ABSTRACT Easter Island, also known by the indigenous name Rapa Nui, is a remote island in the south Pacific Ocean located over 2000 miles off the coast of Chile and over 1250 miles from the nearest Polynesian island. Easter Island is best known for the hundreds of statues scattered across the island, largely because the question of how exactly these statues got to where they rest has stirred the minds of many theorists since the island’s “discovery” by the Dutch Admiral Roggeveen on Easter Sunday
Similarities and differences are what make things so interesting. Would you be happy if everyone was the same. Every looked the same, and liked the same things and hated the same things. No you wouldn’t because you would want to be you and no one can tell you what you want to be or what you don’t want to be. Even the buildings you make would be the same from a normal house to a normal office building. The “Panama Canal” was one of the most useful canals ever built and they were made to for one reason
The Choices Societies Make and the Challenges Surrounding Them The choices the Greenland Norse, the people of Easter Island, and the people of Haiti made directly contributed to their societal collapse. Their environmental fragility advanced their downfall, but ultimately their poor decision-making led to their collapse. The Greenland Norse’s and people of Easter Island’s incorrect choices were mostly due to social challenges and reluctance to abandon traditions, but the incorrect choices of the
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean sits a tiny, remote island. Easter Island takes up 64 square miles and is isolated from the rest of the world. What makes this island so interesting is not it’s size or location, but the large statues found on it. Commonly called Moai statues, they resemble men’s faces and weighed over 80 tons. They were sculpted after the tribal leaders that had died and they sat on platforms to look over the people that lived there to look over after them. These monstrous statues
Many researchers have a general idea of what caused the collapse of Easter Island, a 63-mile Polynesian island, also called Rapa Nui, located in the Pacific nearly four thousand miles west from the country of Chile (Krulwich 2013). Most of whom who investigate the specific aspects that brought Easter Island to its ultimate downfall, which includes extreme deforestation, pests, soil erosion, and a more or less lack of resources, are able to connect this fatal downward spiral to the rest of the world
In the article by Jared Diamond, many interesting theories are discussed about Easter Island’s history and decline. Diamond makes connections to the environmental challenges we face today and he compares the catastrophe of Easter Island to our current over consumption of natural resources. While this article makes for an interesting read, much of it is offered from a single perspective and little counter evidence is offered. The author writes in a way that could engage a non-academic audience who
Easter Island is found in the Pacific Ocean. It used to be quite populous and very beautiful, but now appears barren and desolate. The article “Easter Island’s End” explains why this is, and how it is a great example for us to look to and take warning so that our society doesn’t come to the same unfortunate end. In the article “Easter Island’s End”, Jared Diamond examines the destruction and fall of a once well organized society. Easter Island was an Island found in the Pacific Ocean near South
64 square miles is roughly how much Easter Island covers in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located some 2,500 miles (4023.36 kilometres) east of Tahiti and 2,300 miles (3701.491 kilometres) from Chile’s west coast. It is a part of the Polynesian triangle with New Zealand and Hawaii. Known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, the island was christened Easter Island, or Paaseiland, in 1722 in honour of the day of their arrival by Dutch explorers. How did such a small remote island become inhabited
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,
Book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Author: Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed “If people destroy something replaceable by mankind their called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable by God, they are called developers.” – Joseph Wood Krutch One of mankind’s greatest achievements is the development and organization of diversified societies that regulate life and ethical values for those enticed within it. Societies bring interpersonal