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Jenny Han is an author for young adult fiction and children's fiction.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Jenny Han

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
June 10, 2021
Rachel Louise Carson wrote an influential book called Silent Spring as well as being a marine biologist and conservationist.

[Photo] Quote of the day-Rachel Carson

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
June 2, 2021
Edward Estlin Cummings was an American painter, poet, author, playwright, and essayist.

[Photo] Quote of the day- E.E. Cummings

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
May 27, 2021
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was a Stoic philosopher and a Roman emperor from 161 until 180.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Marcus Aurelius

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
May 26, 2021
Stephenie Meyer is best known as being the author of Twlight, a vampire romance series.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Stephenie Meyer

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
May 25, 2021
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, screenwriter, humorist, essayist, dramatist, and satirist.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Douglas Adams

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
May 14, 2021
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician. He ran 3 times as the party's nominee for President of the US in the elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- William Jennings Bryan

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
May 7, 2021
Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian fantasy fiction writer. Most of his novels have fictional settings but resemble real historical periods.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Guy Gavriel Kay

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
May 6, 2021
Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, actor, television host, and businessman. He also created the Jimmy Dean sausage brand.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Jimmy Dean

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
April 14, 2021
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, activist, and diplomat. She was also the longest-serving First Lady of the United States.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Eleanor Roosevelt

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
March 25, 2021
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, also known as "Dr. Love", was an American author as well as a motivational speaker and professor. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Leo Buscaglia 

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
March 23, 2021
On March 11, 2020, the basketball world was put on a stop due to the spread of the Corona-virus.

[Photo] Basketball and Coronavirus: One Year Later

By: Amir Saadeh
April 15, 2021
Geena Dunne is an Australian feminist writer and is the founder of The Cova Project which is an Australian charity. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- G.D. Anderson

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
March 8, 2021
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, director, and narrator who has been in a variety of film genres. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Morgan Freeman 

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
March 5, 2021
Zanele Muholi is a South African activist and artist who works mostly with photography and videography. She uses her art to highlight the beauty and individuality of black LGBTQ women.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Zanele Muholi

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
March 3, 2021
Steve Jobs went to Reed College in 1972 and dropped out that same year to travel through India. He later studied Zen Buddhism. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Steve Jobs

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 25, 2021
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress from Houston Texas. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Beyonce

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 24, 2021
Thomas John Watson Sr. was the CEO and chairmen of International Business Machines. He was in charge of the company from 1914 until 1956. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Thomas J. Watson

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 22, 2021
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[Photo] Today in History – February 18, 1952

February 18, 2021
Brene Brown is a researcher, author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers, and lives in Texas.

[Photo] Quote of the day- Brene Brown

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 18, 2021
Thich Nhat Hanh has published titles about meditation, mindfulness, and engaged Buddhism. In the United States alone, he has sold over five million books. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Thich Nhat Hanh

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 13, 2021
Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, global spiritual leader, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Thich Nhat Hanh

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 9, 2021
Benjamin Disraeli was a British statesman and novelist who was a prime minister twice. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Benjamin Disraeli

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
February 9, 2021
To show a tribute to the lives lost during 9/11, these lights get displayed each year on the day the event occured.

"Epictetus (l.c. 50 - c. 130 CE) was a Stoic philosopher. He was best known for his works The Enchiridion (the handbook) and his Discourses."

[Photo] Quote of the day- Epictetus

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
January 23, 2021
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He wasn't as recognized while alive but now is considered a figure in the history of poetry and art of the Romantic Age. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- William Blake

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
January 19, 2021
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a lot of things. But he was mainly a German poet, novelist, playwright, and scientist. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
January 12, 2021
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy in English) was a Russian writer, considered as one of the greatest authors of all time. He has  received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year for 4 years and the Nobel Peace Prize 3 different years. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Leo Tolstoy

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
January 11, 2021
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. After being born into slavery and escaping, she helped a lot of other slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Harriet Tubman

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
January 10, 2021
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first black president of South African as well as an anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Nelson Mandela

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
January 4, 2021
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[Photo] Black Friday Shopping

By: Olivia Bryant, Reporter
November 30, 2020
John Winston Ono Lennon MBE was an English singer, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist for the Beatles. His partnership with Paul McCartney in songwriting is claimed as the most successful in history.

[Photo] Quote of the day- John Lennon

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
December 22, 2020
George Horace Lorimer was an American journalist, publisher, and author. He is best known for being the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, which he led from 1899 until 1936. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- George Lorimer

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
December 22, 2020
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times as well as many other awards. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Angelina Jolie

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
December 18, 2020
Because of the racial injustice and police brutality in our country, BLM was created to store justice and right to African American men and women around America.

[Photo] BLM Movement in Woodbridge Township

By: Amir Saadeh, Reporter
December 17, 2020
Oprah Gail Winfrey is best known for being an American talk show host, but she doesn't just stop there. She is also a television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.

[Photo] Quote of the Day- Oprah Winfrey

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
December 14, 2020
After Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College, he worked as a video game designer at Atari. In 1976 he helped launch Apple. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Steve Jobs

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
December 13, 2020
Maya Angelou was an American poet, civil rights activist, and memoirist. Over the years, she has received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. 

[Photo] Quote of the day- Maya Angelou

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
December 3, 2020
Arthur L. "Art" Williams Jr. is an American insurance executive. Founder of A.L Williams & Associates or currently named Primerica Financial Services (since 1991).  

[Photo] Quote of the day- Art Williams

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
November 24, 2020
Denis Waitley is an American motivational speaker, writer and consultant.

[Photo] Quote of the day- self esteem

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
October 16, 2020
The change in weather creates beautiful colored leaves that shed off the trees, until the next season.

[Photo] Make the most out of fall in 2020

By: Alexa Leviten, Managing Editor & Public Relations
October 15, 2020
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