Docent Essays

  • Becoming a Historian

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    Becoming a historian requires a lot of different skills and first starts with becoming familiar with the work place. Such as one, must receive the proper funds to keep a historical building alive by grant writing and educating the community by using good public speaking skills. Also, I must sharpen your researching skills to set up displays, and proper training before starting the archive process. Sandy, the curator, gave me a tour of the Milford Historical Society. I moved some needed books

  • Internship Reflection

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    Internships are a learning experience of new skills and improving on previous skills that you have gained. I have through the school tours been training to be a docent, but one day in the past two weeks I had official docent training with other students. Everyone learned the story of the Eel-Stowe and Nathan Clark-Stockade house. Also, we were taught where the lights were in each house, and how to uncover the windows, objects, and hide the covering before the visitors came to the house. Then

  • Internship Reflection

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    An internship is a formal program to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession. By this point in my internship I am more than half way through it and taking on more and more responsibilities and positions as I go along. After a minor break from researching, I researched for three more hours on the Victorian memorabilia project. I found out companies who made postcards and when the Sanborn map company emerged. Once I was done I wanted to prepare more for physical

  • Reflection on Public History

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    feeling to the museum. The docent can take advantage of this feeling by elaborating the daily life of the residents and their ranchers. There is a sense of being there during that period. This type of museum is unique because the physical location connects to the Del Valle and Rubel family. The tour stated at the chapel leading toward several rooms through the adobe. All the docents ended the tour at the schoolhouse, showing the film Ramona. Dorthea Phelan, one of many docents, is adamant about storytelling

  • Seymour Center Observation Paper

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    I went to the Seymour center on Sunday from about eleven a.m. to two p.m. It was very empty when I first arrived, but there was a surge of people a little after noon, possibly they had just gotten out of church. They were mostly families, which a few pairs of college students, and some lone adults or older couples. The range of the families was from very small, one parent one child, and as large as about three adults and four children. Everyone there was having a good time, only one kid cried the

  • Foreshadowing In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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    Lennie have stayed together, but as they work there are times when they are separated. George docent

  • Augmented Reality Research Paper

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    While visiting museums, museum guidance is provided to lead visitors through the exhibition in a sensible order. Museum guidance can come in forms of docent-led tours or self-guided tours. It is often that visitors prefer self-guided over docent-led tours since self-guided tours allow visitors to view the museum exhibit at their own leisure. However, visitors may find the conventional museum guidance for self-guided tours, such as gallery maps and

  • No Water: A Short Story

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    I felt like an empty glass of water. No water. No half-empty or half-full. there was nothing left to give, No tears left to be cried. Behind closed doors of my home, My mom and dad were the only ones that made me feel happy, I had fun with them, but I heard the lies in my thoughts, I was telling myself that that wasn't “cool” that the kids from my high school, my friends, those were the ones to impress, their opinion of me was the most important . I never planned to feel alone when my sister

  • Mercury about to slay Argus

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    a small, but excellent museum. I will definitely visit again. The changing exhibits are always interesting. The docents are very good. Currently a great little impressionist collection and a southwest collection, but it changes. The building and grounds are part of the incredible experience. Once inside you can choose to explore on your own with free-recorded guided tour or with a docent. It is really good and great location.

  • Visual Analysis Bouuerau

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    perspective. The women being bare foot along with the child who is naked provides unity to painting as they are part of the natural landscape. All of this, gives the viewer the impression that this is a realistic picture. Interpretation: Subject: Our docent, Mary, shared with us that this artist loved to paint the human body and was well known for his painting of the human body and skin. This piece certainly highlights those skills. The colors of the hair and skin are incredibly life like. Original

  • Learning by Teaching and Increased Exposure in the Classroom

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    would be exposed to different teaching techniques when the teacher of the upper level class was teaching his or her lesson. This theory is very similar to mainstreaming with the exclusion of learning disabled students. The Latin phrase “Homines dum docent discunt,” which means people, learn while they teach (James Miltner, Graduate Instructor at University of Michigan, March 24, 2005). This phrase demonstrates how an older student mentor would benefit greatly from tutoring a younger student. A great

  • D.U. Singer Hospital Products Corp.

