Essays on Artifact

Mission San Luis Museum is found in Tallahassee, Florida. A visit to the museum makes the visitor travel back in time to about 1703 and brings out the rich history of the visiting Spanish people and the native Appalachian Indians. This essay discusses some of the artifacts found in the museum. One of the iconic artifacts found in the Museum includes the bells sourced from the mission quadrangle. They were cast in 1814 in Mexico and are made of metal alloy and embellished with gold. The branding and decorations are matching the official brand of Carmel Mission. More importantly, ...

COMM 495: Communications Studies Senior Capstone

Introduction The present portfolio is a compilation of different works that I completed throughout my studies at UMUC. They illustrate my understanding of the different communication theories and concepts that I learnt in these classes. In the first part of this portfolio, I presented my work samples and briefly explained their background and purpose. In the second part of the portfolio, I reflected upon the manner in which these works added to my body of knowledge and developed my communication, critical thinking, writing and analyzing skills. The final part of the portfolio is a resume. I believe that this ...

Introduction

IT governance is mainly concerned with decision making and communication. This is because it was brought about by organizations’ desire to make good decisions concerning their IT functions and communicate them effectively. All organizations require IT governance to ensure that they adhere to organizational strategies and meet their objectives. Of utmost importance is compliance with regulations governing IT systems such as the regulation of server power consumption developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (Kadivar, 2011). As such, IT governance can be simply defined as the alignment of IT and business strategies in a structured manner to ensure that organizations ...

Introduction

Brands have existed since ancient times, as evidenced by the fact that individuals have always used unique marks to distinguish their products from those produced by other individuals. However, the main reason for branding in ancient times was to prevent the theft of property. Despite the origins of branding, its main purpose shifted to enhancing the visibility of products as humans engaged in increased commercial activity with each other (Hampf and Lindberg-Repo, 2011, p. 1). Consequently, the concept of brand development arose. Brand development refers to the efforts taken to increase the success of a brand in the market ...

At the brink of war, America, which has distinguished herself as a world leader and a responsible country knew that she would be at the center stage of the showdown. The war eventually came with anxiety and patriotism contemporaneously looming across the country. The media shifted interest in the war. Countless patriotic books and artistic artifacts were born during and after the time of war, but nothing has done much for the history of war than the picture taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at times square after the war. The image quickly found its way to magazine front pages and ...

The Mask of Agamemnon

There are a lot of artworks that will always contain some secret concerning its true origin and authenticity. One of such sculptures is definitely the case with the Mask of Agamemnon. This artifact from the Greek Bronze Age was discovered by distinguished German archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, in Mycenae dated 1876. After the stunning discovery of the real location of the legendary Troy, Schliemann was next planning to find the final resting place of Agamemnon, the famous king of ancient Mycenae who headed the Greek troops during the Trojan War. All his grand triumphs and tribulations are eulogized in Homer’ ...

Abstract

Rhetorical criticism is basically an analysis of the items people use to communicate, such as images and words. There are different strategies that one can employ when conducting such an analysis. Most importantly, the first step is the selection of an artifact to analyze since the strategies used may differ with the artifact. In this paper, the artifact to be analyzed is an advertisement from Apple and the method employed is ideological criticism, which evaluates the message presented by this advertisement.

Research Question: What is the main message behind this advertisement and was presented in a way that was ...

WGU

A. Table of Contents Professional Resume – presents my clinical knowledge, skills, experience, and philosophy to potential employers Executive Summary – provides an overview of the contents of the portfolio Professional Reference Questionnaire – presents the objective and subjective evaluation of my key behaviors and clinical performance by one of my professional references Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – discusses the need to develop knowledge and skills in quality leadership in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care and promote holistic, patient-centered care

Copy of IHI certificate of completion – serves to validate my completion of the IHI Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership course

Evidence-based Practice – summarizes an evidence-based research project on hand hygiene Applied Leadership – summarizes my ...

