Desiree

__Madame Butterfly__
Madame Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. He had written five versions of this opera. The original version was two acts and had its premiere on February 17, 1904, at La Scala in Milan. After a disastrous premiere, he withdrew the opera and rewrote it, this time in three acts. Eventually in 1907, Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version,which has become known as the "standard version". Today, the standard version of the opera is the version most often performed around the world. The libretto of the opera is based in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco.

Madame Butterfly takes place in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1904. Pinkerton a U.S. Naval Officer rents a home with his soon-to-be-wife Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) a 15 year old Japanese girl whom he is marrying out of convenience until he can find an American wife. It's discovered after the wedding ceremony that out of excitement in marrying an American, Butterfly had previously converted to Christianity which angers her family causing them to renounce her. Shortly after being wed Pinkerton leaves, three years later the American Consul, Sharpless, comes to the house with a letter from Pinkerton in which he is asked to break some news to Butterfly that he is coming back to Japan, but he cannot bring himself to finish it, because Butterfly becomes very excited to hear that Pinkerton is coming back. She then reveals that she gave birth to Pinkerton's son after he had left and asks Sharpless to tell him.Later Sharpless and Pinkerton arrive at the house, along with Pinkerton's new American wife, Kate because she has agreed to raise the child. But, as Pinkerton sees how Butterfly has decorated the house for his return, he realizes he has made a huge mistake. He admits that he is a coward and cannot face her, leaving Suzuki, Sharpless and Kate to break the news to Butterfly. Agreeing to give up her child if Pinkerton comes himself to see her, she then prays to statues of her ancestral gods, says goodbye to her son, and blindfolds him. She places a small American flag into his hands and goes behind a screen, cutting her throat with her father's hara-kiri knife. Pinkerton rushes in but is too late.

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__Edward S. Curtis__



 * Edward Sheriff Curtis was born near Whitewater, Wisconsin in February 16, 1868. In 1874 his family moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota. He dropped out of school in the sixth grade. At seventeen Edward became an apprentice photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota. His family soon moved to Seattle, Washington, where Edward became a partner in an existing photographic studio with Rasmus Rothi. After six months, he left Rothi and formed a new partnership with Thomas Guptill. In 1892 Edward married Clara J. Phillips and had 4 kids. They divorced on October 16, 1916.

__Paul Strand__



 * Paul Strand was born in New York City on 16th October, 1890. At the age of 14 he joined the Ethical Culture School where he was taught by Lewis Hine. He became a self-employed commercial photographer in 1911. During the First World War he was a member of the Army Medical Corps. In 1935 he visited the Soviet Union with Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford where he met the radical film director, Sergi Eisenstein. When Strand returned to the United States he began to produce socially significant documentary films. (//The Plow that Broke the Plains//, //People of the Cumberlands, Native Land)//. In 1936 Strand joined with Berenice Abbot to establish the Photo League in New York.

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The picture is of competitors swimming over a school of fish at the start of the mass swim, part of the Ironman World Championship. I think it's really cool how the photographer, Donald Miralle, Jr. , was able to take the photo under water. It's amazing how you can see things like the bubbles in the water and how the sunlight shines over the swimmers.

__Arthur Mitchell__


 Arthur Mitchell was born March 27, 1934 in Harlem, New York. He’s an African-American dancer and choreographer who created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem. . When he was very young, his father left him, his mother and four other siblings. Arthur started shining shoes for money to support the family. He used to go to the Police Athletic League glee club where he learned how to tap and at the age of thirteen. Mitchell was encouraged by a guidance counselor who saw his talent to apply to the selective High School of Performing Arts. He was accepted and got a full scholarship. Although most dance teachers were encouraging Mitchell to go into modern dance, which was more accepted for black dancers, his ballet teachers thought that he had what it took to be a ballet dancer and encouraged him to go that route. When Arthur Mitchell graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in New York City in the early 1950s, he won a dance award and a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet, the school affiliated with the New York City Ballet. . After two years of study and an appearance on Broadway in Truman Capote's //House of Flowers// Arthur Mitchell joined the New York City Ballet in 1955. In 1959 Arthur became a soloist and soon after a principal dancer making him the first black principal dancer of a major ballet company. Mitchell's best performance was as Puck in //A Midsummer Night's Dream// in 1964.  After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Mitchell returned to Harlem, where he was determined to provide opportunities in dance for the children in that community. A year later, he and his teacher Karel Shook formed a classical ballet school, Dance Theatre of Harlem. For the first summer of the dance program there were 30 students. Two months later, Mitchell had attracted 400 youngsters attending classes. Two years later they presented their first productions as a professional company. Today, the Dance Theatre of Harlem is a world-famous institution, credited with playing the single most significant role in helping to break down racial stereotypes in dance and with pioneering a uniquely American perspective in classical ballet.

