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"I was born in Cuba and I grew up just painting my heart out. Things like paints were not available, so I can remember when I was nine making my own paints with white toothpaste and colored pencils which I pounded into powder. All I wanted was to paint and

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Entertainment > Celebrity Biographies Biography: Isadora Duncan: 1 of 2

"Isadora Duncan, the Innovator of Modern Dance" Born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, on May 27, 1878. She was the American dancer, who did more than any other person to bring about the revolution that took place in dance during the early years of the 20th century. She was the innovator, of what came to be called Impress...
Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Biography: Hans Christian Andersen: 1 of 1

As a young girl, reading was something I did regularly to escape from reality and Fairy Tales, in particularl, were my favorites. I remember: I didn't have many books of my own, but I would borrow them from a friend who had large amounts. I read the stories over and over until I practically memorized them. My all time favori...
Health & Fitness > Autism Living with autism: 13 of 20

"Autism Took my Son" Seven years ago I was given a gift in the form of a beautiful, bouncing baby boy. He was by all accounts completely normal, then at about a year old it was as if an unknown force had taken his spirit, he stopped responding and his family became inanimate objects that he just saw right through. He stopped...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Prejudice: 31 of 31

"The Color of Your Skin" When I felf frightened, by the color of your skin, I did not mean to wound your feelings, I was only four years old, I had never seen, anyone like you. There you stood; before me, in your dusk nigritude; you smiled, but I could not see, passed the color of your skin. I dropped my bicycle and ran as f...