...Duncan Tonatiuh is a Mexican-American author, who has written many children books such as Dear Primo, Separate Is Never Equal, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote and Diego Rivera. His work is mostly influenced by Pre-Columbian art, specifically that of Mixtec codex. He is inspired by the culture and artwork of Mixtec and other Mexican cultures. In his work, he talks about complex topics such as social justice, history of Latinos and Americans, art and immigration. He was born in Mexico and was raised in San Miguel De Allende. Later, he moved to New York as a teenager. He graduated high school from the state of Massachusetts and got his bachelors from Manhattan, New York. In the lecture, Duncan Tonatiuh talked about his most prominent work and shared...
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...Ours is a growing and wonderful community. With growth, however, come greater challenges and even greater opportunities. Our community consists of many people from many different cultures and with growth it will become even more diverse. We have all seen tragedies unfold in schools across the country and as made evident by the necessity of our bullying policy, the issues of ignorance and intolerance are also alive and well here at home. This is why we must address issues surrounding cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is simply the blending of different cultures – people with different backgrounds, routines, looks, beliefs, styles of dress all coming together to form a community. The challenge is do we continue to stick our head in the sand and hope that our children will not fear, bully our outcast those who are different than them? Do we hope that consequences will alleviate bullying? Or do we take a proactive stance by educating them on their differences and teaching them that diversity is a positive thing? I know, as parents, that we don’t want our children put in the position we’ve seen played out so many times on the news. They can be taught that our society can and should be viewed as a body. Each part is different and cannot be compared to another, but also cannot exist in a full or healthy manner without the other. We need to learn and teach our children, even learn with them, to celebrate the differences in others. Encourage them to be curious about worlds...
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...In addition to the prosperity, the gods would bless the people with good harvests and plenty of rainfall. Without the sacrifice, there would not be as much rainfall and then subsequently that would lead to a bad harvest. The indigenous people depended on the harvest for the majority of their food. So, if there was no harvest, then they would die. In terms of the Aztec people, they would sacrifice to their god, Tonatiuh. They would sacrifice blood and hearts to Tonatiuh to “fortify him and ensure that he had enough strength to continue his celestial movement” (Andrews 207). That means that they had to sacrifice the blood and hearts to the god so that he has enough strength to stay alive. The death of the people that they sacrificed gave life to the sun, which in turn, gave to life to everyone else on the planet. All in all, the death of the people, gives life to the sun. When the life is given to the sun, it is able to keep moving in the sky and stay alive, so that gives life to everything on the planet. So, death leading to life in Mesoamerican culture is essential because without the death and sacrifice, the sun dies, leaving everything else dead as...
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...Most commonly, and incorrectly, known as the Aztec Calendar, this massive relief carved rock is filled with mystery, mysticism, confusion, and most of all: misunderstandings. The Aztec are identified by their strong ties to astronomy, order, and fantastic cosmogony, all which are vastly displayed in their arts, architecture, and history. That is, all which remain. Severe iconoclasm accompanied with a long history of bloody religious ceremonies have brought many to create unfounded theories of the Sun Stone, when in fact, its most basic function has been misinterpreted and overlooked. This colossal 15th century 24-ton (approx.) volcanic rock monument has worked in images of the solar disk represented as successive concentric rings, each with...
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...Language Learning ISSN 0023-8333 Attention to Form and Meaning Revisited Ronald P. Leow Georgetown University Hui-Chen Hsieh Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages Nina Moreno University of South Carolina The present study revisited the issue of simultaneous attention to form and meaning from a methodological perspective that addressed several potential methodological issues of previous research in this strand of inquiry. Seventy-two second-semester-level participants were randomly assigned to one of five experimental groups, including a control, and requested to read a Spanish text and also circle one of four targeted forms (10 occurrences each) in the input. To measure comprehension, a 10-item multiple-choice test was administered immediately after the reading. Both qualitative (think-aloud protocols) and quantitative analyses were conducted to address the following research question: Does type of attentional condition have a differential effect on adult second language reading comprehension? The quantitative analysis revealed no significant difference in comprehension among all five groups. To explicate the findings, the quantitative and qualitative data and analyses are discussed with regard to the issues of modality, depth or level of processing, and research methodology. Keywords simultaneous attention; levels of processing; form vs. meaning; hybrid design; input processing; The Primacy of Meaning Principle; think-aloud protocols There are several theoretical...