The Titanic may have been swallowed by the vast seas that fateful night, but the story forever lives on for the survivors and the spectators. We take lessons from that forever tale and still look to the events of the day for guidance and support. One of the areas worth admiring, despite the disaster and the havoc aboard the giant, was the ratio of women and children who managed to walk away from the wreckage. Research shows that 20% of the men while 75 percent of the women were the survivors of the incident. Of the total 109 children ...

The start of my writing carrier proved to be an uphill task for me. As a result, I learnt the hard way when I first ventured into the idea of writing. When I started thinking about the way, my writing has changed from the start of the semester to the present moment, my thoughts wandered through many different things. I feel that I have improved my writing and I can now write better to the audience instead of writing for myself. Furthermore, my belief is that I have acquired the ability of controlling my sources instead of allowing the ...

Exploring the Art of Indigenous Culture

Central American Artifacts Caudle Cup by John Coney, a London-trained goldsmith (Around 1690) The cup was designed by the 17th century Goldsmith known as John Coney. It is a gourd shaped cup with two embellished beaded handles and there is a picture of a small child appears from the flower. The motif is the European floral imagery. The cup was probably designed for the marriage ceremony of John and Mary in around 1689. The Caudle cups were famous in England during second half of the 17th century in England. It was typically made of silver metal. Tankard made by ...

Comic books are a part of every society in the world. They represent ideas that the young minds who read them, can understand. In essence, comic books play a huge role in depicting what the society. In many comic books, there are always the protagonists and the antagonist, while they can be seen as villains and heroes fighting for an individual cause, these characters often represent the forces of good and evil in the modern contemporary world. The essays describe America as it is seen, through examining the cultural artifact – Comic Books and American Cultural History anthology – Arguments within ...

Comic books are a part of every society in the world. They represent ideas that the young minds who read them, can understand. In essence, comic books play a huge role in depicting what the society. In many comic books, there are always the protagonists and the antagonist, while they can be seen as villains and heroes fighting for an individual cause, these characters often represent the forces of good and evil in the modern contemporary world. The essays describe America as it is seen, through examining the cultural artifact – Comic Books and American Cultural History anthology – Arguments within ...

Final Take Home Paper

3. The Importance of Artifacts on Establishing Social Business Practices within Organizations There are various artifacts that contribute to the overall design and success of a business. The first artifact refers to the mainstream business needs, goals, and objectives, which impacts in communicating business drivers in its social business strategies. The second artifact refers to social tools, infrastructure and various standards, and it helps in the identification of a key technical element that shall be invoked in solving various social issues to a business. The third artifact refers to security and identifies issues which help in the enumeration of ...

“A Rose for Emily” is a 1930 short story by American author William Faulkner. The story centers on the female protagonist character called Emily Grierson. Emily’s character is the subject of this analysis. Emily Grierson is at the center of the story. She is a loner who lives a very solitary life. Her life moves from being a vibrant and young girl in her earlier years to a secretive and religious old woman who spends most of her time at a monastery. The death of her father leaves her devastated and many people in her hometown pity her ...

Religion as a subject has been studied extensively by several scholars with an aim to show distinction and origins. Various aspects of religion are not explored leaving only a select few scholars with similar ideas or related concepts to propagate said thought processes. Thomas tweed is such a scholar. He has extensively conducted research in the area of religious space and defined it in a number of ways that will be explored in this thesis. Jerusalem, a popular and oldest city known to man, is a god example that can be used to better shed light into the theories ...

I love Lucy is one of the pioneer sitcom comedies shot in front of a live audience in the US. The setting of the sitcom is in New York with the show following the life of Lucy Ricardo and her husband Ricky Ricardo, who is a professional singer. The show also includes the couple's friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz. The show follows the life of Lucy, who is naïve in her ambitions to become a star in the big city. Together, the cast gets into various hilarious situations that are brought about by the actions of Lucy in ...

