Graduation Speech: Welcome For Dakota Nako

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Interviewer:I 'd like to thank our guests today for taking time out of their busy schedules to agree to this little interview, almost debate like conversation, today. Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to do so! I 'd like to welcome for Dakota Nakos, the Native American 's point of view, and Abraham Cyrus, the Puritans 's point of view, and Jacob Smith, the settler 's point of view. jacob smith:I 'm really excited to be here today to share my point of view.DAKOTA NAKOS:It 's a pleasure.abraham cyrus: Likewise. INTERVIEWER:Fantastic. The first question we 'd like to start out with for you both would be the concept of are people basically good or not?ABRAHAM CYRUS:No, all people are born with bad intentions in their lives. The only way that people can achieve them being good at heart is accepting the Lord into their lives. If they don 't do that then they 're ultimately going to end up in hell for the misgivings.You can never be born good, you have to earn the title of being basically good.INTERVIEWER:That 's a very interesting point view. What do you think, gentlemen?DAKOTA NAKOS:I 'd have to disagree with Abraham. My people believe that everyone is an even mixture of both good and bad. We need the good to balance out the evil in this world, not everyone can be one hundred percent good and not everyone can be one hundred percent evil. Although, there are people in this world like that but there are still elements of the other side in each person. We have a story in our culture that depicts a set of twins where one twin is more mischievous and never telling the truth then his brother is the more genuine and is always making sure to tell the truth. The world would be in chaos without the two balancing one another out so I would have to say that people are a good mixture of both. JACOB SMITH:I would have to think that if one, like John Smith for example, who is out there doing good things for his community then they are a good person. If someone is out there doing bad things that are hurting others or they aren 't trying to help their community then they 're a bad person. I 'd like to say that people grow up to be either a good or bad person, they 're just born and then they decide which path they want to take.INTERVIEWER:What completely different views but very valid and thought provoking. Our next question is who owns the land? Let 's start with Dakota this time.DAKOTA NAKOS:No one owns the land, we are the caretakers of what nature provides to us. …show more content…
We can 't ever own it because it does not belong to us in the first place. We do not have the right to claim it as our own. Nature will respect you as long as you respect it and provide it with the care that it deserves. So in short, no one owns the land. We are just caring for the land that we are currently living upon.INTERVIEWER:Alright, what are your thoughts, gentlemen?JACOB SMITH:I would have to assume the ones who started building a community and homes on that land would be the ones who are in ownership of it. If you put something that you built with your own two hands and had help from the men in your community doing so then it would be your land. If there were Native Americans living upon that land before you had arrived and had managed to convince to leave so you could start building your own colony, it 'd be yours in the end.ABRAHAM CYRUS:If one lives on the land that they inhabit and builds upon said land to live on, then it is their land. So if you live on that land then it 's yours, a better question would be which part of the land does one own? If it 's a certain plot then it 'd be that man 's land, if it doesn 't have anyone living upon it then no one would own it. It 's just a question of where the land is and if it 's inhabited by anyone currently.INTERVIEWER:Great points, gentlemen. Last question for our short interview here; what is a hero? Abraham, what do you think?ABRAHAM CYRUS:A hero is someone like Jonathan Edwards. He is someone who wants to make sure

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