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Imagine... Leaders and Equality

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We Imagine... Us      The 25 minute radio program included host Maria Hinojosa and Futuro Media, who brought up the idea of "We Imagine… Us: The Long Way Around," which is Futuro's first-ever fiction podcast series. There was so much to learn about this new podcast, including how "we as the world come together and share ideas to create an equal and better post-COVID world". (Latino 2:15-2:18) The "We Imagine... Us" Project      I learned that it is not only going to be a fictional podcast, but there is also going to be an animated version for visual viewers and learners. I personally enjoyed hearing about the ideas of the new series, as well as what it could do for the newly changed world. The only thing I did not like was the hosts looked too far into the future. I have never been one to look far into the future, because to me, we should focus on now. The more we focus on just the future, everything around us now will go and we will regret taking ever

The Hero Twins and the Dangerous House of Bats

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The House of Bats The Hero Twins in the House of Bats From Xibalba, to the house of cold, later to the house of jaguars, then to the house of fire, and finally, to the house of bats . The bats "were great beasts with snouts like blades that they used as murderous weapons" (Christenson 172). Hunahpu and Xbalanque were thrown into many houses, to be beaten down and defeated. The twins knew they were on their last going, both weak and beat down like an old newspaper in a garbage can.  Murderous Sharp Snouts "When they arrived there, they were to be finished off," and they "even had to crawl inside their blowguns to sleep so that they would not be eaten there in this house" (Christenson 172). Christenson describes the adventure of the Hero Twins to visit their grandmother, but get set up in traps along the way to truly see how much of "heroes" they really are. Both end up talking about leaving their blowguns to see if it is dawn outside yet. Hunahpu