She sits in the mirror, looking wounded. “Get up,” I yell at her. “You were made to be stronger than that.” Her tears began to stream down her face. She was worn and broken, and with each sob, I began to hate her more. “Stop crying,” I reprimanded. “It’s you who’s crying, not me,” she […]
Month: October 2022
Omar Apollo
Latin Artist of the Month for November 2022 Twitter Instagram Youtube Soundcloud Tiktok Bio En El Olvido Bio Born Omar Velasco, Apollo was born and raised in Hobart, Indiana, where he received his first guitar at the age of 12 as a gift from his parents. He credits his love for music to his uncle, […]
Online Platforms for Books: Reading Became Easier
The internet is the ultimate resource for locating answers and items that we require. You don’t have to leave your house to get anything on your wish list, including books, movies, games, or audiobooks, because the vast majority of products are available from online stores.
The best part is that there is no need to wait for delivery. Most books have been digitized, which means you can start reading them in seconds. It’s simply a matter of locating the most convenient – and completely legal – online source of books to read.
The world’s most beloved classics are now available for free online. They are known as public domain books. They are free because their intellectual property rights have expired, and anyone is free to download, read, remix, and reshare them.
Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive digitize public domain books and make them freely available through their online catalogs.
Here is a list of some of the best and latest reading platforms online.
GO LIVE
“How am I supposed to let go of something I can’t picture myself without? How am I supposed to breathe without my lifeline, preventing me from suffocating? How am I supposed to be me when I was made to be this? This? Was I made to be unhappy? Was I made to be hurt? Was […]
The Importance of Creative Writing
Being able to write without a definite structure or purpose is a gift and a privilege, and as such we should honor it. We should make time for it because it is so good for us. One should never have to choose between honoring emotions or self expression, and our daily obligations. We should be a society that promotes these things as part of our daily obligations. By making a space for creative writing we strengthen the members of our society by enabling them to grow, learn, and experiment as people within a healthy facet. Creative writing is an underused resource in the education system that promotes empathy, emotional regulation, and communication skills.
HAPPINESS
Happiness is the smile that comes to wash away the bad day. It’s the small deed that makes all the bad ones forgotten. It’s the hand that guides the lost and forsaken. It’s the light in the fog that covers everything. It’s you, for me, you are my complete and absolute happiness. But like everything, […]
The Cristian Rivera Foundation Announces the Vision of Hope Award Winner: Linda Wachtel of the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation and Jenna’s Rainbow Foundation
The Cristian Rivera Foundation (CRF) just announced the winner of the Vision of Hope Award to be awarded to Linda Wachtel of the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation and Jenna’s Rainbow Foundation at CRF’s largest fundraising event of the year, the 13th Annual Cristian Rivera Foundation Celebrity Gala. Linda Wachtel is a New York native who […]
Book vs Movie: Which is a Better Fit for You
Movies and books are two forms of entertainment that have been around for a long time, with books being the older of the two. They have entertained so many generations of people that they are almost always on anyone’s list of favorite things to do. The distinction between films and books is in how they tell the story.
Charles “Charlie” Santoro: “When you love what you’re doing, there’s nothing better than that.”
For the past 18 years, Charles Santoro has been an Executive at the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network and is now making a name for himself in his new acting career. From humble beginnings, Charles Santoro’s life has shown that with hard work, determination, and a little bit of kindness, you can live the life […]
Racism in Kids Books: An Retrospective
It’s 2022, and children’s literature is looking more fun and diverse than ever. When I pass by the junior’s section at Barnes & Noble, I can’t help but smile fondly at covers sporting illustrated Latino kids (like I once was) and glittery books celebrating the beauty of Black girls’ natural hair. When this kind of material first started hitting the market in the late aughts and 2010’s–thankfully as politics surrounding race and identity evolved in the cultural consciousness–it was enough to move me to tears. I was of course no longer a child by then, but something about my own reaction to those wonderful new releases struck something within me: all these books that uplift people of color was something my childhood sorely lacked. I read everything from the classics to YA novels during the course of my youth, and while I enjoyed a lot of those books, they were rife with stereotypical depictions of non-white races, if not outright hatred against them. While racism still hasn’t been completely eradicated from the world of children’s literature, I think it’s worth looking back at the books that made me–for better and for worse.
IF I KNEW…
I wish I knew then, what I know now— That gaining you meant losing me. And in the end, I lost both. Nothing to gain besides a million scattered pieces Of who I was and who I now need to be. If I knew then, what I know now— I still would’ve gained you despite […]
Graphic Novels: A Gateway to Reading
In a society where we value the educated class, by giving those with better degrees higher salaries and more credibility, we are often too quick to sneer at the underappreciated gem that fuses art and literature, graphic novels. In our society we are taught to esteem ourselves on things like our grades, reading levels, advanced vocabularies, and overall intellect. We are told to read the classics and books that are on par with this standard, leaving comics and graphic novels to waste away with the picture books of our childhoods. After all, that’s all they are right? Picture books? Far too simplistic and remedial to have any real substance, right? Wrong.
