Author: Nicholas Taylorson

105-Year-Old Man Bill Mohr Receives His High School Diploma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8swAPwLsgM It’s nearly impossible to watch Bill and Josie Mohr without cracking an enormous smile. Their happiness is too contagious. The couple from Philadelphia has a lot to be happy about. They just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary and Bill’s 105th birthday. And if that wasn’t enough, on Sunday, Bill earned his high school diploma, […]

A Philadelphia School’s Big Bet on Nonviolence

Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia’s infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people would find inconceivable. The school was known as “Jones Jail” for its reputation of violence and disorder, and because the building physically resembled a youth correctional facility. Situated in the Kensington section […]

One Of the Most Powerful Videos You Will Ever See

People helping people. Happens all the time everyday. The reason it isn’t talked about in the media is because it is so commonplace that it isn’t even newsworthy. Instead, we highlight the terrible things in the news because they are so abnormal. http://youtu.be/1HIcDjpVgSQ