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F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby can be considered as a sort of prequel to the Great Depression. Its tale of social-climbing Midwesterners, illicit money making activities, lavish parties and economic class distinctions makes the novel appear as a critical study of the wealth and excess that largely defined the 1920s before the infamous stock market crash. For the most part, Fitzgerald’s novel is taught to high schoolers in conjunction or as an introduction to the 19

So What? Did you ever notice that there is an endless conversation going on in your mind called Self-Talk or Internal Dialogue? We stopped being aware of it because itrnhas always been there. It is called – Thinking or Steam of Consciousness. We hold conversations between our – I, (personality) and our – Me, (mind-body connection) 24/7. Don’t you ask yourself questions before making decisions? How about searching your mind for alte ative ideas or suggestions? Well, tell me, who are you talking to? So What

Why Putting Your Feelings Into Words Empowers you • 1. “Pop, I have to stand up in front of 25 clients & convince them our new system is the solution. I have done my homework, but am scared I might blow it.” • 2. “Right. You think Positive affirmations are “Hot Air”. Do you feel that icy feeling in the pit of your stomach? • 3. You have the statistics & test results, but you need to deliver your message to influence, convince & persuade, Am I on the right track?”

Are there Urban Myths That Block M-o-n-e-y From Your Life? • 1 “Aw quit it, I know you believe it, and mean well, but what I say out loud or hear in my head are “white-noise”, just meaningless chatter. My words are powerless, and so am I.” • 2. When I said that to my mother, I was convinced she was a poor, deluded fool, “superstitious, ignorant, and without scientific knowledge.” Now, maybe I was too quick on the trigger.

How to Use Your Voice to Influence-Persuade-Convince Others • 1. “Tell me something Pop, how much does good-looks, intelligence, and money affect how women see me?” • 2. “You want the psychology or neuroscience answer? Not much, maybe 15%. You didn’t name the Killer-Factor that others consciously and subconsciously Judge you by.” • 3. “Tell me, don’t keep it a secret, Pop.” • 4. “Just listen, don’t tell me you know better. This is based on 25 years of proven science, using fMRI scanning. Hold your water – it’s your Voice.” • 5. “No way. And don’t say, ‘Yes-way!”

The ideal preparation of a dissertation or masters theses requires command in making a proper dissertation abstract. A dissertation abstract is the one of the most significant section in a dissertation which gives an overview of the entire dissertation. Good dissertation abstracts require certain methods which should be utilized for proper dissertation abstract writing. There are various types of dissertation abstracts such as chapter dissertation Abstract, knowledge manageme

Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader? President Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for 12-years (1992-2004). He was a Senior Lecturer, on the faculty as a part-time professor, specializing in constitutional law. He was asked to teach full-time, but his law practice and work as an Illinois state Senator, and later U.S. Senator, caused him to decline the promotion. Professor Obama had a reputation as a lively lecturer with an almost photographic memory for law citations.

“Both Cannabis & Chronic Stress Blow-Out Our Motivation” • 1. “But I’m smart, hardworking, why can’t I win success?” • 2. “Snap answer: you run away from Obstacles and your Mind-Set (Attitude) in not in alignment with Coping.” • 3. “I have no idea what “Obstacles, Attitude & Coping” even mean in this context. You are using “abstract” words that do not paint a mental picture. Be ‘concrete’.” • 4. “We both believe in science, right? I just read research that might clarify our feelings of getting dumped on, loneliness, and not winning our dreams.”

How to Shrink Insomnia to 55 Seconds If you are over the age of 35 you already have an intimate relationship with Insomnia. Sleep difficulties are SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). From Latin “somn” means sleep, and “in” translates to Not! I asked a class of 30 high schoolers if they ever experienced stress or insomnia at age 16. There was a tone in my voice that whispered the obvious answer was a big –rn“Of course not – that’s for old people like you!”

