Assignment 3: Cultural Event Report Smithsonian National Museum of American History HUM 111 & Summer 2011 September 6‚ 2011 Professor Dr. Darryl Claybon Strayer University‚ Online-Campus Introduction This assignment will detail my visit to one of my favorite museums in Washington‚ D.C.‚ the Smithsonian’s American History Museum. I have attended the museum several times in my life time and it never gets old. My recent visit I found that the museum is being renovated;
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strange rock formation dotted with smooth rocks that he recognized as fossilized crustaceans. The Smithsonian secretary took note of them and returned to camp to share the news. Calling the discovery a “find” is an understatement. Over the following 15 years‚ Walcott made seven more trips to the site and collected over 65‚000 specimens from the Burgess Shale which are now maintained in the Smithsonian Institute. The most prominent fossil he discovered‚ or rather his son discovered was Sidneyia inexpectans
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PLANNING THE SITE: The planning phase of site building is the foundation for great website. It is the blueprint for designing form‚function‚navigation and interface. Planning means defining the site’s goal. The objective of a customized website is to 1.Speed up the interactive process 2.Reduce human intervention to a minimum 3. Save time 4. Make buying and selling through the site cost-effective The aim of the planning stage is to provide for quick application development and deployment
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Color Space was created by Robert Gamblin because of the Smithsonian Institution commissioning him to recreate one hundred and fifty oil paint colors from the 17th and 18th century. His job is to sort out and make color mixing easier. Thus‚ we have Color Space‚ a quick way to identify and mix colors. Robert defines Color Space by three different attributes such as hue‚ value‚ and intensity. The intense colors are located on the outer edges‚ the center more neutral‚ and value moves up and down the
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trina brown 199 Mon de Drive pheniox‚ Arizona 07509 September 3‚ 2013 Dr. I.C. Mann Smithsonian Institute Natural History Museum Room 212 P.O. Box 37012 Washington D.C. 20013-7012 Dear Dr.Mann‚ Hello‚ my name is Hannah Formanek. I have studied the National Geographic documentary on Otzi the Iceman in my honors 9 Literature class. I would appreciate your consideration of my opinion. I would believe that Iceman ritually killed. I have many reason I believe this. One reason
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Smithsonian Assignment The second floor of National Museum of the American Indian contains many interesting exhibits that tell stories of American Indians‚ such as the livelihood of Native Americans in the present time and the culture of American Indians. There are many items that are related to American Indians’ lives in those exhibits. However‚ the author of this essay is interested in The American Indian which is the name of an oil painting that has been depicted in one of those exhibits‚ Our
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Let me talk about my favorite website‚ Sina. I guess you’ve heard something about it coz it is the largest Chinese-language website. Definitely‚ it’s pretty popular in china. I like this website so much primarily because it’s very informative and entertaining. It offers loads of information like the latest world news‚ changes in the financial market‚ reports about sports events and blockbusters. And it gives us the newest stories about the showbiz‚ you know‚ the movie stars‚ famous singers and TV
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included in this chapter. Related literature Foreign According to Beaird (2010)‚ the process of designing a website falls somewhere between bridge building and sculpture. Yes‚ we want to create an individual site that’s aesthetically pleasing‚ but our highest priority should be to meet the needs of our client. Watrall and Siarto (2009) explain how to create really beautiful websites and still make sure to satisfy the users in their book‚ Head First Web Design. It all begins with good planning
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rEmily Sullivan 9/28/12 Chemistry Puentemys Mushaisaensis‚ The 60 Million Year Old Turtle On September 11‚ 2012 researchers form the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and North Carolina State University discovered fossil of a prehistoric turtle in the northern part of South America. They dated the turtle to be sixty million years old and named it Puentemys mushaisaensis because the skeleton was found in the Cerrejon Coal Mine. This mine was made famous with the discovery
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Smithsonian Economic Theory in the Information Age The basis tenets of Adam Smith’s concept of division of labour‚ first printed in his book‚ The Wealth of Nations (cited herein as reprinted in Patrick Murray’s Reflections on Commercial Life)‚ have been staples of economic thought for well over 200 years. Initially‚ however‚ the French economist François Quesnay‚ as interpreted by Walter Eltis in his 1988 Oxford Economic Paper “The Contrasting Theories of Industrialization of François and Adam
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