Music of Guatemala

The greatest achievement of the Maya in opinion is mathematics and the concept of zero. Why I think this is because we have used math forever and we use math for almost everything in our life, another reason is because without math we wouldn't have many things that we have today. The Mayans mathematical system looked something like, being zero and being one and on. They mostly used math for architecture and time. For architecture they used math for temples and pyramids and how many steps were…

Some people believe that the world was created in 3114 BC. There are Mayans that are known for currently living in America. The earliest Maya settlements involve the Preclassic or Formative Period. The Late Preclassic City of Mirador involves the pre-Columbian Americas. The Maya civilizations involved different foundations. Maya achievements involve mathematics and astronomy. According to Lewis, “it should by now be clear that we are facing a mood and a movement in Islam far transcending the…

Rush Evans ANT 324L Dr. Runggaldier 5 May 2015 Modern Political Economics and Maize Culture in Guatemala Maize in its domestic form is believed to have been born in Mexico and introduced to Guatemala at least 4,000 years ago (FAO). After its introduction, it became an integral part of ancient Maya society and daily life (FAO). In fact, it was so crucial to the ancient Maya, that the Popol Vuh maintains that maize was decided by the gods to be what people were made of (FAO). Moreover, even many…

In the documentary Cracking the Maya Code, we follow the process of how the glyphs were deciphered by a team of archaeologists, artists, adventurers, and linguistists. The reason why nobody could understand the glyphs stemmed in the 16th century when the Spanish Inquisition came to the “New World”. Diego De Landa played a major role in the destruction of the Maya code, his mission was to convert the Mayan to Catholicism. However, he saw them as “devil worshipers” as they believe in making…

William Blake’s ‘London’ and Charles Martin’s ‘Easter Sunday’ are two pieces of poetry that reflect opposing perspectives of power. ‘London’ is sharp and seminal text that has been written in order to draw the reader’s attention to the persona’s observations and encounters of the conditions of London and the communal experience of its residents. The poem is a damning condemnation of a very corrupted society dominated by the power of materialism and the hypocritical paradigm that legitimates such…

everyone in our country lives like this. I knew there were people that were starving, homeless, abused, or ignored; what I did not know was how many. I had never been out of the country until last December. My family decided to take a trip to Guatemala. It was going to be a humanitarian trip before our guide cancelled on us, so we ended up going to tour the major sites and to see some of the villages. The flight landed early in the morning and…

ESL teacher. That was never the plan. But Guatemala changed me in ways that are indescribable. It was there that I found that teaching English as a Second Language is my passion. I am now starting on the journey of becoming a degree certified ESL teacher. I dream of continuing to teach ESL abroad and in the United States. First I fell in love with Guatemala, then I fell in love with Javier. I had decided before I met Javier that I wanted to stay in Guatemala. I loved everything about it. The…

that would have aided them in their architecture, but yet amazing detailed structures still stands today that tells the many stories of the past lives of these ancient people. They built their land and occupied a region that today we know it as Guatemala or southern Mexico and…

emphasis of Parisian style architecture, monumental buildings, parks and promenade that created public consciousness of high culture and science, otherwise known as civilization. A similar choice of modern model, is apparent in Guatemala to create public consciousness. Guatemala City, at least for public health physicians and other members of the Guatemalan elite, in the twentieth…

Spanish. Mexican and Guatemalan Spanish ultimately are very much similar because it is spanish except some conversational phrases and terminology are different. This difference is due to the history of the two cultures which some are unaware of; Guatemala denotes influences from the early Mayan civilization and Mexico denotes influences from the early Aztec civilization.…