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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:57:30 -0600

toobaa: Life value compared in font size.

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:54:53 -0600

toobaa:

Life value compared in font size.

ryanpanos: Dubai Aerials by Johannes Heuckeroth

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:47:24 -0600

ryanpanos:

Dubai Aerials by Johannes Heuckeroth

reginasmom: tardis-thesexysnogbox: booksandwildthings: satanmo...

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:00:43 -0600

reginasmom:

tardis-thesexysnogbox:

booksandwildthings:

satanmoriarty:

dizpotter:

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?

I mean, can we just talk about how this parallels the actual education system? Where they’re so concerned about teaching us things like logarithms and graphing that we don’t know shit about what’s actually out there in the adult world, like doing taxes or writing checks or anything? I mean, “It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.” School children are often under the impression that getting A’s in all their classes ensures a successful future, but really, it’s so ignorant because the real world isn’t just one big question-and-answer paper. There is so much more to the world than being able to give back information like some kind of super-computer, and brainwashing children into thinking that theory is key is just going to lead to a bunch of children falling flat on their faces when they’re pushed into the adult world and feel as if everything new they try to do is wrong because it wasn’t taught to them step-by-step. I just really love Harry’s line, “And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what’s out there?” because I feel as if sometimes we just learn things for the sake of knowing them, despite whether it is actually useful. Yes, school is important, and getting bad grades isn’t a good way to start your future, but it’s so much more than that, you see.

this sounds a lot like something Hermione would say

I think that’s the reason why everyone has such strong negative feelings toward Umbridge (as a person, not a character). I can’t tell you how many times I heard people say that they wanted Umbridge to die more than Voldemort. And I must say that I feel the same.

Voldemort is a racist dictator. While these have existed, and still do, the majority of us don’t live under such a tyrant. We’ve heard about them in history books and on the news- but they’re already dead or on the other side of the world. While we can be horrified at the terror such a person can spread and how, well, evil they can be, a character of this archetype doesn’t strike a personal chord with most of us.

But Umbridge does. As stated before, she represents everything that we hate about the public school system. Most of us know or have a teacher, professor, principal, or school administrator who, to probably a lesser degree, personifies what Umbridge is saying. They teach only to the test, or tell teachers to do so, they insist on including useless things in their curriculums, they PASS LAWS SO THAT SUCH A SCHOOL SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE. This is something that affects nearly every public school in the US, (and I’m guessing the UK as well). Nearly every student has to go through school learning things that they will never use in real life and that in no way prepare them for the real world, just so the various boards of education can use the higher test scores as ‘proof’ that we’re ‘smarter’ than other states, countries, etc., and therefore deserve more funding.

We hate Umbridge so much (again, as a person, not a character) because she represents a villain we all have in our own lives. Possibly every single person who has read this book can connect with the frustration Harry and the other students feel.

We hate Umbridge so much because everything she is, everything she represents, is very real and very personal to every single one of us.

I love this fandom, always have, always will

let me just point out that these issues apply on about 95% countries with an education system not only “the US and possibly UK”

Matej Peljhan | Le Petit Prince

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:38:21 -0600

Matej Peljhan | Le Petit Prince:

Bringing a child with muscular dystrophy closer to motion.

Photo portfolio of Matej Peljhan

danimariebee: ca-crave: riddle-my-hiddles: tardisparadox: the...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:39:07 -0600

danimariebee:

ca-crave:

riddle-my-hiddles:

tardisparadox:

thestarsgowaltzingout:emilytea10:invisiblecashews:

Actually, the photographs are spaced ten years apart, not sixteen.

1912 to 1922.

The young, homeless (but no less dapper) wanderer shown in the first survived the sinking of the Titanic and swam to the shores of West Egg. There he built a life and a large, empty house, in an effort to win the heart of the wealthy, upper class woman he’d fallen in love with a decade earlier and had been separated from against his will.

He shed his earlier identity, and changed his name to reflect his new station. Jack was now known as Jay Gatsby, the eccentric millionaire who threw parties every night in the hopes that one day his love would show up and spin with him as they had long ago in the dance hall of the lower decks.

#and he still ends up dead floating in the water

holy shit

And then, at the beginning of Inception, he starts out washed up on a shore.

still no oscar

omg i know i just reblogged this picture but the words on this one are too perfect to pass up.

sarkyfancypants: yumyumnoodle: it’s like these companies have...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:58:51 -0600

sarkyfancypants:

yumyumnoodle:

it’s like these companies have finally gotten out of their wild college party years and are now trying to be mature adults now.

Same goes for the Windows logo

I mean look at this shit

Is like someone just ironed the logo

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potterhead: haiaboveme: fckn peer support man….. lol love...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:30:09 -0600

potterhead:

haiaboveme:

fckn peer support man….. lol love it

Someone come over and do this for me please?

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incidentalcomics: Disclaimer

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:39:10 -0600

incidentalcomics:

Disclaimer

Isn’t this so interesting? That the sectors in which you...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:39:06 -0700

Isn’t this so interesting? That the sectors in which you would think the most progress happens are the least progressive in terms of equal pay?

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cortizorunsboston: “And if you can’t see anything beautiful...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:06:53 -0700

cortizorunsboston:

“And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror; look a little closer; stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying.”

herlipswerevelvetred: Cuz if you liked it then you should have...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:39:19 -0700

herlipswerevelvetred:

Cuz if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it.

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artandsciencejournal: Ajay Malghan In this series, Naturally...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:12:27 -0700

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

Ajay Malghan

artandsciencejournal:

Ajay Malghan

In this series, Naturally Modified, Ajay Malghan takes a look at the food we eat. This camerless body of work was created by putting fruits and vegetables between glass plates and using them as a negative. As Malghan states,

“By utilizing colour, the works abstract the viewer and remove the otherwise ordinary fruits and vegetables from their context. As photography is deeply rooted in science; these images extract the camera and allow us to see the ordinary in new ways while blurring the lines between art and science. As our food is more processed and more steps are introduced between farm and table, the colour added becomes ironic with art imitating life.”

To see more of Malghan’s photography, click here.

- Lee Jones

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