Molcajete in Mexican means pestle and mortar. They are made from a block of basalt and are usually round with three legs. Three legs are meant to provide it with support as force is applied to it during grinding. Decorations are usually animal heads painted on to give it the look of a stout animal. Pigs are the most common animals used in the decorations. In the early days, they held sentimental values, but pigs on modern day molcajetes are simply used for decoration. The earliest use of the Molcajete was in a place called tehuacan, a valley of ...

Analysis of the Nature and Purpose of the Google Search Engine as One of the Main Technological Artefacts

Analysis of the Nature and Purpose of the Google Search Engine as One of the Main Technological Artefacts The advent of the first technology implies a constant change of the world. Technology changes not only the world, but also a human being, despite the fact that any technology is created by human. Therefore, examining any kind of technology as a technological artifact, one should consider approaches to the study of this concept, as well as the individual characteristics of the technological artefact. The very notion of technology was transformed at the level of many existing sciences with the advent ...

The artifact that will be the center of the proposed Holocaust Museum that will be placed in Cedar Rapids would be the red scarf carrying the symbol of the Nazi Group, otherwise known as the swastika flag. As a primary consideration, the target population, which is a small Jewish minority in the Cedar Rapids area, only has limited knowledge about the Holocaust and the horrors that their Jewish ancestors suffered from during the Second World War in the hands of their German conquerors and persecutors. So, the author of this paper and the proponent of the Holocaust Museum in ...

VOLKSWAGEN ADVERTISEMENT AND COUNTERCULTURE

Introduction The entry of Volkswagen (VW) as a brand on American soil was no easy feat. The boldness and enthusiasm of Heinz Nordhoff in the immediate aftermath of WWII at a time when anti-Nazism was rife, to talk German business on American soil came not short of paranoia. Even though he envisioned tapping the growing American motor vehicle industry, the “German” profile was an immediate red flag, not to mention some odd-styled vehicles that casted forth an aura of centrism and leanness; characteristics that antagonized the enlarging American appetite for size and comfort. However, America of the 1960s was ...

Communication:

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Communication: Artifact – Television Show: “I Love Lucy – Job Switching”

Introduction Women have been proving their credibility, intellectuality and competency in almost every field. They have already proven that they are the best in technical, academic, intellectual field, and no field is inaccessible to them due to their feminine gender. But unfortunately, in media, they are still shown inferior, may it be daily soaps, movies or advertisements, they are always shown as either as a sex object or a dependent lady, a stereotype housewife. Their intellectual capacity is not always demonstrated by media. “The Taming of the Shrew” was ...

Each and every period of the history has its own significant features that may define even the whole era. For example, the Medieval Ages are significant in terms of their religious strictness of rules and norms of behavior. Also, it is well-known for the wars and murders, committed on the religious ground. The 20ies of the XX century are famous for their absolutely different from the previous time period fashion, for their freedom and of course, for the mafia. As we may notice, it does not matter whether it is the era, the century, the decade or even one ...

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This is itself something of a retcon because all three books were originally conceived and written as one novel, but the author split it into three on the advice of his publisher. It is a story set in one of the latter ages of Tolkien’s sprawling mythological history of Middle-Earth. The villain, Sauron, is a former lieutenant of the world’s devil figure who survived his vastly more powerful master’s failed wars against the divine powers who created the universe. Long ...

Dating of events or artifacts is an important manifestation in archaeology. Thus, archeologists rely on different dating methods to determine the exact age of artifacts, whose ages could not be easily determined. One of such methods refers to relative dating, and it involves arranging geological events and materials in sequences in which they occurred. Thus, the sequential layering of materials and archeological deposits lead to the determination of the age of these compounds. This sequencing terminology is also referred to as stratigraphy, and it takes an examination to the rock strata (Jurmain, Lynn and Wenda 197). In as much ...

Artifact

Mercedes-AMG GT S is the premium range vehicle of German car manufacturer Mercedes Benz. The car is an achievement built on the intense beauty and passion for the senses: scene-stealing looks, breathtaking performance, and an immense growl that can easily intimidate the road itself. Mercedes-AMG GT S has lightning-fast power transfer and low bodyweight of the car means it has ability to performing cornering at thrilling speed, with the car setting higher standards for dynamic and precise performance. The car features the all-new AMG 4 liter V8 biturbo engine with 7-speed having dual clutch transmission. The car can reach ...

