The Importance Of Preserving Items Of A 500 Year Time Capsule

Many families have family heirloom that was passed down from generation to generation and Everyday Use by Alice Walker shows us this. For example, the narrator states that “These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand” (pg 1319). Things passed down from generation is important to the family that currently holds it. They would do anything to save that item, even if it meant risking their own life just to keep that item from getting ruined. According to Fry, “Most children are thrilled to receive a family heirloom whether it be passed from many generations or something that they remember getting as a gift as a child.” Children whether at a

Many people visit museums to view antiquities. They enjoy seeing these relics of the ancient world as a way of understanding past cultures and sometimes connecting with their own heritage. This evidence was found in the passage, “Returning Antiquities to Their Countries of Origin” by Joyce Mortimer paragraph 1. Cultural artifacts should not be returned to their region of origin because some people don’t have enough money to travel to China or Brazil to go look at ancient artifacts from the past. So they should bring these ancient trinkets to places like America and Canada so people around the world can study different cultures to learn more about the life around use.

I have to let the readers know how I stumbled upon this topic to introduce where I get my ideas from. It all started in the archive located on the second floor of the library in a dark corner behind a clear glass doors at the Hunter College. I have been attending Hunter College for four years and never have I stumbled on such an amazing place full of live history. I say live history because all the documents and books that are held in the archive are all preserved originals, which fascinated me. Thinking how people who lived more than century ago wrote and read the same things I’m writing and reading about excited me to my very soul. Archive research though fascinating is not an easy task that can be done in within fifteen minutes like how researches are done these days using convenient technologies at hand.

The passage of time has a unique duality—sort of an illusion—that is both concrete and nebulous. (Dashes) Time is absolute, it cannot be manipulated or traversed; however, it can at times, appear to pass unusually or cease to pass at all. (Semi-colon) In the novel The Things They Carried, the author, Tim O’Brien, illustrates the difficulty of adjusting to civilian life after serving in Vietnam. In the chapter “Speaking of Courage,” time is used to highlight the lasting effect war has on soldiers, leading to a heightened understanding of the world and post-traumatic stress disorder.

People hold on to pieces of jewelry, furniture, and other symbolic collectables that is passed through generations. These things can remind a person of a loved one that is seen as being priceless.

So many people see history as something dry and lifeless but in reality it is a study that is full of life. There is no better way to see this than through the lens of archaeological artifacts. The people of the past are intrinsically a part of these objects. They were shaped by human hands; some were used in everyday life while others only meant to be appreciated as art. In any case, they show the vitality of history which can sometimes be obscured by the centuries. I want to work with a collection that deals with archaeological artifacts, and ideally I would like to work with objects of Greek or Roman origins. One day I would like the opportunity to create an exhibit where the viewer can see how the objects relate to a whole as well as their own individual characteristics. I want others to have the same sort of experience I had while walking through the Byzantine and Christian Museum; I want them to have a moment of connection to the past and see how alive history can be. I am especially interested in the courses that the Museology program offers which teach the proper methods to curate archaeological collections. The experience of working with the objects in the Burke Museum will benefit my goal of curating a

An archive is a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people. The current collection consists of assassination records, pictures, artifacts, and sound recordings.

It is the year 2325. I am a very prominent archaeologist who has just been summoned to a dig site because my colleagues have made a unique discovery. They have found a time capsule from the 1960s that was buried long ago. Very carefully, my colleagues and I unearthed this time capsule, and inside the time capsule we found five items that define the era of the 1960s. The very first item that we found was a news paper clipping about the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. John F Kennedy, affectionately known by his family as Jack, and by the nation as JFK; was the 35th president of the United States beginning in January 1961 up until November 1963 when he was tragically shot down during a motorcade in downtown Dallas Texas Dealey Plaza. The President was beginning to work on his presidential campaign for the next term, he had not officially made it known to the public but I have a feeling that many of the people just knew that he would run again and possibly take the win. This was traumatizing for his wife Jacqueline, not only because she witnessed his death, but because she very rarely went along with her husband on campaigns. As the Lincoln Convertible drove by Texas school book depository Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, wounded President Kennedy and seriously wounding the Governor. President JFK was pronounced dead thirty minutes, later at the Dallas Parkland Hospital. JFK had many ideas in mind to help

It is the year 2325 my team of prominent archaeologist, and I was summoned to dig up a site that our colleagues have found. My team and I will unearth this hidden object time capsule. As my staff and I prepare to locate the time capsule, we are nervous about what we may unearth. As my team, I open the time capsule we find five items in the capsule which are President Kennedy’s Election, Voting Rights, Peace Sign, The Pill and Sesame Street. The 1960’s time era was an important part of history that remains relevant in 2325. Unearth this period is necessary so they we may teach generations to come about the 1960’s time era.

My first artifact is the House of Chan’s menu. I chose this because I love food and the idea of early types of food in the 1800 till now fascinates me mostly its price. The menu was made when the restaurant was built in 1957. The building was founded by Irv Howard and is located at Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue West, which sadly closed, but they built a new one on 514 Eglinton Ave and Penny Lyons later on. The menu show the prices of the food in which they were selling. The prices are so amazing that with just 10$ I can eat my breakfast lunch and dinner and still have some cash left. When the first House of Chan was built it was around the time of the Vietnam War when America was fighting Vietnam to stop communist from spreading. What shock me the most was that even when China were communist people still accept their food and there culture. In one of website that I read Mr. Howard knew how to run a room but with the amount of hate against the war I can’t imagine how he could have run the place. Also during the time rock roll was a popular thing and Elvis Presley the king of rock

Possessions from the past can provide history on a person or period. This chapter examines various items and provide what they mean and how it can describe something. It clearly explains the existent of each item and what they were used for in that period. Material Witness provides in depth information on the evolution of several items and why some of them are unused today. It also reveals the practices that were used before and how it brought out the middle

In 100 years from now, things will not be the same. They will probably have more technology and better ways of doing things. Just think of how much has changed since 1990, just twenty eight years ago, things were much different. As times changes, things improve and get better. So imagine what cell phones will be like in fifty years or computers, or what kind of resources they can use. Imagine how useful google will be, people not even having to learn things, but look up anything and everything they need to know. The three things I picked for my time capsule is a cell phone, a juul, and a Make America Great Again hat.

An artifact I own, which I would consider important, is a snow globe. The snow globe is a jar. The jar is filled with water, glitter, and has a nutcracker inside of it. The nutcracker is small, and the jar is turned upside down. This snowglobe is important to me because it was given to me as a gift, from my sister and mother, which gives me old memories. This is also considered very important to me because it is a original snow globe, and unlike any other that I own. As a conclusion, this artifact is an original, important artifact to me, which has qualities bringing me back to younger memories.

When doing anything retrospectively, it means one is going back in time to older materials. Retrospective acquisitions means you are filling in gaps or buying historically significant resources that you should have in your collection (http://eduscapes.com/collection). When selecting retrospective materials for a collection, there needs to be a certain criteria to follow and things that need to be taken into consideration such as how important it is to the research being conducted, the importance of the item to the collection and the cost of acquisition and preservation, if the item is very old.

Why are people so interested about time traveling to the past, when our brains already hold all our memories for us? It is a rather cool thing to be able to tell stories from your past that interest other people. Think about