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originally coming from Asia across the Bering Sea and Alaska to the Americas and the Yucatan peninsula during the last ice age, the Mayan Indians are an indigenous group of culturally diverse people. The ancient Mayans lived in present-day southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and western El Salvador having a population of eight million at the Pre-Columbian period, and at the Twenty-first century, it has been estimated to be over six million making the Mayans the largest indigenous group…

“Agriculture Needs More Women” by Sonia Faruqi, is an article published by The Atlantic on September 25, 2013. This article expresses the agriculture industries dire need of women for gender based equality and their capability to empathize animals. Faruqi persuades and informs women with factual compliments about their ability to ultimately improve agriculture. Relatable and easily understood, while using all three appeals of rhetoric, Faruqi’s message is efficiently conveyed. Faruqi establishes…

Cuba has been banned from trading with the United States for over half a century ago. This economic embargo has devastated Cuba, beginning since the early 1960’s. Several United States presidents have had different takes on the matter, some loosening the embargo whilst some making it more restricting. However, 55 years after, President Barack Obama has released an official statement, noting that, the US will normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. It is therefore necessary to consider the…

Mayan Civilizations The Mayan civilization had great historical significance, it was one of the most advanced and innovative civilizations in our world 's history.they were a civilization that thrived for many years and during that time made progress in numerous areas “The Mayan ruins testify to a civilization which was more sophisticated than its contemporaries in the West. The Mayans are the 'Greeks of the New World, ' …They also reveal their advanced knowledge in mathematics, the biological…

Everyday I come across a pregnant woman or even teens. Transitioning from Belize to America, two different environments, where the rules are totally different took a little while to get use to. I find out that you could be pregnant and still be able to go to school in America, this was surprising because, if that happened at my old school the person would be expelled. Things I see around my environment I tend to question but just I silently observe. It is most commonly that there is only one…

that “the elimination of sharks resulted in the destruction of the shellfish industry in waters off the mid-Atlantic states of the United States, due to the unchecked population growth of cow-nose rays, whose mainstay is scallops. Other studies in Belize have shown reef systems falling into extreme decline when the sharks have been overfished, destroying an entire ecosystem. The downstream effects are frightening: the spike in grouper population (thanks to the elimination of sharks) resulted in…

One of the most dominant indigenous societies in Mesoamerica includes the Maya civilization. The Maya primarily inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula of modern-day Mexico and other sections of modern-day Guatemala and Mexico; they occupied the area from around 1800 BC. The Mayans dominated the area in the time period from 300 C.E. to 900 C.E., which historians consider the classical period of the Maya civilization. The Empire reached its peak—its golden age—in sixth century C.E. Nineteen million…

The ISTTC: Helping Citizens Co-Exist Globally Ritzer & Dean (2015) “Globalization has allowed the flow of people to engage in tourism and travel to far places across the world” (p. 289). Ritzer & Dean (2015) “Global tourism has increased over the years, as increasing numbers are able to use low-priced, high speed transportation to travel to remote places such as the Galapagos Islands or temples of Angkor Wat (2015). Sociologist Zigmunt Bauman (1998) suggests that while globalization may be the…

payments. However, there is a minor loophole. The court's sentence was less than two years and neither Lionel or Jorge has a criminal record. Hence, neither will go to prison. According to the prosecution, the MEssi's used tax havens in Uruguay and Belize to hid their earnings from the image rights. And of course, in typical fashion, Messi claimed to know nothing. Why do celebrities never know anything? Also like other athletes, this will not hurt Messi's football career. The 29-year-old…

government has gone through periods of political turmoil and control by single parties. Overall, the country is unique within both Latin America and the North American continent. Mexico borders the United States on its northern side and Guatemala and Belize on its southern side. It has a varied landscape of high rugged mountains and plateaus and low coastal plains and deserts, and covers about 764,000 square miles (“Mexico”). The Sierra Madre Occidental mountain…