Wrights’ article addresses the issues on Easter Island. For example, he states the history of the island and the destruction of the lush environment. Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is an island located at the Southeast of the Pacific Ocean. Easter Island is a valid example of events occurring in the world today. The immigrants of Easter Island were destroying the environment for living and decorative purpose. Currently in today’s society, the world is doing the same thing: using up all of our natural resources. Society must learn from the people of Easter Island and preserve our natural resources. Unlike now, Easter Island was a place of “was rich in seafood: fish, seals, porpoises, turtles, and nesting seabirds” and many other natural resources …show more content…
The immigrants built houses out of stone, and use the best land for agriculture. “Socially they split into clans and ranks - nobles, priests, commoners - and there may have been a paramount chief or “king”” (Wright 121). Because of the growth of population, the demand of wood had increased rapidly and caused the reduction of trees. Also, the rats that the immigrants brought to the Easter Island ate the seeds of trees, which worsened the problem of timber. “By A.D. 1400, no more tree pollen is found in the annual strata of the crater lakes: the woods had been utterly destroyed by both the largest and the smallest mammal on the island” (Wright 121). Since timber is the supplies of everyday life, immigrants should curtail the use of timbers. But they did not change anything use of their timbers, except they stopped building boats for …show more content…
The clans started to eat their dogs and the most of nesting birds of the island, which cause the silence of the entire Easter Island. “The good days were gone [for them] - gone with the good earth, which had been carried aways on the endless wind and washed by flash floods into the sea” (Wright 122). The warriors had taken the power, because they are the people who protect the clans. They burned others villages, stole resources, killed people, and ate people. Obsidian, a razor-keen volcanic glass, got turned into weapons, such as daggers and spearheads. During that time, people have lived in caves. “Their only building were stone hen-houses where they guarded this last non-human protein [and the resource of food] from each other day and night” (Wright
The Lorax and Easter Island are similar and different in many ways. First of all, an obvious difference is that one is fictional and the other is reality. Even though this is true they both have a lesson to be taken away from them.
McKeown’s book significantly traces the enforcement of the bio-power on the national border control system against the background of the expansion of capitalist global order, and thus further debunks that the seemingly neutral face of modern international migration is a discursive and institutional mask for coloniality. His arguments keep reminding me of previous insights on our modern world by thinkers like Foucault, Walter Mignolo, and Lisa Lowe, who all stay vigilant to the progressive and emancipatory vision from the enlightenment, or, the western modernity, by revealing its dialectic relevance to its opposite, the suppression and alienation of humanity from disciplinary regimentation of social life to colonial bloodshed and enslavement.
In the article "Island Civilization: A vision for human occupancy of earth in the fourth millennium" a very good point was made about how humans are not treating the earth with respect, however our generation still has a chance to turn the earth from cancerous to healthy.
The land directly surrounding the settlement was usually flooded during the times of high water. In addition to this stretch, there were about eight hundred and fifty acres of heavily timbered forest lands on the island an...
When you were 11 years old, have you ever thought what kind of person you have chosen to become in the future?" If you want to answer this question, you need to have the ability to consider what background, values and personal evolution are. Turtle Island" by Joseph Boyden also talks about the story about an 11-year-old aboriginal boy who caught between the rough world of the Indian Posse and his dawning affection for his little brother’s pet turtle, named Island (Joseph 1).At the beginning, he was a rebellious and Impulsive person who was against cultural belief. In the end, of the story, he had chosen to become a person who was brave, responsible and mature.
is the cause of all of the problems that take place on the island. At
When British explorer Captain James Cook arrived on Polynesian islands in the Pacific Ocean, he and his sailors were amazed by the healthy and beautiful views of the local population.
Once forests began to be viewed as beneficial, it opened up a whole new lifestyle. The forests and nature might have been an evil and scary place, but it was a place filled with resources and opportunity. Settlers began using trees and wood in a plethora of ways. Not only was it used for families own use, many began logging forests as a business; a very profitable business at that. Once wood started being used for beneficial purposes, a snowball effect occurred by the settlers to cut down every tree in sight and turn it into a profit.
Puerto Rico at the expense of native people (6). After the Cape San Vicente disaster,
Hawai'i's rich culture and history started with the arrival of the Polynesians to the islands between 300-500 A.D. After settling they adapted to the islands and began to create a society. But hundreds of years later in 1778, the western world came to put a stop to the Hawaiians lives. Captain James Cook and his crew were the first to arrive, setting off a chain of events that rid the Hawaiians of their lifestyles. Christian missionaries banned tattoos and hula dancing, getting rid of the people's culture. Diseases brought from the west killed hundreds of civilians. Hunters, whalers, fur traders began ravishing the islands of its animals. In the nineteenth century sugar plantations were created, and the U.S. overthrew their queen and her kingdom, making Hawaii American territory. A naval base was soon set up in Honolulu, only to have it attacked, launching the U.S. into WWII. Years after the attack, Haw...
Today most experts believe that Easter Island was first settled by Polynesians looking for a new homeland. About 1680 A.D, the quality of life on the island began to decrease. At this time, clan rivals erupted in a bloody battle between long ears and shorts ears. This destruction of the islands natural resource undoubtedly contributed to its decline.
Have you ever been eaten alive by the fury of the Pacific Ocean? Well, it happened to me and many other exciting things happened when I visited Hawaii for the first time. About eight years ago, during my spring break, my family and I went to the island of Kauai and we were there for about eight days. I am telling you, the first time you visit a tropical paradise; your scenes will change drastically. The food, the people (locals and tourists), the culture, and lest not forget that unforgiving Pacific Ocean.
Overall, Robinson Crusoe’s ship crashing on the island forever changes the ecology, and biodiversity. Robinson colonized the island by introducing invasive species, European crops, and enclosing areas of the island. This colonization would lead to the islands decent in, wildlife habitation, and biodiversity. Although, these concerns would change the ecosystem on the fictional island they are the signs of colonization, and improvement in the lives of the inlands inhabits.
The veil of mystery over Easter Island has been covering the island since we first stumbled upon it, the popularity of the island has grown immensely, and the mystery still encom-passes the island to this day. The History of Easter Island is one filled with prosperity and hardship, the inhabitants of the island experienced everything. The island is world re-nowned for the hundreds of giant statues called Moai, which are placed all over the island. The island is shrouded in mys-tery and due to this scientists, archaeologists, engineers, and linguists alike have hypothesized theories about the is-land. Over the years scientists have made many more intriguing discoveries about Easter Island, removing