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- essays that I have written including:
-Proactive vs. Reactive
- poetry and songs that I have written
- Bubble gum

Fortune Cookies

While the Chinese have no tradition of dessert, one theory of the origin of the fortune cookie is that it was introduced inthe Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco and the idea was pirated by a local Chinese restraunt owner. Most claima Japanese American heritage. The Chinese believe the fortune cookie to be a modern Chinese American interpretation of the moon cake. The most plausible story is from 1918- David Jung, founder of Hong Kong Noodle, invented the fortune cookie as a sweet treat. The process of making them was origianlly done with chopsticks, but Edward Louie made a folding machine for his Lotus Fortune Cookie Company, which is still in existence. Now the fortune cookie is mass prodcuced and widely distributed and exported to China and Hong Kong with fortunes that are written in English. They are however, most popular in the US, with promises of sucess, love, and good fortune.

See pic at bottom of page.

Tootsie Rolls

The Tootsie Roll company began in 1896 when Leo Hirshfield opened a tiny candy shop in NYC. Armed with a confectioner's background, he made a variety of products, including individually wrapped, oblong, chewy, chocolate candy that quickly became a favorite. They were sold for a penny a piece and named after Leo's five year old daughter, Clara, nicknamed, "tootsie". Tootsie Rolls changed Leo's modest corner store a burgeoning, multinational candy corporation. Now, The Tootsie Roll Industries still strictly adhere to Leo's original recipe and they produce more than 62 million Tootsie Rolls a day. Building on the Tootsie Roll's success, the company has expanded to include 22 of the world's favorite candy brands. Their annual sales are nearly a half billion. They are recongnized as one of the world's largest candy producers. Now they have a whole bunch of brands including:

Andes, Candy Carnival, Carmel Apple Pops, Cella Cherries, Charleston Chews, Charms, Cry Baby, Dots, Dubble Bubble, Fluffy Stuff, Junior Mints, Nik-l-nip, Razzles, Sugar Daddy, and of course, TOOTSIE ROLLS!!!!

Fenghuang

This is a fenghuang.
The Fenghuang are birds of myth in East Asia that are kind of like the "emporer of birds". The boys are called Feng and the girls and called Huang. Now days, the distinction of gender isnt called Feng and Huang very often. Instead, they are blurred into a single feminine entity so the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon which has male connotations. The Fenghuang can also be called an August Rooster. In the west, it is sometimes referred to as the Chinese phoenix.
The fenghuang is usually depicted of it attacking snakes with it's talons and its wings outspread. According to Erya, the Fenghuang is said to have the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the breast of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag, and the tail of a fish. However, today, it is described as a composite of many birds including the head of a golden pheasant, the body of a duck, the tail of a peacock, the legs of a crane, the mouth of a parrot, and the wings of a swallow. Chinese tradition says that it lives on top of the Kunlun Mountains in nothern China.
The fenhuang symbolizes high virtue and grace. It symbolizes the union of yin and yang. It is peaceful and proseperous but hides when trouble is near.
The Fenghuang has very positive connotations. It is a symbol of high virtue and grace. The fenghuang sybolizes the union of yin and yang.

The Phoenix

A phoenix is a mythical bird. It is supposed to have a gold tail and red plumage. It has a 500 to 1,000 year life cycle. When it is dying, it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that they ignite and both the bird and the next burn and reduce to ashes. From which, a baby phoenix comes to life. The new phoenxi embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in Heliopolis. The bird is suppossed to regenerate when hurt of wounded by a foe. It also can heal a person with a tear from its eyes and make them temporarily immune to death. It is a symbol of fire and divinity.
According to Physiologus, the phoenix orriginated in India. The Grecian author, Flavius Philostratus, refers to teh phoenix as living in India, but sometimes migrating to Egypt every half century. He considered the bird to be much like an eagle in appearence and size. Originally, the phoenix was said by the Egyptians to be a stork or heron like bird called a benu, which is known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian writings as one of the sacred worship symbols of Heliopolis. The Greeks identified the bird with their own word, phoenix, meaning the crimson. THey and the Romans pictured the bird more like apeacock of an eagle. According to them, the bird lived in Phoenicia next to a well. "Phoenix" is also the English- language name for the most important bird in Chinese mythology, the fenghuang, which has its own set of characteristicas and symbolic meanings, which I will try to research and tell you about tomorrow.

I"M BACK

I bet you guys thought I was gone for good. Well, you were wrong. I'm here again to bore you with my random information.

aimee

hey yall grace got new foster kids. i will tell you more about them later.

Beatles.

The beatle's SUMMER OF LOVE tour is coming to Philadelphia like SOOOO sooon! And guess what, there is NO possible way that I will get to go! Okay.... I really want to see 1964 in the Kenswick theater August 14.... like That will happen! Ha!
Okay... no more complaining. I will be a good girl now.:)

Vacay

Summer vacation has been going very well so far. I have been to the art museum here in Philly and it is really nice. I am volunteering at the local library every Monday and Tuesday working with the kids. It is a lot of fun.

Freaky Friday

The Freaky Friday most people right now are familiar with is the newest version with the mom played by Jamie Lee Curtis that has a dysfunctional family. Right now, I would like to focus on the older version directed by Gary Nelson. The story was originally written by Mary Rodgers who also wrote the screenplay. It was released January 21, 1977 by Disney. It is a great family comedy about a mother and daughter switching not only roles, but bodies! In this movie, and mother and daughter find their personalities switched one Friday and our forced to live each other's lives. It is a hilarious way to show family ties and unconditional love. The newer version has a harder plot with the mother's wedding rehearsal and the daughter's concert colliding into the same day- even the same hour. The mother and daughter chose that day to reconnect and end up switching back to their own bodies. The older version was nominated for 3 Golden Globes! I saw it and fell head over heels in love with it.

