Grand Tour Essays

  • The Grand Tour of Europe

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    The Grand Tour of Europe Young English elite’s of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often spent two to four years travelling around Europe in an effort to broaden their horizons and learn about language, architecture, geography, and culture in an experience known as the Grand Tour. The Grand Tour began in the sixteenth century and gained popularity during the seventeenth century. Richard Lessels introduced the term Grand Tour in his 1670 book Voyage to Italy. Additional guidebooks

  • Grand Tour Observation

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    An account of a grand tour observation. Grand tour observations refer to the rich description of a social situation (Spradley, 1980). The social situation for this research is people at the library. To prepare for the grand tour observation, the researcher was driven by the following questions: “who are the people at the library?”, “what are the things people do at the library?”, and “what things are available at the library?”. Below is an account of a grand tour observation conducted by the researcher

  • Grand Tour Era Essay

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    territories as trade routes began to slowly reopen. The Grand Tour Era was an outcome of heightened awareness of the educational benefits to be gained from travel as a result of the desire to learn from and experience other cultures. The Grand Tour Era Intense luxurious travel and tourism activities initiated by the wealthy English which soon spread and assumed fashionable dimension among other individuals with time and money marked The Grand Tour Era (1613-1785). Experience and the knowledge gained

  • Cynical Classification of Sexual Partners

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    though he's already been there before. When he opens your refrigerator to make himself a drink, he sees two oranges, leftover pizza, and a jar of mayonnaise, and then asks if you keep the champagne in the freezer. Mr. Mechanical then asks for the "grand tour" of your 800 square f... ... middle of paper ... ... sounding excuse, such as, you have to train for the iditerod at five A.M., and literally shove him out the door. You're so disgusted by the whole experience, you spend the rest of your life

  • Travel as Experience in Jane Eyre

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    land has traveled the world and seen the sights of many nations. He has been to the new world and has also completed the Grand Tour of Europe that so many aristocrats before him have done. Yet when he returns home jaded, he finds in the plainest of women something that he had not found in his countless expeditions. When Jane is betrayed by Rochester, she leaves on her own tour with only a hope of survival without him. She eventually returns from her trek and has learned what she truly desires is

  • Alcatraz: The Legendary Prison

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    Alcatraz: The Legendary Prison We stepped off the large tour boat with a look of fright in both our eyes. Some joy was there, but knowing what went on in this place made us feel the way we did. To me, Alcatraz didn't really look like a shut down prison at that moment. It looked more like an old worn down cemetery. The paint on most of the buildings was chipped off all the way down to the wood. Most of the buildings had collapsed down to some cement foundations and old rusted poles hanging every

  • A Visit to the Bristol Caverns in Tennessee

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    rates and tours for groups interested in touring. One of these group opportunities, "Wild Tours" (http://www.bristolcaverns.com), gives groups the chance to explore parts of the cave normally not seen, provided a guide is present. The entire tour requires a lot of walking, so wearing tennis shoes is recommended. Dress prepared for a cool environment because while inside the cave you will experience temperatures from 50-60 degrees. As you walk along the tour of the Bristol Caverns, a tour guide will

  • Mozart

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    Elector and the Austrian Empress.His father taught him, but said teahcing Wolfgang was hard because he knew so much already. His father was also his largest influence. In 1763 Wolfgang’s father, Leopold, took him and his sister, Maria Anna, on a concert tour of Europe. The children performed in many courts and large cities including Paris, London, and Germany. They astonished their audiences wherever they performed. In London Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and met Johann Christian Brahm, who had a

  • All About Eve

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    carefully selected what I told others about me in order to create a certain desired image of myself. It made me conscience of the fact that I have, on countless occasions manipulated people for my own benefit.            It drew my thoughts back in a tour of my past and brought forth a multi-tude of times in which I behaved much as the character Eve did. I remember acting in such a way even when I was as young as six. Until I watched this movie I had never consciously realized that I do these things

  • Released From The Grip Of What He Carried: Freedom Birds

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    They felt the rush of takeoff. Gone! They yelled. (286). "Freedom bird" an appropriate term for the jumbo jets that take the soldiers from their tour because it gives them the freedom from what has been holding them back. Throughout the story, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross has his mind everywhere but on his infantry he is supposed to be leading on the tour. The story shows how even the smallest memory, letter, or picture can draw anyone from reality. It shows several men's struggle to overcome their