What is The Chain-Reaction For Personal Success If you learn this baby-easy system to use your electromagnetic field RHYTHM consciously – you have a strategy to change (improve) almost anything and everything in your life. Right, and cows can fly and drop off their milk! What is your Rhythm? First, we have a rhythm for everything we love and a different one for everything we dislike. Wait – do you want change in your life of health-money-better relationships? If you can switch to a positive (love) rhythm to things you hate in your life, you change your thinking,r

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Link Your Right-Brain to Winning in Under 60-secs “Daddy, Why is that football player – dancing up-and-down?” • Why you should use this baby-easy strategy as a “warm-up” to win at school & career. • 1. Believe it because of the neuro-scientific research at San Francisco State University, published in the jou al, ‘Evolution and Human Behavior’. • Lead author: David Matsumoto. This important strategy is “self-programming”, a form of “reinforcement.”

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Science Finally “Gets” Meditation, Do You?” • 1. “Have you tested “mindfulness-meditation”? You seem to know that you hate it, and it’s a waste of time.” • 2. “Sure, a dozen times, and it gives me a headache, and seems like it’s a way to take a nap when you should be working.”

A Secret About the Reading-Code Can Reading More – Help You Live Up to 10 Years Longer? * Can Reading More - Help You Reduce The Risk of Alz Up To 60%? * The average college graduate in the U.S. reads one (1) book a year reluctantly. He/she hates reading, learning, and education. Here’s why: America’s educated class reads text like a snail crossing the highway –rns-l-o-w-l-y. We’re talking about lawyers, CPAs, physicians, and other professionals. They read complex text (not sexy novels) as low as 100 words per minutes, to a maximum of 200 wpm.

Leaving the comforts of your home to live alone in a faraway land, struggle with a foreign language, and deal with complete strangers can be daunting. This is magnified even more when you are still a young student who has yet to figure things out. However, the benefits of studying abroad far outweigh the initial setbacks that crossing borders may present as the number of those studying abroad steadily increases. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics , international

Do you want to know how to stay young? One of the easiest ways is to never stop learning. There is increasing evidence that if you can keep an open mind and a lively curiosity, you might possibly live longer and enjoy it more. Open your mind's eye and remember the excitement you felt as a child when you learned something new or mastered a new skill. Do you remember tiptoe anticipation? If you have trouble remembering this old song will give you a clue: "I saw Mommy kissing

“If you don’t have specific strategies to help me, get out of my face.” • 1. Me: “Mike (my 15 year old), which is more important, your LEFT or your RIGHT hemispheres?” • 2. Mike: “Oh, it’s time for my Speedreading101.com education. Do I have to answer this question, I got homework.” • 3. Me: “Forget it, you’re out of my will. More for your siblings. See ya.” • 4. Mike: “Is this stuff going to really help me win a scholarship, a hot-girl-friend, or get rich working?”

“How Daydreaming Success, Overcomes Impulsive Acts” • 1. “Pop, what’s with this stuff on “immediate-gratification”, and impatience? Doesn’t every sane person want “it” now, not later?” • 2. “You wanna fight or hear the latest neuroscience. Good. When you’re a little kid, you don’t analyze, and want it now, and give up the future. Mature folks will give up the present benefit, if the future” reward” is worth it.” • 3. “The only we know for sure is what is in my hand. The future is not guaranteed, huh?”

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Permanently Own LUCK, Accelerated Healing… We have received this hidden knowledge from the Guru-With-No-Name. He lives in India and visited the U.S. where he gifted us with these baby-easy Tapping Rhythms. He was instructed to do so by his Guardian Angel. If you are like me, your Skeptical Mind asks: what are these Tapping Rhythms GOOD for? Tell me - WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me? (You!) Guru gave us the Four Tapping Rhythms, for these energetic gifts & talents.

How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.