__Cites __ __http://www.the-ballet.com/mitchell.php __

__**Video**__
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__Eleanor Powell__


 Eleanor Powell was born in 1912 in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the age of 11 she was discovered by Vaudeville Kiddie revue, Gus Edwards, which led to her Broadway career in the 1920's. She got her professional start in Atlantic City clubs from where she moved into a revue in New York at the Ritz Grill and Casino de Paris at the age of sixteen. Her famous tap dancing earned her the title of world champion in tapping. In 1935, she arrived in Hollywood where she starred in MGM musicals, establishing herself as the Queen of tap dancing. In spite of the fact that she was primarily a solo performer she also danced with Fred Astaire and George Murphy. She was acclaimed "The World's Greatest Feminine Tap and Rhythm Dancer" by the Dance Masters of America in the mid-1930s.  In 1943, Eleanor married classic leading actor, Glenn Ford, and had named peter Ford. Eleanor retired from show business after 20 years.In 1950, she did her last appearance in a musical number with Esther Williams and Van Johnson entitled "Duchess of Idaho, a musical romantic comedy, about a woman who plays matchmaker for her friend. In 1954, following a period of retirement, she was asked to host "The Faith of Our Children" (1953), a non-denominational religious program which featured appearances from film and sports stars. The show lasted three seasons and Eleanor received a regional "Emmy" award for children's programming. She died February 11, 1982 of cancer at the age of 69. Due to her becoming a minister in the Unity church, her ashes were placed in a bronze replica of the bible. She is interred at Hollywood Forever cemetery just a few steps down the hall from Rudolf Valentino, Peter Finch and several other great legends of film.  With a preference toward ballet and acrobats, she didn’t originally tap in her early career. In fact, she disliked the style, she considered it lacking in grace. It was after she lost a number of musical roles in New York that she realized the need to learn. Due to her aerial style, she learned to tap by wearing army surplus belts with sandbags attached to ground herself.

__Cites __ __http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/powell/ __

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__Pina Bausch's Dance Theater__
After watching the video Café Müller, there wasn't much I could say about it other then that it was really confusing. I would think I understood it one second and would be completely lost the next. I basically had no idea what was going on the entire time. I would guess that the mood of the dance is anger based on what I had saw, possibly jealousy. Other then that I would say that I was just really confused and startled a couple of times too. Like for when that one guy in the dance would just randomly make huge motions or jump from one place to another. In Janice Ross' article she stated that In this play there were a lot of physical exchanges, which I agree with since in one scene two of the dancers kept throwing each other against a wall. These are basically the only opinions I can say about this theater dance.

__Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Untitled (the Blue Ballet)’ at the Kitchen__

 * It has five dancers. Sasha Dmochowski, Jean Freebury, John Heginbotham, Ashley Tuttle and Brian Reeder.

__Let's Go Dancing__
Dance hasn't never really been an important part of my life. Mostly because I can't dance __at all__....(or at least I think I can't since I've never really //just// danced). Meaning I don't really have any memories of dancing that I come up with. Other then that when I was in 10th grade one of the courses I took for Gym was __Step Aerobics__ -which //is// a type a dance (I think). When we did Step Aerobics it was actually rather difficult, I remember during one of the classes I had just sat down in the middle of the dance on my step and said '//I give up//' (this is actually one of the reasons I don't think I can dance- can't be bothered to memorize steps, which I'm pretty sure is a requirement). So I couldn't ever really get into it or good at it. We eventually even had to make our own aerobic steps and instruct the class on our own (Ugghh). So that's basically all I've ever had to do involving dance.

