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with Tony Kaine
How do you ask out your crush for valentines?
Signed Infatuation Dear Infatuation , Contrary to popular belief asking someone out for Valentine's Day isn't as complicated as it seems. A perfect Valentine's Day ask are the ones that are personal and well thought out. If they have captured your heart or attention enough to warrant asking them out then you must know them. Make it personal give them their favorite flower, sing them their favorite love song, give them a cheesy Valentine's Day card of their favorite meme. Make it memorable something they won't forget. Even if they say no at least it's something that they won't forget but also keep in mind this persons feelings. If they are someone who doesn't like attention do it when you're alone don't make it awkward for them. Overall just make sure it's fun and unique. I wish you good luck and all the best ~ Tony K. |
I’m sorry, but what year is it?
By: Nahire Abdalla and Zozan Tahir Have you ever been in a relationship that your parents disapprove of? At what extent do you think your parents will go to in order to break it up? This is the story of teen Allie Dowdle, average and oppressed. Imagine, you’re in your senior year of high school, and everything is great. You’re preparing for college, prom, and graduation. Oh, and also you have a wonderful boyfriend. Seems like the perfect ending to high-school, huh? You can’t wait to introduce your boyfriend to your parents and hope they’ll see the light inside of him that you see. Allie is a white teenager, while her boyfriend is black. You see nothing wrong, correct? It’s simply a mixed couple, in the year 2017, don’t we have bigger issues to worry about? Well, meet her parents, who cut her off completely because she didn’t break up with him. I’m not talking about “lunch money” or “cutting off her cell phone”, I mean everything. This includes paying for her own college tuition. What parents would jeopardize their child’s future and education just because of who they're dating? This is truly the purest form of evil. Despite her parents misguided and twisted form of “punishment”, Allie has raised more than $35,000 for college. It’s a new generation and it appears that her parents have failed to recognize that racism shouldn’t even exist. We give props to Allie, for defending what’s right, especially against such a tough opposition. Though we may believe the “Jim Crow era” was so many years ago, it actually wasn’t. Racism in America didn’t become “illegal” until the 1960’s! It hasn’t even been a century since Jim Crow laws were banned. Still, even though racism isn’t tolerated, its tolerated. Allie is just one example of the racism that has almost engulfed our nation. Though there are many good people the bad still continues to be the majority. In the times we’re living in now, we need the good to continue to rise against the negative. Would you have had the guts to stand up to your parents in such a way? Let us know in the comments! Donate to Allie today: |
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A Fine Read by
Genevieve DeCastro Book of the Month : Girls In The Moon by Janet McNally As Told by the Author: “I’ll stitch the words together, stringing them like pearls on thread, remember them out of order, and forget what it was you said” “Scream to the rafters baby, let the world know you’re here” “knocking glitter off her shoulders” “I’m nothing but a shadow, nothing but a silhouette, I lose all my certainty the farther away I get” Songs for the Pages:
Food for Thought:
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Have you ever experienced the type of pure blissful melancholy that makes you just so inexplicably happy and so deeply saddened all at once? It floods your lungs and turns your stomach inside out in the loveliest way possible. That is exactly how I felt the entire time reading this book. The pages have a sense of familiarity and the lyrics laced throughout them are beyond any emotion I can comprehend. The way McNally has presented her characters and the plot line are absolutely magical. Girls in the Moon is unlike any other Y/A novel I’ve encountered. I guarantee you will fall head over heels in love with every thrillingly mysterious plot twist, with every vague song lyric, with every stunning image McNally paints on each page, and last but certainly not least, with each and every character. Phoebe Ferris, named after the moon goddess, struggles with the lack of answers she has regarding her former Rock-star parents lives. Even worse, she’s seventeen which entails the usual high school boy drama and now her sister is rebelling and following in her mother’s footsteps, destined for a life of fame. The same life Phoebe’s mom ran from to protect her girls. It’s difficult to keep your heart from skipping every beat Phoebe’s does. McNally does a beautiful job of portraying the multiple points of views throughout the novel making it extremely unique and enjoyable. There have been very few books that inspire me the way Girls in the Moon has. I suggest every moon child and daughter of starlight read Girls in the Moon, you will not regret it.
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Author Janet McNally
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TV show of the month
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What if there was a show in which Hogwarts meets Narnia? Well, lucky for us there is a show where these two worlds become one, called The Magicians! This show was first aired on Syfy on December 16, 2015 as a special preview. The rest of the series premiered on January 25, 2016. The TV show is based on the novel within a trilogy written by Lev Grossman. So far, the show has two seasons, and each season has thirteen episodes.
The show is about a teenager named Quentin Coldwater. He enrolls at Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy to be trained as a magician, where he discovers that the magical world from his favorite childhood books is real and poses a danger to humanity. Meanwhile, the life of his childhood friend Julia is turned upside down, when she is denied entry, and she searches for magic elsewhere. To get you interested, we figured we should tell you about how the show starts off! Quentin and Julia are invited to a test of their magical skills. Quentin passes and he gets accepted to Brakebills University. Julia fails the test and they attempt to wipe her memory about Brakebills and the test, but she manages to leave herself a clue to remember. Refusing to accept that she cannot learn magic, she is later contacted by Pete, who offers to teach her. In his dreams, Quentin meets Jane Chatwin from the "Fillory and Further" novels, who warns him about the Beast and leaves him with a sigil burned into his hand. Alice recognizes the sigil and sees it as an opportunity to know how her brother died. She and Quentin, together with Penny and Kady try to contact her dead brother, Charlie. Instead they accidentally summon the Beast who appears in the school the next day, attacking a teacher and the dean. That’s it for our introduction of the first episode of this fun and interesting show. Hopefully after reading this brief introduction, you want to learn more about Quentin and his adventures in The Magicians. So, what do you think? Leave us your thoughts in the comments! |