Beat Stress With Your Nose Speed Reading Rules New scientific research shows that when we are under Stress-Overload, more than 100 genes push our body and mind into overdrive. So what? That weakens our immune system, and makes a lousy situation even worse. The Meaning of Stress When you suffer from stress-overload, your entire body and mind go into Fight-or-Flight reaction.

For 78 millio Baby Boomers keenly interested in a more active and healthy retirement, lifelong learning through meaningful community service can be an essential part of their everyday life. “Lifelong learning, combined with such service, engages all your senses,” says Nancy Merz Nordstrom, ...

We all know that January is the time to set goals. We make an extra effort to think about what we want to change in our habits and achieve in the coming year. Yet, as we all know, the best intentions very often do not lead us to the results we so dearly want. Now that January is over and you are settling in to your usual (bad!) habits-Let’s take a look and see what we can really do to help you achieve your goals this year...

“These Experiences Impact Your Annual Income.” • 1. “But Pop, I get Bored fast. Don’t say it, ‘I have a limited attention-span’. I remember. A goldfish has 9-seconds, and my generation has only 8. Tell me something I can use.” • 2. “I’ll tell you some stuff I learned this week Online. You stop me if it’s irrelevant to your life. Just the top-5.” • 3. “Yeah, a Chinese menu. I like options, multiple-choice & learning, if-it-doesn’t-put-me-to-sleep.” • 4. “Why is it better for you to see yourself as the Underdog in school and at-work? Even in relationships and in making money?”

How Much Time Do You Need To Teach Your Child To Read: How To Teach A 4 Year Old To Read If you decide to teach your child to read at home, you will automatically be adding an additional burden to your already over packed day. Luckily, this rewarding task does not have to take up a huge piece of your valuable time. There are in fact two simple ways that you can tackle teaching your child to read and these two ways fit perfectly into your day-to-day schedule; there is an "acti

A prototypical Dissertation online proposal outline is a necessary element for the preparation of the actual dissertation. Preparing a top notch Dissertation online proposal is one of the key requirements before the actual preparation of a dissertation and it actually leads to the approval of the topic for the dissertation. The preparation of an ideal dissertation outline proposal is necessary for the completion of the online dissertation proposal.n nThere are many consultati

Everywhere you look it seems there are project managers nowadays and, with project management appearing as a highly demanded skill, they are working in the private and public sectors as well as in organisations of all sorts.

How to Ace The 2010 Interview Common sense would tell us that a job interview whether for your first employment out of school or for CEO of a NYSE company, requires planning and research. This same famous - common sense - tells us that holding a seashell to our ear retains the sound of the ocean. Scientists disagree. Many believe you are hearing the sound of your own blood moving through your ear’s arteries and veins. Maybe not. Some scientists explain that the seashell (by the seashore) is really a resonating chamber.

Do Inquiring Minds Know This? A hobby that feeds my sense of curiosity is collecting facts and definitions nobody else knows or cares about. Statistics 1. The human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels for circulation. If you Google it, scientific research papers quote this number for the past decade. How do they know? Vas You Dere Sharlie? That’s almost three-times around the planet. We must be very important entities. 2. Our lungs are filled with Alveoli – tiny air sacs that exchange rncarbon dioxide for oxygen. Good idea.

How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought? Do you have to understand the science of electricity, electrons and protons, in order to turn on the lights in your room, your TV or computer? Click the button, throw the switch, or wave your hand, right? If the public had to pass a test on how the internal combustion engine turns gas into driving, our highways would be huge parking lots, true? What Do You Make of These Scientific Statements 1. “Matter does not exist – it is all vibrational frequencies.”

What’s The Secret of Speaking to a Group & Convincing Them? My teenager Michael, asked me to help him improve his Talk for Class President. • 1. “Mike, there are two-things that rivets our attention other than Ben Franklins ($100) falling from the sky.” • 2. “In my circles $10 bills would do it, Pop.” • 3. “The sound of our own name, and the words, “You-Your-Yours”, meaning ourselves, right?” • 4. “Sure, we are in love with ourselves, and I get interested in anything that will make my life easier & better.”

