Experience of the Different Nation
When I usually visit any types of historical place, I always think on its background. I am curious to know what happened years ago in those places, how the people looked like, and how they survived the difficulties of that era. Actually, I am an emotional person especially when I heard on history because I feel captured by the interesting events. Moreover, I feel lost by traveling and going back in years trying to leave the same experiences. The same happened to me before going to visit Boston Tea Party place. Being sincere, at the beginning I thought that Tea Party was a simple celebration where people well-dressed went to taste a special tea. In my first history classes, I learned more about it, and I realized that wasn’t like my mind drew it. Thus, when I was at loco and I observed its background, I understood that it was not enjoyable place at all for them. However, that place is the personification of the nation itself.
It was snowing when I got my ticket for going to Boston Tea Party, and interestingly the museum was open. I was surprised and happy about that, but at the same time I would like to have been there after two hundred and forty years and two days later of Tea Party. I had a chance to feel more or less the same weather condition. I have been living in Boston about four years, and I used to study in downtown but I never went to visit that place, I just oversaw it. All the time that I was passing over it, I didn’t notice that amazing, spectacular view of the harbor and between the two small bridges there is a pleasant decorated ship. Nevertheless, the decorated ship always has taken my attention, and I planned to go there one day, but my laziness didn’t allow me. Finally I pur...
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...ing even though the movie was also loudly but my voice was coming over it. And after that we were leaving the movie theater everybody had tears in their eyes and sharing the sensation about the movie.
Therefore our guide told us that we can climb up to ship and see the Abigail’s Tea Room. As a tea lover I was so pleased to me. The tea was free and there were different blended of fresh brewed tea was waiting for us. Obviously I did not like most of these teas; they were to bitter taste to me. I took some pictures from the ship to magnificent harbor view. In conclusion, I visited Museum of Fine Arts, New York museums as well none of them did not give me that excited and emotional feeling. It was my most excellent enjoyable experience that I ever visit a historical museum. Contained by I had and an experience about pretending and being a different nationality person.
As we were enjoying a concoction of light fare and drink a gentlemen of period dress appeared without entrance. He greeted us and inquired if we had tasted the "tea"? When challenged as to his attire, he introduced himself as William Fell from Lancaster England and was a permanent resident of the Inn. He proceeded to tell the story of the area, how he had found, some 150 or so years ago, this as a suitable deep water port for shipping American goods back to England. In fact, he reminisced on the building of the first continental army's naval frigate, the Virginia and later the Constellation in these very waters. He also saw the need to bring a calming atmosphere to the high spirited seaman by creating a safe refuge in these quarters. As we proceeded to refill our glass of a very warming mixture, we turned and as quietly as the Admiral had entered the room, he had some how vanished. A ghost . . . I'm not sure, but was certainly a man of stature, knowledge and power.
Boston was the largest harbors during the colonial era. Products going to and from Britain were rotating out of Boston daily. When word reached Boston of the...
As you begin this journey, you will notice an interesting mix of people walking up and down the street. Exchange Avenue has something for history buffs, adults, and children. There will be people from other countries as well as local people enjoying the sites. You will see cowboys and cowgirls in boots and jeans, people in shorts and flip flops, and businessmen in suits and ties. Everyone is welcome and no one is in a hurry. They just take their time to stroll around and enjoy the sites.
Sails furled, flag drooping at her rounded stern, she rode the tide in from the sea. She was a strange ship, indeed, by all accounts, a frightening ship, a ship of mystery. Whether she was trader, privateer, or man-of-war no one knows. Through her bulwarks black-mouthed cannon yawned. The flag she flew was Dutch; her crew a motley. Her port of call, an English settlement, Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. She came, she traded, and shortly afterwards was gone. Probably no ship in modern history has carried a more portentous freight. Her cargo? Twenty slaves.
Boulay, Harvey. “Massachusetts.” Encyclopedia Americana. Volume 18. Pages 448 – 473. Connecticut: Grolier Incorporated, 1999.
