La Venta

The human race begins roughly around 2.4 million years ago, and is disbursed throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is from the Homo ergaster, who remained in Africa, however, that evolved into Homo sapiens. Moreover, natural selection is the outcome of species who survived by adapting to global climate changes during migration process, thereby producing offspring and strengthening their kind in the evolutionary process. It was fifteen thousand years ago, an immense migration of people made…

Protecting the Youth: A Closer Look at Child Marriage in Nepal Katrina Venta PSY 217 Professor Telk November 6, 2016 Abstract No matter the country or culture, children below a certain age are too young to make informed choices, whether about sex or marriage. One of the 16 sexual rights from the World Association for Sexual Health states that any person has “the right to enter, form, and dissolve marriage and other similar types of relationships based on equality and free consent”…

used to describe the areas these cities were located. The Olmecs are also known for the giant heads they created by carving them out of stone. The Olmecs had two main civilizations named San Lorenzo, which flourished from 1200 B.C to 900 B.C., and La Venta, which lasted until 600 B.C. The Mayans, who also were settled in Mexico, prospered between 250 threw 900 A.D. They are well known for constructing the calendar and a number system. It is considered to be the most advanced ancient…

name of Molefi K. Asante stated: The Olmec civilization of Mexico, the first complex culture of the Americas, is thought to have been influenced by the classical African civilizations of Ethiopia, Kemet, and Meroe […] the civilization shifted to La Venta, where huge African heads of basalt have been found. Weighing several tons and resembling the faces and hairstyles of Africans of the same period of time […] Olmec civilization was the first civilization established by Africans outside of the…

being hunted, which plays out a type of human-animal warfare; a god of hunting is found in the second quadrant. It is possible that animals were also sacrificed, as various objects have been found with bones as part of sacrificial offerings (see La Venta Offering 4), some of which are depicted as personified in the Borgia, such as flints. The human-animal corollary is most obvious in this deer being rendered with a visible penis. Again, this hints at the ubiquity of seeing the world and its…

We live in a time where significant change has been made through the use of technology. No area of life has been unaffected, pregnancy included. Ever since Ian Donald used sonar to see a fetus inside of the womb in the 1950s, ultrasound technology has been utilized to examine the development of fetuses (Tropp 2013, 19). When it became apparent that there was a high demand for visual imaging technologies in pregnancy the ultrasound began to emerge as a routine practice to monitor pregnancy. With…