Machu Picchu

Gleason was a former football player where he played for the New Orleans Saints from 2000-2008. With the incredible support of his wife, he is able to achieve his goal of hiking 11 hours up to Machu Picchu. Steve Gleason and his wife’s strong relationship helped Steve live a meaningful life because without the support and love of his wife, he would not have accomplished and fulfilled the life he wanted to. Gleason’s achievement shows that with the…

Have you ever had the passion for creativity? Have you wanted to create movies, videos, or be a famous Youtuber? In an advertisement produced by Samsung titled “The Rest of Us,” Samsung highlights the features of their new phone and products that can be used in film-making and production. In the advertisement, it uses Casey Neistat, a famous YouTuber with over six-million subscribers, to deliver a powerful monologue about creativity. He is known for being a top filmmaker on YouTube, producing…

Primary Analysis over Bartolome de Las Casas Bartolome de Las Cases is a Dominican priest who wishes to protect the Indians of the New World from the brutality afflicted on them from the Spanish. Las Cases sailed to the New World in 1502 and stayed till 1547 before returning to Spain. In this time, he saw the cruelty his nation laid upon the natives in the name of Christianity. When he came back to Spain, he took up the defense of the Indians in a series of debates from 1550-1551 and a year…

carried on throughout history with strength, which came from every empire in the Americas. The Inca roads, jewelry and skilled architecture of temples still reigns today in the South American Andes Mountains. There are large ruins, such as the Machu Picchu, that supports how the America civilization was ran. These sites were abandoned after the spanish conquest and left for archaeologists to study in the later generations. From the Maya empire, trade routes were an established way for their…

the center for trade during the sixth century. Teotihuacan declined after a few centuries, believed to be caused by an invasion or internal conflicts. A new civilization came around in 900 and dominated Central Mexico- the Toltecs, a militaristic group. Riot broke out in the civilization after a ruler called Topiltzin encouraged the worship of a change in religions. This caused the decline of the Toltec civilization. • Obsidian: the most valuable trade item in Teotihuacan; a green or black…

Video games are a notably rising form of experience and pedagogy making headway into the traditional boundaries of classroom curriculums and technical work trainings. Video games open realms to explore where players may engage in experience taking by living vicariously through their avatars; in the process, they learn through their interactions and experiences taken place in the virtual worlds explored. Video games are advantageous to adopt into educational curriculums and work settings, seeing…

Who is Stephen Anthony Edwards, and why should he be selected as a student at RIT? He stands out as a self-motivated, logical thinker, who is fascinated by probability and statistics, and exhibits innovative way of thinking? That facilitates his love for creating games. These most notable characteristics have been evident almost from birth, but have been shaped and refined through his unique life experiences. Early in life, he demonstrated a tenacity in pursuing his heart’s desires. Thus, if we…

Introduction Water is known to many as the ‘elixir of life’ and is essential to the very existence of human life on Earth (Saunders, n.d.). It is thus imperative that water is made available to humans in an acceptable quantity and quality (Mohanty, 2006) at any given time. Visually, this may seem easy enough to achieve given water is present all around us in various forms and mediums (eg. rainwater). However, the crux of this problem lies in the fact that humans can only consume freshwater. Up…

This symbol can be found in places around Peru and Bolivia, The Chakana is an icon either worn as a talisman, as jewellery, or used in architectural design on many buildings, temples, and artifacts such as on the Condor Temple in Machu Picchu. Chakay loosely translates “to cross” or “to bridge” and is derived from the ancient Incan language Quechua which is still spoken today! When the Chakana is used for meditation or for training/teaching, it is said to bring mental balance and a…

The Motorcycle Diaries is a film set in 1952 which followed 23 year-old Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (also called Fuser) who was on break before returning to his last semester of medical school and his friend Alberto Granado (nicknamed Mial) who was a 29 year-old biochemist. This film was based on the diaries of Guevara and provides an account of an 8,000 km motorcycle journey to see as much of the continent of South America in the few months before returning to complete college. The trip would…