Ringling Museum of Art and Cà d ’Zan Mansion As you turn into long the road leading to the Ringling Museum of Art‚ you can see the magnificent building just ahead at the end of the road. The Ringling Museum of Art has the look of many fabulous mansions and museums in Europe. The museum and mansion are located on approximately 66 acres of land next to the Sarasota Bay; the land was purchased by Mr. Ringling during the 1920s as part of the boom which took place during that time. The Ringling
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The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art‚ partially due to the museums façade‚ a striking granite building (Figure 1)‚ designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art‚ which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum’s opening in 1931
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Museum Artifact 737 likely represents a bichrome‚ wheel-made kylix fired during the Cypro-Geometric III period of the Cypriot Iron Age. The kylix‚ a drinking vessel shaped like a stemmed bowl or cup and possessing a height of 5.5 cm‚ resembles a chalice with a disk base of 3 cm connected to a bowl measuring 8 cm across its widest point. Marked with two sets of concentric circles on the interior of the bowl‚ the kylix draws strong influence from greek design during the Late Bronze Age. Joanna Smith
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Americans‚ our views on healthcare are based on specific sets of narrow experiences. We might complain about long emergency wait times‚ lack of service to those without money‚ greedy insurance companies‚ and depending on our political allegiances‚ the massive healthcare overhaul that is currently taking place under the Obama administration. Despite the fact that most of us will end up practicing in that system‚ it is often instructive to take a step back and look at the healthcare systems of other nations
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Problem to solve The problem to solve in this article is childhood obesity. This paper gives the views that the parents have on the way the schools play a part in childhood obesity. Over the last few years the number of childhood obesity has skyrocketed. Roughly 9 million children have been reported to be obese and that number is steadily increasing. (Murphy & Polivka‚ 2007) . Schools more than ever play a significant role in our children today. Obesity can lead to many health issues if
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Stats Notes Week Two Describing Data Mean-average (takes every value into account- Sum of all Values/total number of values=mean Median-what data is in the middle (exact middle value)? Mode-what value occurs most frequently in the data? Interval and Ratio Data Nominal Ordinal Interval-best data Ratio-best data Measures of Variation Outlier-high-end/low-end Interpret the measures of central tendency-mean‚ median‚ mode Measures of variability-range‚ standard deviation (SD) =square root
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The Health Club Industry This case provides an opportunity to practice analyzing the industry environment and how it might influence the strategic issues facing a firm. In essence‚ any industry analysis requires us to think about how broadly we should define the scope of the industry. Please be sure to identify the boundary of the industry. In preparing your case for class discussion‚ please ensure you have read chapter two from Dess Lumpkin and Eisner‚ 2012‚ which is available on Blackboard. Further
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date was March 21‚ 2017. Mike introduced me to the museum due to the connection and significance that it has for him and his family. His family‚ being partially Jewish‚ was persecuted during the Holocaust by the German Nazi army. Going around the museum gave me insight on what his family endured in the concentration camps which most of the time‚ these places exceeded the carrying capacity. While we were going through the right side of the museum‚ there is a history wall of the rise and fall of fascism
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Art Museum as a Ritual Duncan begins her article‚ “The Art Museum as Ritual‚” by comparing art museums to religious/ceremonial spaces‚ not only in architectural design but also in their purpose. She states‚ however‚ that unlike churches or temples‚ museums are secular places where “the secular truth became the authoritative truth.” Thus‚ a separation of church and state came to be an‚ as Duncan states‚ “religion…kept its authority only for voluntary believers.” She then goes on to the differences
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In 1996‚ the Neon Museum was established in order to bring more attention to the signs. “…the Neon Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to collecting‚ preserving‚ studying and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs for educational‚ historic‚ arts and cultural enrichment.” In this contextual analysis‚ I will reaffirm the importance of the Neon Museum’s
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