Assignment 4C

Culture is defined as a the way of life for a group of people. There thoughts, religion, food, beliefs, and traditions that they follow. It can also be the things that people do together as a society or large group. It is mostly a collection of the same thoughts that people as a whole hand down to the generations below them. It is a way for a group or society to define themselves as a people. This is what makes them unique from other cultures that differ from them.
http://www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

Melanie Hall wrote about the Inca civilization. I thought it was interesting that in the video it showed one of the archaeological finds of one of the most wealthiest leaders in Latin history. I thought it was interesting to see that they even buried a dog near him. It is funny how many worlds apart we seem to be but, how similar we still are. I learned that the Inca's had also had many of their artifacts and significant items burned by the Spanish when they were being colonized. It is interesting how they also believed in polygamy the same as the Mormons,(some still do). Paolo Freire's beliefs that we can learn from each other is one way that we are applying his teachings in our class. We all chose different subjects to learn about and now we are studying from each others observations and coming up with our own conclusions.We are learning about how Latin American history started and how many of its civilizations ended.

For Project 4a I chose the work by Joleen Beaton Forwood. I thought she wrote an in depth look at Junipero Serra. He was born in Spain and was sent to New Mexico (now Mexico) to start converting the natives to Christianity. I thought it was interesting that when he gave sermons that he resorted to self mutilation and would put lit torches on his chest, pound his chest with a stone or whip his back. That sounds crazy. That would be quite a site to see. Junipero Serra also apparently ended up leaving Mexico for California after setting up 9 missions in Mexico. He was responsible for helping to set up 21 Missions in California. That is quite a feat. It is interesting how he has melded the history of Mexico and California through his teachings and his life's work. I think that Freire would see that although Junipero Serra had a strange way of teaching he did try to educate the masses and lived his life trying to do the right thing as he saw it. He believed in Christianity and felt that others needed to be saved by God. He spent much of his life dedicated to that belief. Right or wrong he was a teacher and did help to educate many.