My name is Maisha and I am a freshman at Baccalaureate School for Global Education. Students in our technology class were assigned to create a blog about an issue we were passionate about. Child marriage immediately popped into my head. Unfortunately, my mother was married off at 14. She was robbed of her childhood and faced numerous hardships which affected […]

Child marriage is a formal marriage or informal union where one or both of the parties are under the age of 18. Each year 12 million girls are married before the age of 19. It truly is a global issue that cuts across countries, cultures, religions, and ethnicities. However, child marriage is much more prevalent in third world countries where […]

Welcome to my Scratch Animation project! I created a remixed version of “The Ant and The Grasshopper.” The viewers get to choose the decision the Grasshopper makes — should he prepare for winter or not? The ending follows the moral decision.   SCRIPT: The script includes the information about the character and the dialogue of the different scenes. Although creating the script […]

“Over the bridge, with sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out for non-olfactory money. The city has seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. […]