Black History Month

ReadOasis Step 2 February is Black History Month in the US. The month honors important people and events about Africans [...]

A Force for Good in Music

ReadOasis Step 3(Part 1) U2 in Concert It was a cool winter night in January 2002 in New York. The [...]

JK Rowling and Harry Potter (Step 2)

ReadOasis Step 2 After finishing university in 1983, JK Rowling was living in London. She worked for the human rights [...]

Drifting Cowboy: Hank Williams (Step 3)

By Maria SonoraReadOasis Step 3(Part 1) By MGM Records via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) Hank would never make it to [...]

Making Work Fun: The Levity Effect (Step 2)

ReadOasis Step 2 A manager at a company was interviewing a job candidate. The manager said, ?We need a very [...]

Bill Gates: A Model for Business?

By Tek SmithReadOasis Step 2 As a young man, Bill Gates had the idea to make a company. In 1975, [...]

Awarding Excellence: The Pulitzer Prize

ReadOasis Step 3 The Color Purple The Pulitzer Prize The Color Purple is a book about a black woman named [...]

Paul Desmond and Take Five

ReadOasis Step 3By Maria Sonora ?I would also like to thank my father, who discouraged me from playing the violin.? [...]

A Musical Money-Making Machine

ReadOasis Step 3 Carrie Underwood by Eva Rinaldi (Creative Commons) Carrie was a country girl from Checotah, Oklahoma. She lived [...]

Fred Astaire, Dancer Extraordinaire

ReadOasis Step 3 "Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have [...]