Alla P. Gakuba D.
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Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1930s, was a threat to the 20th-century civilization.
In 1930s, to pull Germany from a deep depression and mass unemployment, Hitler started drumming up his doctrine. That the Germans are an exceptional Arian nation and are in problems all because of Jews. The Hitler's power amplified and in 1939, he occupied the whole, Europe in just 3 month. Then, on June 22, 1941, he invaded the Soviet Union and the World...
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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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In my others stories on problem solving and how, to create innovations I introduced many, skills to readers. Here are another set of skills-how to solve external and internal problems. That is, the 1st, I classify a problem by asking: what type of problem is it? There are 2 types of problems: external and internal.
External problems (outside problems) are beyond my control.
Internal problems (inside problems) are under my control.
To visualize how...
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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...
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Everyone wants you to be stupid. Why?
So they can make money from you-is another axiom, or a statement, that wise and smart people are using when they are facing problems and needed to make decisions to protect their personal interest.
The story about the author's some health problem that she started encountering as she started getting older. Medicine is not an engineering that relays on formulas. Medicine is an art. Just go to 3-4 physicians...
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The history is full of examples how some nations became great and contributed to the development of civilization-all because they built national wealth. In the last 20 years no national wealth was built in the USA. Why is the creation of national wealth so important? Some examples. Egyptians: pyramids; Greeks: the Acropolis and Parthenon; the Romans: aqueducts and Coliseum; Machu Picchu; Taj Mahal in India; the Great Wall of China; the Suez Canal...
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How to Calculate Interest Earned on Money-is an essential tool, or skill, to use every day in order to be money wise and be a powerful person. This story is teaches this tool, actually it gave a simple formula. The story is using real examples how to calculate earned interest in money accounts, in CDs, or how much a person pays interest in credit cards, or in home mortgages. Easily, readers can master this simple formula.
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Comediante or Tragediante? Laugh or Cry? -in the 19th century a new form of literature and plays was born, comedy-tragedy in English. The play combines 2 great human emotions, comedy and tragedy, into one. To laugh or to cry, or do both at the same time, laughing through tears.
In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte became the First Emperor of France. His ambition was to conquer many countries in Europe, so Europe would be united under his empire and function...
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What is a natural cure for her headaches, migraines, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia? Earlier civilizations developed knowledge and information by observing natural world around them.
Even today, less developing countries are relying for all their health cures on herbal natural medicine. Today across the USA, there are many herbal stores that are selling only herbs for different illnesses. Such stores are growing in popularity with the American...
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There are several example in this story when the author was faced with huge job problems and must find solutions and then solve it-otherwise her career would be over.
One such problem was: how to design 3.5 miles "a spiral" for the Baltimore Subway, in Baltimore, Maryland. A company won a contract, or a bid — to design the Baltimore Subway. The problem was, they have no engineers who know how to design a subway's aerial structure- "a spiral." The...
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What is capitalism, socialism, and communism? The author is very much familiar with both systems. She lived under socialism (in the former Soviet Union) and under capitalism (in the USA). The story gave definitions and introduced advantages and disadvantages of each system.
Why countries have chosen to have a capitalism or a socialism system? In reality, there in no one country in the world that has a poor capitalism. Why? Please find answers in...
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A story on how and where a young child, teenager, young adult, or middle age person could and should channel his or her energy to became sophisticated and knowledgeable. These skills and knowledge one need to survive and succeed in this difficult and unstable world.
Why children, young adults, or middle aged people, when being the same age, have different numbers of achievements? Some achieved very little, if any, others a lot. This story has an...
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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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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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That was beginning of the 1970s when the author started her engineering career. Surprisingly, she was hired, but she was the 1st woman structural engineer in a company. Men engineers revolted, they thought that now their engineering career is going down-a woman is going to design a bridge.
The first 3-4 days the author was reading volumes of federal and state codes, requirements, and regulations. Then, a chief engineer called her to his office and,...
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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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How American women, after the passage of the Civil Act of 1964, took a risk and an opportunity, to fail or succeed on their own terms? Millions entered the labor force to compete with men in hostile, working environment.
How and why such victory wonder happened for the women? How American women in such short time overcame all difficulties and jumped all barriers? How they caught up with American men and left them, behind in a rear view mirror? There...
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Look at the messenger: who is he? Whose interest is he pursuing? This statement, or life skills, my wise grandmother taught me when I was disappointed about other people: their behavior, intentions, actions, and attitudes.
In this story, I am applying the above axiom, or statement, as a starting point for my health problems that I started encountering as I started getting older.
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The greatest event of the 20th-century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917.
The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2 systems: capitalism and socialism.
Lenin's socialism and the Russian Revolution's many decrees reverberated across the world and changed the lives of every person on this planet as we know it today: equal opportunity for all; women were equal to men in voting, in education,...