Personal Narrative: Near Primitive Nation Of Peru

First, this paper will talk about Peru’s history. Peru has a unique and rich heritage among the nations of the Southern content. Peru has this rich heritage for over 10,000 years, and is one of the most harsh and inhospitable environments in the world. Peru has an empire that spanned a third of the South American continent. Peru also surpassed many of the great empires in world history, and also established a historic division and became divided economically, socially, politically, and between a semi feudal (Peru Facts and Culture).

You won’t just be surrounded by mysterious ancient ruins but also by stunning views. The location on the high mountains and right next to the rainforests is a unique experience. In fact, Peru has 28 individual

(Credibility) I have personally had the chance to travel on July last year and I was born and raised in Peru and Macchu Picchu is one of the main topics that we speak every year in class.

Peru is located in western South America and it shares borders with Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and the South Pacific Ocean. Peru is about 1.28 million square kilometers. There are three major regions in Peru: a narrow coastal belt, the wide Andean mountains and the Amazon Basin. The coast is mostly a desert, but contains Peru's major cities. The Andes has two main ranges - Cordillera Occidental and Oriental. Oriental includes Peru's highest mountain called Huascaran, it a peaks out at 22,200ft. On the east side is the Amazon Basin, a region of tropical lowland, the water there is carried out by the Maranon and Ucayali rivers.

The Peruvian culture was selected for this cultural assignment after an encounter with a surprising Peruvian music performance during a routine work commute at a New York City train station. The band, Espiritu Andino, consisted of several male performers in ponchos and threaded caps. Although outshined by a pan flute, all the typical musical instruments worked together to produce soothing and melodic notes. The listeners could easily transcend to mystic mountain tops and river passages. The performance ignited not only intrigue but also admiration for the Peruvian culture.

Built at the height of the Inca empire, Machu Picchu is not only one of the world’s most stunning man-made wonders, but possibly the most well-known relic of the Americas’ most powerful civilization. At the time the structure was built, the Incas ruled the largest nation in the world ; it covered much of South America's west coast and its borders stretched from present day Colombia, southward to the border of modern day Chile. The empire thrived from the twelfth to the fifteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1572. Although the empire expanded at a rapid speed and covered abundantly diverse areas, Incan emperors effectively unified their empire and maintained legitimacy both socially and politically, by employing unique organizational

As a requirement in the crisis assessment and intervention course, I interviewed Dulce M., a 26 year-old, self-described female Peruvian native. Although there was no specified requirement as to the cultural background of the interviewee, I chose Dulce because she had grown up in Peru and immigrated to the United States as an adult. Further, the questions I formulated for the semi-structured interview, were a better fit to Dulce’s identification characteristics.

Have you ever wondered what it is like living on streets paved with gold? Well, the Inca had it pretty close. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro landed in Peru in 1532, and found unimaginable riches. The streets were not paved with gold- but their temples were. This empire was the largest empire on Earth of it 's time, but it was a brittle empire held together only by promises and threats. The true history of the Inca is still being written today.

If I had to go back in time to live with a Mesoamerican group, I would live with the Incas. The Incas lived in what is now Peru. The people lived in the mountains, even building one of their cities, Machu Picchu, on a mountain top. Because of their geography, the Incas often used llamas for work. I personally like llamas, which is one reason why I would want to live with the Incas. Another reason is there are no slaves. I would not want to be a slave at all in my life. Living with a group that does not have any slaves guarantees I will not go into slavery. The lowest class within the Incan people are the farmers. I would not mind being a farmer at all. Finally, the Incas built roads. Roads and bridges were built to connect Incan cities for

Despite the richness in its cultural heritage, 9.7% of Peru’s 30,973,000 population lives in poverty (Poverty headcount ratio at 2 PPP$ a day). This fact, coupled with the lack of supervision and/or protection of archaeological and historic sites has exposed Peru’s cultural heritage to looting and destruction, the illegal occupation of areas designated as national patrimony, illicit trafficking of cultural

Machu Picchu is significant as travel destination because of its archaeological splendor and its surrounding nature. According to “The Stones of Machu Picchu” by Duane Damon, “Each year, thousands of fascinated visitors come to the ‘city in the clouds’ to look, reflect, and to wonder,” (Damon,Paragraph Seven). The area surrounding Machu Picchu is “the meeting point between the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon

I found Peru a very interesting country and I can’t wait to plan a tour through it. Maybe one day I will see some of this interesting stuff I wrote about.

Our next step was to walk half a mile up a set of worn out and weathered stairs, this was very tiring and I almost tripped a couple of times. Looking to my right and I saw large number of large mountains that were densely covered with jungle vegetation. I looked down and noticed the clouds below me. Our altitude was very high because I noticed the air getting colder. We finally reached the top of the mountain. Our guide showed us around the ruins. Walking around, I saw the unique arch architecture of the doorways. There was a carving of an eagle on a circular stone on the ground. I wondered how the Incas could have carved the stones perfectly to sit on top of each other without cement. Some were stacked up to 10 feet high. There were some Incan

During my freshman year in Costa Rica, I developed an interest in indigenous peoples in Latin America. Two classmates and I designed an independent study project to travel to Ecuador and observe its robust indigenous rights’ movement. Our research was divided into three parts; modern communication in indigenous politics, the effects of strip mining, and my focus, political organizations used to advance the indigenous agenda.

Known for its ancient ruins and mountainous landscape, Peru offers a large diversity of produce as a result of the ranging climates and varying altitudes in its region. With access to over 3,800 types of potatoes and countless forms of corn, grains and chilies, Peruvian cuisine has taken a unique stance on today’s international culinary stage. The cultural diversity of Peru’s population has furthered this uniqueness through the incorporation of flavors and cooking techniques from immigrants with roots in Europe, Africa, China and Japan.