Books / Short Stories(in no particular order)

absolutely life changing

1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
2. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi
4. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
5. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
6. The Ones Who Walk Away by Ursula Le Gruin
7. 1984 by George Orwell
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

If you want more reading suggestions check out my must reads:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FP7gVaHMYex_Ip2zQnQFsi0wN9znxYGg0rJz82ZMmuw/edit?usp=sharing

Some articles that have impacted me while writing ajourney2success

What It’s Like to be Bullied:  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-koppelman/post_8781_b_6335706.html

Madison Holleran

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12833146/instagram-account-university-pennsylvania-runner-showed-only-part-story

Lessons from Grey’s Anatomy (It’s super education trust me, I’ve learned a lot)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyorley/23-life-lessons-we-learned-from-greys-anatomy?utm_term=.flwob5Znq#.dh5NXvp0x

Paul Kalanthi https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-last-day-as-a-surgeon

Essays

Shooting an Elephant-Orwell http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/

Politics and the English Language http://blogs.ubc.ca/rmst221/files/2010/01/orwell-pol-en.pdf

Any poetic work by 

Sarah Kay Spoken Word

Pablo Neruda

Rupi Kaur

People

1. Malala Yousafzai
2. Paul Farmer
3. Gandhi
4. Nelson Mandela
5. J.K. Rowling
6. Dawn Loggins
7. Michael Phelps
8. Barack Obama
9. Rosa Parks
10. Thomas Edison
11. Mark Zuckerberg

Film: Movies or TV Shows

• Patch Adams
• Freedom Writers
• Forrest Gump
• Schindler’s List
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• 12 Years A Slave
• Wonder Woman
• Lala Land
• Grey’s Anatomy

Mentors

1. Fraser Heights: Ms.Rakkar, Mr. Pocock, Mr. Ahn, and Ms. Murray
2. University of Toronto: Dr. Joy Fitzgibbon, Dr. George Elliot Clarke