Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 by Ravneet Kaur Sandhu
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” -Pablo Picasso Most people feel their most creative when they were children, basking in the joy of creation, unleashing their imagination without any constraint. Jyoti and Suresh Guptara, known simply as the Guptara Twins, born to English and […]
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Saturday, January 17th, 2015 by Nathaniel Sher
Painting Prodigy Penetrates the Art World Nearly every kid with access to some paint and paper has created what an art critic might call an “abstract” work of art. So why is it that the eight-year-old Australian abstract expressionist, Aelita Andre, has garnered so much more attention than the average kid artist?
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 by Mihaela Bogdan
The 14-year-old Romanian writer, Irina Novac, recently published her first book, “A Moment as an Eternity.” About love, crime, and drama, her novel takes place in the U.S. for the first half and Romania for the latter. The story centers on two high-school sweethearts, Angela and Chuck. At their prom, Chuck proposes to Angela and she accepts. The […]
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Monday, October 27th, 2014 by Ravneet Kaur Sandhu
In 1954, a novella written by an eighteen-year-old took the French literary world by storm. Called “Bonjour Tristesse” (French: “Hello Sadness”), the ‘amoral’ story of a schoolgirl’s summer romance with an older university student, brought the author, Francoise Sagan, scandalous success. A best-selling novel, “Bonjour Tristesse” made Sagan independently wealthy. While the title was taken […]
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Sunday, April 6th, 2014 by Raluca Besliu
Tallia Storm, a 15-year-old from a small Scottish village near Glasgow, has always known that her passion in life is jazz music. She believes that, if you are passionate about something, then you have to be constantly ready to seize any opportunity that presents itself to make your dream come true. That’s why, before she […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2014 by Raluca Besliu
A journalism student passionate about photography and traveling, 22-year-old Alex Iacob is the creator of a blog about urban exploration in his hometown of Bucharest, Romania. Alex explores overlooked or forgotten urban spaces such as old bourgeois residencies, factories and monuments, all left to decay in the communist and post-communist eras. Because his explorations are […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 by Raluca Besliu
16-year-old Emmanuel Bishop is a prodigy violinist and polyglot—who speaks English, Spanish, French and Latin—with Down syndrome. Despite his genetic condition, which occurs when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21, he is an ambitious young man who lets nothing stand in the way of his dreams. Emmanuel, an only […]
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Friday, January 10th, 2014 by Jenna Bellassai
In her book The Children, Edith Wharton wrote, “When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.” An American author, who wrote observations like the above during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, Wharton won the […]
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 by Jenna Bellassai
Frankenstein is a horror story dating back to the 1800′s that has been adapted many times and is still prevalent today. In fact, the movie “I, Frankenstein,” which is set to come out in theaters on January 24, is yet another modernized adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original horror novel. Incredibly, Shelley penned Frankenstein when […]
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Thursday, December 26th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Kuha’o Case, a 17-year-old piano prodigy from Hawaii, has been blind since infancy. Born two months premature, Kuha’o had to undergo a necessary operation, which saved his life, but took his vision. The young Hawaiian can play a song note for note after hearing it only once or twice, and the song remains forever imprinted […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Jamal Edwards is a leading young British entrepreneurs. He started a media empire with his youth broadcasting channel, SB.TV, at the tender age of 15. Now 22, Jamal has an estimated fortune of £8m, runs a production team of ten people, and has worked with stars like Jessie J and Nicki Minaj. He played a […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Roxanne Lasker-Hall from Cleveland, Ohio is already an award winning movie script writer. When she was only 16, she participated in and won the National Scriptwriting Contest in Scenarios USA Youth/Film Industry Collaboration with her movie script, “Speechless.” Her script, which she wrote specifically for the contest, addressed a spiky and rarely addressed reality in […]
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Friday, May 31st, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Savannah Britt became the youngest magazine publisher in the world when, at the tender age of 12, she started publishing a hard copy magazine entitled Girlpez Fashion Magazine, to accompany her website for teen girls, Girlpez.com. By then already, Savannah was not a newcomer when it came to the publishing world. She had published her […]
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
For 8th Grade version click here Thirteen-year-old Cecilia Cassini from Encino, California was the youngest designer in the U.S. and one of the youngest in the world, when she launched her own label in 2009, at the age of 9. By 2011, she had already created over 500 original pieces and dressed many celebrities, including Heidi Klum […]
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Fifteen year-old Jessa Balote has been dubbed Manila Cinderella, given her rise from dire poverty to a professional ballerina in the Philippines. The young girl comes from Tondo, a slum situated next to a large waste dump in Manila, where most inhabitants survive off of collecting garbage. The young ballerina’s parents make money by selling […]
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Hannah Vasicek is a 22-year-old Australian creator of a successful jewelry line and an expanding online clothing boutique. Hannah reveals that she became interested in jewelry at a young age: “I grew up in a really small town in New South Wales, where there was nothing to do. One day I was walking down the […]
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