Great Wall

It is 220 BCE and our county's first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, has ordered us to make a great wall.  He has declared that 20% of the country's workforce, including myself, will work on this giant barrier.  The working conditions are terrible.  Anyone who questions us building the wall or tries to escape is killed.  We have to work extremely hard for long hours, and it is bitter cold.  Yesterday, my good friend, Zi Song Chin Lee, died.  Everyone saw viewed his death as normal, and they simply buried him in the wall!  It may be tough, but my work will live on.  Nothing in the entire world can match the strength of this colossal project.

Stockdale, Nancy. "China's Great Wall: Overview." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras.
ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. <http://ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/>