Friday, May 02, 2008

DANGERS IN OUR SCHOOLS…EXPOSED

TODAY ON MONTEL
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Everyday, parents all across America entrust teachers and school administrators with the well being of our children but just how safe are our schools? We will meet Stephanie, the mother of an autistic little boy named Ryan. Ryan was repeatedly tied to his chair at the wrists and ankles by his teacher. Stephanie recently won a civil suit against the public school district. Andrea claims her 12-year-old daughter was molested by her gym teacher. Jill claims her 9-year-old son was sexually abused and raped by older bullies in the school bathroom. Jill had to take her son out of school temporarily to deal with both the emotional and physical scars of this experience. Shanna claims her son was violently beaten up by a bully in a racially motivated attack. Gina’s son, Johnny was “paddled” so hard by his principal that he fell forward and broke his nose.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

ArtLex - Art Dictionary

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ArtLex
Art Dictionary
in art production, criticism,
history, aesthetics, and education

Welcome to ArtLex.
You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing
art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation
notes, great quotations and cross-references.

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F I to F L
fibula

figurative - Describes artwork representing
the form of a human, an animal or a
thing; any expression of one
thing in terms of another thing. Abstract
artwork is the opposite of figurative art in certain ways. Roy
Lichtenstein made a series of images of a bull, demonstrating
this kind of range in ways to approach figuration and abstraction
― beginning with the most highly figurative version, and proceeding
through stages to the most abstract version:

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997),
the six prints in the "Bull Profile Series,"

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Links to some of the longer articles
African art
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watercolour
Any paint
that uses water as a solvent.
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