Chief Seattle's Words For Meaning

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Day and night cannot dwell together, I would say maybe. There are two period of time, one is called dawn, another is called dusk. Dawn is the first appearance of daylight in the morning, the night turns to day. Dusk is the state or period of partial darkness between day and night, the dark part of twilight. I disagree with Chief Seattle’s words because everything has an antithesis, the survival of the fittest survival and cowardice.
Like sitting in a house, I am in the dark corner, I can not see anything. If I sit next to the window, I will see the infinite beautiful scenery. So that if people have been sitting in that dark corner, then they should move their stools. In fact, everyone is doing everything like sitting on a stool, if people always
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If the rain was only shocked the spring of flying, do not know how to chance their location, even if it is never moist the earth. If the cocoon in the pupa only enjoy the current comfortable, do not know how to change, not to struggle, even if it is never a beautiful butterfly. Everything is so, people are so. Only to change themselves, only to fit the survival of the fittest. In the speech, the Red Man did not change themselves and did not learn from the advanced White Man. I believe that is one of the reason the Red Man declines.

We may be small, but we never timid; we can be humble as dust, but never distorted like maggots. The wind can blow up a piece of white paper, but can not blow away the butterfly, because the power of life is not obedient. The Red Man started to be obedient, they were cowardice. The more they gave to the White Man, the less respect they could get from the White Man. When a nation loses hope, they will be replaced by other nations.

Why the Indian’s night promised to be dark? They were aboriginal, the land should belong to them. Things are always pros and cons, stick to the rules but never learn and change, blindly obedient. These are the reasons a nation replace by another

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