Easter

This paper is about the Chile and Easter Island.The Easter Island is right off the west coast of Chile.It is 2,700 km or 2,300 miles. This island is very isolated and inhabited with only 5,761 people living there(in 2012). The area of this island is 63.17 mi2. Easter Island’s capital is Hanga Roa. This island is famed for the wonderful archaeological sites with around 900 monumental statues. These statues were made between the 10th -16th century, They are called moai, having large heads and…

November 2016 The Collapse of Easter Island Every year, hundreds of tourist travel across the Pacific Ocean to visit a small, barren grass island. They do not travel to see grass they travel such a far distance to get a closer look at the giant stone-heads, call moai. These mysterious moai made by the ancient Rapanuian people hold a similar fascination like the Stone Hinge in England. They beg the questions when, how, why, and who? History teaches us through Easter Island that respecting our…

In the years following the 1916 Easter Rising the GAA, according to its many historians, including Padraig Púirséal and Marcus de Burca, claimed that the GAA had provided a great number of the men who had played an active role during the insurrection. As much of the literature available from this time is in some way sympathetic towards the rebels, it is hard to discover whether or not the Association did support the insurrection or not, despite the GAA having a non-party political stance for…

Easter Parade (1948) is a musical and a romance about a man, Don Hewes (Fred Astire) who vows to find a dance partner who he can make better than his old dance partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller). He eventually finds Hannah Brown (Judy Garland) and they start off really bad. They become a sensational duo after Don figures out what Hannah’s singing and dancing abilities are best at and the two eventually fall in love with each other in the film. Judy Garland is a sensational actor. She has made a…

Easter Island can be a representation of today’s modern world view and actions. Historians speculate that the people from Easter Island became extinct due to the society using too many resources too quickly. Due to the island being so being so remote they only had a small amount of resources that they could use. With the people not realizing that they have a limited resource base they used many trees to move a lot of the stones around the island. This is what caused a chain of events to occur.…

Have you ever seen the strange statues on easter island? well in the magazine article “did aliens make these statutes” clearly explains two ways the statues appeared. over 1000 years ago a few explorers landed on the island and found the statues and no humans. it is believed that the people that lived there were rapanui, and they created the statues. There is only one problem, the statues weighed up to 80 tons and their height ranged from 4 to 33 feet. currently there are two theories to how the…

The Easter Rising took place from the 24th to the 29th of April 1916. Irish rebels garrisoned multiple locations in Dublin in an armed attempt to overthrow British rule and establish an independent Irish Republic. After five days of fighting the rebels unconditionally surrendered , a presumed successful retaliation by the British, but the essence of the rebellion changed the course of Irish history forever. In 1800 the Act of Union Bill was passed which united Great Britain and Ireland into the…

The history of Easter Island, its statues and its peoples, has long been shrouded in mystery. Some have suggested that aliens marooned on earth planted the statues as signals to their fellow aliens to rescue them. Others have said that the statues were constructed by a great race of guilders that were stranded on the island and built them before being rescued. Still others are convinced that an ancient society with the capability of…

The Mystery Of Easter Island One may wonder about the mystery of Easter Island, is it a myth just like mermaids and aliens. Well, the mystery of how the statues got there has been proven in so many ways. Although, the most efficient way is by walking the statues. First and foremost, the Rapanui people never had enough people to move the statues by rolling them. As the text says,”... Lipo and Hunt believe the Rapanui population reached no more than 3,000 people,” (pg.11, ¶1). Also, the text…

Irishmen and women have at one point or another planned and carried out insurrections against the tyranny of the English. Although the insurrectionists of the Easter Rising of 1916 share the failure of their predecessors, they achieved a lasting impact on the history of Ireland in a way that those that came before never did. On that Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, the members of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Tom Clarke, Sean MacDermott, Eamonn Ceannt, Joseph Plunkett,…