User:Npetilli - Revision history

Npetilli: /* Activity Journal */

2017-06-22T18:46:42Z

‎Activity Journal

Npetilli: /* Nicole Petilli */

2017-06-22T18:46:03Z

‎Nicole Petilli

Npetilli: /* Milestone 3 */

2017-06-22T13:08:41Z

‎Milestone 3

Npetilli: /* Overview */

2017-06-22T13:02:18Z

‎Overview

Npetilli: /* Activity #19 Windsor Castle */

2017-06-21T10:51:05Z

‎Activity #19 Windsor Castle

Npetilli: /* My Complete Contributions */

2017-06-21T10:50:50Z

‎My Complete Contributions

Npetilli: /* Milestone 2 */

2017-06-21T10:49:38Z

‎Milestone 2

Npetilli: /* Milestone 2 */

2017-06-20T11:13:27Z

‎Milestone 2

Npetilli: /* Activity #6 The National Gallery */

2017-06-19T14:39:11Z

‎Activity #6 The National Gallery

Npetilli: /* Activity #1 Westminster Abbey */

2017-06-19T14:37:29Z

‎Activity #1 Westminster Abbey

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-'''Art in Medieval Sword Forging'''<br>
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 '''Objective:''' How Art was factored into the making of medieval swords
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-Below the objective statement, Insert a one or two paragraph summary of your findings from having reached this milestone. If this milestone, for you, represents a humanities and arts capstone, please indicate so. Edit the link below to link to your milestone page.
+In this project I learned that most art in medieval swords consisted of different inscriptions. Most were religious invocations meant to give the barer divine favor. Other texts could have been names from swords being gifted or a form of magic meant to give the sword power. Smith's at the time were also trying to replicate Damascus Steel which had a distinctive wave pattern. This lead to swords being pattern welded to have different wave patterns.
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-The paragraph should give a three to five sentence abstract about your entire London HUA experience including 1) a summary of the aims of your project, 2) your prior experience with humanities and arts courses and disciplines, and 3) your major takeaways from the experience.
+The aims of my three projects were to discover how medieval architecture is being conserved and to what extent, determine why ''Harry Potter'' is not generally considered to have literary merit and find how it could fit into education, and to study art in medieval swords. my previous humanities and arts experience includes a U.S. History course, a Great Problem Seminar on Atmosphere, Biosphere and Human Fears, and a basic art course. I learned that there are a lot of different factors that go into the preservation of castles and that what preservation means for each castle is different depending on what aspects are being preserved and for what purpose. I discovered that ''Harry Potter'' is not considered to have literary merit because of its instant popularity and the target audience, but it can gain merit as long as it's still being discussed. I learned that I should have looked at Renaissance sword art because medieval swords where mainly made for function only so the art is limited to religious invocations and other writings meant to give the blade magical power and are otherwise quite bland.
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 '''Literary Merit and Harry Potter'''<br>
-'''Objective:''' Find why Harry Potter is not considered to have literary merit
+'''Objective:''' The aim of this project was to determine why Harry Potter is not generally considered to have literary merit and if it has a place being taught in schools.
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-Below the objective statement, Insert a one or two paragraph summary of your findings from having reached this milestone. Edit the link below to link to your milestone page.
+I had previously viewed literary merit as something a book either has or doesn't have. Literary merit is more of a scale that depends on many factors and is subjected to a lot of bias. Some of those biases include the books popularity and target audience.  One of the largest factors in determining literary merit is time since it will filter out works that got attention due to a certain time periods tastes. The literary merit of ''Harry Potter'' is held in question because of it's target audience and its immediate popularity.  Looking at the Common Core standards for English I determined that Harry Potter would fit well into either a third or fourth grade curriculum.
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 ==Activity #6 The National Gallery==
-I did visit the section related to the Medieval Time period but I honestly do not find paintings that interesting. I was thinking about changing my first milestone to be more about the castles than the actual art. The gallery was different in terms of art preservation than the British Museum. They just had open rooms and ropes to keep people from getting close enough to touch the paintings instead of temperature and humidity control. I have never really been a fan of having to analysis different paintings but the way the gallery was set up I think I can at least understand why some people like to look at them. Some of the paintings were interesting scenes and where fun to look at without necessarily having to think about their meaning. Having to walk around the Gallery was not as boring as I thought it was going to be. [[The National Gallery|Read More]]
+I did visit the section related to the Medieval Time period but I honestly do not find paintings that interesting. I was thinking about changing my first milestone to be more about the castles than the actual art. The gallery was different in terms of art preservation than the British Museum. They just had open rooms and ropes to keep people from getting close enough to touch the paintings instead of temperature and humidity control. I have never really been a fan of having to analysis different paintings but the way the gallery was set up I think I can at least understand why some people like to look at them. Some of the paintings were interesting scenes and where fun to look at without necessarily having to think about their meaning. Having to walk around the Gallery was not as boring as I thought it was going to be. I also went to see a piano performance at St. Martins in the field. I like piano so that was interesting. [[The National Gallery|Read More]]
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 ==Activity #7 Tate Britain==
 Maybe the absurd number of paintings and portraits in London helped contribute to J.K. Rowling's decision to cover Hogwarts in them. Maybe the same boredom of having to stare at them for hours led her to make them move in a poor attempt to make them more interesting. Maybe if they did I would hate this activity just a little less. [[Tate Britain|Read More]]

