No Small Courage: A History Of Women

The Native Americans are in fact civilized, and this can be seen through their great strides in agricultural methodology and technology. Similar to Europeans, most Native Americans have graduated from hunting and gathering methods and have moved on to agriculture, as it is a more reliable source of food. As a result of the most recent expedition to the Americas, a group of pilgrims’ The Mayflower, a lot has been discovered about Native American agriculture. Although the Native Americans use primitive tools “made of stone, animal bone, and tortoise shell to grow crops of squash, pumpkins, gourds, sunflowers, and maize, their crops yielded far better results than Europeans’, and

The Olmec’s lived along muddy riverbanks and the Gulf of Mexico around 1500 B.C. Rigorous agricultural practices characterized the Olmec civilization, enabling them to provide food and resources for their families and generate income by selling their food to others around them. They also used the land to their advantage, using the mud to create elaborate earthen pyramids. Along with the cultivation of land, trade contributed to the success of the Olmec’s. They had many widespread trade routes extending into the surrounding areas. Their trade routes further helped to expand agriculture and grow the economy within this society due to the selling of agricultural products along these routes. To grow spiritually, the Olmec’s created religious rituals and a system of hieroglyphics that allowed the peoples to communicate effectively while also uniting the Olmec people as a whole. The Olmec’s’ use of their surrounding geography, combined with the economic growth brought about from extended trade routes and the societal unity brought about from the implementation of religious rituals allowed the Olmec’s to thrive during their time.

                The Olmec culture is found through Mexico City. The spread of their religion influenced a lot of what their art that was found. Symbolic traditions, as well as artistic and architectural complexes. Were found Chiapas were the civilizations was formed around 1500 BCE. During this period the first true Mesoamerican writing and language were developed right after the Mayan civilization was formed the Olmec had a huge influence in them. Writing they had a lot of adventures epic poems about the gods that were from religion that were the explanation of the nature they saw, the stars they saw. All the natural situation that happened they wrote it down creating poem influenced by their religion there's different kinds of gods.

Native American women had to follow their husbands, fathers, and brothers to wherever they wanted to go in order to stay close to the bison. Therefore, with all the moving around, they had teepees that could be put up for living and taken down for travelling. Women were in charge of both packing up and putting up these moveable homes. Once they had claimed their new home, women started working the fields. These fields were their responsibility. Their children were also theirs to care for while the men were out on long hunting journeys. On top of all that, Native American women made things to trade, such as jewelry, tools, and pottery.

The Olmec were mesoamerica's first civilization, who became advanced and prospered. The Olmec lived along the gulf of Mexico, in San Lorenzo and La Venta; with a population of 10 thousand people. Due to their environmental factors they became sedentary, meaning they stayed in one location and depended on agriculture to obtain their food. The Olmec farmed maíz ( corn), squash and beans; all which provided them with the necessary nutrients

Olmec made mounds out of soil that replicated mountains and volcanoes. They would also paint on cave walls, carved out sculptures in the material called jade. These jade sculptures where used for ceremonial purposes. These Olmec didn’t use jade for carving utensils, instead they used stone to make drills to use for carvings. This region also made pyramids that are aligned with the north and south axis. These people were also known to paint human and animal figures and postures in many

America’s First Lady of Courage and Picturing History both presented individuals who faced many challenges. Helen Keller, the main focus of the first article, struggled with deafness as well as blindness, while Mathew Brady struggled financially. In the case of Helen Keller, the article stated that, “Helen’s parents knew they had to do something about her wild behavior. They hired Annie Sullivan to tutor her.” This was a critical moment in Helen’s life, as Annie helped Helen to learn how to more appropriately communicate with others as well as be able to spread the word that those who struggle with various disabilities could still manage to do great things.