Comparing and contrasting two methods used by archeologists to date their materials

Archeologists use various dating techniques to determine the age of materials available in the past. Archeologists use both natural and electromagnetic methods to date their materials. In the natural dating method, the archeologist uses natural observations such as the arrangement of objects in layers, or availability of deposits in some objects and absence of the same on others to determine the time of existence of the artifact. Additionally, archeologists refer to the history of an object to determine subsequent dates of other objects related to the historical one (Lamoureux, 2009). The electromagnetic dating method uses variations in the earth's ...

Conscious-raising refer to a situation where women share and discuss their personal experiences with each, which are then turned into political actions. It has been used by women till date in their fight for equality due to its effectiveness and its origin from feminist poetry. There are three waves of feminism, which were based on timelines with the first beginning in the mid-nineteenth century culminated by the 19 amendment, which enabled women participation in voting. The second wave of feminism was more radical, and it began in the late 1960 based on the creation of sexism. The third wave started ...

Sports is an international cultural activity that is shared and enjoyed by everyone across the globe. Some people even believe that sport is one of the major ways of uniting the world. When people think of sports, they often think of it as an outfield or outdoor event comprising of a tangible playing field and a visible opponent. In recent days, however, a new version of sports known as E-Sports has emerged. The E, in this case, stands for electronic. These electronic sports have been part and parcel of modern culture and cannot be ignored. Inadvertently, their emergence prompts the re-definition of ...

- Evaluate personal values and paradigms around body decoration and physical beauty - Investigate how physical appearance affects definitions of identity and belonging - Analyze values and belief systems of physical appearance across cultures, sub-cultures and generations Artifact: People Watching in the street and the reflection about how my personal values and beliefs influence the way I dress.

This assignment made me realize how I judge people by the way they dress. I chose to analyze three women of different age and styles. Each of them was different and unique in many ways. I tried to ...

The people of the southwest play a big role in the development of archeological sites in America. This is because of their unique cultural practices and artifacts archeologist have discovered in the past. In Grand Canyon Project, we seek explain the major stakeholders involved in the study of the people of the southwest, and the different views people have towards this report.

Who were the “stake holders” on this project? What were some of the different perspectives that can be found in this project?

Secondly, this project reflects on the influence of the world on the indigenous groups of the natives. According to this project report, natives groups changed their practices as other parts of the world were also developing. For example, ...

Question 1

The origins of the definition of cognitive artifacts, comes from the roles they play in human learning, decision making and understanding: artifacts augment, influence or communicate these aspects. The term “artifact” refers to an object that is manmade. As such, cognitive artifacts are physical artificial devices designed by man to serve a specific purpose, by facilitating thinking, evaluation, as well as stimulate consequent actions or responses. The term itself (“Cognitive Artifacts”) was actually coined by Donald Norman, in reference to artificial devices designed to affect human behavior, through displaying, maintaining and operating upon information while serving a representational function. These artifacts ...

Hellenistic Civilizations

a. Art form or medium b. Purpose of the piece c. Individual or group responsible for the piece d. Meaning of the work e. The culture and the artist f. Influence by art and culture from previous civilizations g. Relation to artwork within the same civilization or era h. Meaning and value of the piece in modern-day cultures The different art forms and media whether architecture, music, visual art, or literature from different past civilization offer the modern civilization spectacular cultures and pieces that continue to greatly influence and act as a ...

Month Day, Year

History The ways in which we share information has changed dramatically in since the 1800’s. From the use of one-room schools, apprenticeships and words of mouth sharing, to the ability to store thousands of books in one data stick, the changes are astounding. What would take days to create in the 1800’s now takes minutes. While we store information very differently today then we once did, the old ways of storing information have had a direct effect on how we store information today. One example of our storage of information is our school system. Just like ...

