Practice Reading English 6

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There was a boy with a very difficult character. His father gives him a bag full of nails and tells him to drive one nail in the garden fence every time he loses his patience and/or has an argument with someone.

The first day the boy drives 37 nails in the garden fence . In the following weeks, the boy learns to control himself and the number of nails driven in the fence gets lower every day:

The boy discovers that it is easier to learn to control himself than to hammer nails in the fence.

At last, the day comes when the boy does not drive any nail in the garden fence. Then he goes to his father and tell s him that today he did not need to hammer any nail.

His father then tells the boy to take out one nail from the fence for every day he succeeds in controlling his temper and not loosing his patience.

Many days pass and finally the boy can tell his father that he took out all nails from the fence.

The father brings his son in front of the fence and tells him: « My son, you behaved well, but look how many holes you left in the fence »

It will never be the same. When you have an argument with someone and tell him bad words, you leave him with wounds like these ones.........

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Business Logic

Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice

Son: "I will choose my own bride!"

Father: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter."

Son: "Well, in that case...ok"

Next Father approaches Bill Gates.

Father: "I have a husband for your daughter."

Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"

Father: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."

Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case...ok"

Finally Father goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Father: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."

President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"

Father: "But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."

President: "Ah, in that case...ok"

This is how business is done!!
Moral: Even If you have nothing, You can get Anything. But your attitude should be positive

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Seven Wonder

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A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present "Seven Wonders of the World." Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes:

1. Egypt's Great Pyramids
2. Taj Mahal
3. Grand Canyon
4. Panama Canal
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Peter's Basilica
7. China's Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student had not finished her paper yet.

So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list.
The girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many.“
The teacher said, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help".

"The girl hesitated, then read: "I think the 'Seven Wonders of the World' are:
1. To See...
2. To Hear...
3. To Touch...
4. To Taste...
5. To Feel...
6. To Laugh...
7. And to Love.“

The room was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. The things we overlook as simple and ordinary and that we take for granted are truly wonderous!

Remember the most precious things in life cannot be built by hand or bought by man.

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Mouse Trap Story

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MOUSE TRAP STORY. AND IT IS ANIMATED WITH A MORAL AT THE END

This is excellent...

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, " Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "! There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said,"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray.

Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said,"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose." So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.

To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you,

remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

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Bankruptcy

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Bankruptcy by the definition in www.thefreedictionary.com is

"A debtor that, upon voluntary petition or one invoked by the debtor's creditors, is judged legally insolvent. The debtor's remaining property is then administered for the creditors or is distributed among them."

or an easier explanation is

"A person who is totally lacking in a specified resource or quality"

Many people understand the meaning of bankruptcy but do not really understand it in detail. For example, how many types of bankruptcy are there in different countries or what will be a purnishment from being bankrupt.

In fact, you really do not need to know them unless you are working in financial area or you are in a risky situation to be called "bankruptcy." We just know that we don't want to be bankrupt and so the most important thing we need to realize is that how to avoid the bankruptcy. This article will give you an easy tip of how to avoid the bankruptcy.

There's only one rule here which is "Earn more than you spend." Yes, it is that easy and simple. It is even the most important tip to avoid the bankruptcy to "earn more than spend." but do you know that more than 80% of people in the world nowaday have problems to maintain this rule. You don't need to be en expert in financial. You don't even need to know equity or liquidity, mutual funds, debit or credit terms. You just have to know how much money you have and do not spend more than what you have and you will be far away from bankruptcy.

Let me give you an example.

You really want a nice Mustang car and you have collected the money for 3 years. Still, you don't have enough money. Most people will start talking to themself "I can't wait anymore. I am gonna have to start a loan from the bank." or "there's only one life to live. Let's forget about bankruptcy for now. If I wait any longer I wouldn't have a chance to own one in my lifetime." This is not true.

Surprisingly, people who later became a millionaire, of course never close to bankruptcy, have the similiar thought. They would say "I can buy a cheaper car so I can keep my money for somethingelse." or "let's take a bus for another year. I will buy when I have money so I don't have to have so much financial burden."

It's true that you may not be able to drive Mustang ever again in your lifetime but what is actually the point of that? If you can drive Mustang you will still never be able to drive Lamborghini anyway. If you can own Lamborghini you will never drive an airplane anyway.

Whenever you start the "want" it will never be ending.

We have came the wrong way. We are too much enjoy with all the marketing strategies that those gigantic companies feed us. Step away and think about what is the real happiness we want in our life. Walk in a park with your oldies mom and dad or spend the life time paying interest to those financial institution.

I cannot count how many time I hear or read the bankrupt say "I would never done that if I could turn back time." Nobody could turn back time, at least for now.

Let's change your mindset and trust me you will never ever have financial problem, or face the bankruptcy.