The Bird Painting course reminded me of exercises I had not done since Art School as well as teaching me some new ones. These really help you to loosen up your technique, preventing your work from becoming too precious and allows you to concentrate on the process itself. The following is ...
There is a range of research demonstrating the benefits for girls of single sex education. A South Australian study by the Commissioner for Children and Young People (Connolly, 2022) found that girls reported that teachers use female students to moderate and monitor the behaviour of boys, includin...
Soon I begin teaching a course in the Book and Media Studies Program at Saint Michael’s College in Toronto called The History of Reading: Readers, Readerships, Reception. I am pumped. Here’s the course description – for your reading pleasure. Reading has never been only one thing. Consid...
When the Hays Code was adopted in 1930, they articulated that,“though regarding motion pictures primarily as entertainment without any explicit purpose of teaching or propaganda, they know that the motion picture within its own field of entertainment may be directly responsible for spiritual or moral...
The verse is strikingly steady and deep-rooted, the subjects oddly near and pertinent, as public as a bridge or tower clock, private as exchanges overheard between parents and children; from the gentrification of endeared neighborhoods, to the maddening rhetoric of our lawmakers. In these poems,...
“the children, the children, the children” (she gave birth to five children in six years), as when she strong-armed passage of Obamacare health legislation—her proudest achievement. In addition to her management skills and abundant energy fueled by chocolate, she frequently raised money for ...
In the first couple of years of my struggle to have children, I would occasionally wake up from very dark dreams. Dreams where i had died. This wasn’t about suicide or a wish to die. It was my sub-conscious expressing my inability to imagine a fulfilling life without children. ...
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“Kevin Annett is doing what few of his people have done, and that is to speak about the crimes they committed against many of our nations and their children. He has earned a place forever in our hearts and history. He is a brave and prophetic man. I ask everyone to welcome him and...
…And now of course it must be acknowledged thatFuriosadoes work. I won’t get into the question of whether it’s as good asFury Road; it obviously can’t deliver the same sharp blow to the head as that movie did, and once you allow for that, the two movies are too different for...