Essays on Maya

In the post-9/11 world of espionage, soldiers have been replaced with spies as nationalist heroes – since drones do much of the grunt work now as opposed to reservists, the nebulous War on Terror is fought through intelligence and espionage. At the same time, we take a much more self-reflexive look at our heroes, especially in media, and question whether or not they are truly worth rooting for. These notions of the flawed heroic spy, the one who does what is necessary while putting themselves through misery, is explored in depth in the recent films Casino Royale (2006) and Zero Continue reading...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of etiquette along with various forms that it implies. Table, business, and greeting etiquette are the focal points of the research. Apart from the norms of socially acceptable conduct, the project contains the overview of such essential aspects as history, geography, population, religion, and industry. The project is based on the opinions of the leading subject-field experts and specialists that major in history, demography, sociology, ethics, and affiliated disciplines.
Keywords: Mexico, etiquette, conduct, geography, history, population, religion
Etiquette is a set of rules and conventions that regulates human social behavior acceptable in society. Continue reading...

Maya Angelou

Introduction
In 4th April 1928, Maya was born and named as Marguerite Ann Johnson, a daughter to Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson who was a dietitian for the United States Navy. Her year old brother, Bailey was unable to pronounce her name and he usually called her either “my-a-sister” or “my sister.” As a result, the brother contributed to the birth of her new nickname as “Maya.” However, the nickname, Maya, was not recognized by other people until her adulthood, when she converted her real name to Maya Angelou, in 1949, as a professional and stage name.

Thesis: The paper focuses on the life of Maya accompanied by the events that accompanied her during her life.

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Introduction

Language endangerment refers to the level of risk involved in making a language become suppressed and eventually fall out of use. It may not be possible for regional language speakers to forecast the extinction of their languages. This persuasive essay aims to convince the low variety language speakers in China that they can overcome the dominance of popular languages like the Mandarin and English.
Mandarin is widely used in the Chinese education system which makes it the official language. On the other hand, English is commonly used all over the world hence posing a threat to regional languages in Continue reading...

Introduction

Nature is a matter that is close to human beings’ hearts. This is essentially why there are emerging issues such as Global warming that trend globally. When God created the universe, it was perfect, according to the Bible. The Bible records that human beings valued nature to a great extent. After the curse, however, they had to toil and make a lot of sacrifices; including endangering the environment. There have been a lot of environmental challenges since the beginning and this is essentially why great philosophers such as Karl Marx made constant reference to nature and how human actions Continue reading...

Theoretical Explanations of Two Prominent Pre-Industrial Civilizations: The Mayan Civilization and the Roman Empire from the Lens of Joseph Tainter and Arnold Toynbee

Introduction

Civilizations have characterized much of human history and have laid the groundwork for several innovations on human organization. As humans have learned to congregate in societies, they have developed their respective ways of living based on their understanding on the natural and social environment enveloping them within a given geographical area. Human organization inevitably comes into play, in which positions of authority are recognized and tasked to maintain and improve the political, economic and religious affairs Continue reading...

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, published in 1969, is an autobiographical look into the coming-of-age years of the African-American author. Throughout the novel, Angelou’s discusses themes such as racism and segregation that she experienced, simply for being African American. She also discusses experiencing displacement throughout this period in her life, living in seven different homes in a relatively short period of time. There is also an overwhelming theme that speaks to Angelou’s resistance to racism; all of these culminated to form Angelou’s social identity. She covers many different events that helped Continue reading...

Temple of Doom presents Chavin's history full of lessons to learn. The video tells how a hierarchy society may experience and maintain low population standards. The results of standing strong by the community virtues may at times bring undesirable consequences to the larger society. The Maya society stands strong by their beliefs and the ultimate honor to the power of the kingship. Although the society and environment are productive enough, biasness and the people's cult is the major destroyer of growth and development hence a better life standard of the people. The ultimate power from the kings holds a Continue reading...

