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Cnasty wrote:Currently working on my minor for leadership in completing my degree and we do this web/conference type call thing with the webcam and about 85% of the chicks in my class are 20-23 and I am the old, failure guy creeping on them.

shel311 wrote:

ReignOnU wrote:If I get a chance later today, I'll try to find some written work that a few of the females thought was good enough to submit for a few group assignments. Fair warning, don't gouge your eyes out after trying to read it.

Please post pics of said females also. Girls that dumb in grad classes gotta be hot at least a 75% clip.

Cnasty wrote:Who physically goes to school anymore?

I cant imagine having to go to an actual class and listen to some dickhead lecture me at this point in my life.

ReignOnU wrote:

shel311 wrote:

ReignOnU wrote:If I get a chance later today, I'll try to find some written work that a few of the females thought was good enough to submit for a few group assignments. Fair warning, don't gouge your eyes out after trying to read it.

Please post pics of said females also. Girls that dumb in grad classes gotta be hot at least a 75% clip.

I will say this... the biggest culprit has a body to kill for. However, she does have Lebron's forehead.


Here's a sample of her original work that I ended up rewriting. The topic had to do with Da Vinci, not that anyone cares. It's in a spoiler because it's a few paragraphs long.

Spoiler!

Overall Style Characteristics:
Renowned as a master of oil painting, including the painterly techniques of chiaroscuro (use of shadow to create a 3-D effect) and sfumato (use of glazes in slightly different tones of colour creating an almost imperceptible transition from light to dark), both techniques are visible in his masterpiece, Mona Lisa. ("Leonardo da Vinci," 2013, para. 1).
Leonardo’s uses of oil paints enable him to achieve depth and intensity of coloring. Renaissance Italy was centuries away from our culture of photographs and cinema, but he sought a universal language in painting ("Renaissance Man," 2013, p. 2). Leonardo came from a culture that like to paint strange religious paintings, but he still desire to paint things that was realistically was bold and fresh. When he used the chiaroscuro it would give his painting lifelike qualities that made older paintings look cartoony and flat.
Genres:
Leonardo’s genres of his work were scientific and naturalistic. Leonardo used realistic elements to create faithful renditions of life. Leonardo was a perfectionist so he turned to science to help improve his painting skills. He also believed that artist must know not just the rules of perspectives, but all the laws of natures. To Leonardo, the eye was the perfect instrument of learning these laws, he believe the eye was one of the most fascinating things. Leonardo also believed sight was man’s highest sense because it alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty. He used his superb intellect, unusual powers observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish (Renaissance man, 2013 p2). Leonardo theme of his studies was “saper vedere”, which me how to see.

Original Ideas:
Leonardo’s mind was ahead of his time in everywhere, and that’s why his called the Renaissance Man. Not only was he a sculptor, painter and architect, he was a profound philosopher. Leonardo kept books of what his thoughts on a daily basic, anything that would come to his mind he would write down. He carried a little book that he would sketch in all day. He was the first to investigate scientifically and apply to art the laws of light and shade. His study of nature and anatomy emerged in his stunningly realistic paintings, and his dissections of the human body paved the way for remarkably accurate figures. Leonardo was the first person to studies the physical proportions of men, women, and children, to determine the ideal human figure. In Leonardo’s notebooks he had ideas of laws of gravitation, combustion and respiration, theory of light and heat, flying machines, invention of camera, use of stone saw, the circulation of the blood, swimming belt, the wheelbarrow, explosives, inventions of the paddle wheels, smoke stack, and mincing machine ( Brockwell, 2005 p. 18). These are things that didn’t happen until over 100 years later but Leonardo was thinking of them in his time and day. Leonardo also had saying he lived by: The eye is the window to the soul, tears come from the heart not the brain, The natural desire of good men is knowledge, Time abides long enough for those who make use of it, Every difficulty can be overcome by effort.

ajalves wrote:is painterly actually a word?

ReignOnU wrote:

ajalves wrote:is painterly actually a word?

LOL... yes. But I had to Google it. I'm sure that part was copied out of the text. I can only imagine how she would have put that in her own words.

LetsGoPeay wrote:A girl in class was listening to Backstreet Boys on her computer while doing homework. She told her friend "I really like oldies".