Article Analysis

This artifact is a drawing that depicts a sleeping human baby alongside a form of a logo. It has been made on canvas that is then put in a decorative frame. The shape of the artifact is geometric with each of the two parts containing different color schemes. The logo part fills space in mostly pale-red with some shade of white. On the human baby side, the artist was rather more detailed in the work. The picture of the baby itself has been made in black and white that is placed inside an artistic frame. The background for this piece is in grey. For ...

Paper 5

The artifact comprises of images of a white man keeping his balance as he carries five dwarfs; two on his arms, two by his hands, and one on his head. The man is standing on a stage marked by the words ‘Army and Navy’, with his body language indicating that he is very confident about himself even as other people look up to him. More specifically, his posture shows that he has a firm grip of the stage on which he stands. The white man’s clothes look representative of the United States’ national flag. Some of the dwarfs are holding flags ...

Introduction

Pop culture also known as popular culture is the whole entirety of images, attitudes, perspectives, and ideas that are usually within the mainstream of a specific culture. It refers to learned and shared human trends or patterns for living; day by day living trends. These trends pervade all aspects of social interaction. Different sets of people share a common culture that can be depicted through things like the language they speak, the foods they eat and the homes they live. It is believed that to learn about the finer things in life, such as priceless art and high social class would ...

Social Identity Formations in Transnational Culture

The film, the best Years of our Lives is an indication of the cultural artifact of the formation of the social identity in the transnational culture. There are many hurdles, and one has to face several difficulties in order to gain, and then maintain its social identity in the transnational culture. It is also represented in the film, in which it is shown that the characters are facing difficulty to regain the social identity as civilian after the World War II. It represents some extraordinary and complex situations, and problems at the political unconscious level, within its wish to ...

Introduction

Arts and paintings are among the oldest professions, whose history dates before 14th century. They both reflect the social, economic and political occurrences in the society, as well as a certain degree of illusion and creativity. Some of the contemporary artists who have influenced the arts profession include Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock. This paper will compare and contrast two artists using their works water lilies (Claude Monet) and Number 12 (Jackson Pollock) and establish their similarities and differences.

Background of the artists

Oscar Monet (1840-1926) was born in Paris to Claude Monet and Louise Monet. According to Tucker (45), Monet’s family moved ...

Gallery 155 at the Metropolitan museum of Art showcases Athenian Art, mostly vases with black figures that depict scenes from Mythology and actual life in Athens. Also in display are helmets, vests and knives from 7th century BC. While the vases are descriptive with exquisite painting of scenes from mythology, the bronze artifacts are rather telling of the war they were used for. The helmets, the body vests and the knives, although old and rusty are in good shape and can tell the viewer about the size of the person who used it. The fact that they survived this ...

Peace that people enjoy nowadays uninterrupted is, of course, not a new phenomenon. However, what is interesting is that the humanity has lived only several hundred years without warring for whatever reason could bring large armies face-to-face in a lethal confrontation for questionable reasons. Besides soldiers, the brute force of conflicts, the main tools of war have always been weapons indicating the state of technological advancement of nations, being the litmus paper and the benchmarks of progress. Thousands years ago, there was no such concept as a long-lasting peace, and the weaponry was a lot more different than it currently is, being used ...

In order to complete this museum report, I visited the Bowers Museum that is located in Santa Ana. The visit and the entire experience was fun for me because it gave me an opportunity to learn in an entirely different and stimulating environment. History is not as much fun when sitting in class and talking about people and cultures that one cannot relate to. Thus, going to the museum makes the learning experience relatable and easier to understand. This was my second time visiting the Bowers Museum. This visit brought back memories because the last time I was there, ...

Artifacts are an important representation of culture and show the dynamics and growth in it. The popularity of an artifact is subject to different criteria. First, the artifact has to represent a culture that can be identified by a number of people. For the popularity of an artifact, everybody must be appreciative of the fact that it represents a part of their culture. In another context, the artifact could represent a culture that is widely accepted or recognized through a vast population. Many people have to recognize the culture for it to be popular, not only in one place or in a group it represents, ...

