Museum Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

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Cultural Artifacts Need to be Returned
Description of Cultural Artifacts
Axum Obelisk of Ethiopia
Bronze animal heads of China
Khmer sculptures of Cambodia
Lydian Hoard of Turkey
Ways Artifacts were Removed from their Countries
Returning Artifacts to their Places of Origin
Reasons for Returning Cultural Artifacts
Conclusions
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Cultural artifacts should be returned to their rightful owners. These form part of a people’s culture and have a clear function in that society. Artifacts are not meant to be just decorative pieces in museums of foreign lands. The reason ...

Ningbo’s newly completed Central Business District (CBD) belies its status as one of China’s oldest cities. The austere downtown landscape is the equivalent of architecture’s white-washed wall: a place of erasure, forgetting, and dubious progress. With the completion of Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum in 2008, however, the Ningbo of the present is confronted by the forgotten landscape of its not too distant past. A craggy mountain of a building inspired by the region’s natural topographical features as well its unique crafts and architectural traditions, the Ningbo Museum is not simply an obligatory nod to ...

Bilbao is one of the most storied cities in Spain, dating back more than 700 years. Presently, it has about 500,000 people within its boundaries, but Greater Bilbao, an area over 400 square kilometers in area, has over 1 million people.1 Although it had long been a leading port, it also gained prominence in the shipbuilding, chemicals and steel industries; however, when those industries began to decline after the death of Franco in 1975, the city sank into a recession. One of the causes for this recession had been Franco’s insistence that these industries only serve Spanish clients instead ...

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Recently, the Antiquities Chief of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, has been asking that several prominent museums return several of the biggest and most well-known artifacts of that country back to Egypt. Among them is the Zodiac of Dendera, which is located in the Louvre, as well as the Rosetta Stone, which has been displayed in the British Museum for two centuries. Already, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has promised to return nineteen items that were found in the excavation of King Tut, and were fixtures of the museum for tens of years. Hawass plans to use these ...

Admittedly, Visiting the Auschwitz museum gives one an opportunity to find a strangely familiar and unfathomable place. In the age of so many books, movies, and photographs, it is tempting for people to think that the museum is a movie set-death camp rather than a real historic site. In respect to this, it is pertinent to changes some aspects of the museum to make it more educative and resourceful to visitors. However, change is not always favorable. While changes to improve the present standing of the museum are necessary, it would be more rewarding if the idea does not compromise the authenticity ...

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The French law is classified as either private or public law with the first dealing with the relationships between individuals and the latter managing the relationships between the state and the individual. The private law is either civil, commercial or employment law whereas the public law is either criminal, administrative or constitutional law. Of interest, however, is the constitutional law which refers to the section of the public law that encompasses the imperative and universal rules. The constitutional law implies the principles through which the government can exercise its authority and includes the customary laws and the international rules ...

Meet me at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) is a monthly museum program for people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers (Chancellor et al., 2014). In this program, curators from the museum lead discussions about a handful of artworks from the museum’s collections. This encourages people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers to interact with each other and share their opinions with art experts about the artwork in the galleries. Rosenberg (2009) stated that the MoMA program improved the mood of people with Alzheimer’s disease during and after the visit, decreased social isolation ...

The art market in china is full of too many forgeries. Original art produced has become a way of making more money through manufacturing replicas of the original works. It has led to many fake artists using this as a source of livelihood. The art market eventually becomes a place that’s only breeding corruption. It happens when executive business people bride others with the forged art for favors. The market is in a very hesitant stage since most people are reluctant to buy art because they fear buying the forged ones rather than the original ones. The primary aim of this is ...

The term, ‘Pseudoscience’ denotes one or more assertions, faiths or traditional practices that are presented as science. These practices or claims fail in adhering when measured or tested by methods of science. The reliability of pseudoscience cannot be trusted and it lacks scientific reasonableness. Pseudoscience have different importance and should not be discarded even if there are some issues with them. Pseudoscience may appear valueless in modern society but it has guided and regulated the civilization for a quite long time. This paper intends to discuss pseudoscience and discusses how it is difference from science along with analyzing that pseudoscience ...

Finbarr Barry Flood (2002) in his essay "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum," discussed the concerns and ideas about Islamic iconoclasm. The main focus of the essay is the Muslim's iconoclastic practices in India and Afghanistan. Among the issues discussed in the essay is the traditional patterns of Islamic iconoclasm, its various paradoxes that distort the conventional understanding of Isamic iconoclasm. In definition, iconoclasm is the practice or an iconoclast attitude of opposing the use of images in a religion (Martin 1930, p. 1). Often seen as an act venerating statues and pictures that sacred to a ...

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Exploration of the earth and the people by the European scholars was a colonial assignment that took place over many years though still affects the current regimentations and exploitations of the global south. According to the city of Berlin in the federal republic of German plans to build what it calls the most important culturally political project in the country by 2018/2019. The project is called “Berlin Palace – Humboldt Forum” and is billed as the project of the century. It will be located in the City Centre. It will cost an estimated 590 million euros of which the city would ...

Early Modern Fashion

The decorative art of France of the eighteenth century seems to command a lot of attention. The one big reason for this could be the objects that were there then, reward close scrutiny. Their studies by scholars have not only led to the formal appreciation of their former complexity, but also to how they shaped sporadic and social experiences. In her observation, Hellman juxtaposes the decorated interior of eighteenth-century France to the body and motion of a pretty woman. “The vignettes of Dangerous Liaisons suggest that the design of clothes and interiors worked in unison to create an elegant environment of ...

Which character truly understands the concept of ‘heritage’?

In Alice Walker’s classic short story “Everyday Use”, the central conflict revolves around two sisters who are very different from one another in life opportunities, choices, and values. While the story is told by their elderly mother, the focal point of the story is on their two differing viewpoints and the way that each of them perceives the concept of heritage. While Dee has an intellectual understanding of the concept, for Maggie, it is a concrete experience that she lives day-to-day, making her concept of heritage more valid despite her limited opportunities.
Dee is glamourous, well-educated, lives in ...

Vladimir IIyinc Lenin was born in Russia on the twenty second day of April in the year eighteen seventy. Vladimir lived on this universe for a period of fifty three years and succumbed to death, of stroke, in January nineteen twenty four (1/1/1924). He was a lawyer by profession, and a member of various political parties such as Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and Russia Communist Party. Lenin was an active member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and grew up during an era of revolutionary politics; this greatly influenced him . His elder brother, named Alexander, Ulaynov was a revolutionary politician. It was Alexander ...