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You loved me like a bullet submerged in its chrome

You loved me more than the amounts of times my heart decided to beat

I remember your love was as dangerous as the Iraqi war soldiers surrounded by mines

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I remember when I lost your love

It was like a 10-inch steel knife piercing in my chest and out my heart

It got lost along with White boys dignity the case in Gena 6

I remember that loving you, was worst than loosing you.

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2) Si fueras Venezolan@, ¿votarías por él? Explica tu respuesta.

  For years I had seized the benefits of small class sizes, increased individual attention from teachers and learning in an environmental filled with an eclectic group of diverse people that all shared a set of common goals and ideals. This was a place where people seemed to honestly enjoy coming to school for learning’s sake, rather than to just get a good grade in order to escape the scowls of parents. Accompanied with lavish offerings in extracurricular activities, and freedom from the school district to take interesting trips to places such as Costa Rica and New York that all aid to the learning and development of a child, this was undoubtedly an ideal environment to grow up in.

  My high school may not be the traditional public school. It has helped me hone several important skills such as inquiry, research and leadership. However, in one year all of my cushy surroundings were taken away from me. My current science class has 35 other students it – more than the maximum amount required by the district. Last month, the government officially put a number on the amount of cuts the school district will be facing due to the recession: $465 million. This will severely limit – if not discontinue – a large amount of extracurricular activities and opportunities my school is able to provide.

A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)

Think about a normal drawing of an object. Lets use a chair. You would draw a chair, then when you are done you would have the outline of the chair (and maybe some shading too.). Look at the space outside of the object. This is what we call a negative space. In a negative space drawing, you shade all the negative space to make the chair appear. You do not draw the chair first, however.

B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?

In my cutout, I used the templates given to us by Mrs. Hull. The templets were of a shaded part. I had to pieces of construction paper. One was black and one was pink. The pink would be the only paper I would cut. The black paper would stay in one piece the whole time. I cut the correct areas out then traced the cut outs in the onto the pink paper in a way that made the picture half negative, half positive.

In my stool drawing I found the negative space by looking at different shapes in the stools. I pictured the outline in my head then shaded the areas around it. The part of the paper that was not shaded made the shape of the stool.

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?

It helps an artist to see negative space because then you get to see both sides of the picture. Positive is one side. The side you see normally. Negative is the other side. The side you see less. With negative space you see it more.

D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not

It really depends on how you want the drawing to look. Negative space is good for when you want a darker background. It also makes the drawings more accurate because they will have more points of view.