Seashell

The evidence of this trade is based off of the fact that in the common Mayan households all held “obsidian in the form of prismatic blades, macro blades and scrapers, jade axes, polychrome ceramics, seashells, presumably salt, and hematite pigment cylinders” (Sheets 2000:219) that have not been as widely accessible to Mayan commoners throughout Mayan sites in Mesoamerica. Jade is both quite rare and culturally significant because it suggests “long-distance…

would bring food into the city’s to trade and also people traded beads, pots, pans and other goods. Much of the merchandise was brought to other cities to trade and people also traded gold, silver and colored gems such as turquoise and lapis. And seashells and pearls to make necklaces these Items were the kind of things the people traded these products were traded in the city. (BBC) Money The people of Indus Indus valley people traded their belongings in order to get things. The Harappans had…

Anchises. Her children are Eros, Phobos, Deimos, Harmonia, Pothos, Anteros, Himeros, Hermaphroditos, Rhode, Eryx, Peitho, Eunomia, The Graces, Priapus, Aeneas and Tyche. Some of the many symbols that represent Aphrodite is the scallop shell and seashells, mirrors, and golden apples. The goddess was also known to have had a magical girdle (which is a belt or…

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist, Guy Montag resides in America, however a futuristic dystopian version of it differs from America today. In this alternate culture, the possession of books are prohibited and the lives of people are limited due to the restrictions made by the government. The government manipulates the society into believing firemen have the ability to start fires in preference of burning them out. Firemen have orders to invade people’s homes and burn…

What is “It”? Creeping down the stairs at seven in the morning, quietly unlocking the door that leads onto the back porch, I get up to take in the sun rising over the ocean, watching it rise for the first and last time of the day. Draped around me like armor is my blanket, and clutched tightly in hand is my shield, which is the novel that I am currently reading. I sit on the porch for an hour, before I hear my friend stumbling down the stairs still trying to wipe away the sleep still in her…

Lord of the flies is a dangerous novel. This classic novel reveals a lot about us and our humanity, it shows the different levels of our race and separates the lower structure “littleuns” to those who hold power “biguns” it’s all just a level of power and whom are in power have control over those who are just “ordinary” standby human beings.The movie JFK, is also a dare you to think beyond what you are told movie. Both of these literary works, depict the struggles between the classes.…

advantage of the ban the people put on books and twists what was supposed to be a good thing to their advantage. They corrupt the way the people think and cause them to stop thinking for themselves. The people, like Millie Montag, think according to the seashells in their ears and the parlor families on TV – the government uses these forms of technology to essentially brainwash people and make everyone identical in thought. Everyone, but the few ‘intellectual’ beings, believe everything is going…

As people arrived to America from Europe, the new settlers discovered that there were people already living on the land that they found. Native Americans were on this land long before the Europeans arrived. To themselves, The Native Americans are ingenious, witty, cunning, and deceitful, but to the Europeans they were seen as privately dishonest and mischievous. These Native American tribes differed from the European people in many ways. Native Americans had their own culture, appearance, and…

Quinn and Aerwyna exited the tent as they saw many girls running around in panic. "Why is everyone so frantic?" Quinn asked. Aerwyna laughed, "We may pledge to reject men, but we want to look good for a hottie like Apollo." "A 'hottie' like Apollo?" Aerwyna instantly turned bright red. "Not my own words!" Quinn chuckled, but stopped herself. Don't get too attached, Quinn, your stay is temporary. She just needed to figure it out. It was not going to be easy. At least Quinn didn't think so.…

that claimed to have the largest steak in Texas. We’re natural tourists. All things campy, tacky, and over priced, our family has picked up as souvenirs. Acleptic items were always the first to come out of the suitcase raving home. Singing santas, seashells with googly eyes pasted on, anything and everything my grandmother would threaten to throw away upon seeing it. I took up my mother’s habits of nervously hoarded emergency band-AIDS, and those that read California in a curly font, were all…