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Similarities between Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave
Introduction
Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing” and Solomon Northrup, “Twelve Years a Slave” are two memoirs with similar themes that encompassed their societies. These literally works depicts many life stories in which thematic concerns of religion, racism, chauvinism, education, poverty and seclusion carry an American dream. One quickly notices that they both relate in the way they pass out their different themes especially the theme of religion in this case. Religion is the main concern in Continue reading...

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Lumbini is a garden which is the birthplace of the Buddha known as Siddharta Gautama. Siddharta Gautama is the founder of Buddhism. He was born in the sixth or seventh century BC. This garden became a site of pilgrimage up until the 15th century. This site is only visited by a person of great devotion. In the year 246 BC, Emperor Ashoka, a Buddhist convert, visited Lumbini and ordered the creation of a stone pillar and four stupas. Today, Lumbini is visited by pilgrims from all over the world seeking enlightenment and as a tourist attraction. The site is Continue reading...

The Mayan apocalyptic predictions of 2012 have long since passed, and civilization has essentially moved on from its portents of doom and gloom. However, with Gregg Braden’s Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, elements of self-help spiritualism and pseudo-math are combined to create a work of New Age spiritualism that, while certainly illuminating to the converted, will not successfully convince those looking for philosophies to the universe that require greater rigor. Looking at the book through an air of skepticism, Fractal Time fails to convince, poorly using its own research and loosely connecting Continue reading...

In the article “Dawn of a New Stone Age in Eye Surgery” author Payson Sheets aims at explaining the progress achieved by archaeologists in the quest to study the ancient health. The author believes that, in such studies, these scientists are able to discover a new knowledge or idea, which may be helpful especially in future aspirations. Sheet acknowledges the fact that the presence of both luck and logical inquisitiveness has enabled these experts to come with new or advanced discoveries concerning cultural changes. This implies that material culture has managed to change subsequent to borrowing as well as Continue reading...

Images constantly surround us in our everyday lives. Our eyes and brains are so saturated with visual information that we sometimes do not notice the power/influence images hold over us. Images/objects/monuments did not materialize out of thin air! They were created within particular cultures/societies and mirrored these societies’ concerns. Thus, almost all changes and/or developments in style and iconography reflect changes within a society political, social, religious. In looking at all the arts, in the world from the ancient times to the modern world it is clear that they have all portrayed something of importance at that time. Some Continue reading...

Maya Angelou’s recurring line “sings of freedom” tells of how much she wanted to set herself free from the situation she was put into at a very young age. The book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a memoir that talks about Maya Angelou’s tumultuous but sobering experiences in life, told in a straightforward manner without any filter. From an adult person’s point of view, her experience was difficult to bear. She and her brother had to deal with their parents’ divorce, then be shuffled back and forth from her grandmother to her mother, Continue reading...

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman is one of the most notable poetic pieces by Maya Angelou that celebrates womanhood and femininity highlighting the qualities necessary for a woman to be termed as phenomenal. In my opinion, Maya Angelou uses the poem to espouse her belief in inner beauty as the key behind what makes a woman be dubbed as phenomenal (Cullum 27). Her poem takes a critical stance at the biased perceptions bestowed on women by the society regarding what beauty is. I believe her work is based on the contemporary’s society obsession with thinness and a pretty face as the Continue reading...

Poems are literary forms that use rhythmic and aesthetic qualities of languages. They often use ambiguity, irony symbolism among other stylistic devices which leave the poem to numerous interpretations. Some poems may be specific to particular cultures, religions or genres. This paper intends to analyze Maya Angelou’s poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. The paper shall also highlight the themes addressed in the poems, use of symbolism, and the message of the poem.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography of Maya Angelou that he uses to explore various themes of racism, rape, Continue reading...

The temple is 66 feet or 26 meters. The structure was inaugurated about 9.12.0.0.0 (672 A .D.) and it was complete 9.12.10.0.0 (682 A .D.). The rooftop formerly had a roof comb. 5 Doors lead into the structure. The four docks in the mid have the remainingss from wedged figures. One can perceive Adults that carry a kid. This kid has six toes. One of the limbs appears like a serpent. From this object we know this kid have characteristics commencing from God K´awiil.
No stele is present at Palenque; its past is carved on boards constructed into Continue reading...

