Hudson Group

Throughout the last year, the Director has made a point to change many processes, for worse or for better. The majority of her effort has been focused on how the office functions as a group or “team.” Two influential factors on how our group functions is the fact that the entire team is female in gender and group decision making. There is a particular instance where the team was gathered and was expected to participate in a meeting about streamlining processes in consultative phone calls. This…

work in groups of four, and the lab members had to be switched with every lab. We were responsible for completing the lab within a certain time allotted by the teacher. We quickly realized that dividing the responsibilities and trusting each other was the only way to go if we wanted to finish on time. If we had not split of the tasks the lab would have resulted in being incomplete. We had to clearly communicate with each other what had to be done and how it had to be done. Working in groups,…

My team consisted of six members, we had no particular roles in the group as we decided that everyone should have equal input. Having to work in groups helped me make friends and enhance my communication skills. Working in teams taught me how not to be afraid to voice my opinion as it is normal if people do not share the same beliefs as me. Each team member was comfortable with each other. I have always been afraid of doing group work because of me being shy, but after this assessment I believe…

We dared not turn back as we scrambled into the labyrinth of the evergreen forest. Christopher, Eliza, Francis, Gracelle, Hassan, Oliver, and I had all met that morning in a deteriorating abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Paris, France. There, we were informed of the valuable information implanted into our brains at birth by a mysterious, dismembered secret organization called NanoTech. Hence the reason why these military experienced robots keep trailing us wherever we go. Before leaving…

Last summer I partnered with another educator from my school to craft a multisession mini course for Math for America. The course met over a three month period and focussed on teaching educators from the Metro New York area about the symmetries of a sphere using an ancient japanese art form called Temari. I used our organization’s shared digital message board called the small world network to post and share an overview of our course in the spring course catalog and invited 15-20 teachers to sign…

the project, I was fully involved. One of my biggest contributions was keeping records and information from group meetings organized. I took minutes of each group meeting and wrote down every decision that was decided upon the group. With that information, I would later put it into an organized chart or list that made the information more accessible and understandable for the rest of the group. For example, after we decided which characters were being cut from the script and which characters…

A Review of a Kingston Painter: Chronicler of the Hudson River School From time to time, one’s contributions to the world get noticed long after they have left earth. For some, it may be centuries later. This is the case for one Kingston painter named Jervis McEntees. McEntee’s contribution to the first native art movement in the United States, the Hudson River School finally gets celebrated, a century and a quarter later. Two exhibitions were used to celebrate McEntees’s efforts. His specific…

Church was a prominent figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters and his career revolved around painting landscapes. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, during the nineteenth century, and at the age of eighteen became the pupil of Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York,…

Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh’s Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, provides an in-depth study of the plantation established by Robert Cole, his family as well as his servants in seventeenth century Maryland. Cole and his family were English Catholics that had relocated from England to the New World because of the system of agriculture the Chesapeake was capable of producing. The Cole plantation account provides readers with an understanding…

When given the opportunity to get outside of a book for a class I usually take it. When a trip to Balboa Park in San Diego, California is also included the choice is that much easier. For this essay I visited The San Diego Museum of Art to look for a painting that matched the criteria of a painting from 1800-1880 that illustrates realism or romanticism. I came across an oil on canvas painting of everything I have learned what realism art is suppose to look like. The painting was of a man on a…