Exploring the Role Museums Play in Engaging their Audiences

Art and Architecture: Exploring the Role Museums Play in Engaging their Audiences Museums are here for a purpose. Beyond the display of interesting objects of olden years, museums provide a glimpse of a bygone era by preserving a nation’s heritage or an occasion’s memory. They provide entertaining educational opportunities for children outside the classroom and accurate, truthful information for adult visitors. James Durston’s article, Opinion: Why I Hate Museums, dated August 22, 2013, speaks volumes about the current state of most museums all over the world, especially the ones that cater to the interests of adult museum-goers. In his ...

A Rhetorical Analysis

In order to have a solid ground for rhetorical analysis, this paper has chosen a particular angle of collective memory as the artifact to be studied. Because collective memory deals with a memory of an event shared by a certain group of people, it is only fitting that we examine an event of national importance, something that had marked in the history of America and the World. One event that falls into that category is the 9/11 incident. Thus, in this paper, we will try to analyze a collective memory by dissecting the rhetorical appeals and tools used in an online article dedicated to ...

Introduction:

Research has shown that African art and architecture has duly developed from the ancient traditions. History has it that generations before the United States of America and the European nations became some of the greatest powers. The rise and fall of many great kingdoms were at the fingertips of Africa. The laws, religions, discipline and organization of most ancient kingdoms indicate that Africa has its civilization for many years say thousands of years to be precise. The humankind’s beginnings and origins based on cultural expressions may be traced back to Africa. The recent discoveries that made in the ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ Literary Analysis of the Play Arcadia Hayden White, in his essay titled "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact" argues that, every historian is a storyteller, and the ability to construe historical events into coherent narrative form is significant to the art of historiography. He conveys that literary imagination is crucial to a historian and stresses on the need to recognize that there is a fictive element to any historical narrative. This essay, by analyzing the play ‘Arcadia’ written by Tom Stoppard, aims to find out, how literary genre and literary elements used by the author alter or impact our ...

In classrooms, different artifacts are used to emphasize on human diversity and its significance in the teaching and learning environments. One of these important artifacts is a reflection of special education in the country. This artifact focuses on the general concept of comprehending differences in students and their adaptation to instructions. It particularly highlights the standards set for students with special needs and how teachers are expected to incorporate them on in the classroom activities. Competent teachers are expected to understand the effects of cognitive disabilities on communication and to learn according to the laws on students with disabilities. By ...

John Gast “American Progress” (1872)

Essay

Every nation is characterized by its own unique culture that is created according to the background of knowledge, religious ideas, beliefs, ethnical peculiarities. Certainly, every culture is unique in its own artifacts that help to understand this culture in the better way. These are literature works, architectural monuments and sculptures, pieces of music, etc. All artifacts of the past centuries have deep roots in the given culture, so deep that sometimes it is not really possible to understand their origin. The example of such artifacts is the painting “American Progress” by John Gast ...

Introduction

The video game industry has come a long way so far. This essay is discussing on the reasons for the extensive popularity of Sony video game (PlayStation). PlayStation video game has gained global scale popularity and acceptance since the introduction of PlayStation 1 because of its wonderful technological features that offer its users a wider variety of games to choose. The popularity that PlayStation has enjoyed for decades now is anticipated to rise. Currently as the video game is entering its fourth installment, it is not only becoming popular with children but also with adults. A significant customer population of the ...

Roles of religions

Introduction Appiah Kwameh, through his article “The Case for Contamination” points out and analyzes the varied ways through which globalization is taking place. In his article, he uses a wide range of extensive instances that depict how contaminated the world is becoming. By referring to the world as contaminated, Appiah simply refers to the mix-up of traditions and values which eventually interfere with the good morals and practices that our ancestors left us. He reflects on the intrusion of globalization and modernity into our traditional, timeless rituals due to the pressure of conformity on the world to realize uniformity. ...

