Despite lasting centuries and centuries of natural deterioration, they are being looked at as bumps in the ground that need to be flattened out for urban growth and ever expanding land for farming. Located in Adams County, Ohio on the Plateau of Serpent Mound Crater along the Bush Creek stands perhaps the greatest of all effigy mounds constructed, and still around, known as the Great Serpent Mound. Depicted in the shape of a great snake, the mound is measured at 1,300 feet long, averaging 4 ft all, and 20-25 ft in width. Serpent Mound, despite winding and coiling around, is known as the largest effigy mound ever created. Despite being an internationally famous historical sit there are many questions and uncertainty when it comes to Great Serpent Mound.
Barbara Cruz Sabra Booth ARTS 1301.047 5 December 2013 Research Paper Raul Castellanos I am doing my research paper on 'Post-Apocalyptic Fury of alcoholism and Consumerism An Altar of Martydom, Rebirth, and Process Based Art, 2012' by Raul Castellanos a Mexican Artist born in 1982. This particular piece was done with 1,000's of recycled, and donated objects, then burned down, and resurrected by a special dance and music ritual. The objects are then covered with a metallic pigments and recycled paints. I generally found this piece of art interesting but after reading about the art work itself I've come to appreciate it. Castellanos created this artwork in response to his friends battle with alcoholism.
Manuel Ceja October 21, 2010 English 105 My Trip to Mexico I was born in Mexico in 1989, and came to live to the U.S at age 3. Ever since I came to live to the U.S I had never gone back to Mexico, and I always wondered what the town I was born in would be like. At age 14 my parents, brother and I decided to take a trip, and we chose Mexico. I was excited about the trip because I always wanted to go to Mexico, and embrace my birthplace. My first visit to Mexico was the best experience I had ever had, and to this date I have never forgotten it.
Phil Knight By: Matthew Mata Career Prep- 1st period January 9, 2013 The Entrepreneur I picked to do my “Famous Entrepreneur Project” over is a man named Phil Knight. The reason I picked Phil Knight is because he created my favorite company that makes athletic attire such as shirts, jackets, shorts, socks, underwear, hats, gloves, watches, glasses, wallets, goggles, sweat pants, and my favorite shoes. I’m sure there are a lot of other things they make but those are just the ones that I buy from them. Phil Knight started when he was around twenty six years old. He was going to school for his MBA at Stanford in the early '60s, Knight took a class with Frank Shallenberger.
THE MAYA INDIANS SETTLEMENT PATTERN According to William Claypole and John Robottom, in their book ‘Caribbean Story’, at the height of their civilization, the Maya Indians occupied 324,000 square kilometers of land which included the Mexican regions of the Yucatan Peninsula, Campeche and Tobasco, as well as the territory of Belize, Guatemala and the western edge of Honduras. Robert Greenwood and Shirley Hamber in their book ‘Amerindians to Africans’ placed the first civilization of the Maya Indians at around 2000 Bc. The authors of this book also mentioned the decline of the Maya civilization after AD 900. They claim that it emerged 300 years later as a modified form of Mayan civilization. Greenwood and Hamber suggested three reasons for the decline in the Maya civilization.
The Egyptians calendar revolved around the annual flooding of the Nile river which brought rich silt to the valley, and was the beginning of the agricultural season for the Egyptians. In the Classical Maya period the Maya created a sophisticated calendar system of overlapping cycles that included multiple cycles, a two hundred and sixty day calendar, a three hundred and sixty five day calendar and a few more that I have not listed. The cycles restarted every fifty two years, which in my opinions could of lead to the inevitable collapse of the Maya. Both Egyptian and Mayan cultures were Polytheistic in their religions with rulers that represented Gods on Earth. The ancient Egyptians revolved heavily around Earth and Sun gods, which they believed controlled the vital flooding of the Nile.
Sergio hernandez Pre-Columbian civilizations The Aztec Empire was peopled by a group that was once nomadic, the Mexicas. After their long journey from Aztlán, they found themselves to be outsiders until their god Huitzilopochtli sent them a sign to build their city. Within a few years after they started to build their city, Tenochtitlan, it became one of the largest cities in the world and their power became greater. Their power became greater and stronger because they formed alliances with two other cities, they were known as the Triple Alliance. The Aztec Empire approximately ruled from 1325 to 1510 during which they depended on social structure, religion, and food to maintain their stability.
Burger (n.d.), “The term Machu that precedes Picchu means old and was used by locals to differentiate it from the small hill behind it called Huayna Picchu, which means young” (p. 5) Machu Picchu was home for royal blood, servants, farmers, and care givers when not many people were around in the winter. The Inca’s believed that they are deities. Their believe was that Wiracocha the creator and Inti the sun God told them to conquer the people from every corner of the world. On Machu Picchu there is a sacred place on the mountain where they pray to the Sun god. They call this place “Intihuatana stone.” The people believed the stones pointed directly at the sun this during the winter season, and this is why there is no shadow that is cast on any stone in this sacred place.
Xunantunich is a Classical period ceremonial site, and is thought to have been inhabited from around 300-900 AD. Sometime in 900 AD, the site was abandoned, most likely because of an earthquake. Xunantunich was the first site in Belize to be open to the public when a road and a ferry were built in 1954 to cross the Mopan River, which is located about a mile west of the Xunantunich site. When the site was opened, a small museum was built to house the original friezes located on the walls of the 130 foot El Castillo, the largest pyramid in the plaza at Xunantunich and the second largest pyramid in Mayan history-second only to the Caana pyramid at Caracol. The two friezes were taken from the original walls of the pyramid and replicas were cast and
He went to work under another sculptor hired by Lorenzo de Medici. When Michelangelo was 21, he went to Rome, where he was commissioned to carve a group of marble statues showing the Virgin Mary supporting the dead Christ on her knees. His sculpture was called Madonna Della Pieta, and it made Michelangelo famous. A few years later, in 1501, he accepted a commission for a statue of David. He took on the challenge of carving this beautiful work out of a “huge oblong chunk of pure white unflawed Carrara marble – some 18 feet high and weighing several tons – that had been badly block out and then abandoned by an earlier sculptor” (Coughlan 85).