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licking they are grooming the claws. There are other options to consider to stop a cat from clawing furniture besides declawing them; the owner could teach them by spraying them with water every time they claw or to provide the cat with a scratching post placed close to the object they like to scratch the…

Making it to the Top Appearing on the Time Magazine’s one hundred most influential people, Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist who started his career in New York (Famous Authors). As well as being a bestselling author of four books, Gladwell is a speaker and still continues to work as writer for “The New Yorker” since starting in 1996. His works often deal with research and exploration in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. On September 3, 1963, Malcolm Gladwell was…

Museum Overview for the Minneapolis Institute of Art Before registering for this class, I reviewed the course description and saw that there was a field trip to the museum and was immediately excited. Although I have visited the Minneapolis Institute of Art before, it was over twenty years ago and I don’t remember much from that visit. From this class, I felt I was well prepared as what to expect, museum etiquette and what I needed to do while I was there to gather information needed to…

friends with. From 1890 he became a member and a creative leader of the Nabis group. “Nabis” in hebrew means prophet. The were given the name by a poet named Henri Cazalis, who called the group prophets of modern art. Like many of the Impressionists and Post Impressionists, they were inspired by the broad planes of unmediated color, thick outlines, and bold patterns that characterize Japanese art. The Nabis group tended to favour symbolism art. In “Nabis Landscape,” the name can lead a person…

reader through a scene of a man publicly weeping. The truths questioned in this poem evolve from social and cultural mindsets about ostensible right and wrong behaviours regarding gender. However, to grasp a comprehensive understanding of the text, post-structuralism, and philosopher…

Sometimes a country can produce a great achievement without being aware of it. For years it may contain a major talent, a precious jewel, and not recognize how great the talent and how precious the possession is. That could happen in the past and perhaps it is happening today somewhere; we will know only later. Vincent van Gogh was such a talent. He left a precious heritage for us all-his paintings. More than a century has passed since he gave our world one of his masterpieces, The Starry Night.…

Tanner 7th Grade Richland Jr. High Essex, Mo Edgar Degas Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, and died September 27, 1917. Edgar was born in Paris, France. He also died in Paris, France. Edgar died of brain aneurysm. Edgar was a French artist who was highly famous in the 19th century, and was famous for not only his paintings, but also his sculptures, drawings, and prints. Most of his paintings were of dancers. Edgar was actually not born “Edgar Degas”, but Hilaire-Germain-Edgar.…

After 28 years, Into the Woods the stage production was finally turned into a movie. In 1986, the Into the Woods musical production was performed for the first time. The production featured two acts, telling the story of a baker and his wife trying to reverse the curse keeping them from having a child. In 2014, Into the Woods was remade into film production casting several superstars to play the roles of the singers. While the two productions are very similar, there are some differences that…

expose themselves to a variety of threats and unintended consequences. Among the most prevalent of these is sexting. Sexting is “the action of sending sexually revealing pictures…or sexually explicit messages to another individual or group” (Huffington post) A nationwide survey found that twenty percent of teenagers were participating in sexting, and seventeen percent of those individuals shared the messages or images with other people. The ramifications of this are alarming, it results in the…

Gene Weingarten writer for the Washington post published "Pearls before Breakfast" on April 8th, 2007. The publication became well recognized and won a Pultizer award in 2008. Pearls before Breakfast analysis” was based on an experiment with musician Joshua Bell, Where he posed as a street musician, he was placed in an uniformed environment wearing only a Washington nationals baseball cap and a long sleeve t-shirt with jeans, where mostly government employees were on their way to work and going…