Word: reenactment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students in the class meet famous environmental lawyers and government officials, talk with local farmers, reenact a court case, learn New England botany, discuss nature writing with authors, research term papers that often lead to theses and travel to Costa Rica for an in-depth look at one community's grassroots conservation efforts. The nine-year-old course has subsisted for the past five years as an ESPP tutorial, with only 25 percent of its funding provided by the university. Outside sources have supplied the rest: E.O. Wilson, the father of conservation biology and one of Harvard's most renowned...
Though the battles represent the start of our nation's fight for independence, Patriots Day is a holiday unique to Massachusetts. Every year in Concord, troops of minutemen assemble at dawn to reenact the march to the Old North Bridge and the subsequent battle with the redcoats while over in Lexington, history buffs watch a similar reenactment of the skirmish on the green...
...particularly evidenced during his impeachment battle." In New Jersey, where two white state troopers last April fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and a Hispanic, wounding three of the men, a section of the New Jersey Turnpike will be closed Saturday while forensic experts reenact the shooting. A state grand jury is investigating the incident...
...learned about the Boston Tea Party. It was the one thing you actually found entertaining about American history--a bunch of stuffy New England wig-wearers disguised as Indians, recklessly destroying property. This spring break, confront that repressed wish to reenact the scene. The Boston Tea Party Museum has a full-size replica of the Beaver II anchored in the exact spot the Party occurred; visitors get to throw a full bale of tea overboard themselves (this time attached to a rope) and will be rewarded with a complimentary cup of tea afterward. The museum also has multi-media displays...
...License, Cost Guard License and Boston Police. Once the hiring board has identified promising recruits, the new employees must go through the company's rigorous training period. These examinations consist of written tests in addition to practical tests where panic situations are recreated. The trainees are then asked to reenact the manner with which they would handle the situation. Finally, Boston Duck Tours sends its duck class to acting school so that the duck leaders can perform comfortably in front of their audiences. Duck Tour guides are not trained in the Stanislawski method...