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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 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 ...

      After watching BBC's "Lost Kingdoms of Central America," and reading an article titled "La Venta," by Rebecca Gonzalez, us as the audience have gotten lots of information on the Mesoamericans and their history and background.       The Youtube video is about Jacob Cooper, an archaeologist, who explores the rise and fall of the forgotten civilizations. He travels to where the Olmecs settlement used to be thousands of years ago. Cooper talks about the Olmecs and how "no other emerging mesoamerican civilization had an elite class as privileged as the Olmec rulers (Cooper 12:40 - 13:30).  A map of Mesoamerica An Olmec head (One of the 17 heads) The Olmecs and the resources needed to survive      Also on the topic of the Olmecs was the article, which stated that "the s ocio-political organization of the La Venta Olmec has not been clearly defined. It is apparent that this society comprised an elite sector, a wide range of spe...

     In his interview, Erik Rodriguez explains his past, and how only a few years ago he was a medical school student. Fast forward to now, he is an Afro-Cuban artist who made it into Billboard's "Top 10 Latin Artists to Watch." Erik goes on to explain about how someone who had never thought about music before found the confidence to listen to himself and pursue a different career. Listen to the podcast here.  https://www.capradio.org/news/latino-usa/ Artist Cimafunk (via. Agencia EFE)      I really liked this topic, because I personally make music with my friends and it was a big piece of inspiration to me. Although it was very hard, but motivating to hear about someone dropping out of school, but still making a Billboard chart, as that is one of my goals in life. The radio show covered almost everything, from his past life, to medical school experience, to now him becoming Cimafunk and how his life has drastically changed.      As Hall...