Ballerina

Growing up in El Centro, born on December 10, 1960, my mother was the second eldest out of five children. She was born into a loving Latino family, with my grandmother, her mom, being a single mother. I chose to do a collage incorporating her favorite elements, such as her favorite colors and photographs of people who are dear and close to her heart. My moms biggest influence was her grandmother, Grandma Pila. Grandma Pila, as well as my grandmother, was also a single mother for most of her life…

Early life Audrey Hepburn, born Audrey Kathleen Ruston or Edda Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston, was born in Brussels, Belgium on May 4, 1929. As a young child Hepburn’s family moved often to a variety of countries, due to this constant move she learned five languages including English, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish. In England, Hepburn’s parents collected donations for The British Union of Fascists. Joseph Hepburn, father of Audrey Hepburn, left his family and moved to London, England. This…

while I’m in a hot pink lace, bootleg pants, paired with my favorite Barbie sneakers. I paired up with one of my girlfriends since nursery school, Veda. She had the nicest scent and was always very put together and new. Veda was the singer, the ballerina, and the fluent English speaker. All the faculties gave Veda more opportunities at school functions. She was the golden student, meanwhile I was just there and yet we were very good friends. Oddly enough, nothing seems to intimidate me back…

misguidance and social lack of education regarding the truth behind the problem. The media as well as cinema photography tend to over dramatize and add unrealistic portrayals making the disorder look worse than it really is. In the film Black Swan, a ballerina by the name of Nina falls tragic to a wide range of disorders in order to become the perfect dancer. Black Swan represents the downward spiral into the paranoid schizophrenic mind of a women who is looking for perfection in herself,…

When The Hunger Game: Mockingjay Part Two opens November 20, 2015, I, like many of my peers, hope to witness Katniss Everdeen’s final defiance against the Capitol. Her passion is infectious, partially because her desire to cure the injustice in a dysfunctional world intrigues me. Similarly, social change has been evoked by using dystopian societies to present an overly negative view of the world; Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “ˆHarrison Bergeron” is no exception. In both the short story and the…

For the general assessment I brushed my teeth with my left hand for a whole month. At first it was very awkward and almost felt wrong when I began to brush my teeth. However by the third week it felt more natural and I noticed that my left hand was starting to get better with some other activities that usually felt very strange doing. By the end of the month and even after I was so used to brushing with my left hand that I do it still at times. I have even noticed that I can open door a lot…

expected to attend a ballet that reinforced their civilized status. The title, The Rite of Spring, gives implications of a performance brimming with spring-themes of new life and rebirth. With this in mind, they hoped to see beautiful tutu-clad ballerinas en pointe, and maybe a few men in tights to accompany them. Instead, Nijinsky’s ballet presented them with two primitive pagan tribes dressed in “holiday peasant wear—bloused tunics in heavy white or red felt” who believed that in order to…

Process-Analysis Ever since I was young, art has always been my niche, the one thing that truly defines me. Crayons, markers, finger paints, anything I could get a hold of to create something. I started creating and I never stopped, thanks to my encouraging parents and teachers. I did not get what I needed in my early years of school so started learning how to draw and paint on my own. I taught myself every tip, trick, and technique I could; desperately trying to learn how to better myself. I…

An ideology can create a path one is supposed to follow, using its teachings and ideas as guidelines. Having a basic belief system is an integral part of having a meaningful life, whether it follows a religion, political stance, or social issue. One’s purpose in life can be found by maintaining an ideology and expanding on it. This can be supported by the characters of three different literature pieces. Meursault in The Stranger, the narrator in The Invisible Man, and Harrison in the short story…

when a French surgeon Charles Dujarier first introduced the concept of body contouring and fat removal in 1920. Back then the surgeries were very unsuccessful and had deadly consequences. The first attempt of liposuction was done to a famous French ballerina dancer Mademoiselle Geoffre. She had desired more attractive knees and calves to make herself more alluring as a dancer and liposuction was the way to achieve this, but the operation took a turn for the worse when she had contracted gangrene…