Judd Nelson

Was Too Demanding For Knocked Up Anne Hathaway was initially chosen to play the role of Alison in the film Knocked Up alongside Seth Rogan but dropped out of the movie because she couldn’t agree with the director. According to writer and director Judd Apatow the actress “didn't want to allow us to use real footage of a woman giving birth to create the illusion that she is giving birth". Hathaway said in a later interview that she didn’t believe that it was necessary to the story. Considering that

museum enjoys a seemingly eclectic collection of artifacts, sculptures, photographs, and paintings. While perusing the gallery I was fascinated by one painting in particular. The piece was called “Ante Meridian”, oil on board, c.a. 1935 by Frederick Judd Waugh (American 1861-1940). This representational painting was of a presumably north eastern coast line where waves were battering the cliffs and rocks during a stormy day. The sky was ominous yet you don’t see the rain falling. The sun appears

Bil Baird collection is considered a spectacular attraction at the MacNider Art Museum in Mason City. In 1975 Baird and his wife Susanna were in Mason City attending Rotary Club as guests. At the end of the meeting Dick Leet decided to introduce himself and invite the couple to the MacNider Museum. After Baird and Susanna had completed a long tour that day the question was asked if Baird might be interested in having an exhibit with his puppets at the museum. The Art of the Puppet: Bil Baird was

stroll around the streets of Nelson, do we ever look up at the blue signs, wondering the stories behind these names that roll off your tongue so everyday? Do you stop to picture Nelson, 170 years ago, imagining the people that walk the same path to work as you everyday, down Trafalgar Street? These steps that the first settlers of Nelson made, have shaped our city, creating the perfect base for following generations to make change upon. As generations have occupied Nelson, the names of these streets

In the twentieth century alone, the world has witnessed oppression in many places, like the South African apartheid, which literally means “apartness” (Omond 11). Nadine Gordimer, an esteemed author and South African native, has lived to see the injustice and conflict her country has experienced during apartheid rule, which lasted just under a half-century. Most of her literary work throughout the decades of apartheid oppression united under the banner of freedom for the victims of apartheid. Her

Nelson Mandela once said, “There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” His life is a prime example of how passionately he believes these words. Even though he had to undergo many hardships, such as spending twenty-seven years in prison and battling tuberculosis, he never stopped striving to make a large impact on not only South Africa, but the world as well (Schoemaker). Nelson Mandela is a major worldwide influence

With all these hardships Nelson Mandela’s plans were constantly pushed back farther and farther but he never let this stop him. Every life comes with hardships and with every hardship comes some sort of setback be it big or small. Nelson Mandela said to his people “do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again”, and many times did he fall and get back up (Brainyquote). Nelson Mandela has always had a vision of South Africa where

violence conducted at all in these protests. 13 Mandela pointed out the shooting at Sharpeville in 1960, where 69 people were killed and 178 demonstrators were wounded. Mandela and his colleague continued to fight, not listening to the government. Nelson believed “in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, that the ‘will of the people shall be the basis of authority of the Government’”. 14 The people had rights to choose what they wanted to do in their homeland, and no one was going

life is free or arrives without trying. In alignment to be brave, a person should have courageous, persistent, and honest Nelson Mandela, the previous leader of South Africa, did not choose to take an easy walk to flexibility. Mandela

With a population of 48 million, South Africa represents 10 per cent of Africa’s population and 45 per cent of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP). Its GDP is almost as big as the rest of sub-Saharan Africa’s 47 countries combined. As the engine of growth for Africa, South Africa recently has been growing at 5 per cent annually. It is the largest economy in Africa, and is among the top-ten emerging economies. Before 1994, South Africa had been ruled by a white minority government