Collection

Going into the special collections, I had feelings that there was going to be little to surprise me. I knew that universities were repositories for documents but I assumed that being there are much larger, more important schools, not too far from here, that they would be stored there. It didn’t take long for those thoughts to leave. It wasn’t that Charlotte somehow had something unique and spectacular but the fact that it had varied items from throughout the history. Thinking back, most of the…

managers or front office managers, as most of the time they were involved in guest complaints. The interns also collected other materials to get the detail information about the hotel from the hotel’s website, brochures, pamphlets, flyers used for the collection of various information and also by collecting information from the department…

Today Intelligence practices are taught in Universities and Defense colleges. The concepts of collection, analysis and dissemination are fundamental for an analyst to be successful. Improvement of concepts such as HUMINT and SIGINT have come a long way since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today we use a multitude of forms of Intelligence collection. HUMINT has become an important form of collection with agencies dedicated to HUMINT alone. SIGINT too has developed over the century, particularly…

The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early 1900s from Vermont, accompanied by their elderly parents and preceded by a millionaire uncle, Henry Putnam. The two sisters never were married, spent decades obtaining Old Masters. Initial…

Galleria Borghese: An examination of the power of patronage Located in the public park Villa Borghese, this historical home, turned museum, hosts one of the most important italian art collections. The Galleria contains a range of works, majority being Baroque and Renaissance art. The patronage of the Borghese family yielded massively important original Baroque masterpieces, and helped foster and shape some of the era’s greatest talents, like that of Bernini. “Three things are needed for…

of the research process (exploration and research design). The proposal can also be used to solicit feedback on the actions taken and the plan moving forward; this is invaluable because it can help identify weak, or problem areas prior to data collection (when it will then be too late to correct a major…

C is for Coins C is for coins. I have been an avid coin collector ever since I was seven. I have worked up quite a collection in the 6 years I have been collecting. Throughout this process everyone has been great and very supportive. I mainly collect silver dollars, half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies dating back from 1964. In 1964 President Kennedy was put on the half dollar after been assassinated in not even a year before. It was the fastest the U.S. Mint ever changed design…

Seeking a higher education in the United States is crucial, especially if one plans to have a stable lifestyle—both in their personal and professional life. However, within the last twenty years, women have dominated the world of academics, and the male dropout rates have decreased tremendously. Does the United States benefit from having uneducated male students? Why are male students dropping out of school? Why are female students succeeding in the world of academics? Will female students…

When he was 23, he got the fashion editor of Vogue to view his collection and soon he had celebrity fans. After a minor setback, he relaunched his fashion line to a low-priced line. He continued to later expand the brand to menswear, accessories and perfume. In 2004, he was asked to be a judge to the show Project Runway…

3.6 Choices of research Bryman and Bell (2007) state that researches have two directions to choose, in general, which are quantitative research and qualitative research. Quantitative research is based on the existing theory or framework to analyze the social phenomena, which is similar with the physical phenomena (Bloch et al., 2014). Qualitative researches utilize the way to interpret, understand and analyze human beings’ behaviors in their social lives and has been used to find out the quality…