Shelter Dogs and the History of the Skirt

A couple of weeks ago I saw a story on CBS Sunday Morning about a woman who had published a book of photographs she took of dogs in her local shelter. The photographs were not your usual mug shots, but were black and white and “arty” in nature (http://www.traerscott.com/portfolio/shelter-dogs.phtml?3). She posted these pictures at her local pet store and the adoption rate at the shelter went up. Every year, I have sooooooo many kids proposing to do their projects with photography or with animals, so I thought this might make a great project around here. I sold the idea to one of my seniors and she is planning to work with the shelter and a local portrait photographer to see if some of the animals in our shelter can find homes.

I checked the CBS Sunday Morning site, and, as it turns out, they have lots of neat articles that were possibilities for Senior Projects. I found articles which mentioned the medical advances on the front lines of war zones (survival rate has increased from 75% in the first Gulf War to more than 90 percent today), the cultural importance of blogs (and cursing, but that might not be an appropriate SP choice!), the history of the skirt, the stigma that Muslim Americans face since 9/11, the “Paradox of Choice” (think Wal-Mart), musicians selling their music for commercials are mocked by other musicians such as Neil Young, offering “The Bible as Literature” as an elective in high schools, and many more.

Check it out. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/sunday/main3445_overflow.shtml