Summer vacations pose a challenge for parents to keep their little ones busy throughout the day. Taking them out may not be a preferable idea, as blistering heat might irritate them. The best solution would be to keep them indoors and to keep them busy. An active toddler needs lot of attractive activities to keep him occupied. An ideal toddler day is spent by moving from one activity or toy to another, including eating and napping time. After naptime, the toddler gets active

We often have parents ask us what they can do when their children become upset about mistakes. For example, recently, a mom reported that her son became very upset when he took a quiz and missed one question. He did not focus on the 9 out of 10 that were correct, but on the one that he missed. He didn’t think he should be making any mistakes at all! This can be a tricky issue. We need to examine our own actions, behaviors, and statements to see if we are contributing to the child reacting in this way.

William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies is probably not the best book to read if you want to feel good about humanity or feel comfortable about babysitting a family of little boys all by yourself on a Friday night. It is also not a good beach read for pig lovers. Instead, it is a blunt allegorical look at what can happen when civilization’s law and order vanishes, and humanity is left to its own beastly instincts. Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of Britis

“Are you Saying We See With our EARS?” • 1. “I showed my teenager Mike, this new scientific research that came to a weird conclusion about how we SEE. • 2. “Pop, I don’t get it. We don’t just see with our eyes, the retina part, they say past experience and our expectation change the visual info, huh?” • 3. “That’s why I’m showing to you. It is weird science. Should you believe it? Yes, neuroscientists for the last 5-years have been saying that Reading is Hearing overriding just Seeing.”

When it comes to learning and remembering things there are often no easy answers.

Shakespeare famously opens his “Sonnet 18” with the question, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and then proceeds to do exactly that. Aside from establishing rhythmic continuity and rhyme scheme, this may not seem like the best use of the reader’s time – especially considering that sonnets have such limited real estate to begin with. As we read on, however, we discover that the poem, which pretends to be dedicated to a mysterious “thee,” actually end

Are you satisfied with yourself? As the person you are right now, do you think you have reached the point where you are living your life to the fullest? Are you tapping on your highest potential right now and can see success right in front of you? If yes, then you are very lucky. If no, then you might need to adjust a little. Unlocking your highest potential and living your life towards success seems impossible at the time. But the truth is¬: Success is within your grasp. It

Jim Rohn Lives Do you believe in the power of personal growth and lifelong change for the better? Wait. That you can improve your core knowledge and personal experiences up to age 93? Well, maybe? Now please read on. December 10, 2009: neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Timothy Keller and Marcel Just submitted their research to be published in the Neuron jou al. The human brain can physically rewire itself through 100 hours of intensive rninstruction. Yes Virginia, you can fix broken brain circuits by behavioral training. So what?

Did Ya Know This One? Play along with me – which of these motivators beats the rest to excite executives? a) Money b) promotions c) respect d) personal satisfaction Wait. One got 45% rating; the runner up got 29%, next motivator got 18%, and last and maybe least, got only 5%. Credibility: the leading Personnel and executive search company – Monster.carnsurveyed 6,624 unrelated corporate personnel. So What You deal with peers and have personal relationships, right?

Of every one of the good inventions and discoveries of Nikola Tesla, nothing stood out with greater probable advantage on the entire of humanity than his discovery of Radiant Vitality in 1889. The series of observations that led for the discovery of Radiant strength at first grew out of experiments that Tesla obtained conducted in an try to duplicate the results that Heinrich Hertz acquired claimed to achieve in affirming the existence of electromagnetic waves, the discover

Have you ever thought of taking up learning as a hobby? Learning is just as fun and as fulfilling as any other spare-time activity. Fortunately, it doesn’t require much more than your inquisitive nature and a desire to develop as a person. What’s more, learning need not be in a formal setting to take place but it can arise from where you least expect it and at any time. The process happens naturally. To master it, all you have to do is become more conscious of it.

