Thursday, October 28, 2010

The differences between Australia+New Zealand and Papau New Guinea

During the 18th century, there were a lot of people that moved to Australia from England, prisoners and others. Some of these people had knowledge and technology that they brought when they moved there. They made their own future in Australia. 

They had a long term relationship with those back in England. When new technology came up in England, this technology became also available in Australia. As more and more ships went between Australia and England, bringing convicts and ordinary Englishmen, they also brought knowledge, understanding, money and technology.

Papua New Guinea had hardly any contact with the outside world except from Australia, that took their natural resources. That's why there are tribes in Papua New Guinea that are still living literally in the stone age.

At the time technology arrived in Australia, Papua New Guinea was ruled by Australia and therefore Australia could decide what to do with Papua New Guinea. They chosed to bring their natural resources to Australia instead of producing and factoring at the spot by bringing technology to Papua New Guinea.   

At all times, large and powerful countries have exploited the small and weak countries, like rich Australia and poor tiny Papua New Guinea. 


Monday, October 18, 2010

My life as a mudskipper

I am a mudskipper and I live in the mangroves in Kuala Selangor. I hate it when people come and crush my friends and sometimes family with their big foot, but I have been lucky. One day I was crawling around looking for my family, but they were in a hole looking for food. That night we found a lot of food so that was nice.

That night I tried to climb one of the mangroves when I saw a gigantic foot right above me! It was a nightmare I thought but it wasn't, it was a real foot and it was large. I suddenly jumped into the mud and got away. When I came back to my home my whole family was dead!

I was having a nightmare about me getting planted with a mangrove. It was horrible until I started growing bigger than the mangroves and I became bigger than anything but then I got stuck in the mud and broke both of my legs. Then I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and could not sleep at all.

This was scary. What if more feet came tumbling around, then everybody would die. Now today was doomsday but would they come back? The next morning I woke up and this day was going to be terrific I thought . At ten o'clock the horrifying feet came back! A whole pack of feet came and they were running over my home! And so I saw a white light.