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you need to read the story and write a disscusion based on the story in module 9

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Question

you need to read the story and write a disscusion based on the story in module 9, what did you learn what is the point of the story. one paragraph only.

Wedaco'o'wa gumadagul'nya namina. Module 9: Section One. The D'harawal Peoples used that which The Land gave them, and they could not understand when the first white men settled in Sydney Harbour, removed all the food and medicine plants growing there, plants which had fed and treated The People for millennia. The white men then planted mouldy wheat which did not grow Nowadays we have all these introduced foods, foods that the invaders brought in and abandoned the privet, brough Australian bush, Dandelion, because it was a food and medicine plant, African Olive, only their God knows why this curse was introduced- or other plants, such as the Opuntia, the Prickly Pear, or worse still, the Kikuyu Grass. The list goes on. t in because they wanted to see the green of England, not the drab green o f the For every plant that was introduced into This Land, there is an equivalent which is native, and oftentimes better than the introduced species. For instance, the privet, only introduced because of its ability to form hedges of English green. A cosmetic plant. Hedges? A plant barrier used to block out the view. The Dandelion. Why bring that here, we have the equivalent, the Yam Daisy, almost identical to the Dandelion, the flowers are often mistaken for the Dandelion. except that the Yam Daisy does not produce the milky sap that the English jailers used to torture their prisoners. The flowers of the Yam Daisy were dried and soaked in hot water. When cooled they were taken to expel intestinal worms. The leaves were blanched, rubbed vigorously between the palms of the hands, then eaten. The root was roasted and eaten. The difference between the two plants is minimal, except, whereas the Dandelion has a single flower atopa stout stem containing milky sap, the Yam Daisy has a slender, divided stem with a single flower atop each branch. The leaves of the Dandelion are acutely toothed, but are soft and bright green, the leaves ofthe Yam Daisy are tougher, rougher, and a deeper green. Both the Dandelion and the Yam Daisy grow in our lawns, and are mowed or weeded out. Yet, the Yam Daisy is good food. It also grows prolifically in our municipal parks, school yards, street verges and along railway lines.

Explanation / Answer

This story focuses on two aspects. First, when wise people talk, their advise is very important. Also, it is very important to preserve our land and something that is integral to our community. Second, in today's day, it has become a trend to like something that has been tagged as foreign. Ultimately, in both the stories it has been portrayed that our culture, our heritage and certain laws that have been established by our predecessors, require to be given importance. Unlike the first story where having similar characteristics, the native plants were not paid attention to, we should preserve what is indigenous to us as a society.