Easter Island is a perfect example of a cultural conflict in a society‚ mainly because it is the most isolated island and eco system. Therefore‚ there were no external effect and influence. When the Spaniards came to the island in the 19th century they were surprised that the natives only had small damaged canoes which raised a lot of question about how could they
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Rex‚ You bring up a valid point in which I too discussed in my response. It is our responsibility now to prepare for the future and whatever future we want our children and their children to have. The other thing you said that I keyed in on was the word “abused”. I believe that is very important also. Your suggestion and article provided about using wind and solar power would be a great solution to some of the energy crisis. I believe that wind and solar power will only continue to grow in popularity
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Easter Island I was born today. My bones quarried at Rano Raraku near the northeast end of my homeland‚ Easter Island. My makers were small‚ with deep tawny skin that gleamed with moisture under the sun as they carved the gentle curves of my body. As I lay among the rock‚ an unmoving piece of stone that stretched across the land to the creatures that constructed me‚ I observed the thriving life around me. I was surrounded by trees‚ some whose unbranched bodies shot into the vibrant sky‚
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The amazing Easter Island is an ancient civilization that started in 700 ad. It slowly grew into a great civilization in that time. The lorax is a movie about a man cutting down trees. It too was a great civilization but it was fictional. How do these two come together you ask hopefully u well know the answer to this question. First‚ the lorax is a fictional movie and book created by Dr. Seuss. It’s a story about a man that sees an opportunity to make money by cutting down trees and making thneeds
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Contrasting Easter and Tikopia Islands Easter Island‚ one of Western Chile’s best kept secrets has become one of todays most popular tourist destinations with nearly 900+ Maoi statues dominating the island terrain. Although today‚ Easter Island is home to upwards of 2‚500 people‚ it wasn’t always this way. It is said that Easter Island was first discovered around 300-400 A.D. according to History.com with other sources claiming as late as 1200 A.D. When settlers first began to invade the island‚ nearly
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Both The Lorax and the story of Easter Island are examples of how people in a society can damage the environment and end life as we know it. The Lorax messages were how terrible our environment is in today’s society and also included a life lesson. The issues expressed in The Lorax are water and air pollution‚ deforestation‚ and overpopulation. And in the Easter Island story‚ the natives showed many examples of what could happen if we use up all our resources and do not take care of our environment
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In Jared Diamond’s "Twilight at Easter‚" we travel across the mysterious Easter Island as he describes the most intriguing fact about this place: the island consists of monolithic stone statues that had once been found all over the island despite the apparent lack of means to create them or ways of transporting them to their different coastal locations. This central mystery of standing statues had been explored since the earliest recorded European contact by Jacob Rogeveen in 1722. While the mystery
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ever sit back and think of how you as a human being hurt the earth? In both The Lorax and The mystery of Easter Island people fail to realize how they’re setting themselves and the earth up for disaster. How did they hurt me? Why do they hurt me? The earth wants to know. If I ask you to go build a statue and then bring it 500 miles across the land‚ how would you do it? The residents of Easter Island had their own idea. The islanders used trees to drag the statues across the land‚ cool right? No‚ this
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The environmental change and the collapse of Easter Island Ruud Coumans In this paper‚ we will search for an explanation of the mystical collapse of society on Easter Island‚ during the 18th century. We’ll use the second chapter for the book “Collapse. How Society Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond. First we will summarize some of the evidence supporting the explanatory framework of the author to give an outline of the situation. Then we will state the research question. After that we
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The Mayans and Easter Islanders had common collapses in their societies. One of their downfalls was that they both erected large statues and other unnecessary monuments to show dominance over other kings in the surrounding area. This hurt the civilizations because they occupied land that could have otherwise been used for farming. Also‚ since everything was done on human power alone‚ they used more energy and later consumed more food than usual. Another one of their problems were that neither
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