...This Land is Your Land, Incomplete The poem “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is originally a seven stanza poem that is often cut short in the recorded versions known to many. The poem’s main element is imagery of America’s landmarks to evict an emotion out of the reader. The first four stanzas have a much more celebratory tone compared to the final three. In the recorded versions, the last three stanzas are cut out, so as to not dampen the joyful tone of the song. The change in tone of the poem is easily broken into two parts. The first part makes the reader feel proud of America by describing some of its national symbols and declaring in the last lines of each stanza. “This land was made for you and me.” (4,8,12,16.) These first four stanzas have a common theme of Guthrie taking in America’s beauty while feeling blessed to be in its land. Guthrie describes the sights as “sparkling sands” (10.) and “golden valley” (7.) to make the reader feel pleased and almost proud of our land. The first four stanzas have been sung and used to celebrate America in most patriotic settings. The last part of the poem has been left out of the mainstream recorded versions and few realize that there are three more stanzas in the original. The last three stanzas take a different tone by describing the land of America in a darker way than the first four. This tone changes the main line “This land was made for you and me” from a joyful voice to a sadder, matter of fact, realization...
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...Bill for land gives true value The draft law on acquisition strikes a balance between development and justice for those who will be displaced in the process India is a rapidly industrialising economy and society with intense demands for better infrastructure from its people. The last 20 years have seen a great acceleration in this process, with India becoming one of the world’s fastest growing economies. However, for those whose lands were acquired for these purposes and the even more vulnerable people whose livelihoods depended on the lands acquired, a great human tragedy has unfolded. Independent estimates place the number of people displaced following development projects in India since independence at 60 million. This is the highest number of people uprooted for development projects in the world. Only a third of these people were resettled in a planned manner. Most of them were the asset-less rural poor, marginal farmers, poor fisherfolk and quarry workers. Around 60 per cent of the displaced belonged to the Adivasi and Dalit communities. Given that 90 per cent of our coal, more than 50 per cent of minerals and most prospective dam sites are in Adivasi regions, there is likely to be continuing contention over issues of land acquisition in these areas. Two sides of a coin We need to move decisively away from the colonial Land Acquisition Act 1894, which treats the Indian people as “subjects,” towards a vision of citizens, whose rights are guaranteed under the Constitution...
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...We are Bound for the Promised Land The extract text from A. E. Watterson’s novel ‘We are Bound for the Promised Land’ is about Eilean who is a young girl. She lives with her parents and her two sisters Mary and Fiona. The sisters and Eilean work on the farm with their mother, while the father is a priest. The family is a very traditional and religious family. A priest is a person who works at the church and helps people, listens to them and talks to them about there’s personal or religious problems. You can describe a priest as a soft and gentle person. Eilean’s father doesn’t act kind and gentle at home. He is very dominant and everything has to be like he wishes at home. “There are no buts about it. It needs to be done.” There is no place for the other family member’s opinions, they have to follow the father’s order and ask him for permission. Everyone in the family obey the father except Eilean. She is the most individual person in the family who goes against her father. In page three of the text ‘We are Bound for the Promised Land’ Angus describes Eilean and Lewis as cowards, but Eilean tells him that she is not a coward and not afraid. She promises to take with them to the beach at a Sunday, to prove that she is not a coward or afraid. Angus and Lewis are Eilean’s friends. They spent time together and her father doesn’t like it. “Katie MacInnes and her friends are lovely girls, you should try to be a bit more like them”. He says. The father doesn’t like that his...
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...man you must first know where he began prior to the shack. He had achieved many accomplishments that of a forester, wildlife ecologist, environmental philosopher, and educator. Even with all his experience, there is little known about him as a writer until his death in 1948 and the release of his book in 1949. Initially at first glance I had little to no interest in this book; I now see the true gift behind Leopold’s writing. He begins speaking of the thaw and how the animals are slowly starting to come out of their sleepy state and once again move about the land. He gives descriptions of how one must be able to survive off the land, and what you have to do so that you’re able to survive. He describes and details that you must plant a garden, and second is splitting wood to warm where you might sleep. During this time he goes on to describe how over the years, through drought and war he was able to see something in the land that was beauty to him. He speaks of spring and the return geese; this being a sign of seasons change. Soon, the floods begin something unpreventable. From this, Leopold took this as yet...
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...Land Rover’s plan for a sustainable future is overly impressive. They invested in four key areas in their approach to a sustainable business for a lower carbon world. These are 1.) e_Terrain Technologies through efficient power systems, lightweight structures and reduced emissions, 2.) Sustainable Manufacturing by using fewer resources and creating less waste, 3.) CO2 Offsetting through renewable energy, technology change and energy efficiency projects, and 4.) Conservation & Humanitarian Partnerships by working partnerships for conservation and society’s gain. E Terrain Technologies: A joint $1,253m investment into new technologies designed to reduce CO2 emissions and improve fuel consumption. Land Rover is targeting a 25% reduction in joint fleet average tailpipe CO2emissions within the next five years. Beginning with an intelligent Stop/Start system on LR2 TD4 manual in 2009, followed by Intelligent Power Management Systems (IPMS) with Smart regenerative braking on all LR4 & Range Rover vehicles, to the announcement of our new small Range Rover, e_TERRAIN TECHNOLOGIES form a fundamental part of our carbon management plan. Sustainable Manufacturing: World class manufacturing facilities, certified to ISO14001 since 1998. As a company we are targeting a 25% reduction in operating CO2emissions by 2012, 25% in waste to landfill and 10% in water consumption. Going forward we are measuring our total operating carbon footprint and setting targets to reduce it; since 2006 this...
