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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.
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Sometimes I hear some disappointments, especially from younger people, that they have very few achievements, if any, in their lives. Often, they blame it on themselves, thinking that they are not smart enough, or took this particular job, or choose this profession, instead of a different one.
I always reason with them – otherwise. Do not put total blame on yourself. To reinforce my challenge I cite to them this particular story-Ability Is Nothing...
3) 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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After African continent throughout colonial power, thousands of engineers, technicians from all over the world, and the Peace Corp volunteers from the United States, went to work in Africa to help them to build their countries independence.
During that time there were a lot of excitement and dreams were in the air. The author, a young and idealistic, went to Africa to design their superstructures. That time the population of Africa was 250 million....
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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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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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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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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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Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some cowards even defected to their country's enemy? This story is, described and examined, this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union, who defected to the United States. These defectors lived privileged lives in the Soviet Union (they were not poor). One was-Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter of the President of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin). And, another...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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,...
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The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down, due to rampant laws of a fee-market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."
The USA is sinking from $20 trillion debts, and $17 trillion personal debts; middle class disappeared; 1 in 2 Americans live in poverty or under poverty line; and jobs are, shipped to China,...
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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 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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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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