I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros for the first time when I was 15 years old. During my sophomore year of high school my English teacher gave us the assignment to choose a book and write a paper about a social issue raised in it. Me, being over ambitious, decided to read The House on Mango…
...I am reminded of some words I heard a few months ago: "Get out of your head and into your purpose." This is what 2013 has been all about for me. I started this year with my head in a toilet-- literally. I had one too many shots of Malibu Red at my friend's New Year's Eve party and was…
...and even if she is, her ideological views do not matter. There are many bloggers and trollers that are starting a flurry of debates on the internet about Beyonce and feminism. My question is: Why? She released a "visual" album on iTunes that sold 500,000 copies in less than a weekend. And it happened to be Friday the 13th. This…