The Museum as a Way of Seeing
<Tab/>As a college student I read a lot of things. I read the news, my books, and plenty of short essays. Out of all the short essays I had read before "The Museum as a Way of Seeing" by Svetlana Alpers, has got to be one of the most boring.
<Tab/>Her opening paragraph helps to support her ideas but it is definitely an example in the wrong place. It would help to support what she says about the museum experience, but it is not a good opening paragraph. This example of a bad opening paragraph shows how hard it is initially to see…