Gia Carnagi is a 26 year old, Caucasian female born in Philadelphia, PA. Gia was considered a bright and active child until she was molested at age 5. Although the abuse only happened once, she was afraid it would repeat and remained afraid of that man. Gia avoided contact with him. She was raised with her mother and father until her mother left when she was about 10. She left because her father was both verbally and physically abusive towards her, something which Gia had witnessed countless times. Gia was enmeshed with her mother and was devastated when she left. She had difficulty with relationships and only connected with homosexual men and women. In high school Gia experimented with alcohol, pills, and marijuana…
Betta splendens, or Siamese fighting fish, have been previously used to study the affects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) on aggression levels. Specifically, the SSRI used in most studies is Fluoxetine, which can be found in the medication Prozac. Betta splendens are most readily used for a number or reasons; they are easily obtained, very cost efficient, and they display strong aggressive patterns that are easily observed. Examples…
Marie Taglioni was born in Stockholm, Sweden to an Italian choreographer Fillippo Taglioni and a Swedish ballet dancer Sophie Karsten. Her brother Paul was also a choreographer and dancer and they both performed together early in their careers. Marie was married to Comete Auguste Gilbert de Voisins on July 14th, 1832, but then they separated in 1836. They had one daughter named, Eugenie-Marie Edwige. Taglioni moved to Vienna with her family at a very young age to and began getting trained in ballet by her father. Her father trained very precisely, he made her hold positions for 100 counts and do conditioning exercises, adagio, and jumping combinations at two hour intervals. In Vienna, Taglioni danced to her very first ballet, her father named “La Reception d'une Jeune…
Leni Riefenstahl was born on the 22nd August 1902 in Berlin and in her young life grew a developed skill in classical dancing which led to many of her experiences throughout her life. Riefenstahl’s dancing career began in 1921 and continued until 1925, it was in this time that the expressionist movement was booming in Berlin and Riefenstahl became a central figure of this movement. She persuaded the leading theatre manager and producer, Max Reinhardt to sign her up as a professional dancer. Her dancing career although only lasting 4 years saw her travelling all across Europe, it ended abruptly after she suffered a major setback injuring her knee.…
Betty Marie Tallchief was born in 1925. She spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. When she was four she took her first ballet lesson. Ballet broke her out of her shell. This section of the story tells how she became to love ballet.…
"If anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away" These words were spoken many years ago by a woman who worked endlessly to achieve her goals. She had to give up many things but she never lost her passion. Her name was Maria Tallchief. The first Native American Prima Ballerina. Elizabeth or Betty Marie Tall Chief was born on January 24, 1925 in Fairfax, Oklahoma, to Alexander and Ruth Porter Tall Chief.…
Maria Agnesi was born on May 16, 1718 in Milan, Italy. Agnesi was the oldest of 21 children; her father was a wealthy silk merchant who had been married three times. Agnesi was a smart girl even from a young age. Her father paid for Agnesi to be tutored. She was also a devout Catholic with a very kind heart. Agnesi was ahead of her time, because women were not necessarily treated equally as men during the 16th century; she was exposed to some great tutors and even worked at the University of Bologna. She died on January 9, 1799 in the poorhouse she had been working at.…
As tap-dancing grew in the 1800’s and into the 1900’s, famous men such as John “Bubbles” Sublett and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson stormed the scene. In 1916, Jeni LeGon was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents, Hector and Harriet Bell, worked as a chef, railway porter, and housewife. LeGon learned to tap on the streets of southern Chicago with neighborhood bands and musical groups (Taylor). LeGon grew up with her older sister Mary Belle in Chicago 's overcrowded Black Belt. Practicing and performing with other children, LeGon received her first formal training from Mary Bruce 's School of Dance (Taylor). LeGon often skipped school to learn new dance routines from the movies, and she graduated from Sexton Elementary School in 1928. Later, in London, LeGon learned that she was descended from General Henry Beauchamp Lygon, the 4th Earl of Beauchamp, through her father, Hector Ligon, a "Geechie" from the Georgia Sea Islands (Kupperman).…