The Downfall of the Mayan Civilization: Attempting to solve a riddle

Introduction
Human history has been haunted with one particular question: Why did the Mayan civilization, one of the most powerful empires in the world, with a population of more than 190 million individuals, mysteriously disappear between the 8th and 9th centuries? Though the descendants of the Mayans can still be found across the Central American region, a significant number of urban region in the Yucatan region were transformed from vibrant and strong cities to deserted rubble-strewn areas over a period of 100 years.
Experts and ordinary individuals have offered numerous postulates for the down spiral that buffeted the once Continue reading...

Poetry Comparison – ““Million Man March” by Maya Angelou and “A Farewell to False Love”

Maya Angelou is a 20th century poet who was born in 1928 in the USA, and Sir Walter Raleigh, born in 1552 in England both wrote two poems which are significantly different yet similar in many respects. Maya Angelou speaks strongly about the oppression of a race because the color of their skin makes them from others. It ends on a note of forgetting and forgiving past hurts and to love. Sir Walter Raleigh wishes to forget or to say farewell to the poisonous wrong that was done. He wants to forget that love ever existed. Both poems though Continue reading...

MAYAN ARCHITECTURE: PRE-CLASSICAL PERIOD TO THE FALL

- Introduction
The Maya people were a people who flourished in Meso-America-- notably the Yucatan peninsula-- prior to the arrival of the conquistadors from Europe. The Mayan people were already in decline when the Europeans arrived, but the European invasion of the Meso-Americas was very devastating for what remained of Mayan culture. As a result of this devastation, the art and architecture of the high classical Maya was lost for a number of years; it was swallowed up by the jungle, only to be later reclaimed and studied extensively.
The Maya are often a source of fascination, as the Continue reading...

ROMAN AND MAYAN NUMERATION

Roman numerals were devised by the Roman people to enable counting and perform simple arithmetic calculations in daily life. They used letters to symbolize numbers. With the combination of those letters, any number can be formed.
They are an additive number system. The intermediate values of the numbers are achieved by adding the splitting the given number in terms of the numbers in above table and representing them with alphabets.
Eg.36.
36 can be split as 10+10+10+5+1

So, having the table as reference, it is written as XXXVI.

Similarly, a number 675 can be split as 500+100+50+10+10+5
But the system was Continue reading...

Hindus consider the Vedic texts as sacred. Adi Shankra is a 9th century Hindu mystic and commentary of the Vedic texts that explain the philosophical view of Advaita Vedanta. Different authors debate on Shankara's intent of writing concerning Oneness of Brahman and Atman and the interconnection between them. The main discussion in this essay is to explicate and qualify the truth based on Shankara’s writings. The paper will investigate whether Shankara exaggerates delusional nature of the external world as well as how one comes to know the connection between Atman and Brahman.
According to Shankara, direct experience is Continue reading...

Zero Dark Thirty is absolute thrill-ride starting from the very first shot of the movie till the last shot. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Noel are one of the very few genuine creators in the cinema industry. Hurt Locker was a masterpiece. The amount of research and authenticity that the visionary director dedicated in the creation of this visual ecstasy is unbelievable. The writing of Mark Noel is crisp and flawless. The originality and the depth of the screenplay, story and acting is amazing. The facts and figures are mind-blowing. The skeleton of the movie is comprehension on some basic Continue reading...

Movie Review: Maya Lin

Maya Lin is an award winning film that explores the artistic work of Lin—a renowned designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The documentary focuses on her other works that have considerably impacted on the community’s social and political aspects. The archived resources such as old clips, interviews and modern footages are used to explain how Lin’s artistic work developed to be an important tool for activism, confront and healing. Lin from her viewpoint explains the implication of her work and attempts to explain to the audience the criteria and motivation behind developing her design and structures.

