In one of those science experiments with animals, the scientists put a monkey in a cage and put a banana outside of the cage. The door of the cage was locked and the monkey was supposed to unlock to be able to get out and eat the banana. In order to open the door, the […]
“Play dead! Play dead!”. The screams of Amie Huguenard mingle with the soft sound of rain pattering on the tent and the growls of a bear dragging her boyfriend Timothy from the tent door into the thick vegetation. It is a foggy, closed night. The bear has the boy’s head caught between its jaws. Soon
It is said that a very rich king had a reputation for being indifferent to material wealth and that he was known to be a man of deep religiosity, something somewhat unusual for someone of his ranking. Faced with this situation and moved by curiosity, a subject wanted to find out the sovereign’s secret of
There is a fable, written by Tolstoy, about a man who, while returning home from work, passed in front of a church where there was a poor man begging. The beggar asked the worker, could you please take me with you? I need a shower and a bed. This man decided to take him home,
Once St. John Bosco had a meeting with a minister named Farini, who wanted to close the school that St. John Bosco had founded. He went to make an appeal for mercy, but it was not an easy appeal since the minister was very angry with Don Bosco and his work. When Don Bosco arrived
Once a teacher gave his 12 years old students a chemistry problem to solve for homework. The next day, the teacher corrected them. One of the students, Rose, had made a mistake. The teacher gave her another opportunity: “you can stay in the classroom during the break in order to figure out your mistake.” One
A couple of hunters were hunting in the middle of the jungle when they saw a hut. Out of curiosity, they went over to the hut. “Maybe,” they thought, “it is a hut for hunters to sleep in, in case of necessity.” However, when they got to the hut, they found that an old man
In marketing there is a test called “the Sinatra test.” The Sinatra test is about credibility: if you want to sell something then you must make people believe in you. If they believe in you, they will buy your product. The Sinatra test comes from Frank Sinatra’s famous song: “New York, New York.” A line
It is said that once St. Benedict Joseph Labre (the beggar saint who died in Rome in 1783) when he was begging at the streets in Rome, some children seeing him, his emaciated face and his ragged dresses, said something about sadness and disgrace. And St. Benedict listened to them and he said to them:
On July 31st, 1944, Saint-Exupery took off from the military base “Borgo-Poretta” in Corsica Island (France) on a mission of photographic recognition. He was supposed to take pictures of the coast of “Provenza” in order to prepare the landing of the allies’ troops. But, while he was flying, Horst Rippert, a German Nazi pilot saw