“People in the world of dancing considered her special. But outside the world sometimes she encountered prejudice… Maria was teased because she was Native American,” (Bardham, “The Osage Firebird”). Maria Tallchief was born on January 24th, 1925 to a wealthy Native American family in Fairfax, Oklahoma. Her family relocated to Los Angeles when she was eight years old, and there she was able to train in ballet with professional dancers such as David Lichine and Bronislava Nijinska. Tallchief’s career really boosted when she met the infamous Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine. Balanchine made Tallchief into the first star of the New York City Ballet and the first prima ballerina of the United States (“Maria Tallchief”, UXL Biographies). Tallchief starred in ballets choreographed by Balanchine, such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker; her role as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker became so famous that the ballet became a part of every future ballet company’s repertoire and a heartwarming family tradition for Christmastime (“Ballerina Maria Tallchief dead at 88”, UPI Entertainment).…
Julia Augusta Agrippina, also known as Agrippina the younger, was born on November 6 or 7, 15 AD. She was born in Oppidum Ubiorum a Roman outpost located in present day Cologne, Germany. Agrippina died on March 23, 59 AD in Miseno, Italy. Agrippina was the first daughter and fourth living child of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus. She had 3 older brothers, Nero, Drusus and Caligula, and 2 younger sisters, Drusilla and Julia Livilla. She lived during the Julio-Causian Dynasty and she was connected to many families during this dynasty because of the marriage of her parents. As a result, she is part of many family trees.…
Barabara Strozzi (1619-1677) was an Italian Baroque singer and composer. It had been suggested that Strozzi was a courtesan , and while it is ture she possessed the srtistic skills of this profesion – singing, playing the lute and writing poetry- it still remains a theory. Her singing and overall musical talents were praised by her contemporaries , noting her “bold and graceful singing”. She published many of her compositions throughout her life one of them even dedicating it to Vittoria della Rovere , gran dutchess of Tuscany. Strozzi’s works show mastery of a new solo style, stile conciatato.…
Grilling is a culinary technique that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food, usually from below the food, and usually involves a high amount of direct heat in order to cook the item quickly. Grilling is always categorized as Dry cooking , with a Brown color, and as a concentration of flavor. A perfect example of a recipe which requires grilling would be a Mexican carne asada. Carne asada is huge in Mexican gatherings and is always a must have. The way my family will cook carne asada is to season skirt steak with all purpose seasoning, some salt and pepper then marinating it in vegetable oil with cilantro, jalapenos, and lime juice for 2 hours. Once that is done we will turn on the grill with a few charcoals and let it heat up while…
She kept expanding her ideas and in 1765 she brought an Italian dancer whom was also a choreographer, Domenico Angiolini to join her in St Petersburg and continue to spread the teachings of the fine art of ballet dancing. He obeyed her orders and delivered what she desired and in 1772 he became the composer of the first heroic Russian ballet. From there on the dance form of ballet just kept getting better and better. It wasn’t until Charles-Louis Didelot that ballet really took a big jump into the world of entertainment. He was so good at what he did in the world of dance that he was even given the name of "father of the Russian ballet." Made himself look like the real founder of Russian ballet and to anyone that was a real honor. His work was so good that it inspired new movements and changes everywhere in the dance…
Born in New York City and raised by an overbearing mother, she received her musical education in Greece and established her career in Italy. Forced to deal with the exigencies of wartime poverty and with myopia that left her nearly blind onstage, she endured struggles and scandal over the course of her career. She turned herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to hervocal decline and the premature end of her career. The press exulted in publicizing Callas 's allegedly temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry withRenata Tebaldi and her love affair with Aristotle Onassis. Her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press. However, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "the Bible of opera";[2] and her influence was so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years after her death, she 's still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music 's best-selling vocalists."[3]…
There is barely any information on his mother except for a couple of letters found meant to Giulia Ammannati di Pescia. This letters don´t hold her responsible for flattering figure. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a Florentine and came from a family that had long ago been illustrious. With a musician vocation, economic difficulties had forced him to engage in trade. This profession led him to settle in Pisa. Man of broad humanistic culture, was an accomplished performer and a composer and music theorist; his works on music theory enjoyed some fame at the time.…