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... distance from both. The nations that, according to the best authenticated history, appear to have been first civilized, were those that dwelt round t... ...r value, though perhaps the greatest, is by no means the only one of which history gives some account. But as a measure of quantity, such as the natur... ...to this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn’s History of the Poor Laws.}. In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in politi... ...as it is possible for words illustrated by figures to explain them. In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, seve... ...s matter of certifi- cates,” says the same very intelligent author, in his History of the Poor Laws, “by putting it in the power of a parish officer t... ...encourages that species of industry which it means to promote. Those agri- cultural systems, on the contrary, really, and in the end, discour- age the...

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...ono Associates, conducted detailed archival-historical research and a limited oral historical interview program with kupuna and several kamaaina oral history interviews to document various aspects of the history of the land of Kaluanui, including the area known as Kaliuwaa, situated in the Koolauloa District on the Island of Oahu (Figure 1). The documentation cited in this...

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...-- Introduction -- 1 -- Background 1 -- Approach To Conducting The Study -- 1 -- Historical Documentary Resources -- 3 -- Oral History Interviews -- 3 -- A Historical Overview Of Kaluanui And Neighboring Lands Of Koolauloa -- 4 -- Kaluanui Ma Koolauloa 4 -- Residency And Land Use In Kaluanui And Vicinity -- 4 -- Hana Pono A Me Ka Maopopo Aina–Prot...

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...of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect cultural mores and lores and there cannot, therefore, be a unive... ... words, as a result of value judgements within given historical, psychological and cultural contexts. Judgement has to be involved: are the actions... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...s, or symbols, often have different meanings. Meaning is dependent upon historical, cultural, and personal contexts. There is no telling whether two... ...verbal vocabulary). Pain is, therefore, a value judgment and the reaction to it is culturally dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positi... ...he Gods was a high honour. How would we judge animal rights in such historical and cultural contexts? Are there any "universal" values or does it a... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...racity of this discovery. Judaism is founded on shared biology as much as shared history and customs. As a religion, it proscribes a conjugal uni...

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...At the request of Garret Hew, Manager of East Maui Irrigation Company, Ltd. (EMI), Kumu Pono Associates conducted a two-phased study of cultural-historical resources in the lands of Hamakua Poko, Hamakua Loa, and Ko?olau, in the region of Maui Hikina (East Maui), Island of Maui (an area that includes some 73 individual ahupua?a or native land divisions). The ...

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...In general, it will be seen that the few differences of history and recollections in the cited interviews are minor. If anything, the differences help direct us to questions which may be answered through additional research, or in some cases, pose questions which may never be answ...

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... was killed by a wild bullock at Keahua-ai (now called Douglas Pit or Kaluakauka), near the boundary of Humuula and Laupahoehoe. By 1850, the natural-cultural landscape of the aina mauna was being significantly altered by the roving herds of wild bullocks, sheep and other ungulates, and ranching interests were being formalized in the region. In 1857, the Crown and Governme...

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...ny Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing t... ...spired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as t... ... rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages a... ...rvaluing the public domain and the information commons at the very moment in history when we need them most. Academic articles and clever legal briefs... ... a fact not to be taken for granted. Why not use this mechanism to meet your cultural and innovation needs? If people need Madame Bovary or The New Yo... ... the people who actually read, or listen to, or watch the stuff. This is our cultural policy and it is driven, in part, by copyright. The promise of p... ...ormation marketplace. Copyright law is supposed to give us a self-regulating cultural policy in which the right to exclude others from one’s original ... ...emand. At its best, it is supposed to allow a decentralized and iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can... ...lace, easy and cheap access to information, de- centralized and iconoclastic cultural production, self-correcting innovation policy? Often it does, bu...

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... offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultural interests 7. Brandt leaves Mary behind to avoid an audience discussion 8. Mary goes after Matt; they come upon Morris in uniform 9. Brandt rescues Morris in a fight with an antiwar demonstrator 10. Steward gets s...

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... we made their women semi naked as our women are. We succeed to get rid of Parda (veil) from the faces of most of Muslim women with the help of our cultural war imposed by our Media policy given to international TV channels. We gradually brought them towards a free sex mixed pattern of life And almost in most of Islamic countries except a few the living standards of p...