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Everyone needs to check this guy out! He's an amazing slam poet who address various social/political issues such as police brutality; in his poem "Grief", the emotions that flow out of him as he performs is so amazingly beautiful that you can't stop replaying it over and over and feeling the same emotions that he feels. I love it!!! Now that spring has finally arrived (although it's been here for quite awhile, it's just officially starting to feel like it), I've had a strong urge not only to clean everything around me, but also change. Spring is a time when (most) people are tidying up their houses and lives etc. etc., but for me personally it's a time where everything in my life basically flip-flops; personality, clothes, hair... I must do everything in a different way to be satisfied. This helps me explore new ways to do certain tasks such as studying or small tedious tasks. So what better way for change than to change my blog layout to something fresh and clean (although I will never be truly satisfied with it)?
This cool (and delicious!) tea brand help farmers on large tea plantations that are hushed to control their own future. With each box you buy, the money goes to Equal Exchange, Fair Trade, and the tea farmers around the world! They even have coffee, bananas, and other random foods! The tea is sold at Red Front; go pick up a box or five!!!
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I don't know how to describe the music of this lovely lady, but I do know that it's some of the strangest music I've heard and I love it.
Today I have stumbled upon a leading lady of the Impressionist movement. Although women during her day were told that making art was a bad thing and they just shouldn't do it, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the age of 16. The teachers and students there ridiculed her, and she found that the slow pace and classes frustrated her, so she moved to Europe where she could learn from the studies of the Old Masters. Her father told her that he would "rather die than see her become a bohemian", but despite his words she moved to Paris in 1866, accomplishing a highly successful career in arts. Look at how lovely and beautiful her paintings (and sketches!) are!!! They're just so amazing and they honestly look like photographs, they just make me feel so warm inside and her story is beautiful, ah! 1. Breakfast in Bed (1897)
2. The Coiffure (c. 1891) 3. Summertime (1894) 4. The Reader (1877) 5. Figure of a Nude (time unknown) 6. Sketch of Antoinette No. 1 (1901) Malala Yousafzai, 17 years old now, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago in Pakistan after being recognized for her campaigning of education for girls.
She's now the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for what the committee calls her "heroic struggle" for the right for girls to have an education. So proud of you Malala! I could cry right now. |
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