In this essay‚ I will argue that ethnographic museums privilege viewing‚ at the expense of other senses. I will further argue that by privileging the visual‚ ethnographic museums become problematic in two ways- firstly‚ by not accurately representing the cultures they are supposed to be exhibiting‚ and secondly‚ by limiting the experience of museum-goers who may be visually impaired or otherwise unable to visit museums that are purely mono-sensorial. After outlining and discussing the problems associated
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Dennis S Professor Michael W English 101 8 December 2010 The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department: Honest or Crooked? The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is an agency of highly disciplined and trained people whom sometimes‚ although not terribly often‚ do the wrong thing. We were taught at an extremely young age that the police are friends of the community. There are honest and dishonest people in all societies‚ as well as in the police department. A police officer’s mission is
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McNair Scholars Research Journal Volume 4 | Issue 1 Article 4 1-26-2012 Governmental Fragmentation in Metropolitan Detroit Kristal D. Davis Eastern Michigan University‚ kdavis48@emich.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.emich.edu/mcnair Recommended Citation Davis‚ Kristal D. (2012) "Governmental Fragmentation in Metropolitan Detroit‚" McNair Scholars Research Journal: Vol. 4: Iss. 1‚ Article 4. Available at: http://commons.emich.edu/mcnair/vol4/iss1/4 This Article is brought
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Institute of Chicago Art Museum 1. For this assignment I choose to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. I choose to journey down town to see the so much talked about Vincent Van Gogh exhibit. As a waited in line I meet a student of Colombia College he told me that you do not have to pay to get in donations are welcome. I was confused and unsure what he meant. He explained to me that College students could offer a donation of one dollar or fifty cents as admission to the museum. So from the start my
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In the Folk Museum The concept of belonging The Museum A museum is a place of past. A folk museum celebrates the lives and lifestyle of a bygone era. This particular ‘folk museum’ is displaying the culture and life of the early Australians. The persona feels disconnected from the experience – the almost deathly scene betrays his‚ and others‚ lack of interest. Through the use of imagery‚ the poet sets a cold‚ stale‚ dark and a silent place and this highlights the persona’s feeling of not belonging
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Word Count: 562 Dali Museum I visited the Salvador Museum on Wednesday March 8th‚ 2006. Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in Catalonia‚ Spain on May 11th‚ 1904. His parents were Salvador Dali I Cusi and Felipa Domenech Ferres. His older brother‚ also named Salvador died prior to the birth of Dali. His sister Ana Maria was three years younger than him. At the age of 13 he began visiting the School of Art and his first painting was produced. It was made in 1913 called Vilabertin. Dali’s father
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO Bilbao—today one of the top tourist destinations in Europe—was such a backwater in the 1990s that‚ according to Gehry‚ the 265‚000-square-foot museum‚ beside the Nervión River‚ went up almost unnoticed by the press. That only contributed to the drop-dead impact it created with its unveiling. “I like to work under the radar as much as I can. It’s been harder since I’ve gotten notorious‚” says Gehry. The first photos of the near-complete structure‚ which resembles a gargantuan
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Canbulat Museum 2013 081773 Kaan Hançer Canbulat Museum 5/15/2013 The Legend Of Canbulat The venetian soldiers placed sharp blades on a turning wheel and placed it at the enterance of the arsenal bastion to prevent the ottomans from entering.In order to stop the wheel to allow the ottoman forces through the bastion canbulat jumped to the wheel with his white horse.On myth suggests that canbulat whose head was cut during this event picked up his head‚jumped on his horse and started fighting
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exactly forty-four years before I was born‚ makes me connect with it even more. Finally‚ after 9 years of looking up facts and watching documentaries‚ I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Farmington Hills‚ Michigan. According to the Wall Street Journal‚ this museum in particular “may be the most provocative museum of them all” (“What They’re Saying‚” par. 1). Just driving past the building makes a strong statement due to the museum’s exterior wall which resembles the barbed wire fences from a
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I had the pleasure of visiting The Miami Art Museum and was very impressed by what I encountered and viewed. I have never found interest in art until I got to see the museum. Throughout my exploration at the Miami Art Museum I was able to view a wide selection of art. In this venture‚ I viewed the most beautiful artwork I had ever seen‚ observed interesting non European/North American art‚ was alarmed by the most disturbing works ‚ explored a breath taking exhibition‚ and actually found work that
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