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 ==Activity #1 Westminster Abbey==
-The relation had an indirect connection to my second milestone because part of Harry Potter was filmed in the halls. I thought a lot of the architecture was cool. since my other two milestones are based in the medieval time period it didn't relate too much but I found how the design was meant to make people look up for prayer was interesting. Overall it didn't relate to much to my milestones but I liked seeing all the historic graves. My favorite was either Newton's or Darwin's because they're both contributed a lot to science. I think it's kind of weird that there are churches not really controlled by the local bishop. The tour guide had mentioned that the royal family was very connected to the church but I do not think they should necessarily be running it. I like the system of separation between church and state in the U.S. much better. All the other churches I've been to have had a separate graveyard. It was interesting how they had people even burred in the church floor instead of in a separate location or in the catacombs. I liked how it kind of removed the separation between people and a typical graveyard. I had not previously realized why places have there different unknown solider monuments and graves [[Tomb of the Unknown Warrior|Read More]] . I had a hard time understanding how having the one grave for everyone made sense. Having the prospective of one of the royal family member putting there bouquet on the grave because it could be their loved one really helped make those kind of monuments make sense for me. [[Westminster Abbey|Read More]]
+The relation had an indirect connection to my second milestone because part of Harry Potter was filmed in the halls. I thought a lot of the architecture was cool. since my other two milestones are based in the medieval time period it didn't relate too much but I found how the design was meant to make people look up for prayer was interesting. Overall it didn't relate to much to my milestones but I liked seeing all the historic graves. My favorite was either Newton's or Darwin's because they're both contributed a lot to science. I think it's kind of weird that there are churches not really controlled by the local bishop. The tour guide had mentioned that the royal family was very connected to the church but I do not think they should necessarily be running it. I like the system of separation between church and state in the U.S. much better. All the other churches I've been to have had a separate graveyard. It was interesting how they had people even burred in the church floor instead of in a separate location or in the catacombs. I liked how it kind of removed the separation between people and a typical graveyard. I had not previously realized why places have there different unknown solider monuments and graves [[Tomb of the Unknown Warrior|Read More]] . I had a hard time understanding how having the one grave for everyone made sense. Having the prospective of one of the royal family member putting there bouquet on the grave because it could be their loved one really helped make those kind of monuments make sense for me. I also went to see the Evensong. It was interesting but hard to follow since all the songs were in Latin and had multiple parts being sung at once. [[Westminster Abbey|Read More]]
 ==Activity #2 Tower of London==