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...“The Land Ethic” Reflection Paper Part I. A summary of The Land Ethic In a persuasive essay, Aldo Leopold tries to explain how we are ethically and morally obligated to take care of our resources. In his paper, “The Land Ethic” Leopold explains how we have viewed the land as, “strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations”. This is the main statement in his essay, and throughout the writing he elaborates on this statement. He says we have not given the land (the soils, waters, plants, and animals) the respect it deserves. He talks about our National Anthem and how we sing of “our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave” and then he questions our uses of our ‘resources’ and in an almost disgusted way, says if you say you’re going to ‘take care of it and love it’, than follow through. He discusses how land ownership has played a big part of how we now use the land in different communities and poses the question of many researchers; What if the outcome of settling the states, and planting the fields if “the plant succession… had given us some worthless grasses, shrubs, and weeds to a condition of unstable equilibrium”. Where would we be today? He talks about resource conservation as an ethic and the land which contains the most diversity such as marshes, bogs, dunes and deserts may be privately owned. But if the owner was ‘ecologically minded’ he would, “be proud to be the custodian of a reasonable proportion of such...
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...The Waste land of T.S.Eliot is considered as a full of imagery poet composed after world war. The poet is divided into five sections but through section 1: the burial of the dead, readers could realize fully about imagery and the role of speakers. In the first section, Eliot conveyed pictures from views of different speakers which are riddled from gothic imagery. This part of The Waste Land can be seen as a modified dramatic monologue. The four speakers in this part are frantic in their need to speak, to find an audience, but they find themselves surrounded by dead people and thwarted by outside circumstances, like wars. Because the parts are so short and the situations so confusing, the effect is not one of an overwhelming impression of a single character; instead, the reader is left with the feeling of being trapped in a crowd, unable to find a familiar face. It is made up of four vignettes, each seemingly from the perspective of different speakers. The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman, in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German, not Russian. The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons with remarks on the barren state of her current existence ("I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter"). The second is a prophetic, apocalyptic invitation to journey into a desert waste where the speaker will show the reader "something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you...
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... Land Rover Case Study Land Rover Land Rover North America had just witnessed success in the US market with the launch of their globally successful model The Land Rover Discovery. By the mid 80’s the already successful luxury car maker had experienced an onslaught from the Japanese car firms that were capturing the third world market due to a number of issues faced by the Rover Group. The Japanese firms had identified a gap in the market and were producing SUVs that communicated better with the leisure market which comprised not only of affluent childless adults that looked at these vehicles as a symbol of exclusivity but also the more traditional family sector that also wanted safety and comfort in their cars. Land Rover decided to address the issue by launching their Discovery model to recapture the lost market. Land Rover Discovery proved to be a success in UK. For the US launch of Land Rover Discovery, we need to look at the data given in the exhibits before deciding on positioning. According to the data given in Exhibit 8, the SUV intenders across the age, sex and marital status have similar requirements. They rate Quality, Safety and Performance over economics or status. Coming to exhibit 13, it is clear that the consumer perception of Land Rover Discovery is...
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...Introduction Land Rover North America’s president and CEO, Charles Hughes had a dream for the company: to make North America the #1 Land Rover market worldwide. The Land Rover Discovery was a big success with over 2,000 units sold and 4,000 customers waiting availability. They were also planning to re-design the Range Rover and add improvements to the Land Rover Defender. Based on the growing strength of the U.S. SUV market, research suggests consumers are seeking vehicles that can help them have "experiences" while being practical, safe, reliable and luxurious. Competitive Analysis The SUV market included 30 products with prices ranging from $10,000 to $60,000 (1994). The market was concentrated with Jeep and Ford, with Chevrolet as a distant third. In the luxury segment competitors included: Mercedes, Lexus, and Infiniti (announced entry in 1996); Jaguar, Acura, Lincoln, and Cadillac (studying entry for 1997). Jeep Grand Cherokee was the best-selling SUV in America. Jeep was a very popular brand due to their heritage as America’s first-ever SUV. Ford Explorer was the second best- selling SUV. Both Jeep and Ford has multiple price points in their portfolios allowing for a large customer target. Chevrolet’s brands were depicted as “product quality with style”. Ford Explorer and Jeep Grand Cherokee are the biggest competitors when it comes to customer perception of major SUV brands. They have higher brand awareness while Land Rover...