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Nothing new to report, folks.
I am spending the night at a friend's house.
i have'nt gotten much work done today. Hopefully I will tonight though if Joanna doesnt mind leaving a lamp on or something.

What I learned today

So today I did a huge amount of school work. When I got sick of history since I have been doing history ALOT lately, I did TA work. I graded papers and checked in books and things like that. Of course the teachers were VERY appreciative. I did the last english essay today, too. I had been working on it for at least 3 weeks, and I told the sub that today and she came over and explained the question to me. It asked how the western movement influenced the Romantic Tradition. She explained (rather well) that the east was a place where everything was structured and controlled. When people started to move west, more was allowed. The laws were less strict, and thus they had gun fights, etc. Well, people from the west started writing more of what they felt since it was being less frowned upon than it would have if they were still in the East. They wrote about emotions and things like that. The Romantic Tradition was when writings that expressed the emotions was the norm. So, the people moving to the west, or the Western Movement helped bring along the Romantic Tradition. Well, my essay was much better than what I just told you guys, but that is pretty much the point of the essay. I should get a pretty good grade on it. Right now my American Literature 1 overall grade is a b- it should get better or stay the same since I've been doing pretty good lately in english. Also, I am finished in english now.
I finished business math months ago, but I am redoing my lowest grades so I can bring my grade up higher. Then, I am redoing things in Geometry to pull those grades up higher, although I finished that last week. AND, I have just finished english, but I dont know if I need to correct anything or not. I should finish history thursday or monday.
I only have 1 math test to redo. I have 5 bussiness math assignments to redo (5 minutes each) and I have 3 history packets left, and 5 or 6 history tests to do.

Essay #3

Okay, I am having a little bit of a hard time with this essay and it is due by the fifteenth.

How did the frontier and the western movement of peoples help the development of the Romantic tradition?
Paragraph 1 has to have 3 "analysis"s. After that, there is a paragraph explaining each "analysis", then the closing paragraph.
If you know the answer to the question, it would be nice if someone could explain it to me.
When I have the essay done, I will run it by you guys in case you want to read it.

My book meme 2

If you do not know what a book meme is, visit my other blog to find out, as I have another one there.
There are only 120 pages in this, so I am choosing somewhere right in the middle.

My book meme: Grease (the script) by paramount
Page:60
Sandy Between meetings, parties and cheerleader practice, I hardly have any time to do my homework.
Danny Well, you're just naturally smart, I guess.
Sandy It does help.
*Danny looks at her for a moment. She smiles blithely giving him no encouragement, looking lovely and knowing it.

Relaxing

I know I promised more articles, but so far, I'm way too bushed. I will get to it eventually, but the rest of you need to go to my other blog too. lifeandtimesofaims.blogspot.com

break

I know I have been taking a break, but I have kind of enjoyed it. My mom has been on the computer alot, and when I get on, my blogs arent always my first priority. Anyway, tomorrow I'll post another article, but today I just wanted to let you know that I would appreciate ideas from you guys. Comments are encouraged. I am on spring break and having a great time, but I miss my friends.

hmmmm.....

So today, I was going to write a paragraph or two about Wonder Woman. However, my darling sister says that my blog is boring since I dont talk about me. So, just this once, I am going to tell you why I like writing about things like Wonder Woman.
I used to just tell people that I like the seventies. I had to stop saying that though, because most people thought that I just liked the artificial 70's because I "didnt really know what it was like". Well, I know that there was some pretty bad stuff going on in the 70's, like drugs. However, the 60's and 70's, and even the 80's are years that gave birth to some really wonderful song artists and tv shows. The Partridge Family is one of those. It is a little bit fake, but it shows what the ideal life (to me) would have been like. There was great music, lessons to be learned, and hilarious situations.
So, I would have to say that I like writing about things like the Beatles, and Wonder Woman, because I like hearing about things that I like. The time I spend every day writing about things I enjoy is time that I am not stressed out about school work, cleaning the house, or other problems. It gives me time to relax before I tackle things I need to get done.
For the rest of you that still think my blog is boring, I just want to say that blogging is more fun to me this way, and it is the only reason I still blog. I am getting sick of always writing about how my day is going, and I am not always interested in hearing about somebody else's life that just happens to be just like mine. It's not like I dont want to hear how my sister's husband is doing, etc, it's just that I want to read about something outside of our everday lives.

Yours, mine and ours.

Yours, mine and ours in a 1968 movie directed by Melville Shavelson, with Henry Fona, Licille Ball, and Van Johnson. Before it was released, it had three other workin titles: The Beardsley Story, Full House, and His, Hers, and Theirs. It is based on the story of Frank and Helen Beardsley, although Desilu Production bought the rights to the story long before Helen's autobiography, Who gets the drumstick? was released to bookstores. Screenwriters took the opportunity to write in several classic I Love Lucy- styled stunts that in most cases have no basis in the actual lives of the Beardsley family, before Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman took over primary writing duties. However, it enjoyed great commercial success, and even the Beardsley's loved it, though Frank would say that the version in the film was not exactly true. This film was later remade in 2005 with actors Dennis Quaid and Renee Russo as Frank and Helen Beardsley.

The Rock 'n Roll Express

The Rock n Roll Express was a professional wrestling tag team comprised of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson that was popular in the eighties. It was formed in 1983 in Memphis. Ricky and Robert were origianlly paired together as an alternative to the popular team of Steve Keirn and Stan Lane, The Fabulous Ones, when they couldnt wrestle in certain towns. The gimmick of The Rock n Roll Express was a couple of high flying wrestlers who loved glam metal music, as it was a popular genre of muisc at the time. They soon made their way to mid-south wrestling where they started a legendary feud with the Midnight Express that would carry on into the NWA.