__Controversy__

 * During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the Dixie Chicks performed in concert in London on March 10, 2003, at the Shepherd's Bush Empire theatre in England
 * During the introduction to their song "Travelin' Soldier", Natalie Maines, said:"Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."
 * Maines' remark sparked intense criticism; conservative media commentators claimed that she should not criticize President Bush on foreign soil
 * The comment by Maines angered many country music fans and was financially damaging

__Loretta Lynn__

 * An American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist
 * Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn
 * She focused on blue collar women's issues with themes of philandering husbands and persistent mistresses, and pushed boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control, repeated childbirth, double standards for men and women, and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War
 * Lynn has written over 160 songs and released 70 albums, she has had ten Number 1 albums and sixteen Number 1 singles on the country charts
 * Lynn has won dozens of awards from many different institutions, including four Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards , eight Broadcast Music Incorporated awards, twelve Academy of Country Music, eight Country Music Association and twenty-six fan voted Music City News awards
 * She was the first woman in Country Music to receive a certified gold album for 1967's "Don't Come Home A Drinkin'"

__Most Powerful Song__

 * I Love You (Barney the Dinosaur)
 * In the U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, there’s a special spot, known as “the Disco,” where interrogators use music to get detainees to talk

__Classic Album Cover__
> It had just started to sprinkle rain when they got that picture taken. Those rocks, when they get hot, they blew up. They were throwing pieces of rock up into the air. > >
 * The devil was twelve feet tall, built out of plywood and that’s real fire dancing behind them, they took old tires and soaked them in kerosene, in order to get them to burn good.

__"Cutest Commercial of 2011"__

 * The Force: Volkswagen Commercial
 * __[|The Force]__

__"Most Popular Cell Phone of 2011"__

 * iPhone 4/4s

__"Most Obnoxious Watched Video of 2011"__

 * Non-Stop Nyan Cat

__"Best Movie of 2011"__

 * Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

__"Fastest Show to be Cancelled in 2011"__

 * Same Name
 * July 24, 2011 - August 14, 2011
 * In Same Name, well-known celebrities and total strangers with the same name switch places for one week. And while they may share the same name, their lives could not be any more different. Cameras follow each person as they experience what each others' home life, work life, and leisure activities are like. They will also meet the other person's family, friends, and co-workers along the way.

__"Best of 2011" theater picks__
'The __ With the Hat'
 * A play starring Chris Rock and Bobby Cannavale
 * Created by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Anna D. Shapiro
 * It's described as a sort of contemporary, scabrous variation on “The Honeymooners”

__Folk Tradition__

 * In the folk segment from the video “The History of Rock n Roll”, the thing that struck me most was how much Bob Dylan’s fans were angry at him for playing the electric guitar rather than his regular instrument. Especially how they were so mean about his change such as how they called him a traitor and stuff. I thought that it was really unnecessary to do things like that just for what he did.

__The Weavers__

 * The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City
 * Their hard-driving string-band style inspired the commercial "folk boom" that followed them in the 1950s and 1960s
 * The Weavers were formed in November 1948 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger
 * In February 2006 The Weavers received the Lifetime Achievement Award given out annually at the Grammy awards show

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__The Dave Clark 5__

 * They are also known as "The DC5", and were an English pop rock group
 * They were the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to appear on //The Ed Sullivan Show//
 * On 10 March 2008 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
 * Members have included Dave Clark, Mike Smith, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley, and Denis Payton

[|Catch Us If You Can]

__The Rascals__

 * The Rascals (also known as The Young Rascals) were an American blue-eyed soul group initially active during the years 1965–72
 * The band released numerous top ten singles in North America during the mid- and late-1960's
 * The Rascals were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2010
 * Eddie Brigati (vocals), Felix Cavaliere (keyboard, vocals), Gene Cornish (guitar) and Dino Danelli (drums) started the band in Brigati and Danelli's hometown of Garfield, New Jersey

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__Motown__

 * Detroit has long been known as "The Motor City" because of its automobileindustry. Motown is a shortened version of the nickname. Berry Gordy's recording company, originally called Hitsville U.S.A., eventually took on the Motown name.

__Hitsville, USA__

 * "Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters
 * It was purchased by Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1959 and converted into both the record label's administrative building and recording studio
 * The studio is located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan

__Berry Gordy__

 * Berry Gordy, Jr. is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label
 * Berry dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade to become a professional boxer in hopes of becoming rich quick
 * In 1957, he discovered The Miracles and began building a portfolio of successful artists
 * Over the next decade, he signed such artists as The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin, The Contours, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Commodores , The Velvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5.

