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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Give the freeper a prize!!!
They picked a day for this after all the teachers are gone. LOL.. that means it's only admin people doin' it. I think they think us teachers shouldn't get that casual in class.... think I'll wear a Hawaiian print dress under my graduation junk! :-)
Have I told you about the "Honk Honk Honk Beanie Baby Goose" award we have? It's the "attaboy" prize: a beanie baby that gets to sit on your desk when you do something especially well. Most recently, it was given to a gal who actually completed something.
We also have a sock monkey thing with long arms and velcro on the hands. It gets wrapped around your computer monitor when you don't do something well. It's the "Monkey On Your Back" award. It was last given to the chap who keeps forgetting to turn off the bathroom lights at the end of the day.
And yes, our supervisors are women.
In August 1917, the discovery of the Zimmerman Note (in which Germany asked Mexico to attack the US in exchange for regaining Texas, NM, AZ and a good-sized chunk of CA) led to the US declaring war on Germany. On the day the declaration was official, the governor of Guam ordered the surrender of the Cormoran and her crew as enemy combatants. A boat carrying armed Naval personnel set out toward the Cormoran and encountered her supply boat in the harbor. The supply boat did not respond to hails and hove to only when rifle shots were fired across its bow-- the first shots fired by an American combatant against a German combatant in WWI.
The captain of the Cormoran scuttled the ship rather than surrender her; he and most of the crew survived though seven were drowned or killed by debris. One of these was never found; the other six are buried on Guam and their graves are still visited from time to time by German Naval authorities.
The ship would have been lost to history except for an event in WWII. The Japanese had invaded and occupied Guam; units on Guam and many other islands in SOPAC were resupplied by Japanese freighters converted (armed) for war use. One such freighter was sunk in Guam's harbor by a US sub (which had to wait for high tide and then fire the torps at an up angle to get them over the reef!).
A sailor assigned to Guam in the 1950's, who dived as a hobby, went to explore the Japanese wreck and found the older wreck beside it. The Japanese ship had almost landed on top of and actually collided with the Cormoran as she sank. The sailor/diver explored both ships for years, bringing up articles from them; he died in 1975 having apparently run out of air while exploring the Cormoran.
How to Draw Manga: Martial Arts & Combat Sports
It's part of a series which covers various aspects of manga-drawing.
The store didn't have any discs bigger than 4.7 gb, though--sigh. Will try looking online next.
Good team effort! :)
BTW, here is another really interesting book which analyzes the comic/manga medium from an artistic perspective:
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics," a creation that sits roughly between comic book and historical literary criticism, is an indispensable work for anyone interested in studying funnybooks seriously. Along with Will Eisner's seminal works on the subject (which I have not read all the way through), "Understanding Comics" uses the graphic-text art form to dissect one of the most rapidly growing trends in both art and literature. In an accessible, readable style, McCloud takes the reader through the history of comics, the definition of comics as a sequential art form involving symbols, and examines several major trends in modern comic-dom.
While there's plenty here for both the casual reader and someone interested in more scholarly study. While it's more of an introduction than an in-depth exploration of comic study, McCloud provides enough resources for someone to continue study on his or her own, and enough seeds to begin sprouting ideas about the funnybooks. Occasionally, he misses the mark - his definition of art, for example, is a little broad - and "Understanding Comics" isn't nearly as well-cited as it could be, but these are easily overlooked flaws.
Especially beneficial is his comparison of Japanese Manga comics with traditional American graphic storytelling, because the two are basically the same medium but evolved almost entirely independent of each other, until the last 15 years or so. I wouldn't recommend it for the Sailor Moon fans, but those that enjoy anime and Manga will find much useful information here, in particular the comparisons between the two comic forms (not so much in any actual study of Manga in and of itself).
I highly recommend "Understanding Comics" to anyone who wants to - well - understand comics. Whether you are interested in the ways Alan Moore tells a story, or want to deconstruct the use of movement in Dave McKean's artwork, or you want to learn why Spiegelman chose certain symbols and styles in his work, "Understanding Comics" gives the reader an excellent springboard to further study.
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