Alla P. Gakuba D.
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Life is full of surprises, both big and small unexpected stressful events. They are occurring many times a day and every day. These events challenge people's knowledge, creativity, and skills and test their endurance, resilience, and ability to survive.
Experiencing a problem? Having difficulties? Overwhelmed or stressed out from life?
"C'est la vie!" That's life. What else do you expect? (This for the French is a typical answer.)
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The author, in this short story, describes her real life innovation. That is: how she created her greatest innovation — from conception to completion. This innovation sparked entirely new industry. Thousands of new jobs were created and brought billions of dollars in new revenues every year to many companies.
To create new innovations, every field require the same set of skills: creativity, common sense, skills, and intelligence. Intelligence and...
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The British were French old enemy. Not to fight the British on French soil, the French King was financing America Revolution in 1775-1783 by heavily taxing his subjects. Queen Marie Antoinette never looked "thru the window" to see how her people lived. Soon, the French people became impoverished and revolved. They started their own French Revolution in 1989. Revolutionaries executed the King and sent Marie Antoinette to guillotine.
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It is a common knowledge that everything, including people, have a life span. Except the nature and the earth, they have eternity, or endless life. That is: people have a life expectancy, man-made things around us have a life span. Than why this law does not applies to a real estate housing industry? Please find this answer in this story.
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Why is the NSA spying on all 316 million Americans and the world. So, the USA's big corporations could put billions of dollars into their pockets for spying on all innocent American and the world.
That is why NSA, National Security Administration, is listening constantly and stores billions of innocuous conversations. Why? Not by an accident, there was a reason for that. What was the reason behind mass spying on the all-innocent population? A simple...
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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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From the beginning, the new America become an inspiration and attraction for all emigrants from the Old World. To become a millionaire was everyone's dream-the American dream. A new concept of the American millionaire has developed, where everyone can become a millionaire in the USA in a traditional way "from rags to riches" i.e., through thrift, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, hard work, frugality, self-sacrifice, dignity, and honor. Millionaires...
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A PERSON IS A PRODUCT OF TIME, PLACE, AND CIRCUMSTANCES
In this book Alla P. Gakuba expertly, postulates and shares with readers her knowledge and know-how skills: regarding when to take or not to take a risk; expertise on how to embrace new events and challenges; defining what self-esteem is; recognition that ability is nothing without opportunity; ideas and examples how to create national wealth; explanation what engineering is; and avoidance of...
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When growing up in the former Soviet Union (now Russia) the Author was, exposed to natural medicine. That time the Russians pharmacies' glass shelves and cabinets were full of such natural potions. Russian physicians, instead of drugs, very often prescribed "herbal compound" to patients. These were old good times. Today, physicians prescribed only expensive medications.
When working in post-colonial Africa, the author observed how the local population...
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How to Design Innovations and Solve Business and Personal Problems
These are motivational and inspirational nonfiction 20 short stories in the trilogy of Laws of Life from Wisdom and Experience.
This book contained a road map to innovation. From author's examples of her innovations readers will learn: how to create innovations; how to solve business and personal problems; how to understand 3 types of economies: market, planning, and mixed;...
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Life propelled a young woman into a cascade of unpredictable and stressful events. This is a story of hard life, bad luck, broken dreams, high expectations, abandonment, life agony, and contemplated suicide.
Then an unexpected breakthrough. Abruptly a revelation descended upon her-regardless of what happened to her – the life is going on as if nothing happened.
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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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Big scams in the USA that are destroying the American middle class, seniors, and the nation. Some of these scams are: dot-com; subprime mortgages; 0% interest rate; international disorder; higher education scam; private prison scams; sport and entertainment; tax scam; etc…
It is not by an accident that from the above scams in the last 20 years (1996-2016) over 6 million "new Wall Street millionaires" were created in the USA and over 400 billionaires....
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How did the USA survive and recover from the Great Depression of the 1930s? There were 3 factors responsible for it: (1) World War II; (2) Noble President Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR; and (3) The struggles, and tribulations of that generation.
The story describes thee Great Depression, FDR's "New Deal," and input and sacrifices of the Great Generation.
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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.
16) The Technological Invention that Shocked the World in the 20th Century. Or, the Russians Launched
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On October 4, 1957, history was, made. The Soviet Union Lunched Sputnik. Sputnik's impact on the world and the USA was colossal, impressive, and unprecedented.
And, the space programs and arms races between, the Soviet Union and the United States began. Find in this story how space programs and arms races produced the greatest inventions and innovations in human history. How thousands of them spilled into civilian industries. Long distance telecommunications,...
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The author lived under all 3 types of economies: planning (in the former Soviet Union), mixed (in Africa: Rwanda and Tanzania), and market (in the USA).
Why countries chose to have a Market, Planning, or Mixed economy? In reality, there in no one country in the world that has only a poor market economy, or poor mixed economy, or poor planning economy. Why? Please find answers in this story.
18) Africa: An Interrupted Dream: Or, Wonderful Life Discoveries in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzani
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This short story describes a real life example of an innovation. Here the author on her real life example guides readers on how to design innovations- starting from the idea- to the prototype and then- to implementation of the final product/service.
What are innovations? A simple definition is that innovations are just solutions to problems. How to design innovations? Innovations require 3 types of creative endeavors: ideas, innovations, and prototypes,...
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What is engineering? Everything around us that are man-made and not by nature is- engineering. Engineers create national wealth and contribute to the development of civilization.
Their examples are starting from ancient engineering marvels: the pyramids of Egypt, the Acropolis and Parthenon in Greece, the Roman aqueducts and Coliseum, Mach Picchu, the Taj Mahal in India, the Great Wall of China, etc.
More recent great engineering projects are:...
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Nothing happens by accident. There is always a reason for it. That is, do not accept things what happened to you for granted. Instead, analyze and find reasons for it- and save yourself. To illustrate that nothing happens by an accident this story gave several examples of this author's health problems. How she analyzed her sudden health problems and saved herself.
One night, I woke up in the middle of the night in a fright-something terrible was...