Day: August 4, 2014

U.S. Immigration Solution Must Include Justice and Fairness

By Sundar Viswam Every day, thousands of aspiring immigrants queue up outside American embassies all over the world for visas, nervously checking and rechecking documents, feverishly chanting every prayer they know, rehearsing terrified answers to imagined interview questions, the dreaded ‘Rejected’ stamp haunting them day and night. That is just the first in a series of stamps that will torment them as they labor through the labyrinths of an immigrant’s journey that can take more than a decade, oftentimes ending in tragedy, or worse still, not ending at all. Today, as I watch protesters stake their claim to eleven...

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Book Review: Prebles’ Artforms – An Introduction to the Visual Arts, 11th edition

Editors: Patrick Frank Publisher: Pearson – Education – 522 pages, with 165 new images Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi Patrick Frank poses the question “Why Study Art?” in his Preface and immediately answers it by saying “because at some point in human history, artists have dealt with every type of human experience, from the common to the forbidden, the mundane to the sacred, the repugnant to the sublime.” My own non-artist answer is that basically it is part of human nature to want to express what we have in our heads as well as to respond in our own...

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