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...University of Notre Dame THE LAND QUESTION AND DISPLACMENT IN KENYA: SUPPORT FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL LAND POLICY By William Kiptoo EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2010 Kenya enacted the National Land Policy following the promulgation of the new through the referendum. This was achieved through many years of consultation between the government and stakeholders of the land sector, mainly civil society organizations. The need for land reform was also identified by the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation as key to long-term peace and reconciliation. The policy aims to address Kenya’s land tenure problems that have caused political violence during elections and mass displacements of the local population due to unresolved land grievances. Internal displacement and land problems in Kenya are a product of the colonial legacy, where the land policy favored the white settlers against the African natives. After independence successive governments inherited these policies and land became political tool to rewards loyalties further creating divisions and discontent. A myriads of land-related conflicts followed pitting communities against each other as political elites continue to benefits. The inability of the government of Kenya to adequately address the land question has implied that the basic needs of significant proportion of the Kenyan population are not met. The basis of the new law is address the root causes of violence. The National land policy addresses inequitable...
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...The crusades began between 1096 and 1270. There were four of eight crusades that involved the Europeans. There were even crusades involved with children and women. Those who fought were called crusaders, because they vowed to “take up the cross”. Throughout the conflict of the Jews of Israel and the Palestinians, religion has played a major role and still occurring in the Holy Land today. The Holy Land was fought for religious reasons by the Muslims, Christians, and Jews during the crusades. The Jews fought for the Holy Land because it was the city King David made the capital of his kingdom and where the Temple stood containing the Ark of the Covenant. Christians fought for the Holy Land because that is where Jesus died, was buried, and rose...
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...THE WASTE LAND In brief, The Waste Land is a 433-line modernist poem by T. S Eliot published in 1922. It has been called “one of the most important poems of the 20th century.” Despite the poem’s obscurity which it shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures has made the poem to be a familiar touchstone of modern literature. The poem has been written in five parts. The five parts of The Waste Land are titled “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, “The Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”, and “What the Thunder Said”. The Waste Land is an allusive and complex poem. As such, it is subject to a variety of interpretations, and no two critics agree completely on its meaning. It may be interpreted on three levels: the person, the society, and the human race. The personal interpretation seeks to reveal Eliot's feelings and intentions in writing the poem. At the society level, a critic looks for the meaning of the poem in relation to the society for which it was written. Finally, the human level extends the societal level to include all human societies past, present, and future (Thompson, 1963). The question of literary value is complex. We must distinguish, first of all, between the importance of literature in our lives and the importance of any specific text. Literature defines and creates our world. In poems, plays, novels...
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...We Are Bound for the Promised Land Back in the old days, the communities were a lot more conservative. Every father was the head of the family. Many people lived in small towns, and had farms. Almost everybody knew each other, in each town, and everybody knew if something big had happened, or if something was worth knowing. There were a much bigger difference between boys and girls, and it was not normal to play boys and girls, like it is now. In the text, We Are Bound for the Promised Land, we see some of these points, and we learn about how life was, for a girl named Eilean, back in the days. In the text, We Are Bound for the Promised Land, we meet a girl named Eilean MacLeod. Eilean is a girl living in a small town with her mother, her father and her two sisters. She helps out her family, by feeding the chickens and the cow, wearing a little apron over her dress. Eilean goes to school every day, and has to friends named Angus and Lewis. Angus and Lewis are to boys, and Eilean father is not very happy about that. He wants Eilean to be “normal”, and have friends who are girls, instead of boys. Eilean is the youngest in her family, and is not treated very well, by anybody else, but her mother. Her father is very strict, and at one point he hits her so hard, she falls to the ground. Her mother loves her, but there is nothing she can do, because se does not want the father to get mad. It’s obvious that the father is the head of the family. Eilean seems very quiet, but she isn’t...
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...LAND ACQUISITION IN INDIA A REPORT SUBMITTED FOR THE COURSE “THE INDIAN ECONOMY” SUBMITTED BY: BISWAPRIYA SAHA DEEPSHIKHA GOVLI HIMANI KABRA ITISHREE DASH MRITYUNJAY BASAK PGP/17/076 PGP/17/077 PGP/17/080 PGP/17/083 PGP/17/094 Page 2 of 13 Table of Content ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................................................ 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 5 BENEFITS OF LAND ACQUISITION ....................................................................................................... 6 NEGATIVE IMPACT ON FARMERS ........................................................................................................ 6 NEGATIVE IMPACT ON TRIBALS .......................................................................................................... 6 NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIETY.......................................................................................................... 6 NEGATIVE IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................. 6 CRITICISM OF LAND ACQUISITION POLICY ...................................................................................... 7 LAND...
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...credit card or bank loan, there are some questions you need to answer before you borrow money. You should ask yourself if you need to spend the money, if you have other ways of financing the purchase and if you can afford to pay back the money you’re planning to borrow. Borrowing money becomes a problem if you borrow too much – that is, more than you can afford. It’s a problem if you borrow to where you can’t do other things or if you need to borrow to pay your regular monthly expenses. Just like your own money, you have to stay in control of the money you borrow from others. Borrowing money doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It can help. Borrowing just has to be done wisely, managed well, and held to a limit you can afford. I. History Land Bank of the Philippines (Filipino: BangkosaLupangPilipinas), also known as LANDBANK or by its initials, LBP, is a universal bank in the Philippines owned by the Philippine government with a special focus on serving the needs of farmers and fishermen. While it provides the...
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