Latin American HUM

Photo: Replica of an Olmec Colossal head from San Lorenzo, Carol Highsmith, University of  Texas at Austin.                  In this post, we are going to compare two amazing pieces of information about the Olmec culture.One is a  video entitled Lost Kingdoms of Central America presented by Jacob Cooper, an archeologist specialized in the American cultures. The other is an article, La Venta , by Rebecca Gonzalez. Copper's main concepts addressed in the video are an extensive explanation of important facts, discoveries, ideas, rituals, activities, but mainly arts that the Olmecs used to do during their presence in Mesoamerica. As Cooper declares, "to understand how the Olmecs arose, how they ruled 3,000 years ago and why they created that astonishing art is to understand the rise of civilization itself" (Lost 2:28-2:40). It's fascinating how he works hard in order to find the right place for whatever he wants to show his ...

          The radio program Latino USA presented a beautiful story about The Migrant Student Club during their transmission the past August 18 th of the current year 2020. I listened to this program on September 1st 2020, and from this audio I learned that there are thousands of students from immigrant families, whose responsibility is not just going to school, but also helping with their house mortgage, bills, clothes, and grocery at home, because their parents’ salary isn’t enough to pay basic needs. To do so, this program focuses in a group of teenagers who travel to states in the north of the country and spend their summer as farmworkers. This theme relates to the class because basically all of them traveled from Latin American countries when they were very young, and their parents came here looking for opportunities in a developed country. There are differences among cultures in those southern countries, however, they all share the same tough childhoo...