Lecture Recital 11/12 at 7:30

Felicity's Lecture Recital

I'll be exploring the importance and impact of non traditional casting from the perspective of growing up in an adoptive transracial family. This project evolved from being a cabaret revue into a lecture recital during my research of the Japanese interments camps. I believe that documenting and sharing living history is something that is not being done and in the process we lose many personal histories. Without these personal histories, what will our culture look like in 100 years? What kind of footprint are we leaving for future historians to find? I don't want my life to be boiled down to someone's long lost Snapchat story.

Saturday, November 12 at 7:30 pm

admission is free

Notre Dame de Namur University

Taube Center

Tenement Museum

Tenement Museum

Tenement Tour

I was really disappointed that I didn't have time to go to this museum when I was in New York last year.

Something really strikes me about this building is the detail in the architecture. I think it really speaks to the quality of work at that time compared to what people are used to now. The people living in these apartments didn't have much but the land lords and architects still cared enough to want to make the buildings as nice as possible. When I think of comparable modern apartment buildings I don't think of spaces with carved mahogany banisters and hand painted murals; I think of rooms that just look like boxes that may of may not be level and square.

Comic Relief

American History in 6 mins

The link above goes to a very broad interpretation of US history. It's entertaining and may help to keep some of the larger events in order. The video does miss some important topics and the narrator talks very fast.

"Asian Interview" with Fox News and The Daily Show rebuff

Fox News depicts Chinese Americans as uneducated in recent politics and can't even bother to sort out Japanese, Chinese, and Korean stereotypes...

Fox News

The Daily Show had a problem with this.
The Daily Show

I'm currently obsessed with political opinion and this election...

I am completely biased. I love the Obamas. I think they have shown an incredible amount of grace under pressure and a great amount of tolerance and integrity in the face of racism. It really bothers me that after eight years of undeniable progress people are still bringing up the birther argument against Barack Obama. Never mind that he ended a war, made a huge change to civil rights by legalizing same sex marriage in all 50 states, made health care accessible to the previously uninsured, and that millions of jobs have been created. Not only has he managed to do his impossible job well, he has done it without sacrificing his family. Both of the Obama girls seem to be growing into well-adjusted young women with bright futures ahead of them and Michelle Obama has been a very active, and productive member of society during her time as First Lady. I would hate to think that people remember Obama as "the first black president" and not as a man of great integrity that served the American people to the best of his abilities. Please vote for someone that won't instantly undo everything that has been done right in the past two terms. 

http://www.gq.com/story/obama-greatest-president-legacy

I don't think he knows how a debate works...

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=Atbrvg41GmY

As funny as this video is, I am deeply disturbed by it. We live in a country where we actually get a fair amount of say in how it's run and who we want to run it and yet this is what our democracy has amounted to. I'm first to admit that I had a very limited interest in the political system for most of my life, but in the last few months as I learned more about the life of Alexander Hamilton and subsequently other historical figures like George Washington Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, I have developed a new appreciation for the amount of Freedom we have and why we have it. Unfortunately comma it has also shown me exactly how far we've declined in the education of the general public in this country. I think we created the situation of someone like Trump, not only, running for president but also gaining popularity while doing so.

its late!!!

Non-Stop is the song i was thinking of 5 mins ago.

"Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays 
Defending the new United States constitution
Entitled The Federalist papers
The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays
The work divided evenly among the three men
In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months
John Jay got sick after writing five
James Madison wrote twenty-nine
Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one"


https://youtu.be/8aefuWGmKTY