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I undertook a major change in my life-and filed for a divorce. Shortly I was, swamped with numerous, difficulties and faced, many types of people that some I never, dealt before. Lawyers, courts, judges, contractors and subcontractors (I start remodeling our 20-years old house to put it for sale), real estate agents, accountants, financial advisors, experts, etc. It seems that everyone took advantage of my vulnerability and dependence on them. They...
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It is a common knowledge that computers improved the quality of people’s life. Computers are one type of technology that contributed to total technological progress in the 2nd part of the 20th century. Technological progress even increased the people’s life expectancy.
At the beginning of the 20th century, for example in the USA, the life expectancy was 45 years. The majority of people were farmers performing hard manual jobs on their farms....
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Try to answer this question: who are you? You probably have one, or several answers. None is correct. The correct answer you can find only in this story. Once you gain a knowledge of the correct answer and started taking it seriously, then … many of you would and could change your attitudes and directions in many aspects of your life and in score of things you do.
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WHAT IS LIFE? WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
When attending a civil engineering university, the author lived an ordinary life of a college student. Fate interfered, ambushed her with life threatening events and monumental problems. Events transformed her from a shy, timid, low self-esteem young woman into a wise, knowledgeable risk taker, who believes in herself.
In this book, Alla P. Gakuba expertly outlines the importance of understanding who are you, where...
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From time to time a real estate housing is running amok. Home prices kept going 3-5-10 times sharply up, then spiraled down. Intoxicated buyers are keeping snapping houses and condos, regardless of price, as if only a sky is a limit. Then suddenly, without any warnings all buyers simultaneously stopped their buying sprees. The result is: real estate dropped into a dead zone. Prices plumed to the original level, or even lower (before the housing amok)...
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A theory is our mind is a tape recorder. It records everything that it hears, sees, and reads into brain. It stored indiscriminately all information into everyone's brain database.
The bigger storage of real knowledge and information a person has in brain database-the better he or she is equipped to solve everyday big and small problems and to help navigate everyday life and survival.
Information from texting and social media is not the real...
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On Sunday, a country boy, in his earlier 30s, arrived into a new town and started having difficulties to solve his small problems in unfamiliar environment. His difficulties were, he does not have enough information in his brain storage to solve his big and small problem.
To solve every problem, whether big, small, personal, business, national, or local, requires this major skill. Common sense or logic could be retrieved from a person's brain folder,...
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Even the Civil Right Act of 1964 gave an equal opportunity to women and minorities, discrimination and prejudice continue even today. Brilliant and pioneering women in these generations sacrificed, endured, and overcome monumental problems. They took a risk-millions entered the labor force and colleges to compete in hostile, male working environment.
Astonishingly, besides all that, in less than 2 generations American women succeeded-they overtook...
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Many people sometimes are asking me: "Why do you speak with accent?" Indeed, why do I ? My children, who come with me, do not speak with accent. No one ever thought that they are not Americans. Why even British, who lived in the USA for a long time, still speak with their British accent? Why they could not change their British accent for the American one? I have the answer that I share with you in this story.
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When the author was a student, she and her friends loved the Maslow's theory that they learned in one of their economics classes. The theory has 5 steps of the "Hierarchy of Needs." or "A Theory of Human Motivation."
The 1st step, or the lowest is, the most fundamental, basic physical needs: food, water, shelter, and clothing. The 5th step is-the most advanced, it is, where a person grows into noble traits of character; having dignity, honor, and...
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This story is applicable to everyone. It teaches how to became sophisticated and intelligent from a historic example. Alexander the Great was a prince and a king. But, regardless of his status he worked much harder than his commoners did. He studied seriously, developed great desire for knowledge, was avid reader, loved philosophy, science, art, and debates. During his short life (he died at age 32) he never lost a battle and concurred the world....
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The author received a devastated news. After 4th semester, she was, expelled from her civil engineering university. The reason was, she did not passed a calculus exam. When the truth was: the math professors had a crush on her, on a timid and a shy teenager. His crush was so obvious that a class of 400 students noticed it and constantly were joking about it and sometimes in front of this professor.
To save his reputation, the professor decided to...
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The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA. It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, was created in 1965.
But discrimination, prejudice, and abuse of the law persisted for the next 2 or more decades. Even...
14) It Is Easy to Despair, but the Best Traits of the Human Character Are Not to Give Up, but Instead
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One day I had a dream-to get my doctoral, or PhD degree. By that time I had a record of achievements and had no difficulties to be accepted to any university of my choice. The problem was, I was a woman, a structural engineer, and in 1980s not many women had PhDs.
With great anticipations I started my doctoral program. Only to learned that, before me there was another woman who was attempting to get her PhD. She had no chance, they failed her. The...
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That was the1st time in my life when I found myself with no responsibility. I was free. My children graduated from college, and I filed for a divorce. I was looking forward to start my new and easy life. But, a fate has a different plan for me. A routine monogram test found something in my breast. How I, reacted to this news, and what did I do next, to save myself please find in this story.
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