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A.P.J Abdul Kalam; The Man Who Dedicated His Entire Life For General Interest

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A.P.J Abdul Kalam was an aerospace scientist, author, professor and elected president of India from 2002-2007. A story of lifetime dedication for public interest and general benefit. How a person from a small village became the elected president of India? How he kept overcoming hardships? Why he dedicated his entire life for public interest? How many honorary award was he awarded? A.P.J Abdul Kalam was born to a Tamil Muslim family in India. Firstly, his family was rich and boat owners but went into crisis and failed miserably; moreover, Kalam started selling newspapers from an early age and contributed his income to his family. A.P.J Abdul Kalam was known as a bright and keen student from childhood who had a thirst for education especially for mathematics and he graduated from university with a degree from Physics. He joined Defense Research and Development Organization of India and started working there with full dedication and a dream of inventing missiles for...

Stephen King; King OF Horror

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Stephen King is an American horror writer known as King of horror because of his dark works. Stephen’s story is so touchy and inspirational as he arise from a very dark environment. How Stephen was raised by single mother? How he handled mental challenges and nightmares after witnessing his friend’s death? How and why he started writing? How he grew by every passing day? And what are his accomplishments? Stephen King was born in poverty and financial crisis and his father left his family forever with an excuse of buying a packet of cigarette. His mother raised him with his brother and her parents all alone by herself working most of the hours of the day. Stephen was not raised in a normal environment as he had so many mental challenges and nightmares as an adult; moreover, he had witnessed death of his friend with train that gave him tough times and made him have darker works. He was an avid fiction and horror reader from school years that made him start writing for...

Victor Frankl; The Man Who Survived Holocaust

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Man’s Search for Meaning is a book written by Victor Frankl on psychology of survival. Victor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who survived the holocaust and death camps of the Nazis. He survived the death camps of the Nazis for 3 years where he discovered the importance of finding meaning in all conditions of life and how finding meaning out of life will potentially help us achieve what is considered to be next to impossible. After surviving the holocaust and death camps Victor Frankl mastered the science of psychology and founded logotherapy which was a new analysis to psychotherapy. Victor Frankl discovered how human brain worked and how to condition it and get things work; in form of contribution, he wrote Man’s Search for Meaning in order to help human beings condition their mind according to their will. Man’s Search for Meaning is a book written on personal experiences in worst and cruel situations that human beings faced in the 1940s with elaborat...