Allie Mills as Pam Douglas doesn’t know ‘why she is.’   Dumped by Stephen Logan, a diagnosed mentally ill 50-year-old virgin, she is falling prey to the tricks of thief: handsome Dominick “Nick” Marone as played by Jack Wagner.  How?  She is stealing the designs of the youngest man ever to win the Designer of The Year Award, Mr. Eric Forrester Senior as played by the MULTI-talented (WE NEED SOME MCCOOK PIANO THIS CHRISTMAS!!!) and handing them over to Jackie M designs, where Jackie is played by “The Prettiest Teenager in England”- 1969 – TRUE: Lesley-Anne Down.  Jackie works alongside her Chief of Staff Own Knight as played by one of the best looking people in television history, Brandon Beemer.

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On the Young and the Restless, Adam Newman has gone from amateur stalker and snarky abortionist and baby-switcher to lover and hero.  MICHAEL MUHNEY as Adam, a role that Mr. Muhney has turned around in a way no one in the entire television industry thought possible.  Mike should be up for a Best Actor in a Leading Role Daytime television award – but he may be shunned simply because of the beginning of his horrific actions which he was able, as his father Victor Newman I and Victor Newman, Jr.

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The son WHY I AM by the Dave Matthews Band is 129.5 beats per minute on the studio recording and 129.7 (indistinguishable from the studio speed) during the recording of the song live as may be purchased on Amazon.com or iTunes.com.  The timeline of the speeds of the song are illustrated with tempo charts featuring President Obama and one featuring me when I was still a kinda good-looking kid.

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The main issues presented in both programs force all characters to ask themselves: “why am I here,” or as Dave Matthews poetically -restates same question: “why I am.”

Ian Andrew Schneider

Jim Deluva

Anne Sullivan Jackson School/NJ Free School

December 11, 2011