For the art project in this class‚ I visited The Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. It is one of the most outstanding and largest museums of Art in United States. It was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition. This museum is basically formed and grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Originally‚ this museum was a collection of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial
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In a country full of limitless opportunities and advanced technology‚ there is a city named Philadelphia. Throughout the United States‚ there have been rapid technological advancements occurring. For example Chicago‚ Illinois and Dallas‚ Texas are some of the greatest high tech cities in the US and have a higher standard of living compared to Philadelphia. In order for a city to be fully productive‚ it needs to keep up with the technological growth‚ but we has not yet done so. As I walked down 31st
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The overall theme that Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ and the leaders of the Philadelphia Synagogue were using to argue that religious diversity should be accepted is that every man has civil rights that would be impeded by combination of church and state. To expand on this‚ Thomas Jefferson ecentually explains that each man has the right to choosing his own religion because is protected under civil rights because it is unlawful for one man to hold others accountable for his beliefs. (151) New
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Essay Number 3 I was the oldest delegate in the Philadelphia Convention. Other than George Washington I was the best man in America. I was born into a poor family and became an inventor‚ scientist‚ diplomat and publisher. My career in public service was long‚ I serviced as an ambassador to England and France and I was also a Governor of Pennsylvania. I was a compromiser‚ I brought delegates together. I favored the strong national government that the United States had‚ I was a firm believer that
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“Law and Order in Philadelphia” is a documentary based on the policing. We see that the area is bad and that there is violence‚ crime‚ and drugs on the streets. There is a lot of crime in Philadelphia and they use the due process model which “stresses the criminal justice system to protect suspects from honest mistakes or deliberate deception and bias by police…”(Barkan 400). A reporter goes undercover with the police so see the everyday occurrences with crime in Philadelphia. We witnessed in the
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Miracle at Philadelphia By: Catherine Drinker Bowen Joseph Winker 3/5/05 Miracle at Philadelphia is a book about the Constitutional Convention in the United States. The chapters are arranged in the order that the events happened during the convention. Mrs. Bowen‚ the author‚ made the events and the people of the convention seem more interesting than I thought they would be. There are many things that I really enjoyed reading in my book. Some of those things would have to be just how
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an opportunity to gain further insight with the city of Philadelphia while enhancing my writing abilities to perform at the collegiate level. Prior to this course I considered myself a fairly decent writer‚ but going through the writing process during this course I was able to identify certain issues with my writing and eventually reform them. I had no idea how urban environments interacted with their varied demographics‚ and how Philadelphia functioned as a city. Reading the course texts gave me
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The Philadelphia museum of art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located along the west side of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The museum was established in 1876 and stocks more than 227‚000 objects. There are over 200 galleries that span over 2000 years. Each year the Museum puts on 25 or more exhibitions‚ an example being Salvador Dali. The main building of the museum is visited by more than 800‚000 people annually. This museum was not always an art museum. It began
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Happy Days by Samuel Beckett The play ’Happy Days’ is a humorously dark and ambiguous play. The play is primarily a one-woman show. It is an interesting play that wrestles with themes of loneliness and extreme optimism in the face of utter hopelessness. The play unfolds rather loosely as we are introduced to Winnie‚ a middle-aged‚ happy-go-lucky woman buried up to her waist in sand. Behind her and hidden from view sleeps Willie‚ her husband. Winnie goes about her normal routine rituals. She
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In chapters 1-4 of The Philadelphia Negro‚ W.E.B. Du Bois provides historical context about African Americans in Philadelphia from the early 1600s to the mid 1800s. Before he shifts to the sociological study‚ he covers the trajectory of blacks in Philadelphia from the arrival of the first slaves to the growing free community as a result of the mass exodus of African Americans from the South. He concentrates on the socioeconomic status of numerous pecuniary classes as well as changes in the division
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