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    Maya Civilization

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    Introduction Maya civilization is an ancient American culture. It’s one of the most developed civilizations in the western hemisphere before the arrival of Europeans. People called the Maya lived in Mexico‚ Guatemala‚ Belize‚ El Salvador and Honduras. Those people built massive stone pyramids‚ temples‚ and sculpture; developed a system of writing using hieroglyphs; and recorded their achievements in mathematics and astronomy. Most archeologists said that the Maya culture attained its highest level

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    Maya Angelou's Graduation

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    story ‘Graduation”…Maya Angelou‚ a famous American author and poet‚ tells the story of her graduation. In this story she tells paints three very vivid parts of that memorable day‚ the morning when she woke up‚ the actual ceremony‚ and the celebration afterwards. In this essay I am going to compare her memory with memories of my own graduation day. The sounds feeling and emotions that arouse during one of her most memorable moments in her life. On the morning of her graduation‚ Maya was welcomed by

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    The Poor

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    The Poor Poverty is everywhere in the world. Not everyone knows that there are people that are poor right in their own back yard. The new Pope Francis is very big on helping the poor he has gave a lot of speeches about the subject. In the world there is around 1.29 billion people living in poverty‚ in the U.S.A there is around 46.5 million homeless‚ and around 6% of the people that live in Sidney Ohio are unemployed. To end poverty in the world would be great. It would take the whole world

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    Egypt And Maya

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    and Maya The rise of human civilizations did not occur in one place‚ but rather it happened in various locations throughout the world in various time eras. All civilizations have its own characteristics and life span according to their environment such as the geographic location‚ the weather or natural resources. Some civilizations‚ such as the ancient Egypt‚ developed and kept on growing‚ and the historic records still exist in present days‚ while some civilizations like the ancient Maya just

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    The Maya Civilization

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    The Maya civilization was developed by the Mayan people and was a Mesoamerican civilization. Maya Civilization resided in a large territory that included covering southeastern Mexico‚ northern Central America and all of the Yucatan Peninsula. Most of the area is covered in vast plains with few mountains and a low coastline. The Mayans were agriculture and worked on city construction‚ stone monuments‚ and building pyramids. They cultivated chili peppers‚ beans‚ sunflower sees‚ squashes‚ cacao‚ vanilla

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    Maya Angelou’s The Graduation Throughout life we go through many stepping stones‚ Maya Angelou’s autobiographical essay "Graduation"‚ was about more than just moving on to another grade. The unexpected events that occurred during the ceremony enabled her to graduate from the views of a child to the more experienced and sometimes disenchanting views of an adult. Upon reading the story there is an initial feeling of excitement and hope which was quickly tarnished with the awareness of human prejudices

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    The Maya Calendar

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    The artifact I chose from the museum is the Maya calendar. It’s a big brown circle figured stone with 2 layers; each one contains symbols with a different meaning each. It was used dating back to at least the 6th century BC by the Mayas‚ in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica‚ and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands. The Maya Calendar was made through the knowledge of ancient civilizations and it was carved and improved by the Mayas. It has a diameter of 3.54 meters and weighs 24 tons. They

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    Maya Collapse

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    stated in “Maya civilization” (n.d)‚ the Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization which is not only notably well-known for its written language system but also being famous for many achievements in art‚ architecture‚ mathematics and astronomy. Although the Maya civilization lasted for a long period of time from the Pre-classic period to the Post-classic period until now‚ its prosperous time happened during the Classic period which thereafter seen the mystical collapse of Maya empire ( Maya civilization

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    The Ancient Maya

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    The Maya of Mesoamerica‚ along with the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru‚ made up the high civilizations of the American Indians at the time of the Spanish conquest. Both the Aztecs and the Incas were late civilizations‚ between 1300-1533 AD‚ but the Maya of the Yucatan and Guatemala exhibited a cultural continuity spanning more than 2‚000 years‚ 1000 BC-AD 1542. Many aspects of this culture continue yet today. The Ancient Maya in their time had actually refined writing

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    Maya and Aztec

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    ideologies‚ which were to form the symbolic foundation of ancient Mesoamerican civilization (Fagan). The most well-known of civilizations of this region were the Mayas and the Aztecs. What is fascinating about these two societies is that‚ despite their relative proximity in time and space‚ they were quite distinct from one another. The ancient Maya created one of the most surprising civilizations of pre-Columbian America: it arose‚ flourished‚ and vanished in a little under a thousand years in the unprepossessing

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