compliments don’t get people killed.
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9 Steps To Follow for Perfect Make-Up
*Also when painting your nails you should always cap the free edge, or pull your brush lightly around the edge outer edge of your fingernail. This helps prevent chipping.
Whoa this is super informative!
I still have no idea what my shapes are but definitely saving thisTHIS IS ALL I EVER NEEDED
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this is a serious question how do you get a boy to like you when theres always someone better like why would anyone ever pick a raisin out of a bowl of chocolate chips this is literally my biggest concern in life i am a raisin
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Idk, maybe they’re reading about the history around them.
Have you ever been to the Louvre? There are a shit-ton of apps you can download to help you learn the history and meaning behind the paintings. Like, when you walk in, after you go through the security scan, there are ACTUALLY shit-ton of advertisements and suggestions on how to download learning apps, buy their digital walk-through. or take a guided tour. They’re quite happy to stuff tech down your throat (and your wallet) to enhance your experience. (it also makes it easier on the staff, to take smaller groups. Some people just like wandering on their own)
When I went through there, there was a class, and the teacher told them to write down notes. Many kids hadn’t brought notepads, and when the teacher said ‘write this down’ they all shuffled their phones out, and tapped away on a ‘notebook’ app.
Sure, these kids in the pic might be taking a break after walking through a three-hour tour of learning and history and magnificent art, by texting their friends or vegging out on facebook…(and I know where that painting is, in that museum. It’s pretty damn far from the front entrance. Took me an hour to get there, and I wasn’t even with a guided tour)
or maybe they’re learning more than your technophobic ass ever will from just silently staring at a painting without referencing the wealth of knowledge stored within the internet.
More than half of my college classes encouraged us to have laptops out - either to write notes, or to reference sources that the teacher was lecturing on. Often, people with tablets would have their E-books open, writing on the digital pages, or if they didn’t have a touch-screen, highlighting and notating bits of text. One of my professors specifically asked us to bring our tech to class, so we could show him sources for when we wanted to discuss a certain topic that was relevant to the day’s lesson.
Conclusion? Fuck off about how ‘technology is ruining our youth/destroying learning. The internet has encouraged my thirst for knowledge more than 99% of my teachers have. It has enhanced classrooms since we learned how to source online journals, and made any school library a thousand times bigger than they could afford, had they only stuck to paper and binding.
I’ve reblogged three different versions of this post and every one of them basically says “fuck you” to technology ruining us and I’m so proud
Art becomes so much more interesting when you know the context it was created in.
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at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We…
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tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them
- tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them
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THIS IS SO FUCKING IMPORTANT!
black ballerina excellence
So gorgeous and elegant
Why is this important? i see a girl doing ballet, stop outlining difference, its important we just admire the skills, and afore mentioned ellegance
First of all shut the fuck up and have several seats
and heres why in Michaela’s own words what she had to go through beig BLACK and still goes through
When she was around 8 and rehearsing for The Nutcracker, just a few days before the performance she was told, “I’m sorry, you can’t do it. America’s not ready for a black girl ballerina.”
For Michaela, “to say this to an 8-year-old is just devastating. It was terrible.”
When she was 9, a teacher told her mother: “I don’t like to put money into black dancers because they grow up and end up having big boobs and big hips.”
The dancer looked down at her petite figure and protested, “I don’t have boobs. I don’t get it.”
Instead of getting her down, “It makes me more determined,” she said. “Because I’ve been through so much, I know now that I can make it and I can help other kids who have been in really bad situations realize that they can make it too.”
This is why it is important, for little Black girls to see a black ballerina made it despite being discriminated against because of her skin color!!!
Not to mention ballet is one of the most racists activity. I was in a dance company for 10 years, and every year more and more black girls left because, according to the teachers, “they aren’t passionate about it”.
It took me five more years (I was 12 when my first friend “quit) to understand what teachers were telling black girls. “You’ll get too big” “you can’t dance properly with big hips”. Need I mention, at the time I was 16 and most of us were fully grown?
Not to mention, our ballet teacher supported these black girls getting eating disorders and constantly shared “tips” with them on how to stay thin. Like the “white girls”.
Even more bullshit; professional ballet teachers tend to just be awful and pick on anyone who is even a “bit” different. If your hair is too short, you get picked on. If your boobs fucking grew, you get picked on. They can be both physically and mentally abusive, I have seen it first hand.
BUT if you’re black, you get picked on THEN you get kicked the fuck out.
Not so surprisingly, I fucking quit
Professional Ballet is for white, thin, young women. That is why this story is fucking important.
MESSAGE!
She has different color pointe shoes 😩😩😩
Yes baby girl
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