How Maya Lin’s Design can be Considered Courageous

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Introduction

Mexico is among the world’s top ten tourist destinations. The country is recognized for its ancient relics and beach resorts worldwide. The country’s varied cities, climate, and landscape provide the tourists with a broad range of travel experiences. Tourism Mexico divides the country into six main tourist areas including Central Mexico, Baja Peninsula, Pacific Coast, Southern Mexico and Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, and Northern Mexico. Nonetheless, the tourism industry in Mexico has of late experienced some highly publicized disasters and violent events, which have essentially called into question that it is secure to visit this nation. Continue reading...

Mystery of the Maya civilization

Maya civilization is considered as a mysterious civilization that existed in ancient time. However, the mystery of the Maya is still not undiscovered as no one is sure about the Mayans, their method of living and the the exact reason of the rapid collapse of the Maya civilization. It is believed that the Maya civilization started on 12th August, 3113 B.C., but the archeologists believed that the Maya civilization came into being in 3000 B.C. The Maya civilization, however, disappeared mysteriously in 800 A.D. – 925 A.D. The Mayans lived majorly in the areas, which are now known as Northern Continue reading...

INTELLIGENCE TEST

Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is an intelligent person. Due to the nature of the works that she has done over the years such as award winning poem collections like “I know why the caged birds sing” she portrays that she has the intelligence. The psychometric approach to someone's intelligence is the rank that someone gets on an aptitude test. An aptitude test shows someone's ability to acquire knowledge or skills in the near future. This is not to be confused with achievement test that test skills and knowledge that someone already possesses. On consideration of Maya Angelou achievements, she Continue reading...

The Popol Vuh is the Mayan story of creation. The Mayans believe that Hero Twins Xbalanqué and Hunahpú created them. It provides a narrative that accounts for the creation of all living beings in the world. Like the biblical creation story, Animals were first related, and then human beings. While the Popol Vuh is interesting for it’s insight into the ancient Mayan people, it is also interesting in it’s context of other mythical stories which emerged from other cultures after they had grown to the size of a full-blown civilization. One of the most important stories of Continue reading...

Mystery of the Mayan people

Introduction
Among the most indigenous societies of Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America) was the Mayan people. It is believed that the earliest Mayan settlement took place around 1800bc. They settled within the expansive Central American geographical blocks but in three separate areas. These included the Southern lowlands in Pete’s district of northern Guatemala, Western Honduras and the northern lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula (Demarest, 2002). The Maya were majorly agriculturist who grew crops such as beans, squash, maize and cassava. In addition to farming, they displayed intriguing cultural traits. The Mayans are famous for their unique works of Continue reading...

Zero Dark Thirty is absolute thrill-ride starting from the very first shot of the movie till the last shot. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Noel are one of the very few genuine creators in the cinema industry. Hurt Locker was a masterpiece. The amount of research and authenticity that the visionary director dedicated in the creation of this visual ecstasy is unbelievable. The writing of Mark Noel is crisp and flawless. The originality and the depth of the screenplay, story and acting is amazing. The facts and figures are mind-blowing. The skeleton of the movie is comprehension on some basic Continue reading...

Between 1500 and 500 B.C, San Jose Mogote city in the modern day state of Oaxaca was the most important and largest settlement in the region. Oaxaca was inhabited by more tan sixteen subcultures during the pre-colonial period. Each of these subcultures had its customs, language and traditions. However, the Mixtecs and the Zapotecs were the majority and the most sophisticated. The Zapotecs were highly skilled in excavation and astronomy. The Mayan people lived in the tropical lowlands of the modern day Guatemala. The Mayan culture reached the peak of its power and influence around sixth century A.D. The Continue reading...

Introduction

Beginning with stone tools to the current high-tech communication devices, human beings have made countless innovations throughout history. The people who lived during the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods invented many things. This paper presents a discussion of the course readings on the Paleolithic people during the Ice Age, the early Neolithic farming methods, and the society during the New World era.

