to be constructed before the land is even distributed for usage. Labor and machineries has to be transported to the desired location of production and the facilities have to be set up to create a congenial working environment for the worker. The authority also has to consider whether the land is commercial or residential, for production or agricultural purpose or for conservation purposes. The categorization of land forms offers different alternatives for the decision maker and hence generates different decision framework alternatives. Planning cannot be done unless these criteria are set before hand."
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Forest Management on NIPF Lands, 2006.
This paper examines the implications for the future of forest management on non-industrial private forest (NIPF) lands as well as the dwindling timber supply on these parcels of land.
1,805 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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This paper analyzes the spatial and temporal pattern of Alabama's forested landscape as well as the implications for the future of forest management on NIPF lands. This paper defines forested land as a parcel of land that is producing or capable of producing more than 20 cubic feet/acre/year of industrial wood and is land not withdrawn from timber production. Much of this land is held by private landowners not involved directly in the timber industry. Extensive studies have been conducted in the southern states concerning the motivation behind usage of NIPF land, its impact on the regional economy and environmental factors. The counties chosen for this particular study are those which had the highest reported income from forest products. The six counties chosen were Clarke, Marengo, Pickens, Monroe, Hale and Wilcox. These counties are located in highly forested areas and have a high amount of NIPF land. According to several surveys, the areas of greatest softwood shortage are those located near large paper and pulp mills. This paper discusses the impending shortage in economic timber that the U.S. will be facing by the year 2020. The writer of this paper examines the various strategies available to halt the dwindling timber supply which include changing the manner in which NIPF lands are managed as well as stricter government regulations which would deter the conversion of native grasslands and wetlands into croplands.
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"To determine if timber production is likely to be able to meet future needs, the ratio of growth to removal is measured. Timber inventories give an indication of how much timber is currently available. Using this model, it was found that only one state had a positive ratio, North Carolina at 1.15. Alabama's ratio was 0.91. Softwood removal rates consistently exceed growth rates. Hardwood removal ratios faired slightly better at above 1.3. Timber inventories increased from the 1960s through the 1970s, but leveled off in the 1990s. According to SERTS, softwood supplies are expected to decrease 30% by the year 2020. According to an FIA survey, the areas of greatest softwood shortage are located near large paper and pulp mills (Cubbage and Abt, 1998a). According to the SERTS model the southern US will be facing an economic timber shortage by the year 2020."
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"Kim", 2002.
Addressing religion and the character of Kim in Rudyard Kipling's "Kim".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper examines the character of Kim in Rudyard Kipling's novel, Kim, in respect to self- discovery and religion. It is clear that Kim achieves a sense of purpose through religion, where as Buddhism is neither part of India nor Britain it creates an environment in which Kim can rectify both sides of his identity.
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?Kim?, 2002.
A review of the book "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling with an emphasis on Kim's search for identity.
1,192 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper examines how the relationship of the main protagonist of Kim to his Indian environment and to his status as a member of the British Empire is comfortably resolved for the author Rudyard Kipling, by the end of the novel, but not for a modern reader. It analyzes how Kim?s fulfillment of his quest for a stable identity in the face of his personal social instability are paralleled throughout the novel with the political instability of the Indian subcontinent and the spiritual quest of the lama whom he befriends early in the novel?s narrative. It shows how only after his friend the lama also comes to the end of his spiritual quest, Kim is able to find a answer as to who he truly is as he is perceived by the outer world, by a class and caste confused society.
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"Kim?s search for identity cannot be framed in terms of an uncomplicated pairing of India versus England. Kim is the son of an Irish man, and thus at best occupies only a marginal status as an Englishman, even if he were to dwell England itself. When Kim experiences his first period of confusion, it is not in the face of Indian treachery, but in the narrow understanding possessed by those attempting to civilize him as a purely white man at St. Xavier?s. Later, Kim realizes in his training for the British Secret service, that he must make use of both his native tools of strength of mind as well as his British training in mathematics. Only by using both unique attributes in combination can he resist the test for becoming a spy he submits to be the mystic Lurgan. Lurgan marvels at the boy?s uniqueness of mind, a uniqueness confirmed when Kim is comforted by a 'bairagi' during one of his crisis points of identity."
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Land Degradation in the Arab Region, 2005.
A discussion regarding the problem of land degradation in the Arab Region.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper discusses the issue of land degradation in the Arab region over the past 70 years. This paper reviews the various reasons and causes of this land degradation, focusing on the increase in population who require water for human consumption and agriculture, land for agriculture and land for their livestock.
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"Land degradation in the Arab region is primarily the result of a surge in the population growth in the past several decades. As the population had increased within the Arab region the need for water for human consumption, grazing land, and agriculture has risen. In an area that was already dry and naturally scarce in water supplies this added requirement for water has led to severe issues concerning the natural water sources and their ability to sustain the Arab civilization over time. Furthermore, cultivation of marginal land, as well as deforestation has created a situation in which natural trees and foliage have been depleted from the land surface, adding to the landmasses that are dry. As these dry land masses, or deserts are increased in the Arab lands the water is absorbed into the ground and the loss of foliage eventually leads to a loss of water."
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North and South: Views of the Land and its Use, 2002.
The following paper discusses the ways in which American settlers viewed the land in the North and South and looks at their expectations about its proper use.