The first discovery of Olmec art was a colossal head, found in the area of Tres Zapotes in 1862. As of 2004 seventeen colossal heads have been located in several sites. These, like much Olmec art, were designed to glorify the Olmec rulers. For the Olmecs, art was meant to give power to the shaman or ruler. The massive "altars" made of enormous carved basalt blocks weighing up to 44 tons (40 metric tons), for instance, are believed to have served as thrones for the Olmec kings. At the bottom and front of each of these altars was a carved niche. A small human figure sits in the niche, holding either a were-jaguar on his lap or a cord in his hand, or both. The niche, according to experts, represents a cave, or the entrance to the supernatural world and the ruler's ties to the gods. The process of entering into the otherworld--the world of the supernatural--is central to most Olmec art. Though they were masters at stone carving, the Olmec were also highly skilled potters and stone cutters. Much of their pottery depicts nagual transformations--the jaguar in particular, but also the harpy (part bird, part woman), shark, and caiman (a kind of crocodile found in Central and South America). Among Olmec artifacts, archaeologists have found many life-sized ceramic human infants made from white clay. They are realistic portraits and beautifully crafted, but experts are not

Another reckless day has passed by full of flirts, drinks, and dresses. No matter what punishment tomorrow might bring, I can still choose to act as I please today. However, before the Great War, women were bound tightly in order to mold them into an ideal wife, both physically and metaphorically. Women were greatly restricted. After the war, our country promoted normalcy, attempting to return to how we were before. Thank goodness we didn’t. Those ridiculous traditional ideals from before the war were taken out and replaced. Female values and roles from before the war were thrown away in favor of new and contemporary ideas. Now, rather than choosing between being a submissive wife or an unapproachable feminist dictator, young women such as myself were given many of the freedoms that men had. We are now able to be rebellious and take part in masculine activities while still remaining desirable.

Olmec had influenced people by trending: working with stones, observation of the stars and the worship of certain gods, those gods were adopted by them Mayas who controlled a pretty large area which influences most of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, also plots of Honduras and El Salvador.

The mysterious Olmec civilization prospered in the Pre-Classical (Formative) Mesoamerica from c. 1200 BCE to c. 400 BCE and is considered the forerunner of all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures, like the Aztecs and the Mayans.

the Mother Culture of the Mesoamerica, this is how the Olmec are considered. the name Olmec means “rubber people “in Nahuatl, the Aztec language. Olmec were the first civilization in the America, the time they were arrived is still not know but a guess that is around 1500 B.C. According to, the Olmec civilization see developed within a very limited geographical zone of 18130 square kilometers-about 7000 square miles- (Adams 50), their heartland lies on the golf coast of Mexico within the states of Veracruz and Tabasco, particularly at the sites of San Lorenzo and La Venta. And centering on the volcanic uplift called Los Tuxtlas Mountains. The mountains are primarily composed of extinct cinder cones and larger volcanoes, perhaps the largest caldera of which today contains Lake Catemaco (Adams 50). They were the first inhabitants of America to construct monumental architecture and to settle in town and cities, however, they were also the first people

In the article that I read, A Chronological Link Between Maya and Olmec Art, the author seemed to be trying to convey that the Olmec had been around before long before the maya but also existed during the Maya times. Supposedly the Olmec had several different art phases, one of which coexisted with the Maya. The author noted that there is relatively little known about the Olmec peoples and that there may be some connection to how long this particular precontact mexican group may have existed. They claim that due to small attributes found on Maya stelae, that the Olmec had some cultural influence over the Maya. The Maya were using Olmec goods, like belt adornments, that had something called a “baby face” carved on it. The author claims that

In the early eighteen century in Canajoharie New York, Susan B. Anthony, a teacher discovered that men and women have different hourly wages. This commotion made Susan B. Anthony and other female to join the “teacher union to fight for equal wages.” (“SusanBAnthony” par.5) Nevertheless there was one problem, - Susan B Anthony continued to fight for the teacher union actively but she had to end her career as a teacher. Under the circumstances, Susan B Anthony had taken a role to acknowledge that women were not being treated equally. In other cases, men were sufficient about their privileges to dominate women. As a result the women endorse the treatment because they did not have the immunity to assert for themselves. However this conflict was resolved by Susan B. Anthony whom is a woman`s rights activist and political suffrage to women. Susan B. Anthony became well-known because of her history as a long activist tradition in her personal life, controversial for women rights and sacrifices she made throughout her whole career.

The earliest heirs to the Olmec were the Maya people. The Maya can be analyzed in terms of their culture. This civilization came about in Mesoamerica around 250 AD with a great influence coming from that of the Olmec. The first 650 years of the Maya civilization’s existence was known as the Classic Period. They created a remarkable society of more