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Absolutely. I was lucky enough to have great science teachers, I wish they were appreciated a bit more. I agree that subjects such as science and art are critiqued so badly by people who want to shape and mold them into something that they are not; that the natural beauty of the subjects are lost between ignorance and lies. It's unfortunate, but like you said that just leaves all the people who appreciate science and art for what it is - and not what people want it to be - to defend and support it.

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yes they are and I love taking them photo

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Lets hope they don't. Don't get me wrong, science is amazing when it is studied simply for itself and has the most egalitarian theories and hypothesise. Unfortunately, it is run by industrialists and governments both whom pay the research bills to get the answers they want. Art too is corrupt and some critics make it sound trivial. We little people have got to just keep going with what we do so that the true feel of science and art are kept alive - in the hearts and minds of the people and thereby keeping it cultural, spiritual and healthy.

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Lovely - they always look so happy and content in life.

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You're welcome

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Thanks for the faves!

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I agree, art is a way for people to explore their creativity and express themselves. I knew a lot of kids in the lower level photography classes (Photography 1, Photography 2, etc.) who came to school just to go to Photo, and while I definitely don't agree with them skipping out on all of their other subjects - art was their security blanket. A judge-free, open-minded haven where they felt completely secure. That school may never change - but hopefully the students don't lose hope in ways to express their art.

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Ah yes that has got to be the worse school I've ever heard of. I have degrees in scientific subjects but I believe that to keep things balanced, we will always have art, music, drama, poetry, literature etc. Art gives humans the chance to explore their creativity - whether to actually create or to appreciate.

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thank you for favs

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Again - you are more than welcome - are you hoping to release them all (when you have finished designing all 72 cards) as a tarot deck? Or have you done so already?

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You're welcome - they really are lovely pieces of work. Great stuff.

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Stopping in to thank YOU for the favorites for Justice & Strength.
Kat

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Hi! Dropping by to say Thank You So Much! for the favorite for The Star, it's very appreciated!
Kat

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Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

My high school is incredibly close-minded - I'm extremely happy to have graduated in May. The administrators have huge issues with the English, Literature, Photography (art in general), Writing, Music, and Theater classes. They don't see them as being important or practical and therefore they don't have much to do with them what-so-ever. In fact when I signed up for AP Photography the principal called me to his office at least twice a day for two weeks trying to get me to switch out of photography and into a Trigonometry class because Photography was "a waste of a perfectly smart young girl.". Well needless to say that didn't happen, he was quite displeased that I wouldn't switch but he lived. Our field trip to England was the icing on the cake in my opinion as to my high schools extreme dislike of any classes that were not math, science, or sports related. When they canceled our trip my English Literature teacher called an immediate conference with the principal and vice principal and asked for the reason they were canceling a trip that we had already raised the money for. Their reasons were that they believed it was an excuse for the two photography students (myself and another girl who was also in AP English as well as AP Photography) and for my teacher (who was interested in photography as well) to go to England and take photo's - not to learn about the culture and history. My teacher showed the two of them our travel plans and the places she picked to visit and they rode it off as a smokescreen for our real intentions when we got there. The other reason was that we would be missing 5 days from school and therefore would miss the fire drill that month and also a bomb drill - which apparently is much more important than broadening our educational experience. My teacher was incredibly upset by the news. In order for the AP English class to exist in the first place we practically had to beg the school to allow my teacher to create one. Despite the fact that any AP class is more challenging and in general has twice as much work as a regular-level English course - they could not see why we would want to do more work. It was completely ridiculous. The funds that we raised for the trip we decided to give evenly to the art and English departments for what we hope will help future students have a better learning experience than we did; after all it couldn't get much worse.

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those girls are my brother's daughters so family, those people from weddings are family of my BF so in future my family and somewhere there I'm on this most freek

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Your welcome - please tell me who the photos are of. Are they members of your family or family friends?

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Oh dear that's awful - how narrow-minded of your school. Children in England are given every opportunity to go on school trips abroad (provided their parents can afford it). Those trips can either be "Exchange Student" holidays (children swap homes for a week eg.., one child from England goes to France and a French child comes to England) or via cruises (my brother went around the Greek islands). Yes you can "see" places via photographs but photos cannot replace the experience of being there in person. I can see why you use the quote you do - surely it is not a good thing to limit a person's experience of the world but to allow them what they wish to experience in their own right? Well I certainly do hope you get to see England and the other countries of Europe before too long. What has happened to your English Literature teacher? I bet she feels really disheartened by that attitude and what about your group? I simply cannot believe that such an attitude can exist in a school of all places!!! What has happened to the funds you all raised?

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You are more than welcome Gunar

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Oh, wow! Well that's a good trade off then! I'd love to see that some day. Glad your weather was nice, today wasn't much better here - not raining as much or nearly as hard but twice the lightning. Flooding is horrible - if you live close enough to the beach down here it's a big issue especially during hurricane season.

I really must keep saving and get to England, haha. I've wanted to go for as long as I can remember - finally just decided to start saving up whether or not I had somebody to go with me or not. I had a lovely British Literature teacher who was from England who I adored - she tried to arrange a field trip for our little group of 5 AP (advanced placement - which basically means college level) students to go to England. So we did fund-raisers and put a lot of our own money down towards the trip and at the last minute after everything was prepared our high school changed their minds and said that they didn't understand why we had to go out of the country; that all the spots we wanted to visit could be looked at through photograph's and talked about in class. It was quite the disappointment especially since we weren't asking the school to pay for anything - but that just makes me want to go even more now.

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thank you erica, i glad you love my pictures. *g*

thank you i not engoue

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Oh dear! We've been rather lucky weather-wise this weekend but have had some awful down pours during last week. Everyone is keeping their fingers crossed that we do'nt have any flooding like last year - that was awful.

Didn't get to the forest - ended up going to the Tewkesbury Medieval Fayre. There is a large fayre/market where you can buy handmade swords, arrows, daggers, armour and medieval clothing, furnishings and furniture (if you have the money) and in the afternoon the Battle of Tewkesbury (4.5.1407) is re-enacted by English people all dressed up and decked out in medieval battle dress (some as archers, pikemen, yeomen - others as knights and one is dressed up as the King) - we had good weather so it was great fun!!!

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Ah, my younger brother went to see Hancock yesterday - he said he loved it. The Forest of Dean is actually on the very top of my "to visit" list for when I take my trip, I'm quite obsessed with Harry Potter and the Forest of Dean is one of the main places they visit in the book. I hope you get to go, I'd love to see the photo's.

My weekend is going well, I was hoping to get to the beach to take some more shots but it's raining ridiculously outside - I can't even step out onto my front porch without getting soaking wet.

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thank U again

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You are more than welcome m'dear - anytime. Keep those photos coming. Yep my weekend is doing fine - just thinking about going to the cinema/movies to see "Hancock". Tomorrow - I'm off to the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire to take more pictures (hopefully!!)

How's your weekend so far?

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Hey hun, a million thank you's again for the 's. Hope the start of your weekend is going well.

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