1,765 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 0 sources, £ 39.95
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The following paper refutes the statement that slavery would have developed in the North if adventurers had landed in Plymouth instead of Jamestown by citing the varying ways in which people used the land as causes for either a wage-labor system or a slave-labor system. This paper will also explore the ways in which settlers viewed the landscape of the North and South as well as how the differing properties of each region;s land determined how it would be used by the settlers. Finally the writer discusses the ways in which the settler;s participation in a market economy led to uses of the land that differed from North to South depending on what sorts of crops grew on each type of land.
From the Paper
"By seeing the land as something to bring mankind benefit and profit to individuals, the settlers used to its fullest capacity and ended up causing serious soil depletion. Each farmer sought to make the greatest profit so that he and his family might have the luxuries that they desired. They weren"t so concerned with the preservation of the forests and wildlife as Henry David Thoreau was. Their view that nature was a hostile force to be conquered, subdued and profited from contrasted with his when he wrote, ;Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation: now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper; (Thoreau, 31)."
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European vs Aboriginal Attitudes to Land, 2006.
A study of the Aboriginal rights to look after the land of Australia.
2,103 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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In this paper the author questions the right of the "white" Europeans to take over and destroy the good soil of Australia.He questions the actions of the white Australians and highlights the history and rights of the Aborigines to his land, quoting many sources. The paper concludes that the Aborigines know the land better and he justifies their right to look after the land and not let it be destroyed.
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" The problem with those of us who consider ourselves "civilized" and "up to date" is that we specialize, first in genocide, then in the rape of nature, and then create new specialties to repair the damage. Before the Europeans came, the Aborigines had no worries about the Ozone layer, or mastering a driver's test. Cricket, to them, was the sound of Nature at work, not some distant test match."
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Tribal Lands, 2004.
A look at the fight that Native-Americans have to put up regarding ownership of natural resources on their lands.
987 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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This paper is based on the importance of conserving the tribal lands and how much pressure is on some tribal lands to give up their natural resources. This paper then covers the reasons why it is important to conserve the tribal lands and what culture and heritage the lands carry forward.
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"The legacy of Native Americans is one of the most important heritages of American history and culture. Native Americans have traditionally had a land-based culture. Their land is their prime resource and fulfills a further objective of promoting their heritage and culture. Therefore, the importance of conserving the sites of traditional value for these tribes is of utmost importance. By protecting these sites, one can conserve the cultural, spiritual as well as the economical status of the Native Americans."
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African-American Land Acquisition, 2002.
A discussion of how African-mericans acquired land after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and up to the 1930's.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper looks at the process of land aquisition of African Americans after their freedom from slavery from the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and after the Civil War. It examines how they formed their own small towns and communities away from the hostile whites and proceeded to educate themselves in order to negotiate with whites over land. It shows how many blacks had to return to their masters in order to earn a wage, how some got government grants to buy land for schools and churches and how in 1865, the Freedmens' Bureau was opened to help blacks acquire the land that they had been promised by the government when they were freed.
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"Many blacks moved away from their former white masters, but some blacks, who had gotten on fairly well with their masters before they were freed, went back to work for those same masters, only this time it was for wages. This is how many blacks were able to buy land and have somewhere for they and their family to live. Sometimes these white masters?now bosses?would give the black man some of their land and let them build something on it. This was another way that black men acquired land after the Emancipation Proclamation and their freedom."
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Aboriginal Land Claims, 2008.
This paper explains the link between the First Nations' land claims and their Aboriginal culture.
1,659 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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The paper discusses how the First Nations land claims, an ongoing saga in Canadian political and legal circles, are as a result of the Aboriginal culture's different attitudes towards land and property. The paper refers to the book "Green Grass Running Water" by Thomas King and shows how it partly reflects the differences between Aboriginal and white Canadian society in their distinct understandings of land and property.
Outline:
Introduction
Distinct Cultures, Distinct Concepts
The Roots of Difference
Lost in Translation
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"One of the fascinating aspects of the interaction of First Nations culture and European settler culture in the early years of Canada was how the two peoples often seemed to be speaking as "cross purposes" to one another. This applies particularly to the concept of land and its use. While both First Nations peoples and European settlers saw the land as a resource that could be used to support human survival, the First Nations peoples seem to have been surprised at the devastation the European settlers imposed on the environment that had supported Aboriginal populations for centuries."
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Land Mines, 2006.
This paper is a letter to Secretary of State Condolezza Rice to remove land mines.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper explains that the author is concerned because the removal of land mines in foreign countries seems to have fallen from top priority in many areas around the globe. The author points out that the lives of 26,000 individuals will never be the same again, due to stepping on land mines leftover from long ago conflicts. The letter pleads that the administration ratify the 1999 Ottawa Treaty, a pact signed by 142 global states and ratified by over 120 counties that bans the use of land mines around the world in any conflict, but which the United States has so far chosen not to sign or ratify. The paper is written in the form of a letter.
From the Paper
"Perhaps the best solution, Madame Secretary, is not to employ land mines in the first place. As another author and historian notes, using land mines during global conflicts ensures these wars will continue long after peace talks end the battles. He writes, "These wars never really end, at least not for the civilians-- the agriculturalists, pastoralists, and peasants--who must live in the midst of these 'explosive remnants of war.'" Thus, leaving these mines behind ensures eternal conflict and violence in a country already ravaged by war."
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