Experience of the Different Nation

I knew that my hometown of Blairsville, Pennsylvania was a rich historical place before my research. I turned to visiting the historical society in my town for my information, there I was given a tour of a historical house where all of the artifacts had been donated. After looking into the history and the other elements of the town, I found out that the place where I grew up was so much more history than I could have ever imagined.

The Boston Tea Party is as symbolic to the USA today as it was when it happened 250 years ago. Many literatures have been written about the Boston Tea Party, albeit with different intentions and academic or political inclinations and perceptions. In addition to the events that took place during the party, there are myriad events that led to or surrounded the events of the Boston Tea Party. In his book Defiance of the Patriots, Benjamin Carp covers the internal or domestic sides and external parties and events that caused and/or influenced the Boston Tea Party.

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Alfred Young revolves around two bibliographies written about one of the last living participants of the Boston Tea Party, and the authors own interpretations of the events surrounding the Tea Party and the American Revolution as a whole. In this particular novel, Young explores what it means to rediscover history, and how history is continually redefined. Particular attention in the novel is given to public history, and how highlighting people otherwise lost to time can completely change how an event is perceived. Readers are given the opportunity to see the history behind the American Revolution through the lenses of an average man of that time. In this essay I will review the novel and the message

Throughout history, historians have spun events in order to alter and adjust others’ views on the event. This is especially true during Colonial times and the time leading up the American Revolution. During this time, information about the colonist’s events was passed on through word of mouth. One such man that was notorious for this was George Robert Twelves Hewes. Hewes was a Boston shoemaker, who at the age of twenty-eight witnessed four of his closest friends shot to death by The British red coats; he also participated in many of the key events of the Revolutionary crisis.1 Hewes recollections of the events that took place were passed along in the monograph The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred

When the three ships had arrived in the Boston Harbor, the colonist were demanding that the tea be returned to England. The Governor of Massachusetts refused the colonists demands. As a result of the Governor’s refusal, about 60 members from the Sons of Liberty created the “tea party”, an underground

After the shop you are directed to the one floor exhibit and given a sheet of paper with information based on the exhibit. The exhibit I had the pleasure of exploring was the Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion. This exhibit is one of a kind and very important in the fashion illustration field. Through loops of doorways you experience different times in Lopez’s fashion illustrations. The purpose of Lopez’s exhibit is to enlighten the culture of New York City streets, sexuality, gay identity, and African influences of Puerto Rico and New York City. This exhibit also included the collaboration of Juan Ramos. During my small tour in the museum something that piqued my intrigue was the bilingual information. For each piece of work there were two plaques, one in English and the other in Spanish. This is not a feature seen in any other museum that I have visited in New York City.

Most events and places of historical value nowadays holds little value in our lives. We confine ourselves to our interstates and highways, following the long line of motel chains stopping for maybe two minutes to take a picture just to say we were there. We take nothing away from these sites that is of real value. We barely scratch at the surface of information and true meaning of what happened at these historical sites. Rinker Buck explains his own experience with removing himself from this cultural norm

Proclamation of 1763- Forbade all American settlement West of the Appalachian Mountains to appease the Natives. The Proclamation was offensive to the Colonists because the Colonists thought they deserved the land after fighting with the British in the Seven Years War. Colonists rebelled against this and settled on the land anyways . The Proclamation was significant because it was one of the first times that Americans were being restricted by the Crown.

The Boston Tea Party has been remembered as an iconic event in shaping

Revolution. With tensions rising due to a long list of taxes issued from Parliament in

The Boston Tea Party was not only extremely illegal, but at the same time justified. In the 1770’s, it was not rare for the people to be “sheep” with a “shepherd” nearby. Although the people of Boston did well to follow rules and guidelines, there was always one more rule added to the book. The people were almost comparable to slaves. This is because there were always strict rules and many laws. As the people of Boston had grown angered by the government, they had soon enough been pushed over the line. Taxes began to rain down upon them, not only increasing in price but spreading from item to item. It was only when the people decided that they had enough that the future plans were set in motion. They would find ways to rebel the government and show them that they were no longer to be pushed around. These acts would not be simple tasks and would require participants that are brave and strong-hearted. The protesters will come together to rebel the unfair taxes. In order to accomplish these tasks, they needed to have a way to orderly plan attacks, people whom spirits may not be crushed easily, dedication to the movement, and a constant thirst for change.

Before I went to the museum, my prospective about a museum was poor expectations. What can a museum will offer? , this was one of the questions that I always had in mind. For these reasons, I never thought that I could enjoy a museum tour. However, everything change after visited the Phoenix Art Museum. I went to the trip with poor expectations, but since I arrived in the lobby with all of my classmates and the professor. I started feel that this trip will be sash an educational experience.

17. On my museum experience, I took it in like every other visit to the museum I have ever had: much like other children expressed wonder and amazement at a circus performance or sports game; I was awestruck and mesmerized by the colors, the atmosphere, and the same restrained joy that I felt evident in the eyes of all the other observers. My girlfriend and I made our way through the museum, blending in with crowds of other viewers to see Cezanne, Gauguin, Brueghel, O’Keefe and the like in the permanent collection, making time to go from one end of the spectrum to the other. But my heart has always had a soft spot for

• the historical events of the time and the person’s experience of those; and so forth.

After getting over my initial reluctance, I got butterflies in my stomach. This was only the 2nd time I’d been to an art museum, so I wanted to make the most of it. When we first arrived, we looked around at some paintings. I visited an exclusive temporary exhibit of Edvard Munch which included a surprising amount of paintings of naked women. Nothing caught my eye in the first few galleries, but then I stumbled on an exhibit called “In Character” by Nam June Paik. As soon as I walked in, I got embarrassingly excited. I constantly had to stop myself from running around the museum like a madman. All the TV sculptures and simple, childlike drawings had been just so incredible to me. The piece that I really enjoyed the most was a sculpture called “Self-Portrait.”