(ENEM - 2022)
As my official bio reads, I was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States – meaning my mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of my family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid, where I was born. Less than two months later, we emigrated once more a...
(ENEM - 2022)
Two hundred years ago, Jane Austen lived in a world where single men boasted vast estates; single ladies were expected to speak several languages, sing and play the piano. In both cases, it was, of course, advantageous if you looked good too. So, how much has – or hasn’t &...
(ENEM - 2022)
A Teen’s View of Social Media
Instagram is by far my favorite. It is made up of all photos and videos, which is perfect for visual people like me. There is the home page that showcases the posts from people you follow, an explore tab which offers posts from accounts all over th...
(ENEM - 2022)
I tend the mobile now
like an injured bird
We text, text, text
our significant words.
I re-read your first,
your second, your third,
Look for your small xx,
feeling absurd.
The codes we send
arrive with a broken chord.
I try to picture your hands,
their image is blurred.
Nothing...
(ENEM PPL - 2022)
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I’d like to be an old man to really know. I wonder...
(ENEM PPL - 2022)
We walked on, the stranger walking with us. Taylor Franklin Bankole. Our last names an instant bond between us. We’re both descended from men who assumed African surnames back during the 1960s. His father and my grandfather had had their names legally changed, and bo...
(ENEM PPL - 2022)
Letter to the Editor
Michael Gerson’s Oct. 19 Tuesday Opinion column, “The state laboratory of idiocracy strikes again” did not highlight the disservice done to the Black community or any other minority group affected by White history. I wonder...