What does the American painter Norman Rockwell, gravity clocks, mineral rocks, and antique cars have in common with Ft. Lauderdale, Florida?  Each of them are currently associated with one or more of this city’s museums.  If you’re in Ft. Lauderdale at one of the resort hotels Florida has scattered throughout its varied regions, you’ll find even more varied things to see at the Nova Southeastern University Museum of Art, the Museum of Discovery and Science, and  the Ft. Lauderdale Antique Car Museum.

At the Nova Southeastern University Museum of Art, you’ll find some of the best known paintings of Norman Rockwell, an American painter who lived from 1894 to 1978, known for his depictions of a idealized America, often creating cover art for the Saturday Evening Post and Look magazine.  The exhibit will include iconic works as Day in the Life of a Little Girl, Christmas Homecoming, Girl at Mirror, No Swimming, and The Discovery.  The art will be displayed until February 7th, 2010.

At the Museum of Discovery and Science, you can always see some of the following exhibits which are on permanent display: a minerals rock exhibit, a space hall, featuring Runways to Rockets, a Great Gravity Clock.  There’s an interactive exhibit about restoration and the Florida Everglades.  The museum looks at everything from the mysteries of space, kinetic energy, and ecosystems.

If science and art overwhelm your senses and intellect, you can wander over to a different kind of art at the Ft. Lauderdale Antique Car Museum, a non-profit foundation meant to keep alive the Packard Motor Company history.  You’ll find pre-war Packard cars, at least 22 of them, which range from 1900 up to the 1940s.   There’s even a gallery devoted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as other collections of car memorabilia.

Art, Science and Cars in Florida is a post from: The Green One

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TThere are many museums in Baltimore.  That is due to the fact that there is quite a lot of history in this American City.  For many immigrants, the Statue of Liberty was not the first glimpse they got of the United States, it was the Inner Harbor of Maryland.  Even the seafood restaurants in Baltimore are steeped in the history of the harbor and the hundreds of years of the fishing industry.  For those interested in the art world there are quite a few options, such as the American Visionary Art Museum, the Amaranthine Museum, and the Art Gallery at Fell’s Point.  For those interested in the history of specific topics, there is the National Museum of Dentistry, the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum and the Fire Museum of Maryland.

For a glimpse at the history of the city on a larger scale there is the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, the Maryland Historical Society and The Jewish Museum of Maryland.  This museum in Baltimore contains the largest collection of Jewish artifacts in the United States.  The collection includes photographs, family histories, art, rare books and everyday objects.  There is a research facility located in the museum and they have an extensive database of information and photographs, more than one hundred thousand, for people who are in search of their family members or ancestors.

The collection of archived manuscripts contains more than one hundred and fifty in the collection, as well as numerous other documents, personal records and books that relate to the Jewish life of the people of Baltimore. And true to a sign of the times, their web database is also very thorough and extensive.  Here one can come to have their family tree built or filled in, with various research facilities and staff that will help an individual recreate their own personal history, and how it fits in to the history of the Jewish community.  This is a great place to visit to discover this section of the history of Baltimore, and for some people, they may even discover a few family members and loved ones along the way.

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Arizona State University is located in Tempe, just outside of the capital city of Phoenix.  Lawyers in training have been attending the law school at ASU for many decades and receive one of the best educations continually.  What young teenagers in Nebraska or Ohio, or throughout the state of Arizona may not know, is exactly how to go about getting into the prestigious program.  One lawyer I know, started at the age of ten.

Everything she studied and accomplished throughout grade school, middle school,high school, and during her undergraduate degree, was in her mind’s eye…all leading up to the day that she would apply to enter the program and begin her study of law.  She began preparing for the LSAT exam many months, perhaps even as long as one year, prior to the day she actually went in for the exam.  She applied to the schools of her choice as soon as she discovered which ones those were to be.

The sooner one gets the applications in the better.  Many people may tend to procrastinate, as many people do in different aspects of their lives, but to do so when applying to a law program will most likely prove to be extremely detrimental.  When the dean or the committee of a school receives thousands of applications before midnight of the date they are due, what do you suppose happens?  Their desks become stacked those applications, and the time may not be available to spend going over them…at least not as much time as if one sent in their applications months prior.  Time and attention will be given when there is less stacked up in front of the admissions boards.

In the end the process of getting into law school is a process not unlike simply getting into college in the first place.  Or really, it is no different from any other achievement one wishes to accomplish in one’s lifetime.  The competition is fierce, as is the competition in the regular day to day world, and unless one is willing to give their all, their devotion and their attention and their focus to the study and to the practice of law, one may be disappointed in the outcome.

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