I think you probably know the great novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. The story takes place during the time of the Great Depression (1930) in Maycomb, an old town in Alabama. The narrator is Scout Finch, a six-year-old girl who lives with her older brother Jem and her father Atticus, a […]
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In 2019 Lamar Odom published his memoirs called Darkness to Light. For those who are not very familiar with the world of NBA, Lamar Odom was one of the stars of the NBA. He belonged to the Dream Team at the beginning of this century, and he won a basketball World Cup in 2010. He
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Once upon a time there was a man who had several horses. However, for his work he used only one, “Black” for one simple reason: he was the best. He was the best for pulling, the best for plowing, and so on. At one time he thought of using one of the other horses to
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During the rule of Enver Hoxha who was the dictator who declared Albania to be atheist, Mother Teresa’s mother became ill. The dictator would not let Mother Teresa enter the country to see her dying mother, and eventually her mother died without Mother Teresa being able to see her. Then the dictator died and Mother
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There is a story about a boy who was born in a little town. He went to school and used to sit beside a girl. She was a sweet and innocent girl. He loved this girl. She was Catholic and liked to do good things for others, like works of charity and mercy. He used
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949) is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer. He was convicted of 49 separate murders committed between the early 1980s and late 1990s, making him the second-most prolific serial killer in United States history according to confirmed murders. He decided to confess his crimes in
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There is a children’s story about a farmer who had 4 children. His kids were always fighting with each other. It was impossible to get them to work together, play together, etc. If one said right, the other said left, if one said up, the other said down. He thought they would change little by
One morning an old Cherokee Indian was talking with his grandson. Actually, his grandson was complaining about “life”. “Oh, my grandson!” – said the old Cherokee Indian – “if the energy that people spend on complaining, was spent instead on anything constructive, for sure there would be less problems in this world.” “But, if people
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When Albino Luciani was Patriarch of Venice, before becoming Pope John Paul I, some elderly priests, accustomed to remarkable preachers like his predecessors in the patriarchal office, criticized him a little for the simplicity and naivety of the examples he sprinkled in his preaching. But he replied to this by saying, “The word of God
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Casiano says in his “Collationes” (Conferences) that there was a man of proven patience in Alexandria, whom the pagans sometimes used to insult and provoke with serious insults. One day when they were bothering him, they asked him: – What miracles has that Christ whom you worship done? – That your aggressions and insults, and