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    D.U. Singer Hospital Products Corp. has done sufficient new product development at the research and development level to estimate a high likelihood of technical success for a product of assured commercial success: A long-term antiseptic. Management has instructed Singer’s Antiseptic Division to make a market entry at the earliest possible time: they have requested a complete plan up to the startup of production. Marketing and other plans following startup of production are to be prepared separately

  • Ringling Museum Analysis

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    When most people hear the name “Ringling” they think of the Ringling brother, known for their world famous circus. Besides their world-renowned circus, one of the brothers, John Ringling, had a vast collection of art pieces in his Florida mansion. His collection grew so big; he decided to build a museum to display his collection of art. The Ringling museum is located in Sarasota, Florida. The Ringling museum is comprised of multiple buildings. The museum itself, which holds all the art and has a

  • Athletes Should Not Get Paid Essay

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    persons who do much more hard work that is a suicidal attempt .cricketers train hard ,no doubt ,but footballers train harder. Cricketers are great entertainment ,the nation stands on its feet when their happens to be a nail biting suitation . But that docent justify the pay they get .its completely illogical ,if observed. You see, its the spectators who have brought such fame to the sports of cricket and people who enjoy the benefits are not the spectators .ridicilous it is to learn that cricketers deep

  • Negrotown By Key And Peele Summary

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    Is this satire or is this the truth? That was one of the questions i had to ask myself while watching the video Negrotown by Key and Peele. To be honest, I chose to do a synopsis on this video because I have watched a lot of their material. I always find their acts to be humorous with a mix of truth and exaggeration. However watching the video clip of Negrotown for educational purposes, and after rewinding and pausing trying to absorb as much information I could, I found myself asking questions about

  • Persuasive Essay On Zoos

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    Zoos hire trained professionals to take care of animals and keep them healthy at all times. Burns analyzed “Zoos have the facilities for care and breeding. They have researchers and veterinarians. And they have critical mass: 180 million people visit the 224 zoos and aquariums in the U.S. association every year. ‘No one else has that. That’s more than major league baseball, football, hockey and basketball, combined,” (Jones). 180 million is a huge number of people coming and helping pay for the care

  • Alice's Suicide in Kindred

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    Alice's Suicide: Her Only Way to Freedom The Book Kindred, written by Octavia E. Butler, is full of scenes where power, submission and pain are seen throughout its pages. The scene that by far shocked me the most was when Dana discovered that Alice had committed suicide. The whole situation is an act of desperation where a woman has lost the inspiration of her life with nothing to live for. The scene started when Dana walked into the barn where once she had been whipped. She tried to get used

  • Persuasive Essay On Violent Disobedience

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    Many people choose to use violence in their own ways to achieve the goals they have set upon themselves. But are there situations where violent disobedience is ever justified? You might be thinking, what is violent disobedience? Violent disobedience is the act of breaking a rule placed upon oneself, ready to accept any punishment that is to come to thee. You could violently disobey anyone such as the police, your parents, and even yourself. I believe only in certain situations one should be allowed

  • The Humanities : Culture, Continuity And Change

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    or Albert Einstein; or musical arrangements by such lights as Ludwig von Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, or Richard Wagner. Likewise showed are a couple Egyptian ancient rarities gathered by David and Marsha Karpeles. It is significant that the docent is additionally one of the library 's attractions. He is cordial and proficient, as well as a genuine Southern honorable man with a genuine ability for narrating. His stories are enlightening and in addition charming. The library, which offers free

  • Curiosity In Ex-Colored Man And Quicksand

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    “The important thing is not to stop questioning curiosity is its own reason for existing. From the brilliant mind of Albert Einstein . Curiosity is something needed for anything to exists. In both excerpts The Autobiography of Ex-Colored Man and Quicksand and they both leave New York and one they reach their destination their curiosity run wild with the plan in The Autobiography of Ex-Colored Man setting ,events, and character developed curiosity by questioning their surrounding in