“Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.” Norman Rockwell
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My name is Andrew, and I Have a confession to make: I… am a nerd. Now, it’s taken me a long while to admit this fact, but it’s true, and underneath this 175 pound, 6 foot frame beats the heart of a nerd. For example, I am a nerd because I know what a gerund
The people in the picture above come from a leper colony I brought aid to while living in India. They are Untouchables, some of the most abused people in the world. They live in constant physical pain and dire conditions because their society deems them unworthy of anything else. From birth, members of the Untouchable
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“Hope is not blind optimism. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and fight for it.” Barack Obama as quoted by E. J. Dionne, 12-30-2016 These words take me
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Bless me, Scholars, for I have sinned. But let me explain. I totally get that Hallmark, as a corporate media entity, represents the values of elitist America. During the holiday season especially, Hallmark celebrates a very White Christmas: it is the story of fantastic white people who, despite their peculiar adversities in life, have somehow
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Humanity faces two options: expand our presence beyond the boundaries of Earth to become a spacefaring species or wait until an inevitable cataclysmic event wipes us out of existence. SpaceX, a private rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk, looks out to the cosmos to circumnavigate such a doomsday event. The company is currently
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