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Regulars 8 GoddessStar:
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Features 6
Thriving Towards A Brighter Future
Meet Princes Ada
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The Game Called Life
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Celebrating GoddessGirls Sweet 16
GoddessGlam: 15 Me face...Give Me Glow
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A Look Into Our Self Esteem
GoddessTrend: 16 Ashley Stewart Fashion Shoot
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10 GoddessCorner: Tips for High School Freshmen
Entertainment:: 24 GoddessEntertainment Put Your IPod on the Honor Roll
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Nothing Is Wrong With You! Interview with Daree Allen
On the Cover Cover: Clarybelle Navarrette Photography: PikA Pose Photography
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by: Kara Lee Staff Writer
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raduating from high school is truly one magnificent accomplishment
but making the next decision to attend college and changing one’s life for the better, is the foundation to new beginnings. While Clarybelle Navarrete has had her share of making important decisions, one of her greatest decision she could have made, was to follow her dreams of attending the college of her choice this upcoming fall. Raised in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, Clarybelle Navarrete has always believed that nothing in life will ever be handed to you. Being raised in a middle class, single parent household in Cicero, Illinois, one may have been left with a few disadvantages. But despite her parents’ divorce, 18-year-old Clarybelle has become an outgoing, determined, and dedicated student who graduated from Morton East High School Class of 2011. This upcoming fall she will be enrolled as a freshman at Columbia University in Chicago, Illinois, where she will be studying both Fine Arts and Cosmetology. While she is seeking her degree in Fine Arts and Cosmetology, Clarybelle will be doing what she loves most which is studying the areas of dancing, sing-
Pictured Above: Claybelle Navarrete
ing, and acting. She will also be concentrating on make-up, hair, and nails, something she has picked up over the years. With school approaching, Clarybelle is determined to “thrive for the best”. In fact, Clarybelle believes that the quote that keeps her going everyday states, “We don’t know what we’re capable of, until we try. You can only make it if you try” (Unknown). She is very confident in who she is as an individual and where she is going in life. The sky is the limit for Clarybelle and as long as she puts her mind to something she believes that anything is possible.
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College Freshman, Clarybelle Navarrette, reflects on her high school experience and shares how she prepared for her new chapter….College Life!
by: Neda Kellog
school, if you are not on top of your
Contributing Writer
school work the teacher is not going
advantage!
to make you a priority. If your ac-
Now…as you marinate on what I’ve
As a teen, growing up, one of the
tions are that you don’t care about
shared with you take into considera-
most important values in this ‘Game
your school work or grades then
tion watching the behavior of some-
called Life’ is to ‘Love God with all of that is how your teacher is going to your mind, soul and spirit and to treat you. You may feel like it’s dis-
one whom you admire. As you ob-
love your neighbor like you love
respect but baby girl you have to
the tone of their voice and the way
YOURSELF.’
respect yourself before you can even the greet others. Watch there daily
serve them pay close attention to
habits ... are they at
think that anyone Let me break that down for you!
else will.
“You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.”
work early in the morning, are they
As I think about the youth that at-
As you grow up and
tend the Charter School where I
mature into a re-
work, the number one thing I hear
sponsible young adult
is ‘Mrs. So & So disrespected
you will come to find
me!’ or ‘I don’t know who he
that when you give
think he is disrespecting me!'
‘respect’ you will
identify with positive
The problem that I find is that not
begin to live a life
people your thoughts
one of them has stopped to define
having positive rela-
align with those posi-
what ‘respect’ means to them.
tionships because you will feel that
tive realities and you begin to hold
you matter and it will show. The
yourself accountable for going after
Respect means to admire (someone
value of a healthy relationship will
positive outcomes yourself.
or something) deeply, as a result of
be priceless as you move through
organized or are they dressed nice? How do others speak to them? You will be
Oprah Winfrey
their abilities, qualities or achieve-
amazed how once you
each grade in high school. You will ments. How do you as youth plan on then be able to use this value to being respected if you are not show- build your network of supporters
I recommend that you look around
ing those qualities yourselves?
who will help you get through your
that you may feel are doing positive
good and bad days as you prepare
things. Trust me when I tell you
to enter into this game called life on
that it is very important to your
The way this game is played is that
your surroundings for aunties, cousins, teachers and business women
you attract the type of response that your own after school. Let me let you give. For example, if you are in you know girls that this game is full
growth to recognize people in your
the mall being loud and disruptive,
of surprises so knowing that RE-
for adding value to your life.
nine times out of ten you will be
SPECT is one of the major players in
dealt with accordingly. Same at
the rule book of life gives you an
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