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You should post your kids old school work on line +2

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Reasons to agree : +5 The internet has more room than the refrigerator Grandparents can't see your refrigerator, if they live thousands of miles away. You can usually assume other people will want to be treated the way you want to be treated. I wish my parents had access to scanners and the internet when I was little. Kids will want to see their work when they are older. If you house burns down, has water damage, or you loose things, or throw them away, the internet can back them up. Kids will need to get used to their efforts being evaluated by others including their teachers, their boss, and the public. Reasons to agree : -2 Kids might think you are making fun of them, by posting their early work. You don't have the right to publish things, unless they give you permission.  Belief Score : +5 -3 = +2 Images that agree : Soft: Echolocation, a piano, and a bat in a cave Load: An elephant, a lion, and and avalanche Self Portrait Gealaejea James Laub...

The Art Institute of Chicago is Better than the Denver Museum of Art

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Best reasons to agree : +1 The Art Institute of Chicago is bigger, and bigger museums are better. the second largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago has over 260,000 works of art. You run out of things to see when going to the Denver art museum, because it doesn't change very often. Best reasons to disagree : -1 Its less expensive to stay and park in Denver, in 2012 parking was $28 in Chicago and $4 in Denver.  Images that agree : Coffin and Mummy of Paankhenamun, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22 (c. 945–715 B.C.) Cartonnage, gold leaf, pigment; human remains Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the afterlife gave rise to the complex art and science of mummification. This vividly painted Mummy Case was the innermost of a series of shells that housed the body of a deceased person. The hieroglyphic inscriptions and painted scenes identify this mummy as Paankhenamun, a doorkeeper in th...

The Laubs are good artists

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James at my work, drawing the sun saying, "Nice Picture". The moon saying: "all I'm waiting for is night", a cloud saying, "I like to fly", a bird saying, "all I'm waiting for is food", James saying, "I like outside", me saying, "What!", a tree saying, "I like the sun", and a flower saying, "me to".  Drawing Teachers: 1992 In Jr. High I started drawing teachers as a way to look at a teacher without really paying attention. I know it is not great art, but I really like the concept of sharing sketches (see Dan Price's moonlight chronicles). I think sketching forces you to look at the world, and sharing sketches is a great way of seeing a moment of time through someone else's eyes. Its doesn't do anything profound, or teach you any great lessons, unless the subject matter is great, but I think it is sort of fun and interesting. Jr. Principal, Mr. Beamer with ...

Visiting Washington, Oregon, and Northern California state parks can be a good vacation

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Megan and I got married over a Christmas break, my sophomore year in college. There wasn't much time, and we didn't have much money, and so we didn't "go anywhere exotic" for our honeymoon. Megan was a trooper, and said that our road trips that we took to Washington, Oregon, and the California coasts were our honey moons the next 2 summers were our honermoons. We brought our tent, stayed in State Parks, and only got rained out once.  We: went to Mt. Saint Helens. Did not pay for helicopter tour,  went swimming in the Columbia river,  rented a 2 person boat,  lake canoed  took a ferry to Victoria on British Columbia,  walked in the red-woods,  visited KC stayed in a Casino in Reno Spent a day in San Fransico saw the worlds shortest river I: walked down to crater lake  made Megan cry driving down the world's curviest road Driving through a tree Megan making hash-browns on our Camp St...