10.5 Analyzing Context.

 provide short but detailed answers to the seven numbered items in the “Reading the Context…” Box on Writing Public Lives page 340.

1. The key perspectives are the natives against the TMT construction, the government in control of the laws and permits involving the TMT construction and the TMT board for the TMT construction.
2. Natives: Sacred land should not be desecrated. TMT Board: They have building permits to proceed legally.
3. The common ground should be the agreement on how the land should be used
4. The ideological differences is that one is religious and the other scientific, then it is also cultural and the other political/legal.
5. Most media for the TMT say that the native Hawaiian's should step aside and let them build the telescope because it is big science and the TMT board has done what is necessary to build legally. Whereas the media against the TMT say the government is not hearing their requests to stop development on sacred lands.
6. I would like to aid the native have their voice heard by the governor because the government should represent the people and if the majority of the people want to stop TMT from being built, they should have a word in the matter.
7. I think the fact that the government welds much power, the deals made by the governor may cause great suffering to the native Hawaiians that believe the site is sacred.