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
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
Once Fray Luis de Granada heard someone who was very angry with someone else, say: “he cannot do that, it is totally unacceptable.” Fray Luis de Granada approached this person and said to him: “you are facing this person with a wrong heart.” “With a wrong heart?” he asked and continued: “What do you mean?”
A frog wondered how he could get away from the cold winter weather. Some geese suggested to him that he could migrate with them. The problem was that the frog did not know how to fly. “I have an idea”, said the frog, “two of you geese should hold this strong reed, one on each
A university student went for a walk one day with one of his professors. They were good friends and the student enjoyed talking with his wise professor. As they were walking along, they saw an old pair of boots on the side of the trail and assumed that they were abandoned. Soon they realized that
Once an old woman was at the gate in the airport waiting for her flight. She had bought a bag of cookies and a book. She was reading her book when she saw the young man sitting beside her grabbing a cookie from the bag that was in the seat between them. She tried to
Some of you probably remember the famous movie High Noon (1952). When Gary Cooper was the town sheriff, he put a murderer in jail. This murderer was set free and returned to town with some friends to get revenge. The townspeople abandoned him and he had to deal with the situation alone. His first reaction