Part 1

The people of the Upper Paleolithic period formed the first part of the discussion in part one of the course. The period began about 2 million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. This period is Continue reading...

Basketmaker II And Maya

Introduction
The culture of Southern America and Mexico are highly reliant on the previous existence of various indigenous societies. Some of the most common communities that existed in the region are the Basketmaker II and Mayan. Each of the two groups of people is unique in the practices it executed in its activities.

QUESTION ONE

Introduction
These people are mainly known to have originated from the New Mexico. They were mainly involved I weaving activities that saw them command exclusive respect in the region. The group of people existed between 1500 BC and 500 AD. Also, the people engaged in extensive Continue reading...

Part, one of these essays the focus of my learning discusses the Basketmaker II peoples living in the northern Southwestern United States in what is now the Arizona and Utah connecting borders. In the lecture series presented, number one of this online course, the information discussed how this band of people living around 600 B.C.E. or 2600 years ago came to the area through migration north from Mexico. Their lives as outlined in the lecture, the PDF about Unit 9 of the course, as well as the unit chapter on “The Story of Maize” explained how living in the Continue reading...

Maya Angelou died at the age of 86 on May 28, this year. She left the world with her powerful words that can liberate a person’s mind and soul; words that can agitate people from different race around the globe to act for social change. One of her famous quotations is “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated”. She was the first African-American woman to speak of equality, change, and of freedom through her writings like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, I Shall Not Be Moved and many other books, poems, essays Continue reading...

OUTLINE

THESIS: They have therefore stood the test of time to protect their identity.
- INTRODUCTION
- Greetings
- Elaborating who the Chicano are.
- Physical location
- Relationship between Chicano and Mexico.
- BODY
- Conquest of the United States on the northern half of Mexico
- Civil rights movement
- Call for respect for Chicano and everyone else
- POLITICAL AND SOCIETAL MILESTONES REACHED
- Social acceptance led to immigration of Mexicans
- Integration of the church in their daily activities
- Catholic, Protestant and Mayan inclination
- CONCLUSION

Chicana/o Experience in the Local and Global Society

Good morning to you, I know many of Continue reading...

Guatemala

The name Guatemala, signifies "land of forests," was based on one of the Mayan dialects spoken by the native people during the Spanish subjection in 1523. It is employed these days by outsiders as well as by the majority of residents. This paper will analyze the culture, people, food, traditions and rituals of the famous Latin American country “Guatemala”; by considering different stories, recipes, and poems that are reflecting the traditional settings of the Guatemala’s Culture.
In Central America; people are mainly identified by their nicknames, but that is occasionally employed by other people, just like the term " Continue reading...

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The Mayan civilization existed for over 1500 years, with the date of their habitation into the areas presently recognized as Mayan being from around 2600 BC to 1800 BC. During this time, they enjoyed great prosperity owing to their proficiency in science and mathematics. Several aspects of the Mayans developed during this period, of note being the art and architecture they managed to create and leave behind as evidence of their civilization. In their ability to create glorious architectural works, great cities developed by the Mayans include the Caracal in present day Belize. The city was developed and Continue reading...

There are many reasons that artists choose to create art, but one of the many reasons that they choose to do so is to encourage the persistence of cultural or personal memories. While not all artists paint, sculpt, or recreate memories from their pasts, many artists do use elements of memory and memories from their past to create works of art that memorialize and speak to the past. This may be a personal history, or it could be a cultural or global history-- many of the works of art created after the first World War, for instance, are concerned Continue reading...

WATER SUPPLIES IN GUATEMALA

I am going to carry out a project on water supplies in Guatemala. In my project, I will come up with strategies that will help in restoring clean water for these people. For effective results, it’s important to come up with ways that will help in crossing the barriers of language, culture, distrust, and fear so as to establish a healthy rapport with the community on study.
What is water? I will start my project by defining this term. Water is, from academic definition, a gist that is colorless, tasteless and unscented. Through research, Fresh water is depicted Continue reading...