Technology seems to be advancing faster than we can keep up with it in these modern times. With bookstores closing and kindles and ipads flying off the shelves, we have to wonder how it will change the world of print. It is certainly affecting the way books are read. Will this technology impact the way books are written? Will the interactive features that these types of “e readers” create an audience with expectations for something more in their books? And if so, what doe

Which Came First, Speech or Gestures, And So What? Adults are learners too, so how do we get our point across (comprehension) without sounding like a dominating school teacher? If you visit your doctor and he says your x-rays are Benign, you are a lot happier than if he says the results are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal.

I Dare You To Use the “D” Word With Someone If President Obama used the “D” word on TV – he would be impeach by the following week. I didn’t say convicted – but surely impeached. See, the House of Representatives is the Grand Jury and the Senate does the actual trial. Don’t get nervous about the economy tanking, the stock market dumping two-thousand points or losing your personal source of revenue – it will never happen. How come? It is a Conspiracy of Intelligent Folks not to use the “D”. We all know that saying so does NOT make it so.

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is unique in its unglamorous portrayal of the so-called “Dark Lady” to whom it is addressed. In it, the narrator offers us a startlingly generous list of differences between the Dark Lady and your stereotypical beauty: she has ugly lips, a bad complexion, frizzy hair, colorless cheeks, smelly breath, an unmelodic voice, and a funky gait. Giggles aside, what makes this description more compelling than Shakespeare’s other sonnets – parti

Reading Comprehension Strategies For Kindergarten: Teach Children How To Read Literacy begins with listening and speaking. "Reading and writing", said educationalist James Britton, "Float on a sea of talk." Good talkers and listeners are more likely to become good readers and writers. I cannot emphasis this enough. Reading begins with listening and responding to sounds and the human voice. Reading, speaking and writing are all connected. It is difficult to develop one without

ANTs Verses APTs is a Head Thing Some people pick-up the strategies, techniques and tactics of Speed Reading in 20-minutes, others in 2-hours, some, in five-hours. Still others take up to “one-week” to feel comfortable with using Speed Reading 101.org We are all different based onrnthe ‘self-talk’ going on in our mind about “new-stuff”. Scientific Facts: a) we humans have an average of 60 thousand thoughts pass through our mind DAILY. One-per second. b) 95% of these thoughts are a repeat from yesterday, and the day-before. They’re an almost daily occurrence.

Can We Be Too Skeptical? Has your view about President Obama stayed the same since January 21st 2009, or moved under the wheels of the bus? How about some hard numbers by the poll with the most credibility? The public perception on President Barack Obama on January 21, ’09 was arn(wow!) 70% approval rate. The latest Gallup poll reports a lead weight drop to 50%. What about the Disapproval figures? The Gallup Disapproval statistic has motored uptown from 10% to 42%.

Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule Do we see reality as it is, or as we feel at the time? Don’t we all believe that we are objective - while others are emotional? The world is right-brained and only I am rational and left-brained? Wait. In a scientific study of physicians – 90% stated confidently they were in the top 10% in knowledge and effectiveness. Aren’t half of them average? No one rated himself or herself in the lower half. They were shocked to lea 33% of them were ranked below average by their hospital administration

Brainiacs Live For “Testing-Pops” to Ace Exams • The heart of Acing exams is not the text, but taking command of your emotions - first. Why? If you are human, you are stressed-out, full-of-tension, and in high anxiety. Your memory has gone South, and not to Miami. • Stop now, and take one-minute to close your eyes & take three (3) Diaphragmatic-Breaths, and exhaling, produce the sounds, “Hum-m, Hum-m, Hum-m, & Hum-m, on each breath. Why? • You switch from your agitated, Sympathetic Nervous System, tornyour relaxed, Parasympathetic Nervous System. Takes 45-our