  • Mission Trip in Rio de Janeiro

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    around when we took our tour of the facilities. Some of these kids came from neighborhoods that had gun shootings, drugs and other violence. Other kids didn't even come from a neighborhood. They were homeless, lived in the dump and didn't know when their next meal would be coming or from where. When I looked at these kids, I couldn't see their home life reflected in their clothing or faces. They were well dressed, clean, and most of all, they had smiles on their faces. The tour of the facility was

  • Led Zeppelin

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    obligations to the Yardbirds. When they first came to the United States they supported Vanilla Fudge. They also played in clubs to start their American popularity. After they played in the clubs they got their first headlining tour and toured again that. They were playing their fifth tour by the March of 1970. Led Zeppelin the record was released by the Atlantic Records in 1969. Shortly after the record was released it was number eight and stayed in the top twenty for six weeks. When the Led Zeppelin II

  • Meeting a girl in Italy: A Fictional Story

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    and have a great day.” “Thank God” I thought to myself, I was in the most beautiful city in the world with unlimited opportunities. “Would all the passengers on the A’litalia bus tour please get on the bus” Come on we’ve gotta hurry up, we have so many things to do today” said the perky yet annoying yet still very hot tour lady Linda. “Cuttie you’re going to need to bring this card with you where ever you go, promise me you won’t lose it Joseph” “I promise I will hold it as if I were holding you, with

  • Social Roles in Society

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    Social Roles in Society Social psychology, as defined by the Microsoft Bookshelf, is the branch of human psychology that deals with the behavior of groups and the influence of social factors on the individual. Social roles are one of the many sub - categories of social psychology. I believe social roles to be the way we, as individuals, act in certain situations; such as home life, educational and economic statue, peer groups, etc. The Prison Simulation by Haney, Banks & Zimbardo is just one

  • Leg Two of the Grand Tour: Beauharnois Locks, Montreal & the Ottawa River

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    Rain and windy conditions were setting us up to savor the good weather when and if it came. In keeping with Dad’s why-start-early program, we made it three-for-three on afternoon starts. We had another pair of locks at Beauharnois. Like the Eisenhower Locks, this is another austere setting with towers and high voltage wires adding to the forbidding atmosphere. It took us more than three hours to get back on our way after waiting for a tanker to come through in the opposite direction. We shared the

  • The Mars Experience

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    The Mars Experience One night I was in my bed dreaming about my dream vacation, the red planet, Mars. In my dream I did many wonderful things. I climbed large mountains, swam in volcanoes, and was chased by insane martian animals. I took off by myself at New York's Universal Space Station in my brand new luxury spaceship. After about a day of enjoyable flying I arrived at Mars. After gaining clearance, I took the massive ship in for a smooth landing at Mars' Universal Space Port. There

  • Internship Reflection

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    Internships are a learning experience of new skills and improving on previous skills that you have gained. I have through the school tours been training to be a docent, but one day in the past two weeks I had official docent training with other students. Everyone learned the story of the Eel-Stowe and Nathan Clark-Stockade house. Also, we were taught where the lights were in each house, and how to uncover the windows, objects, and hide the covering before the visitors came to the house. Then

  • Phish: It’s More Than a Concert

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    (Trey Anastasio). If one should ever go to a Phish concert you wouldn’t know what to expect because, every show is completely different. The peak of the band’s talent was around 1996 when not many people herd of them. They never made the “who’s on tour list” ... ... middle of paper ... ...Maine. More than 80,000 fans show up to these events. These events are usually the cause of huge traffic jams and a three day party. People come from all over the world just to experience the sense of community

  • Le Monde des Jeunes - French Essay

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    Londres il y a beacoup des monumants de l'epoque des Tudors, comme "Hampton Court" et La Tour de Londre, ou exeautait des criminels! Aussi on peut trouve beacoup de musees par example "The Imperial War Museum", qui est une musee qui a des expositions sur les deux guerres mondiales. Aussi on a le "V&A", qui a un peu de tout. Quand meme on trouve des monumants modern a Londres et a Paris, par example La Tour Eiffel a Paris et "The London Eye" a Londres. Le Transport en Commun Je connais bien

  • Virtual Campus Tour

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    Virtual campus tour is a software program where the users can experience the same thing as in the real world. They can touch, walk, run, sit on a chair, or change direction. In other words, it is like an online expedition that is close to real campus walking tour. Virtual campus tour could be a useful reference in the future for architects, urban planners, and government entities. My part in this project is making the brochure and PowerPoint. The brochure contains information about the purpose