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While at The Legion of Honor, I found many paintings extremely beautiful and fascinating. Being able to tour with a docent was extremely helpful and interesting. I chose to analyze Willem van Aelst’s Flowers in a Silver Vase. Since I was a child, I remember being captivated by still life paintings. I am not quite sure why, but I was always drawn to them. When the docent showed us van Aelst’s still life, I immediately decided to write about it. Art historians agreed that Art, whether it is…

Research topic: Becoming a tour guide in the UAE: Prospects and challenges Research Question: What are the opportunities and challenges facing trainees who wish to become professional tour guides? Background: Tourism is one of the leading sectors in many of the world’s countries such as France, United States, Spain and China. Tourism helps in improving the country’s economy, here in the UAE depend on tourism and it helps the economy improving too. Dubai is one of the leading emirates in…

which they can grow as an organization. Strengths. The first major strength that must be mentioned is the knowledge and passion of the Casa San Ysidro staff. By all accounts, Casa San Ysidro is successful due to the variety and knowledge of their docents, the successes of the tour coordinator in getting events booked, and the leadership and direction from Dr. Stovel at the top. Another strength of Casa San Ysidro is the space itself. Quite simply, the grounds at Casa San Ysidro is simply…

community — has immensely piqued my interest. I believe my sanguine outlook, assiduity, and exceptional teamwork skills will qualify me as beneficial addition to the Coast Capital Youth Team. As a Green Ambassador and Richmond Olympic Experience Docent, I have developed an ample amount of long-lasting teamwork and interpersonal skills that are required of a Community Ambassador. Moreover, I have a moderate amount of knowledge about financial literacy as a current member of the Young Investors…

Wine, dine and garden? If your weekend agenda includes these items, forget getting your hands dirty and instead set your GPS to Cornerstone Sonoma. Located at the gateway to Sonoma and Napa counties, Cornerstone Sonoma is a wine country marketplace featuring rotating garden installations, artisan shops, Park 121 Cafe & Grill, a handful of tasting rooms and the Sunset Test Kitchen. The Gardens showcases designs created by landscape architects and designers from around the world. Inspired by the…

It begins with only a subtle murmur, yet this faint inclination proceeds unceasingly to a deepset rumble from over the hillside- its enthralling(/captivating?), knowing its coming, that anticipation of awe. It comes now thundering into sight, a great steel workhorse of such immense magnitude- it convinces even the iron rails upon which it rides to sing and arc with stresses. It barges past, its mechanical heart pounding out a relentless beat, reverberating even the air within your throat- as it…

The Effects of Art The documentary "The Rape of Europa" is about the war on European art that took place during World War II. During this war countless pieces of art were either destroyed or stolen by the Nazis. Adolph Hitler--and other Nazi leaders--destroyed "condemned" art or systematically stole pieces that were desired for personal collections. When watching this documentary one can clearly see the effect that art--or lack of art--can have on people. "Condemned" art were modern pieces…

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King.The novella follows Andy Dufresne as he is imprisoned in Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. The story follows Andy's imprisonment as he deals with violence, degradation learns how to work the crooked prison system, and never loses hope of freedom despite the life sentence that stretches ahead of him with no hope of parole. At first glance this novella falls far from a similarity of Mark Twain classic…

The Makishi Masquerade is an example of performance because it is an event that re-arranges restored behaviors of a ritual used to initiate boys between the ages 8-12. It is popular entertainment because it shows part of the Vaka Chiyama Cha Mukwamayi culture. It appeals to an audience because it provides visual and audio images of costumes, dance routines, and music these individuals use in this initiation The accessibility of this performance is youtube videos, documentaries, and/or books…

do a project and with out music every presentation would be mind numbing, and I know what you would say well you have iTunes yeah iTunes only works if you have youtube to download music because no one is going to spend $ 1.50 and more on music it docent make since when you tube you could just go to youtube mp3 and download a entire album for free. Its not fare that teachers have every website unblocked they do the exact same thing we do maybe not play games but they go on pandora and listen to…