The Treasure of the Blues

ReadOasis Step 5 Blues Legend Robert Johnson The blues is a great treasure of American musical culture. It stands as [...]

The Motown Sound (Step 3)

ReadOasis Step 3 The Motown Museum (Wikipedia) Soul music combines rhythm and blues and gospel. Like the blues, soul arose [...]

Winter Time

By Robert Louis StevensonReadOasis Step 5 Berit Watki Winter in Merstham (Creative Commons) Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,A frosty, [...]

If by Rudyard Kipling

In 1907, Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first English-language writer to receive the prize. Kipling [...]

Karl Marx and the Communist World

ReadOasis Step 4 Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, economist, and historian. He wrote mainly about economics and politics, [...]

Serious About Humor (Step 3)

ReadOasis Step 3(Part 1) It's early in the morning. A funny looking man is getting ready for work. He casually [...]

Victor Frankenstein: A Mad Scientist

ReadOasis Step 4 Man, how ignorant you are in your pride of wisdom! - Victor Frankenstein As a young man, Victor [...]

Googling the World

ReadOasis Step 4 Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin studied computer science at Stanford University. Their research concentrated on [...]

The Drama of Darwin (Step 3)

ReadOasis Step 3 Annie Darwin was her father's joy, and she treated him with tender kindness. But in 1849 Annie [...]

Themes of A Christmas Carol

ReadOasis Step 5 "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, [...]