BIWEEKLY EYE-OPENER: “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
KEY DATE:
1. On Friday, Nov. 30, your chains of circumstances research paper is due.
The week of Nov. 26
CLASS ONE: we will discuss the first half of chapter 7. HOMEWORK: finish the chapter.
CLASS TWO: […]
Posted on November 25th, 2007 by cjanus
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One of the great art museums of the world, the Art Institute of Chicago presents a collection spanning 5,000 years of artistic expression. Paintings, prints and drawings, sculptures, photographs, video, textiles, and architectural drawings and fragments are complemented by a year-round schedule of exhibitions. And there’s more. The museum presents programs-lectures, workshops, performances, symposia, travel, […]
Posted on November 18th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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BIWEEKLY EYE-OPENER: “I envy the beasts two things: their ignorance of evil to come and their ignorance of what is said about them.”
Voltaire
KEY DATE:
1. Next Tuesday we have our Field Trip to the Rare Book Room at Regenstein and the Art Institute. We will meet in the foyer of the High School at 7:35 in […]
Posted on November 12th, 2007 by cjanus
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Hey, just reminding everyone to send emails regarding people who you want to work on, I’d like to have an idea so that people can do work that interests them instead of just what the magazine needs.
Thanks,
Z
Posted on November 10th, 2007 by Zack
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The test date has been changed to Monday, Nov. 12 except for First Period who have their test on Tuesday.
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by cjanus
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A brief bio on Fragonard available at:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/f/fragonar/biograph.html
French Rococo painter whose most familiar works, such as The Swing (c. 1766), are characterized by delicate hedonism.
Fragonard was the son of a haberdasher’s assistant. The family moved to Paris about 1738, and in 1747 the boy was apprenticed to a lawyer, who, noticing his appetite for drawing, […]
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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This is an excerpt found in:
The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun
Translated by Lionel Strachey, 1903
CHAPTER 2 - UP THE LADDER OF FAME
[…]
It was in the year 1779 that I painted the Queen for the first time; she was then in the heyday of her youth and beauty. Marie Antoinette was tall […]
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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The rest of the slides from the last lecture:
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Ms. Laurie Rojas
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hey, just posting to say we have decided on a theme which will be evil throughout european history and a portion of our magazine will focus on how evil has been good. please email me at xaq2892@yahoo.com regarding certain people (evil dictators, evil historical figures) that you are interested in writing about.
Thanks,
Z
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Zack
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The third Period magazine has moved. We will now be based in the website http://www.apeuromagazine.bravehost.com
Updates, assignments and such will be available there. Please register for the forums using your own name.
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Isabella Prenta
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