For Rip Van Winkle, nature offers Rip a sense of freedom. Early in the story, he desires to leave his nagging wife and all the difficulties of modern, industrialized life behind. By escaping into the woods and living in nature, he feels he will be able to leave freely in solitude and peace. Nature, then, serves as a place where Rip can find harmony and personal satisfaction.
The British, Chinese, Russian, and all those countries on the other side considered this a “new world” but the natives would have taken offense because it wasn’t actually new, they had been living there for a while.
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the first question is, Arabs and Jews both claimed the lands of Jerusalem
for the second its, Location of Religous and Ethnic groups