In conclusion, visiting the History Museum of North Carolina was a great way to experience world culture. The assignment was truly amazing, because I went with purpose, and new look on the influence of the world’s culture today. It is very surprising to find so much of the world wrapped into one big melting pot. You experience the world around you outside of your textbook, living room, and computer. The people living next to you, and even in your very house makeup the different cultural aspects of our community.
Washington, DC is a spectacular place. This being my first time in DC, I was in awe of everything and all the historical places I encountered. The presence of the monuments and history is what made the capitol so magnificent. Having only read about the Lincoln memorial, I never had the chance to experience the sensation of being inside such an honorable place of importance. The imposing white marble walls of the memorial and the many people surrounding it could be seen from afar. Arriving at the location, an unknown feeling came over me. I was experiencing history in a whole different level. When I think about a memorial, the term remembrance comes to mind. Seeing the statue of Abraham Lincoln brought pieces of memories from history class and evoked thoughts of what it might have felt like to be in his shoes. I was astonished by the statue’s enormousness and how grand Abraham Lincoln looked in his chair. The size of the statue compared to pictures from books and elsewhere was surreal. Abraham Lincoln was a very “powerful and prominent individual” in the history of our nation, the statue’s design and size reflected upon that. Looking around me, I wanted to know what the others thoughts were on seeing his statue and how they felt in that building. I finally had the courage to ask one or two people what they thought; they all had the same appreciation as me. Hearing about an important person or learning about them in a history book gives you vast knowledge but it doesn’t evoke the feeling of utter appreciation as the memorial does. When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, many people wanted to build a memorial in honor of him. They wanted to be able to show how important he was to shaping our nation and to “honor his existence”. Ce...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art came about as an idea from Jon Jay in Paris, France in 1866 with the idea of “national institution gallery of art” within the United States. Once this idea was proposed, it was immediately moved forward with his return to the United States. With the help of the Union League Club in NY they began to acquire civic leaders, businessmen, artists, and collectors who aided in the creation of the museum. For over 140 years, the visitors who go here have received everything the mission of the institution states.
I joined the class for the trip to the "Big Apple" on the eve of Halloween. We departed from a campus parking lot early Saturday morning. Our destination was the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located at 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue. I had never been to "the Met" before and I was very impressed. I wandered throughout the museum going from gallery to gallery until I was able to find the two paintings that interested me the most.
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A field trip to the Royal Ontario Museum– the most common yet despised ritual of every Torontonian middle school child. When it came time for Mr. Luchka’s fifth grade Social Studies class to make the traditional pilgrimage to what some call the most hideous building in Toronto, I was not alone in my feelings of boredom and exasperation. My experience that day did not change my mind. The ROM gets so many school tour groups; it would be impossible for them to make every experience unique. A ten year old is already disinterested enough in history– the only way to make it worse is to force them to go nearly every year.
A Description of New England: or The Observations, and Discoveries, of Captain John Smith (Admiral of that Country), in the North of America, in the year of our Lord, 1614; London, 1616. Reprinted in: Dow, George Francis (1921). Two Centuries of Travel in Essex County Massachusetts: A Collection of Narratives and Observations Made by Travelers 1605-1799. The Perkins Press, Topsfield.
Question Answered: Present the ways in which cross-cultural experiences strengthen a continuous development of the world environment.
Living in another country is a difficult experience for many people. A common feature of people living in a foreign country is finding them Gathered together in restaurants, discussing about their home and their experiences in the foreign country. Moreover, these groups are not all from the same home country. Often, the interests that landed them in a foreign country are enough to connect them in building the foundations of friendship, like studying same major. However, the only thing that you can see obvisely is fear. As a Saudi student in USA I can say we often have to deal with many administration issues that may even result to the cancellation of one’s citizenship. Like getting USA Green Card. There is a fear of living in another country that never goes regardless of the period that one has lived in a foreign country. However, the interests that landed them in a foreign country, including education and business. It’s the same even the student didn’t come from same place. in fact that they didn't came from the same mother country. This will presents the argument that people living in another country are subject to change depending in economic and political way in order for them to fit in the new country.