Music has been my salvation; reggae music is my mainstay because the lyrics are like a sermon. Reggae is about life and the world around you. Listen to any Bob Marley record and you will hear what I speak of. In high school I listened to heavy metal which as a black teen is very rare but I was in the environment and so adapted. What is interesting is that, what I heard in heavy metal was nothing more that the blues that had been amplified and I called it amplified blues. My thought was…
a strange individual that isn’t worth your time to stop and say hello. Well I sat down with this man, Quinn Zinkievich, and talked about who he is. Though only 21-years-old, Quinn has traveled the world visiting nine different countries including Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, China, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. He has traveled out of curiosity, vacation, and even for job opportunities. My sit down with Quinn showed me that one shouldn’t judge off appearance,…
treason, kidnapping, murder. Capital punishment was common in the past, now a days the large majority discontinued the process. There are fifty eight countries that maintain this law, In North America United States and in south america Guatemala, Belize, Guyana, The Caribbean (except Dominican Republic and Haiti). Capital Punishment should be legal in our society because it works as a deterrents, reducing crimes by other people and helping overcrowding problems. Nevertheless there are so many…
Mark Dion is an artist who utilizes art to raise awareness of important social topics such as environmentalism, ecology and ideas about nature. His role in the art world is essential to bringing people from the art community to the effort of global conservation of animals and nature. Dion grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, without any immediate access to any professional art. Finally, at the age of eighteen he was able to experience his first art exhibit. In 1985, he had finally left his…
Plog’s Framework for categorizing tourists was developed in the U.S. Some researchers have questioned in other cultural contexts. Talk to your friends and colleagues about their motives for travelling. Draw up your own conclusions about Plog’s framework. When a destination is visited by large numbers of tourists, it has reached a critical phase in this cycle; to avoid decline, destinations must understand that tourism growth must be planned and controlled. There are five different traveller…
It is here that I learned how privileged I am to live in the USA and how fun it is to Cave jump. Our tour guide was native and he only made three dollars an hour trying to support his family. The next day we went to Belize where we went cave tubing through a 10,000 year old cave. Then on the twenty-sixth we went to Mahogany Bay, Roatan. It is there that we met Roberta S. Jacobson, the ambassador of Mexico. I also got to witness a wild monkey come right up to my mom's…
Stelae have been found throughout the Maya area in every major preclassic Maya settlement. Various other permanent carving were also starting to be produced in other parts of the Maya region. A stucco mask tradition had formed in the lowlands of Belize and Peten with masks flanking the stairways of their temples. During the Late Preclassic period elaborately carved monumental architecture becomes more common. The earliest corbelled vaults (false arches) were being carved within enclosed…
Nearly 15 years ago, I was in the first grade being asked to draw the person I imagined myself to be when I grew up. My picture portrayed me and several different types of animals at a veterinary clinic with the explanation stating, “When I grow up, I want to be a vet because I want to help animals.” I grew up an only-child and was devoted to all types of animals as if they were part of my family. For as long as I can remember I have wanted to be a vet. As a child, I would pretend to do…
Having found piano as an escape to expressing and strengthening his persona, Sebastian Byrdez, 9 plays every day and has been playing for five years. “When I was little I first started playing piano with a little red and blue piano that only had like 20 keys so later on my dad saw me playing it and instead bought me an 11 hundred dollar piano that I have been playing ever since. My dad thought it would be a good investment so now I have two pianos. Today I will play every day, sometimes for…
He is known for The Thinning , Space Between Us and Logan Paul Vs.At first, Logan garnered much of his popularity through the smartphone app Vine.Shortly after that, Logan went on a tour, traveling to London, Spain, Germany, China, Japan, Brazil, Belize and France to record himself doing the splits at designated locations.…