Poem as a soldier.

I feel like it's ripping

Pulling

Killing

People all around me

On top of me

Like I can't breathe

Feeling nothing

Seeing less

After the golden army comes

They want nothing else

But our blood and terror

See it in my eyes

While I feel the pain of this barrier

The only thing remembered of foolishly brave soldiers

Is nothing but a golden disguise

Disgusting behavior

As I drown in my "saviors" blood

I have myself thinking

I would have rather drowned in a flood

It's like I'm being buried alive

Technically I am

Here's some famous last words

You will NEVER see the end.

Well, that is a poem i wrote two days ago but forgot to post on here. The poem I wrote is based on the third chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Peace.

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Last time I checked, NZ was a pretty peaceful place.....Maybe not so a couple thousand years ago?

What role did ‘geography’ play in the story of the Maori and the Moriori?

Well, this to me seems like the biggest factor in the brutal killings of the Moriori from the Maori. Why else would they want to kill these peaceful, innocent people? Well, the answer to me is because of their island. The chathams island was only inhabited by these Morioris, that didn't even know how to fight. They had a great life, an abundance of food and resources, and had pretty much everything they needed. Of course the Maori would get jealous and want this. Even I, as a student at High Tech High would love to just go and live somewhere like that. So the Maori sailed over from Zealand to the little island, and decided to brutally kill and eat the peaceful Morioris. Isn't that sweet of them? Oh yes, NOT. They were taken over by jealousy and a want of things they do not already have. Sometimes the only way to get what you want is to brutally eat the peaceful people that love life, ya know? This is an instance, to me, of a pure exhibition of pre-historic behavior. If this happens in modern times like today, then it only proves us to be similar to them. What a great lesson in Humanity. Let's try not to live off jealousy, world.

cro magnons versus neanderthals?

Today's (yesterday's) homework is to write about a question raised by the first chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.



Why do I think the cro magnons caused neanderthals to die out? Well, in my eyes and using some of the evidence from the book, I believe it's because of the advanced abilities of the cro-magnons. The neanderthals, while they had a larger head capacity and brain, they were simple minded creatures. They had extremely crude tools and weapons, no more than a crappily carved rock that they used to cut things. They were only capable of killing non-harmless things like early forms of bunnies. Nothing that is dangerous, or an actual animal that is worthy of producing a sustainable food source like a buffalo. Yet these were the dominant species in the world. Why? This is because they were the only type of life form then capable of these things that seem so simple to us. Then, when the Cro-Magnons came to Europe where these neanderthals had previously roamed, they were out-numbered and out-matched. They just plainly weren't as developed as the newly evolved Cro Magnons.