Land Ownership
Land is like a human, it grows, breaths, and dies. So do we have the right to own it? Most people believe yes we do for we are born with this need and there’s a few who believe that we have no right to for it’s a living being and that we can’t own land but we take from it till we give it back in the end of our days. Chief Seattle’s speech is an example of native American thoughts on how they believe that when one dies they are taken into the Earth for they are giving back to the earth what they had taken from it. “There is no death, only a change of worlds.” (Chief Seattle speech) . They believed that the conquers were going to destroy the lands with their envy-needless envy- for it’s the destruction of land. To the Americans however, there is a certain feeling when it comes to owning land. Its about identification, having earned the right for the land that you’ve worked so hard to make your own. Seeing those without land it’s because they didn’t work as hard as the person who worked all their life to claim the land around them. To a lot of people owning land is pride, pride, pride. The pride to say that you own land for future generations of their family to enjoy and not have to struggle with trying to earn a place to call their own. Religiously land is to be shared by all. It is a gift to mankind from “God” to use to grow ourselves and praise him and each other. Then you have that it is something that all mankind must learn to share it to decide on how it is used and how we basically give ourselves the land. A greed of Land does not make a heart of Greed though. It just makes mankind harder to live with one another. Thomas Cole, The Last of the Mohicans (1826). Is an oil painting that was inspired from James Feinmore Cooper’s famous novel The Last of the Mohicans. Granted this painting is not inspired from any scenes with any interactions between early American settlers but the painting shows how the land looked like before the american settlers went