__The Funk Brothers__ Early members included bandleader Joe Hunter and Earl Van Dyke (piano); James Jamerson (bass guitar); Benny "Papa Zita" Benjamin and Richard "Pistol" Allen (drums); Paul Riser (trombone); Robert White, Eddie Willis, and Joe Messina (guitar); Jack Ashford (tambourine, percussion, vibraphone, marimba); Jack Brokensha (vibraphone, marimba); and Eddie "Bongo" Brown (percussion)
 * The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972

__The Jackson 5__

 * They were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana
 * Active from 1964 to 1990, the Jacksons played from a repertoire of R&B, soul, pop and later disco
 * The singing efforts of Michael and his brothers led to the group's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999
 * Two of the band's recordings ("ABC" and "I Want You Back") are among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's " 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll ", with the latter track also included in the Grammy Hall of Fame . On September 8, 2008, The Jacksons were honored as BMI Icons at the annual BMI Urban Awards

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__Ruth Brown__

 * Born in 1928 died in 2006 (76 years old)
 * Brought a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950's, for these contributions, Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built"
 * Used her influence to press for musicians' rights regarding royalties and contracts, which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation
 * She latter earned a __Tony Award__ as "Best Female Star of a Musical", and a __Grammy Award__ as Best Female Jazz Artist for her album, //Blues on Broadway//

__Elvis Presley__

 * Born 1935 died in 197(42 years old)
 * He's been referred to as the King of Rock and Roll
 * Presley is regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture
 * Presley's funeral was held at Graceland, August 18. Outside the gates, a car plowed into a group of fans, killing two women and critically injuring a third.

__Shepard Fairey__

 * Shepard Fairey was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1970.
 * He went to Idyllwild Arts Academy and Rhode Island School of Design
 * Fairey created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989
 * Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's 2008 candidacy for President of the United States, including the iconic "HOPE" portrait
 * The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists

__The Bug Wars and Origami Detectives__

 * The Bug Wars were origami contests among members of the Origami Detectives, it started when one member made a horned beetle with wings, from only 1 sheet of paper. This caused other members to want to make even more complex origami bugs. The Origami Detectives are group of artists in Japan who liked to try outdoing one another with extreme designs of assigned subjects.\
 * I think that origami is a really beautiful thing but it takes a lot of dedication to make them because the really amazing ones look like they take a very long time to make. I especially like flower origami and think that people should give them to people more often because unlike real flowers they'll never wilt.

__Princess Hijab__
==__ Barry McGee__==

__Blu__

 * an Argentina artist who conceals his real identity
 * he started in 1999
 * he's done work in South America and Europe

__Swoon__

 * her name is Caledonia Dance Curry
 * street artist originally from Daytona Beach, Florida born in 1977
 * started doing street art in 1999

__WebUrbanist__

 * The trash sculpture was created from recycled carrier bags as part of the Eden Project near Cornwall

__Ces53__
> > == ==
 * An anonymous street art/graffiti artist from the Netherlands
 * He became world famous because of his high quality graffiti paintings
 * Mostly in European cities but also worldwide like in Mexico, USA and Burma.

__Jerry Rosembert Moise__

 * Jerry Rosembert uses detailed graffiti murals to tackle current social issues by reflecting the hopes and needs of the Haitian people
 * A lot of problems have occurred because of the earthquake, such as food riots, increases in oil and murder/kidnapping rates have increased

__Banksy__

 * An unnamed artist
 * His artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world
 * He was inspired by local artists



Happy Birthday

khushboo khan-" happy bday dez have a great day. ps love your hat"



__Paintings__

 * ====JMW Turner====


 * ====Mary Cassatt====


 * ====Georgia O'Keeffe====


 * ====Eduard Manet====


 * ====Rene Magritte====


 * ====Henri Matisse====


 * ====Jacob Lawrence====


 * ====Romare Bearden====


 * ====Wassily Kandinsky====


 * Edward Hopper


 * ====Georges Braque====


 * ====Paul Cezanne====


 * ====Winslow Homer====


 * ====Aaron Douglas====


 * ====John Singer Sargent====


 * ====Edvard Munch====


 * ====James Whistler====


 * ====Andrew Wyeth====


 * ====Georges Seurat====

__Robert Motherwell__

 * He was born January 24, 1915 in Aberdeen Washington.
 * He briefly studied painting at California School of Fine Arts.
 * While in Harvard he studied under Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and David White Prall.
 * In 1958–59, he was included in “The New American Painting” exhibition, initiated by the Museum of Modern Art, which traveled across Europe.
 * He died July 16, 1991 at the age of 76.



=__Sites__=

PetaPixel
Expressions of Sheer Terror Captured by a Haunted House Camera

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 * hahaha

BoingBoing
Chopping Pacman Costume __[|Pacman]__


 * hahah it made me giggle.....

TED
Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions [|Visions]


 * its sooo cool

= = =**__Artists__**=
 * __Claude Monet__**
 * He was born November 14, 1840 in Paris.
 * His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. (His mom was a singer)
 * He undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard.
 * He married Camille Doncieux (who was a model for some of his paintings) June 28, 1870 and had 2 kids.
 * In 1892, he married Alice Hoschedé.
 * Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86.