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...Jalissa H. Professor Green History 101 INCAS The Incas became a definite group near present-day Cuzco around 1200CE. They were American Indian people. They were a small tribe in the Southern highlands of Peru. It was not until about 1400 tht they expanded and became one of the largest and morst tighly guarded empires the worl has ever known, under Pachacuti Inca. About 1532, the Spanish had arrived, at the time their empire was known as TYawantinsuyu. This is also known as the four Quarters, which spreed across the Northern Ecuador to the Central Chile, spanning some 3,500 kilometers in distance. Their skilld in governmebt matched their feat in engineering. They constructed roads, walls, irrigation system which is still being utilized in our society today. In 1532 the Spanish conquerors captured the Inca empires and it began to crumble. The Incas came out of conflicts between a number of competing communities in Southern Peru and Bolivia. It was the help of the military that caused success against the Chanca. This caused the Inca to believe they were under the protection of the sun God, Inti. Inti was known for being the emperor who was an earthly manifestation. The Incas thought they were on an all-powerful assignment to bring the civilization to those they had defeated. They inhabited some of the world’s arid dessert. Close by were the flat coastal lands and the jagged peaks of the Andes Mountain. The natives lived under the rule of one man, the emperor they called...
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...University of Phoenix Material Cosmic Myth Worksheet Choose two myths from each of the following myth categories: creation, flood, afterlife, and apocalypse. Answer the following questions for all eight myths. Creation Myths |Myth 1: In the beginning was Chaos. Then came Earth |Religion or culture of origin: | |which produced Sky. Covering Earth each night, Sky |Greek Creation | |fathered children upon her. Earth was personified as | | |Gaia/Terra and sky was Ouranos (Uranus). | | |Myth 2: |Religion or culture of origin: | |Their children included the Titan parents of most of |Greek Creation | |the Olympian gods and goddesses, as well as many other| | |creatures, including the Cyclopes, Giants, | | |Hecatonchires, Erinyes, and more. Aphrodite was the | | |offspring of Ouranos. | | ...
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...En primer lugar debemos preguntarnos qué era la religión mayas? Se caracterizaban por dioses de la naturaleza, tales como la adoración al dios de la lluvia, el sol y el maíz. Parte de sus creencias practican el ritual de la muerte maya. Los antiguos mayas creían que la vida y la muerte son cíclicos, como las estaciones y los ciclos astronómicos. Estos ciclos en espiral a través del tiempo sin principio ni fin, y cuando uno se acabaría otro comenzaría. La muerte se entrelazan estrechamente con la vida, para que ellos creían era un primer muerto, antes de que uno nació (es decir, tenía la vida). La muerte era una puerta a la vida, y la vida era una puerta a La muerte, por lo tanto rituales de la muerte y la muerte misma eran bastante importante en esta sociedad. Una parte de las creencias de los mayas era que las personas que murieron por suicidio, el sacrificio, las complicaciones del parto y en la batalla fueron pensados para ser llevados directamente al cielo. La culpa y el mal sufrido eternamente en Xibalbá, el inframundo maya. El nombre de Xibalba significa "Lugar del Miedo" o "Lugar de fantasmas". La entrada al Xibalbá se pensaba tradicionalmente como una cueva. Se describe como una ciudad o un reino que existía debajo de la superficie de la Tierra. Rituales mayas para el entierro fueron elaborados. A medida que los arqueólogos descubrieron, la persona muerta por lo general tenían una máscara mortuoria hecha de jade, que garantizaba el reconocimiento del difunto...
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