Belize

the oldest and remarkably sophisticated civilizations that are known among archaeologists as being an advanced culture that skillful at astronomy and arts. The Mayas civilization extended to many places of what are known now Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and Mexico. They were believing that nature elements had the power to either help or harm them. In fact, all their events are related to their religion beliefs. The Ancient Mayans believed in many gods that they want to…

First contact between the Spanish and the Maya occurred in the year 1511. This was 19 years after Columbus discovered the Bahamas in 1492. The first contact between the Spanish and the Maya occurred after a shipwreck had brought the survivors to Maya shores. The written account of the shipwreck and of the events that followed are written in Bernal Díaz's, “Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de Nueva España” (in english: True History of the Conquest of New Spain).[50] Many of the details…

Guatemala has 22 departments, including its capital, each of these departments are divided in municipalities. The country is bordered by Mexico to the North West, the Pacific Ocean/Belize to the Southwest, El Salvador to the Southeast, and Honduras to the East. Guatemala is a land of “beauty” and “charm” -as many describe it- and it captives the hearts of its great visitors. Guatemala is a mountainous country of deep rivers/lakes…

Aztecs and the Maya. The Maya civilization was a highly advanced Mesoamerican civilization known for its accomplishments in architecture, mathematics, astronomy, and hieroglyphic writing. Developing primarily in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador, the Maya civilization reached a peak during the Classic…

Growing up in the in a small town in the country of Belize I was exposed to nature tremendously. I would visit the Mayan ruin “xunantunich” and just sit at the very top and admire the greenery; this very moment was the high light of my day. Many years later that Mayan ruin is the place where I can escape and be free; xunantunich is where my love for nature began. After leaving Belize I have not found a place where I find peace and my move for nature slowly die until I was introduced to Thoreau,…

Rhetorical Analysis of Apes of Wrath Barbara Smuts is a reputable psychologist and anthropologist who teaches at the University of Michigan, she is a connoisseur in the social behavior of animals such as primates. In this essay called “Apes of Wrath” which was first published in 1995, Barbara Smuts makes detailed and relevant connections between her animal observations and that from human’s social relationships. When discussing genetics, humans and primates are almost exact, in addition, Smuts…

some rocks that were in water about five feet deep and we saw some very colorful fish. It was beautiful. We also got off at Costa Maya one day and Isla Roatan, Honduras another. We were supposed to be able to get off at Belize, but the waves were so rough that we couldn’t. At Belize, you have to port a little ways away from the shore, therefore, when you get off you have to ride small tenders to the shore and when you come back, you have to ride them as well. This is why we couldn’t get off…

In the year 1828 the first whale shark was discovered by scientists. Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea, measuring lengths of up to 40 feet long. That is about the size of a bus. Even though the largest whale shark in the world was 40 feet long scientists think that the species could grow even larger than that. Whale sharks are carnivores so t hey eat meat. That means that they have an giant menu of small sea creatures to choose from. Their favorite meals to eat are plankton, krill,…

traditional medicine by Mayan people (Wynberg 2009). This bioprospecting program has upset and outraged people in Chiapas who claim that their indigenous knowledge and resources are being stolen (Wynberg 2009). People who worked and led this project took knowledge from the people of Chiapas and took plant samples with almost nothing in return (Wynberg 2009). This biopiracy and bioprospecting is something that really hurts medicinal healers in the Mayan areas, but it doesn’t stop them from…

Alberto and his family live in the world's most violent country, that is not at war, El Salvador. Alberto told the New York Times, a gang leader approached his son asking him to be a drug mule. Little did his son know, refusing the offer would turn his family’s life into a living hell. The next day a young boy's rotten corpse appeared on Alberto’s door step. The following day, Alberto received an ultimatum telling him to turn in his son to the gang or else his family would be murdered. When…