Mission Inn, Art and Theater Trip
Daniel Zepeda, P5, Mrs. Sandoval
Mission Inn Hotel
Cool Photo of the Mission Inn
Nanking Bell
Question: What triggered the Boxer Rebellion & what was America's response to it?
A: America returned the money it received from China after the Boxer Rebellion, on the condition it be used to fund the creation of a university in Beijing.In response to reports of an armed invasion to lift the siege, the initially hesitant Empress Dowager Cixi supported the Boxers and on June 21 declared war on the foreign powers.
Booker T Washington Bust
Question: Who was Booker T Washington? & How were his views different than WEB DuBois?
A: (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. He Folk that DuBois makes his historic break with the philosophies.
1700 Spanish Cannon
Question: How did the US acquire the Panama Canal Zone and how did the canal benefit the US?
A: United States obtained the right to build a canal through what was once part of Colombia. The benefits is that trading helped to increase the economy.
Frank Miller Statue
Question: Do you think the government was correct in granting the Mission Inn Hotel this honor?
A: Yes, it was honored by having their signatures etched onto 10-inch-wide (250 mm) copper wings attached to the wall.
Taft Chair
Question: What was the Progressive Era a response to? & What reforms did it bring about?
A: A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s, the objective of the Progressive Movement was eliminating corruption in government.
Teddy Roosevelt
Question: What do you think was Teddy's biggest accomplishment & why?
A: Creating the National Parks, fighting monopolistic companies, and asserting the United States in its foreign policy. He developed an early interest in wildlife, and as a child hoped to become a zoologist.
Chinese Pavillion
Question: What immigrant processing center did these Chinese immigrants most likely come through? Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act implemented?
A: The Angel Island Immigration Station, an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated. The Chinese Exclusion Act made a profound impact on American society, however obstacles were wrongfully introduced to hamper their integration.
International Rotunda
Question: Why did the US finally enter World War One?
A: Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral.
Rain Cross Bell
Question: What is the meaning behind the Raincross symbol?
A: The Raincross has long been associated with the city of Riverside, California. It appears on the city flag and throughout Riverside in the form of architectural culture.
Statue of Liberty Torch Stairs
Question: Why were so many immigrants coming to America at the turn of the century?
A: Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, they were soon followed by a larger group seeking religious freedom.
Artistic Shot of the Mission Inn
Question: The hotel is designed to emulate California Missions. How many Spanish Missions were built in CA, what is their significance to the United States?
A: Twenty one missions were built in Southern California as part of the Spanish colonisation of the eighteenth century, from San Diego de Alcalá in the south - the earliest to be constructed, in 1769 - to San Francisco de Solano in the North. Starting to colonize, fur trappers were moving farther and farther down the Coast.
Riverside Art Museum
Surrealism
Question: What is surrealism? How is this art piece from the museum reminiscent of surrealism art?
A: A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. A work was influenced by traumatic physical and psychological events.
Dada
Question: Why did the Dada movement emerge? How id this art piece from the museum reminiscent of Dada?
A: For the disillusioned artists of the Dada movement, the war merely confirmed the degradation of social structures that led to such violence: corrupt and nationalist politics, repressive social values, and unquestioning conformity of culture and thought.
Cubism
Question: What were 5 new consumer products that were created in the 1920s?
A:(1) Impressionism;
(2) Fauvism;
(3) Cubism;
(4) Futurism;
(5) Expressionism
Fox Theater
Question: How are movie experiences today different from that in the 1920s? Provide at least 3 examples.
A: Many companies grew larger during the 1920s creating many new jobs. For example, some young women began to experiment with new kinds of ... It was a revolution in social values, at least among some Americans. People became extremely interested in exciting court trials, disasters, film actors, and other subjects. Like "The Great Gatsby," and the video we saw the theater was colored black and white, and no audio voices.