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    Recently, I've been very interested in making videos, both on my Apple with iMove and on my Dell with Windows Movie Maker. Please watch my Inauguration video, made with iMovie from Apple's iLife 2008 suite. All of the photos (except the portraits) were taken by me during my stay in Washington DC during Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009 . (It looks extra-lovely if you switch it to High Quality in the bottom right-hand corner, which I haven't yet been able to figure out how to default to!)  media type="youtube" key="k1-o17zJSW0" height="295" width="480"  My favorite type of poem to write is the sonnet because I enjoy following the structure.  [|What makes a sonnet a sonnet?] Specifically, the following is a Petrarchan sonnet because of the rhyme scheme (abba/abba/cde/cde) and because of the change in mood between the octave (first 8 lines) and the sestet (final 6 lines). This sonnet was written for a high school English class in 2000, while the background, a technicolor re-imagining of the  [|Winged Victory of Samothrace] was sketched by me for an art class at the University of Pittsburgh. <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(123, 9, 121);"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;">media type="custom" key="3163446"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(123, 9, 121);"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;">