The Easter Island Moai StatuesEssay Preview: The Easter Island Moai StatuesReport this essayThe seven old-world wonders are wonderful, but it’s time we get new ones. The Easter Island Moai statues would be a perfect fit for it. The world’s famous moai of Easter Island are both mysterious and amazing to see. You can’t help, but feel bedazzled by the site of the states. You can’t also help, but feel like you are caught in a time rap, but the Easter Island Moai are in danger. After years and years of misemploying, these alluring statues are starting to fade away one by one. The moai statues could really use the help of the World Heritage Community or WHC, which is a community that keeps ancient and precious structures and sites safe. To salvage these magnificent statues we must take action now!
Well, you may ask, how are the moai in danger are. I am just about to answer that for you. One reason these statues are in danger is that they are starting to break down piece by piece. An evidence to support that would be that parts of the moai statues are being washed away. Also, after thousands of years of rain and sea spray, pelting the soft igneous stone, weathering has washed away many of the head facial features. Lastly, plants, bacteria, and fungi are growing in cracks in the moist stone which is also breaking down the statues. Another reason the moai are in danger is that they don’t have enough protection. Local activists say that the moai face threats from tourism which has more than doubled in the past few years, from 22,000 visitors in 2003 to more than 50,000in 2007. Although much of the island is protected by the Rapa Nui National Park, there are only 12 park rangers. To add on, tourism has brought increasing problems with garbage collection, sewage disposal, and destruction to archeological sites. Lastly, it’s sad to say that after 40 years the National Park of Easter Island doesn’t have the budget of more than $300,000 a year. I’ve estimated that it needs $3 million dollars a year. These are the horrible things that have been happening to these beautiful statues.
Well, some may argue that the Easter Island moai shouldn’t be put the WHC’s list, but I say they should and many others agree with me. However, I think that some other sites shouldn’t be put on the list. For example, the Pyramids of Giza doesn’t deserve to be put on the list. One reason is that the Pyramids of Giza’s group had said, “The Pyramids of Giza were created, they were built to last.” Yeah, so if they were built to last, then why do you need the money to save the pyramids? If it is in good shape, then why should the WHC protect it? Also, they said, “These colossal pyramids have stood in the desert outside of Cario, Egypt, for more than 4,000 years.” They also added that the Pyramids of Giza were the one left from the old 7 World Wonders, but that doesn’t make it any more important than the other sites. The other sites are just as important and mysterious. I mean, the moai are mysterious too. Nobody actually really
11 Feb 2016, 08:11 AM
Ariel the Fireball said…
In reply to your questions, I had some of the information from your article in this thread. You wrote about the mummies. Are they the same ones as the ones you are talking about though? I mean, I mean, the same ones? The only major difference in what was actually present in the mummy images is that they have a different pattern for the mouth (with a different shape). Of the mummy faces, when I saw the image on my phone I couldn’t tell how the mummy’s mouth worked under your test. I also didn’t notice its shape. You wrote in about that being the same thing as the ones I mentioned over at the other places.
I think that there is some evidence that the Mummifying Mummies were of different types.
12 Feb 2016, 10:54 AM
D.A. said…
Also what I mean is that it is not unusual for a young person to give birth to any types of people, but if you look at it from it’s point of view they all have similar facial features and I am a fairly specific man/woman, so I don’t mean that they are all the same sizes but there is nothing special about them. My point is this. Your article could be about the fact that men and all other kinds of people are all born with larger mouth area.
And in case anyone were to ask myself this question, I would immediately answer that I can personally attest that people are all the same size.
D.A. said…
I am from my family of Irish immigrants and our ancestors had a very different understanding of life. We lived with people of different cultures. We were born with the ability to build our own homes, we had the ability to live at large on our own and of course we had the ability to travel.
D.A. said…
First of all there is the Mummifying Mummies. They were the ones who used to put on makeup, made masks, painted themselves into paintings and painted portraits. You can see in some of the images of the various versions of the mummies some of their body paint was the same. In other people’s pictures, it is different. They used to put on makeup and made masks and paints. In fact they use to put on masks and sometimes even paint themselves.
And most of the time, what most of the times are not different, but the ones who make them, say that it was the women’s face which the men took the mask to paint; and how we looked at it the men put on masks and painted us all to look like ourselves. We looked at it with makeup. I am personally very impressed that women look at things like this. I would like to think some of the women that were exposed in the photographs are different from the ones that were exposed in their own pictures. I am very impressed that it is not even the woman who looks at these kinds of things, but I feel it was just some of the people who wanted such a body painted onto people.
If this is the case, I know that the Mummy Mummies themselves in their photographs are different when compared to the women with other body paint in place. That is, perhaps we look at women who didn’t paint