My name is Kendal Tate, and I am a senior graduating in May.  I am a professional Writing major and  after graduation I am moving to Las Vegas to go to school for esthetics (facials and spa  care and skin care).  Hopefully when I graduate from that I can work in one of the casinos on the strip and make a lot of money!  Eventually I want to combine writing and aesthetics to write for a beauty magazine where I am paid to visit spas all over the world and write about the services, spa, and products.  I don't want to work for a mainstream magazine like Elle or Lucky but an esthetician magazine like Medesthetics or DAYSPA. I am a writer for www.blogcritics.org, an online magazine where many of my articles have been published, http://blogcritics.org/writer/kendal_tate. Not only are my articles on blogcritics, but I have them on my blog page, http://pinkgumbi13.blogspot.com/, as well to get my name out in the writer's realm.

Feature Writing 2008

Idea List

Soup Story

Resume

Scene Story

Immersion Story Description

Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons

Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons NCAA Routines

Street Story

In-Depth Profile

Profile Story

Short Stories From 2007 and 2008

Surfing Into Love

I Woke Up In The Wrong Bed

Drugs and a Stripper's Pole

The Halloween Birthday Party

Broken Promises

Sexuality and the Public

"You Make Your Own Happiness" -- Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons

These are the four videos of Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons from the 2008 NCAAs. I went to Nationals to watch him compete so I could finish my Immersion story. I thought his routines were amazing, and wanted to add them not only to my slideshow assignment, but to my wiki page as well.