cultural events experienced: The International Civil Rights Museum and the Greensboro Historical Museum. International Civil Rights Museum. The first cultural event I attended was the International Civil Rights Museum (ICRM) located in downtown Greensboro on February One street. At this museum you relive and learn the history behind the Greensboro Four and the Civil Rights movement. It was a privilege to have experienced the museum in person. Walking through the Woolworth building where the
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Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V-0102 Heritage Assessment In building cultural competency, the differences of Hispanic, Puerto Rican, and American heritage are compared in this paper, analyzing health maintenance, health promotion, and health restoration in these cultures is based on the use of a culture heritage assessment tool. This tool consists of twenty nine questions about culture, “the greater the number of positive responses
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Path: K:/CHE-JAIN-08-0701/Application/CHE-JAIN-08-0701-case6.3d Date: 20th August 2008 Time: 21:04 User ID: tamilmanir Disabled 1BlackLining CASE 6 The Nottoway Plantation, Restaurant, and Inn: The White Castle of Louisiana n early 1994, Faye Russell, marketing director, and Cindy Hidalgo, general manager, considered the future of Nottoway Plantation of White Castle, Louisiana. Nottoway, which was listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, was an enterprise in the hospitality
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The Timken Museum in Balboa Park exhibits European and American art in open, spacious galleries. The rooms are airy and bare except for the paintings or tapestries featured on each wall, and one sculpture in the center room. The lighting is mostly provided naturally through large windows and skylights, and the walls are rose-colored with a textured, triangular pattern embossed. The Dutch Room gallery features portraits and landscape paintings of, among others, the accomplished Flemish artist and
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an example for the architectural revival of Beaux-Arts Style in New York’s architecture. The Ecole des Beaux-Arts applied the term in its name, because they covered this particular style in their studies. Richard Morris Hunt combined and adopted the learned Beaux-Arts stylistic features in the Metropolitan Museum’s façade at the Fifth Avenue wing (Baker 441) and constructed it in 1880. “Hunt’s design established the character of the subsequent museum extensions along
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architecture of many galleries can be considered to be a piece of art itself. Both,the Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the National Gallery in London, designed by William Wilkins, are essential buildings in architectural history. Despite being stylistically
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ALSO BY MALCOLM GLADWELL The Tipping Point To my parents, Joyce and Graham Gladwell Introduction The Statue That Didn’t Look Right In September of 1983, an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. He had in his possession, he said, a marble statue dating from the sixth century BC. It was what is known as a kouros—a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides. There are only about two
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Report 2012 Inside 2 5 6 7 8 10 12 14 16 20 46 58 70 72 Message to Stakeholders Fast Facts The Nestlé Legacy Organisation Structure The Nestlé Creating Shared Value Strategy Engaging Our Stakeholders Governance Summary of Key Performance Data Our Respect and Care for the Community Our Commitment to the Environment Our People and the Workplace Our Consumers and the Marketplace Awards & Achievements GRI Standard Disclosures COVER: One of Nestlé Malaysia’s key successful rural development
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Museum Extra Credit Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses, emotions, and/or intellect. Many types of art, even if from different eras, can be not only different but also very similar. By going to a museum and learning about all the different types of art, you realize how different pieces of art can have a lot in common. I decided to visit both the Getty Villa and the Getty center museums to learn more about the
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museum was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest design and contribution to the architectural world . This museum was finished October 21 , 1959 only six months before Wright's death at the age of 91. Wright dedicated 16 years to the design and construction of the Guggenheim Museum,during which he endured constant battles with a limited budget, enforcement of strict building codes, and permits. To top it off he faced harsh criticism
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