 * I picked the first pic. because it's one of the paintings of his wife, I picked the second painting because I thought that it looked cool, and I picked the second painting because Giverny is where he was buried.


 * __Pablo Picasso__**
 * He was born October 25, 1881 in Spain.
 * He was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honoring various saints and relatives. (Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother.)
 * His father was Don José Ruiz y Blasco and his mother was María Picasso y López.
 * Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting.
 * He had affairs with a lot of women.
 * He died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner.


 * I picked the first painting because he made ones like that based on his warm relationship with a woman he was with. I picked the second painting because it symbolizes the German bombing of Guernica. I picked the third painting because he was influenced for the colors by the suicide of a friend.

__Mark Rothko__

 * He was born September 25, 1903 in the Russian Empire (now Latvia).
 * His father feared that Mark and his brothers would be drafted into the Czarist army, so they emigrated from Russia to the United States.
 * He went to Lincoln High School in Portland.
 * He took courses at the Art Students League of New York taught by still-life artist Max Weber. It was due to Weber that Rothko began to see art as a tool of emotional and religious expression.
 * In the spring of 1968, Rothko was diagnosed with a mild aortic aneurysm, ignoring doctor’s orders, Rothko continued to drink and smoke heavily, avoided exercise, and maintained an unhealthy diet.
 * On February 25, 1970, Oliver Steindecker, Rothko’s assistant, found the artist in his kitchen, lying dead on the floor in front of the sink, covered in blood. He had both sliced his arms with a razor and overdosed. (66 years old)
 * I picked the first painting because it was one of his more symbolic works, I picked the second painting because he was inspired by the surrealist technique of automatic writing, I picked the third one because it was one his more classic paintings.

__Jackson Pollock__

 * He was born January 28, 1912 in Wyoming.
 * His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other.
 * In October 1945, Pollock married American painter Lee Krasner.
 * Pollock's most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950.
 * On August 11, 1956, at 10:15 pm, he died in a single-car crash in his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence of alcohol.

__Hunger Artist__
I felt bad for the artist because I feel like he didn't get as much credit as he should have for not eating. But I don't really understand how starving yourself could actually be considered art.

=__Caravaggio__=
 * He was born in Milan on September 29, 1571. (happy almost birthday!!)
 * Caravaggio was contracted to decorate the Contarelli Chapel the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. Where his creations Martyrdom of Saint Mathew and Calling of Saint Mathew are. [[image:artseng/desi_martyrdom.jpg width="270" height="259" caption="Martyrdom of Saint Mathew "]][[image:artseng/Desi_Calling.jpg caption="Calling of Saint Mathew"]]
 * Caravaggio might have died of lead poisoning. (No one really knows *sad face*)

__10 of my favorite artistic things__

__1. Black sharpie on white paper __

__2. Things that sparkle __



__3. hypnotic spirals__



__4. double rainbows!!!__



__5.trees in winter__



__6. Worlds largest things__



__7.watercolor__



__8. cupcake decorations__



__9. a splash of color in a dull room__

__10. crackle nail polish__



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hey!! Classmates,

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">My name is Desiree, I’m 16 years old and I’m really excited about being a senior! Umm… there isn’t much interesting things to say about me. I live in with my mom in Albany and I’m only child to my mom. To my dad I’m his only daughter, I have 1 older half-brother and he’s in the navy. He married his boss’s daughter 2 years ago in Hawaii and they just had a son last year. I have a dog named Hana and she’s really cute. I use to have birds but we had to get rid of them because they kept having babies. My mom’s side of the family isn’t very close they had a huge fight back from before I was born so no one really talks to each other anymore. I’m not very close to my dad so I don’t ever talk to him.



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I’m a very lazy and forgetful person, my mom says that I forget at least 10 things a day. I don’t like conflict, which is why I never try to argue with people and I have a really violent anger so that’s another reason why I don’t get involved in things. I love to laugh, so I love watching comedy shows like Seinfeld and The Big Bang Theory. I also like mysteries so I watch a lot of Law & Order shows. I love movies that Tim Burton makes. I eat a lot of chocolate mainly because I think it’s the best thing ever created. I enjoy things like reading and coloring. I like all types of music but I think my favorite is orchestra mainly because whenever I listen to it, it makes me sleepy, I always listen to it when I go to bed. I love plants and animals (watching those sad abused animals commercials make me cry every time!) Oh!! And I have an obsession with Snoopy and Woodstock.