The term ‘pop culture’ has different definitions that depend on the context and the person defining the term. According to Tim Delaney, pop culture is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time (P. 1). Other definitions have also described pop culture as the entirety of ideas, attitudes, perspectives, memes, and images as well as other phenomena that an informal consensus prefers within the mainstream of a specific culture. While the term popular culture has been used interchangeably with pop culture and they have often borne overlapping meanings, the term pop ...

Information systems encompass development and design. Design science research has an aim of creating innovative IT artifacts. The IT artifacts is a self-sufficient entity that is defined by its properties and the functions of the artifacts are designed into its properties and in this case the artifact is expected to do what it is intended to do. IT artifacts are ensembles which are shaped by the organizational context during the time of development and time of use. Sociomateriality depicts that artefacts commonly referred as “the material” and social activity commonly known as “the social” cannot be separated as they ...

The term myth is taken to refer to ancient life accounts that may either be true or false. Myths have no tangible evidence that backs them up; older people pass them to the younger generation who could either choose to believe or doubt them. Every culture has own mythology developed over time. Most of these mythologies encompass the heroes of their past, origin of the world, religion and legends. The stories tend to possess an influential symbolism which explains why they survive for a very long time. There exist numerous conceptual frame works as far as myths are concerned. ...

Washington DC is a hub of handful wonderful places among them museums which appeal to quite a wide range of interests. They range from big and large public funded institutions to small private yet historic homes that carry a rich history of not only America but also rich histories of other parts of the world. One such museum is The Holocaust Memorial Museum which I visited on the 26th of May 2013. It is located just across from the National Mall in Washington DC. To say this is a place rich with history is an understatement for it is indeed a memorial that showcases ...

Introduction

Museums are places where we can see different artifacts, collection items and art forms. Museums through its collections present a story about a person, a thing, any living or extinct being or some abstract concept. This basic concept of museum being a “pedia” of knowledge for all of us will continue to remain same in the future but the representation of that will change a lot in coming days because of the advancement in technology. Information exchange has seen a paradigm shift in the last few decades. Advent of computer followed by internet has changed the way we gather information. The Internet boom in the ...

The standard: Effective teachers of science understand how students learn and develop scientific knowledge

Artifacts: Unit plans and evidence of actively engaging students in learning in age-appropriate meaningful experiences teachers Reasons for selecting artifacts The first artifact that effective teachers of science use is the unit plans. This artifact allows teachers to plan effectively and develop science lesson plans capable of providing the necessary information to students. In addition, the following artifact contributes in the understanding of the knowledge of the subject taught, and the process of acquiring the scientific knowledge. Moreover, the artifact demonstrates my knowledge of understanding through the provision of a perfect science management plan. According to National Science ...

Present a detailed description of the artifact

Prior to civilization, the citizens of the United States purchased goods using barer trade. Barter trade refers to the purchase of goods with services or even goods with other goods. The only availed coins were the Spanish dollars; which remained highly recognized and accepted during trade. The signage of the constitution and the newly established nation permitted Congress to coin money. The first act in support of coinage came into existence during the period ruled by George Washington as the president. The coinage development has evolved since 1972 (Harper & Miller, 2011). The development of coins facilitates the United ...

The hip hop culture is believed to have come into existence in the 1970s. The culture is expressly marked by four cardinal elements or art forms that serve to distinguish it from other cultures in the world. Hysell in the American Reference books manual points out that the four arts of the hip hop culture are rapping, break dancing, Disk Jockeying and graffiti (488). Notably, these four elements can be easily be recognized by anybody. It can also be noted from the four arts that music is by all means the most blatant aspect of the hip hop culture ...

Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife

The African culture has always been an enticing topic for the art lovers. It was believed that the African art provided much of the ancient geometric profiles which could rejuvenate the modern art. The remains of artwork and jewelry found in southern Africa are signs that there were organized societies there up to 100,000 years ago (Bowden, Wilson, 2009). The Art Institute of Chicago is one such encyclopedic museum that houses some of the finest collections of worlds various art and culture. Amongst these collections, the regal sculpture, “Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga)” ...