Essays on Freedom Writers

The writers of the diaspora are situated in a complex space between two worlds and two cultures: they can neither forget the world/culture they have come out of and which would be different if they returned to it now; nor can they fully incorporate into...

Nicola Yoon, a Jamaican-American author who is best known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Everything, Everything, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a 2017 film of the same name. Yoon’s main inspiration and reasoning behind the novel was her daughter,...

Junot Diaz is a Dominican author whose rise to prominence is due to his artistry when it comes to telling stories of Caribbean-Americans. Born in 1968, Junot lived in the Dominican Republic for much of his childhood until he finally moved over to the U.S...

In an age of changing times, there are many things going on in a young adult’s life. For teenagers high school may not always be the first priority and with good reason. There are many other things one may need to worry about: family, work,...

“Out of anger, Timothy McVeigh decided he would take his frustration out on others to give the country a wake-up call. Unfortunately, it was a deadly one” (“Diary 18.” Freedom Writer’s Diary. 14). Acts of devastations such as this have been suggested to be a...

In the modern life of the increasing competition, young people who is the hope of a state future should be offered a right and appropriate education, so that a good educator is pretty crucial to the pillars of a state. A certain remark or an...