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Miriam Schapiro was born in Toronto, Canada onNovember 15, 1923. Her talent rose at age of six when her father gave her weekly drawing assignments. She was a student at the Museum of Modern Art and learned to draw from the nude model at age 14, when she attended Federal Art Project classes. She received both her undergraduate (1945) and graduate (1946, 1949) degrees in art from the University of Iowa, where she studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. While at the university, Schapiro met…

George Washington Carver was a well known scientist who made an impact on crops and crop production. George was born a slave in Diamond, Missouri on the farm of his parents' slave owners, Moses and Susan Carver. His birth date was unknown but had said to be somewhere around January 1864. Both of his parents were slaves, their owners purchased his mother, Mary at the age of 13, George’s father was killed from a farming accident. He had a brother named James, who died at an early age and several…

Barbershop: The Next Cut. Lizzo is very different from other hip-hop artists for a number of reasons; she is based out of Minneapolis and the other being that she is a classically trained flutist. In the intro to the song “Worship”, Lizzo plays a flute solo. Coconut Oil is Lizzo’s first major label EP, extended play. Before Coconut Oil, she was involved in indie hop-hop girl groups in Minneapolis. The EP Coconut Oil has six songs: Worship, Phone, Scuse…

The researchers, Thomas Bouchard, David Lykken, and their colleagues at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis were seeking the answer to how much influence your genes have in determining your personal psychological qualities. They found that identical twins reared apart and those reared together had very similar degrees of correlation. Despite the different lives identical twins raised apart had experienced, their correlations of physiological characteristics, intelligence, personality,…

I was fortunate enough to have had my first theatre production at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. I was a member of the children's ensemble in A Christmas Carol from 2008 - 2012. Unfortunately, the Guthrie was one of the only theatre companies where I experienced conflict between the kids. However, even when I was 11, I felt it was my duty to settle disputes. Two of the young cast members had gotten into an argument, which was a hard situation for me because both of them were my friends. So,…

Looking Back: Caterpillar's First Motor Grader Caterpillar first became involved in the motor grader industry in 1926, when the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota released a grader featuring a 2-ton Caterpillar crawler tractor. This grader – called No.4 Auto Patrol – which was rated at 27 horsepower, and had hand-operated blade controls – sold successfully. As a result of No.4 Auto Patrol's sales success, the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company developed another…

underserved inner city individuals, children, adolescents, families, and adults. The population served tends to be from low-income backgrounds, and from the minority group. Majority of these families reside in the twin cities, and more specifically in Minneapolis. The staff at Change Inc. consists of twenty clinical staff members. Fifteen staff members are licensed marriage and family therapists, five of the ten staff members are state board approved supervisors, three are licensed clinical…

The impacts from the preventative strategy gained community support for its successful outcome in hot spot experiments in 55 areas in Minneapolis. Be that as it may, it still receives a fair share of criticism by scholars, believing the implementation will increase the fear of crime and reduce collective efficacy. On the other hand, the relationship between the police and community is threatened by the lack of discretion provided by zero tolerance policing and jeopardizes the legitimacy. The…

hot spots is directed patrol, which involves assigning officers to patrol particular areas at particular times. In 1988, officers of the Minneapolis Police Department began a yearlong experiment to test the effect of police patrol presence on crime. In the first experimental study of hot spots policing, directed patrol at 55 randomly selected hotspots in Minneapolis were evaluated. Officers concentrated patrols on the experimental hot spots during high risk times of the day and night, without…

March 3, 1849: Minnesota classifies as a territory. September 3, 1849: First state Territorial Legislature meeting takes place. February 26, 1857: Congress makes an organized announcement authorizing a state government for Minnesota. October 13, 1857: Minnesota voters approve the state constitution. December 3, 1857: First Minnesota Legislature Meeting is held. May 11, 1858: Congress approves Minnesota's constitution and admits Minnesota as the 32nd state in the union. May…