Overview

Peter Beretich
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The aim of my project is to determine how the Brexit vote and measures being taken affect business owners. Previously I have taken Modern European History and Video Production, and plan on combining what I have learned in each to create an aesthetically pleasing visual medium to display my research on the stated topic. During my time in London I hope to better understand how social and economic factors play a role in globalization.

1 Overview
2 Milestone 1
- 2.1 Brexit and Businesses
3 Milestone 2
- 3.1 Businesses and Historians
4 Milestone 3
- 4.1 Film and Documentary
5 Activity Journal
- 5.1 Westminster Abbey, Tower of London
- 5.2 British Museum
  - 5.2.1 My Complete Contributions
    - 5.2.1.1 All of My Created Content and Edits

Milestone 1

Brexit and Businesses

Objective: How has the Brexit vote and recent measures affected business owners?

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Milestone 2

Businesses and Historians

Objective: How does the reaction from historians and economists to Brexit compared to how business owners have reacted to this?

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Milestone 3

Film and Documentary

Objective: Have the findings been displayed in a visually pleasing and clear to understand medium?

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Activity Journal

The activity journal represents an ongoing log of reflections gained through each and every project activity on the calendar.

May 8th, 2017

Westminster Abbey, Tower of London

We started the day at Westminster Abbey, where a tour guide led us through the nearly thousand year old building. As we walked through the abbey, we were told about the many bodies buried there, and the large number of memorials there. Famous individuals such as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and many politicians, aristocrats and royalty were buried there, but as the Abbey ran out of room they switched to storing cremated remains. The tour guide also showed us the Shrine of Edward the Confessor. Pieces of the shrine near the bottom had been removed, likely from individuals making pilgrimages to the shrine and keeping mementos.

The Tower of London was next on the itinerary. As we approached the entrance, the view of the castle and the Tower Bridge in the background was spectacular. To enter we crossed over the moat, where there was a trebuchet resting peacefully. A group of schoolchildren ran around the moat, with some running up to the walls in an attempt to scale the structure. As soon as we entered the western wall, a beefeater began to tell us the story of two princes who died in the tower. During the late 15th century, the two princes, one of whom was Edward V, who was supposed to be crowned King of England. However, after the two boys disappeared, their protector, Richard, Duke of Gloucester was crowned Richard III of England. During the 1600s two bodies believed to belong to those children had been found.

British Museum

My group entered the British Museum at 10 in the morning, and from there we went on our way in smaller groups of 2 or 3. I began on the top floor with the ancient Egyptian exhibit with a collection of mummies that puts the museums in the United States to shame. As I continued through the museum, I followed a timeline of human history, seeing artifacts from the Vikings, Mesopotamians, Romans, and more. What was very intriguing was how some of the most interesting artifacts were discovered in some of the most mundane-seeming of places. For example, the Waterloo helmet, pictured below, was found near the Waterloo bridge, in the River Thames. And the Rosetta Stone, used as a part of a medieval fort in Egypt, was found by a Napoleonic campaign. The stone, which was simply used to declare the institution of a cult after the coronation of King Ptolemy V, around 200 BC. This rock, even with such a modest origin, provided the key to an entire language.