Research Connection for my Expository Element-The Expository Essay The Mayan Retention depicts the evidence of how extraterrestrial may have influenced or visited the Mayan cities and help them accomplish all of their discoveries. It shows evidence of the religious, architectural, astronomical and mathematical aspects of the Mayans and relate them to how they may have been something related to extraterrestrial life. In the line Some of the Authors that have written many books on extraterrestrial existence and examined many Mayan related scripts and art to see if they had any correlation. The quote coming from Giorgio A. Tsoukalos says, People came that instructed people of different cultures, different societies in certain scientific disciplines. This is not a coincidence, this is evidence for ancient alien encounters in the remote past, and there is no other way. This showed how the religious aspect of how the Mayans obtained the idea of gods of the sun, sky, water, earth and fire were all works of aliens and obtained such behaviors such as ceremonial sacrifices and having gods similar to other gods from places across the globe at his such time proves that aliens influenced them in some way shape or form. From the research I've conducted as well I used some of the videos from Dailymotion.com which inputs a video from History.com about the "Mayans Conspiracy" which provides the same basic topic of evidences that I used to support my thesis in my expository.Research Connection for my Narrative Element-The Narrative Essay The last of the Past shows a story of a boy who lived in Chichen Itza and treks across the four major cities of the Mayans to recover his dads major project that he worked on before the Spanish ventured the lands of Palenque and killed him. He tries to find clues and evidence of what his dad was working on from the city of Cob, which after they reached there they had learned all of the people were perished by the Spanish as well. Overtime his mother became ill and died and he fled back to his city and in the story the quote conveys a message that "Time is longevity of our world" which portrays the message that when his dad was in his dream this quote showed what his dads project was objectively about. He had learned that his dad was trying to finish a mathematical type of work that involved calculations of many sorts. He had learned this through some of his dreams that involved his dad trying to relay some messages to him, but he soon picked up on them and had found and finished the project, which was the Holy Mayan Calendar that marked the beginning and end of the world according to the Mayan religious beliefs. He kept it safe and would use it in the future to help his civilization revive in the future because of what the Spanish did to them. My research involved in my narrative was a story similar to the storyline of "The Percy Jackson series" and involved some of the information about the Holy Mayan Calendar involving the dates from which they performed some calculations of the beginning to infer the ending of the world and showed how some of their Mayan calendar work seeped into some of their works in astronomy as well. The information was used from an article about the Mayan Calendar which was written by John Kinsella and showed how the Mayan calendar helped dingy their civilization from other and attracted them more to the Spanish then other civilizations in the Mesoamerican territories.Research Connection for my Poetry Element-On the poetry element I made on the Mayans, "The Red Ruins" and "We The Mayans" attempts to display imagery and mostly purpose to the Mayans culture. The first poem was a Hortian Ode, which conveyed a message about the basic Mayans life and how they displayed such curiosity and creativity throughout their life and works. The Haiku, "The Red Ruins" displayed such imagery and sound to display what the Mayans city of Chichen Itza looked and felt like. It shows how peaceful of a day the Mayans have worked through until the Aztecs rush through the forests of the Yucatn and show how the people run away and how it's such a horrid scene as the sun does down. I used an article titled "En Busca de Los Mayas" to create my Haiku which told one of the expeditions that Rodolfo Ruiz Mendez went to in Central America to study the land and discovered some of the first aspects of the Mayans. He described the land of which helped me synchronize some ideas of how to describe the Mayans topography. The Horatian Ode involved some of the description of that article but mostly involved some of the ideas about architecture. I used some of the information from how they related their cultural aspects to architecture by constructing such amazing structures with perfection. The line "In the equidistant people give homage to K'inich Ajaw with prosperity" shows how people made these structures and made it to convey that it was to their gods.Research Connection for my Visual Element-My visual Element was a very important aspect of my research, which displayed many themes about the Mayan Culture. My drawing represents the Mayan city of Chichen Itza during the expedition era time period and It's shows how the city thrived with life and was a pure sight of beauty as nature bloomed at every corner. In this drawing the Mayan city is showing all of its amazing architecture they used as well and shows how in depth they went to creating on the most advanced architectural monumental structures in history involving complex mathematics and engineering. The Mayans had developed many things such as using nature as a source to live as well. The nature represents the way the Mayans lived off and had sustained such a large population with a volume of different environmental aspects. My research that was involved in this involved some from the expedition of Rodolfo Ruiz Mendez, which was written as a journal and described the land of the Mesoamerican territory. Research Connection for my Choice Element-For my choice element I compiled a video made on Powtoons to wrap up all of my evidence conducting my research over the time period of the last couple of weeks. I used some of the information on astronomy that was covered by a page of research by Timothy Watts who wrote about ancient and medieval era knowledges on astronomy and showed how their studies of engineering correlated with their research in astronomy. The video showed many evidence of how the Mayans could have disappeared by either "drought, overpopulation, disease, famine, warfare or even alien influence." I showed how over the time period of the past couple of weeks I conclude that Mayans left their cities because if aliens influence and show some of the most interesting evidences I conducted as directly stated, "The Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza are directly parallel to the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt running along the equator." This shows how my research was supported by my evidence and was all collected from mostly History.com which gave me aspirations of conducting this topic and this site also helped me give basic knowledge of how their life was and some their old works that still remained today such as the "Popo Vuh". I used as much research as I could to compile this video and conveyed the message that aliens influence Mayans heavily and also talks about how this idea could lead and break boundaries into the future.