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    this written work I will compare and contrast the Environmental issues of Easter Island and the Lorax and how they relate to today's world .One of the main issues is deforestation and the overuse of resources. Both Easter Island and The Lorax have many things in common , one similarity is overuse of resources. In the Lorax the once-ler invaded and cut down all the Truffula trees to make a thread for universal use. While on Easter Island the native people cut down all the palm trees to make canoes but

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    Easter Island, like many other places on Earth, presents a mystery of history that many scientists dedicate years to unraveling. In “Easter Island’s End”, Jared Diamond presents the perceived chronology of the events that led to the Island’s wasteland appearance today. Although his tale was masterfully told in an artsy, dramatic manner, Diamond wrote the piece for the sole purpose of warning the people of today what will happen if we continue to over-use Earth’s resources without regard to the future

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    Easter Island, a mysterious and intriguing land lies on Chilean territory in the South Pacific ocean. The Polynesian people discovered an island that can allow researchers and linguistics to dive in and dig up remains and stories of the past. Easter Island is an isolated historical place that boomed in population and thrived in culture. The name Easter Island was born from the first European, Jacob Roggeveen, to arrive on Easter Sunday in the year 1722. The islander’s culture left a legacy that was

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    Easter Island was first discovered back in 1722 by a Dutch explorer named Roggeveen. When first discovered there was a group of about 3000 natives living there in a state of turmoil. The people lived in clay huts and were engaged in constant battle with one another. The people there were forced into cannibalism in an attempt to make up for the lack of food. The next time the Europeans visited the island was in 1770 but with the lack of resources and under population they decided to not

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    Easter Island shows that we need to conserve what we can so resources do not become depleted and we die from it. The tragedy commons and the use of so many natural resources to meet the demands of nearly 7.3 billion people can be a disaster if we don’t use many resources. The over use of natural resources of people is a common topic environmental science. The lost of undisturbed lands, biodiversity and other natural resources as the population grew and spread to cover much of the land

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    Essay on The Easter Uprising of 1916

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    The Easter Uprising of 1916 The Easter Uprising of 1916 was an event that happened at the tail end of a long list of events that would forever change Ireland. The Uprising or Rising, as some call it, took place mostly in Dublin but was felt throughout Ireland. The point was to gain independence from Great Britain who had ruled Ireland for the past couple hundred years. At the turn of the 19th century England believed that Ireland had too much independence and made the Act of Union. “The result

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    The Easter Rising is commonly regarded as one of Ireland’s most patriotic moments, similar to the United State’s Revolutionary War. This rebellion was the result of decades of nationalism and a group of independence seeking Irishmen seeing an opportunity with England being tied up in the First World War. They were not going to let this chance pass, and they orchestrated a very secretive plan with many different moving parts, relying almost entirely upon receiving weapons from Germany and catching

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    Observation Report #4 The Easter Vigil: Holy Family Catholic Church The Easter Triduum takes place during Holy Week, which commemorates step by step the last events in the life of Jesus. It is a very symbolic ritual because it reenacts His passion, death and resurrection. The Easter Triduum, which lasts three days, includes the Easter Vigil, the most important of all Christian celebrations. The celebration, which takes place on the night of Holy Saturday, commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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    The article states that a dramatic decline in a number of population of Easter Island which was the prosperous society several hundreds years ago, was caused by massive invasion of other societies. However, the professor explains that this assumtion is invalid and refutes all the arguments the reading provides. First of all, the reading passage claims that the fact that the environment of the island was destroyed means that this harm was a result of an invasion. On the contrary, the professor argues

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    figures on Easter Island has puzzled people for centuries.”(Innes 4) Easter Island is a tiny island that lies in the southern Pacific Ocean and is 2000 miles west of the coast of Chile and is known as “Rapanui”. The name Easter Island originally came from a Dutch sailor, Jacob Roggeveen, who first visited the island on Easter Sunday, 1722. Easter Island is famous for its remarkable 887 human stone figures with extremely large finely carved heads and round bodies. The monumental statues in Easter Island

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