After moving to their new home, Cat and Maya go out to explore the town and eventually meet a guy named Carlos. The next day, Cat’s family is invited for dinner by the neighbors who apparently turns out to be Carlos’ family. The sisters find out about the Day of the Dead festival during the dinner, and Cat isn’t really pleased with it. For the next few days, the three children hang out with each other a lot and Carlos even gives the girls a ghost tour. Cat gets frightened and follows him as close as possible. To her surprise, she really does see the ghosts and realize that they do exist. With a little help from an orange soda, Maya and the ghosts become inseparable.
It was getting later and later, and they were still in there “ What was that ” Diego asked Vanessa, but as he got no response he turned around, and Vanessa was nowhere to be spotted. “ Where is she!” asked Cesar “ I don’t know,” responded Diego, so they turned back heading the way they had came from looking for Vanessa, but she was nowhere to be found. As they kept walking, they could hear a dripping sound and every time they walked more and more it would get louder and louder. So they followed the noise, and as they did, they got terrified, and they started to tremble. So they stopped and sat in some old scourge dirty chairs that were thrown on the ground so they can calm down from the haunt that was happening, as they were sitting down they can smell an earthy, metallic smell all over. “ Cesar what is that behind you it looks strange,” questioned Diego and as Cesar turned to see what it was, it was a gory cadaver, so they ran out till where they had come in from forgetting about Vanessa and trying to ignore what they had seen. Cesar and Diego just continued to run for their life until they got to Diego house
The Maya, Inca, and Aztec are very similar, but they are also very different. The Mayan is located in Mesoamerica, Mexico, and Central America. The civilization lasted from 1000 BC to 1542 and the capital is Tikal. The Aztec Civilization is located in Central America and Mexico. The civilization only lasted in the 6th century and the capital is Tenochtitlan. The Inca civilization is located in Andes Mountains, South America, chile through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Southern Columbia.The Mayan civilization lasted from 1438 AD to 1532 and the capital was Cuzco. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca are similar and different with their’ religion, government, and technology.
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.
Day after day, we would pass the mansion building on our way to and from school. Branches of vines and clusters of moss crawled up the sides of the building. I could see the paint, tearing off the walls. People for years have said the mansion building is haunted, but I don’t believe it. They say people have been possessed and killed there. Olivia, of course, believes every detail anyone tells him. To teach him a lesson, we decided to plan to spend the night in the mansion building this Saturday.
The next day the boys see a young girl crying and realize after talking to her that it is Miss Foley. They go to her house but when they come back their path is blocked by a parade. The carnival is out searching the streets for them. They hide and the little girl is gone. Will's father sees them hiding in an iron grille in the sidewalk and the boys convince him to keep quiet because the Illustrated Man comes to talk to him. Will's father pretends not to know the two boys whose faces are tattooed on the man's hand, and then when the Witch comes and begins to sense the boys' presence he blows cigar smoke at her, choking her and forcing her to leave. Mr. Dark asks Charles Halloway for his name, and Will's father tells him
“In the new dream the dragon-like thing was between them, and somehow the mother managed to get the girl away. When her daughter finished telling the story, there was a bizarre look on the mother's face. As soon as she asked what was wrong, the mother explained. Those were not dreams. How’s that for spirits?”
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca had contrasts in their religions because of their rituals. Mayans performed the rituals on specific days of the year and as such the rituals were closely related with celestial and terrestrial cycles. In almost every ritual, bloodletting by the humans was practiced. Bloodletting was practiced to appease the God. It was a public ritual and normally performed by religious leaders. In the ritual sharp objects like stingray spine were pierced into the tongue, ear or foreskin of the person. The blood was poured over the idol of the god or was collected in a paper and burned. The Mayan people make any sacrifice to please their gods. Human sacrifice was also commonly practiced by the Mayans. It was a belief that the blood
Once got back home from the hospital, she was trying to get used the idea of what had happened. She stayed at home for some time to recuperate. She started to sleep walk but it was right into the woods. Where she claims to have seen the creature of the night. The creature was so horrifying that when Lisa finally woke up from her mom shaking her, the creature’s image was vivid in her mind. Her mom was very worried for her because she had started to sleep walk and hallucinate during the day about a creature.
At the beginning of the book The House of the Spirits, Uncle Marcos arrives at the Del Valle residents but, he is not alive. Along with the dead body of uncle Marcos is Barrabás, his dog. Clara loved Barrabás very much. Nivea was the mother of 15 children and only 11 had survived and are still alive. Clara is the
Nastaran Mohammadi Art 389.01 Dr. Antonia Stamos Fall 2017 Chichén Itzá and Tula The Postclassic period of Mexico is caring different great civilization that happened in different time, different practises but they had many similarities. The Postclassic civilization are the Mayan and the Toltec.
While waiting they play around but after a while she goes inside of the church. "If I stare at the eyes of the saints long enough, they move and wink at me, which makes me a sort of saint too. "When I get tired of winking saints, I count the awful grandmother’s mustache hairs while she prays for Uncle Old, sick from the worm, and Auntie Cuca, suffering from a life of troubles that left half her face crooked and the other half sad." After a while she gets tired and grandmother tells her to leave. When she makes it outside she sees man and a woman that she says "They're not from around here." The woman speaks to them in Spanish but is surprised hen she hears the young girl speaking English. “But you speak English!” “Yeah,” my brother says, “we’re
Over the past few weeks, the presentations done by the various groups have exposed me to different myths from various civilizations. The presentations that had caught my interest were the Norse, Mayan and Inca mythologies. Despite the fact that each of the civilizations seen is from a distinct era and territory, I could see similarities between their myths. One striking point I have noticed is how the myths tend to teach a lesson or two through their stories. Indeed, one of the main reasons for the existence of myths is to educate the listeners about the civilization.
Each of these new developments allowed archaeologists to assess public representations of royals and commoners in comparison with the data collection and critical analysis of the living spaces of rich and poor. Nevertheless, considering that the curators of public representations were nobles and males, Maya archaeology requires a critical paradigm to make sense of the actual lived experiences of everyday Maya people.
Things go from bad to worse for Coraline as her other father tries to help her by giving her one of the eyes but ends up being swallowed up by the ground right in front of her. The world her other mother had created for Coraline starts to fade once she finds each eye of the ghost children. In the end, Coraline decides to cheat and trick her other mother into thinking Coraline knew where her parents were, behind the secret door. Coraline ends up escaping but one of the other mothers hand follows her down the passageway
In the film, The Orphanage, former orphan Laura, her husband, and their son Simon move into Laura’s childhood home, a haunted orphanage. Laura and her family move into the orphanage in hopes of restoring and converting it into a home for special needs children. While living there, Simon befriends an imaginary boy named Tomas and five other ghost children within the house. But during a reception party held at the house, Laura and Simon have an argument which sends Simon running off somewhere. After searching for Simon, Laura concludes that he is gone and by the end of the night he is declared missing.