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#1 Mokhtar was a man of action and purpose. He had finally saved enough money to enroll at City College of San Francisco, and he was ready to start law school in the fall. He thought about what it would be like to have a law degree, and eventually run for office.
#2 Mokhtar lost the satchel containing the three thousand dollars and his new eleven-hundred-dollar laptop...
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#1 Helen was having an identity crisis. She had always wanted to be an artist, but after college, she had no clear path forward. She nannied while waiting for her life to start, but it never did.
#2 Identity capital is our collection of personal assets. It is the repertoire of individual resources that we assemble over time. These are the investments we make in ourselves,...
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#1 The first Muslim in America was reportedly Estevancio of Azamor, a Moroccan guide for a Spanish expedition in 1528 that landed in Florida in 1528. Many African slaves in the United States were Muslim after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
#2 The first Hindus on American soil may have been the six Asian Indians who marched in the annual Fourth of July parade...
44) Summary of Jessamyn Conrad & Martin Garbus's What You Should Know About Politics... But Don't, Fo
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#1 The American voting system is made up of both national and state elections, and there is a lot of variability between them. The voter registration process is thought to disproportionately affect minority, disadvantaged, and younger voters.
#2 Every election is influenced by the 2000 presidential race between Republican Texas governor George W. Bush and Democratic...
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#1 I had been to Iowa City once before in June to find a place to live. I was looking for two apartments then, one for myself and one for Lucy Grealy, who I had gone to college with. I got a note from Lucy not long after receiving my acceptance letter from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She said that initially she was sorry because she had wanted to be the only student from...
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#1 After graduating from college or military training, you have no idea what you want to do with your life. You're excited to start your career, but you have no idea where to start. We're going to help you figure out the first step in your career journey.
#2 The modern approach to career planning is to consider your career in six to eight modules of five years each....
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#1 A typical tall, white athlete guy named Cole. He was planning to enter a military academy for college the following fall. His friends were the jock group. He was a feminist.
#2 Don't even think about asking these kids about their dating lives.
#3 It's bad for girls, but it's worse for boys.
#4 In order to be masculine, you must never feel anything.
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the “Summary of Devon Price's Laziness Does Not Exist” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Like many Americans, Dr. Devon Price believed that productivity was the best way to measure self-worth. Price was an overachiever from the start, graduating from both college and graduate school early, but that success came at a cost. After Price was diagnosed with a severe case of anemia...
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Get the Summary of Jessica McCabe's How to ADHD in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Jessica McCabe's "How to ADHD" is a deeply personal account of her life with ADHD, detailing her struggles with organization, focus, motivation, memory, and emotional regulation. From her early years of grappling with simple tasks to her erratic college performance and inconsistent career path, McCabe's journey is marked by the challenges...
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Get the Summary of Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Quiet Strength" chronicles Tony Dungy's journey from his dismissal as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to his reflective moments on his upbringing, family values, and faith. Raised in Jackson, Michigan, by college-educated parents, Dungy was instilled with the importance of education, character, and success in God's eyes. His...
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Get the Summary of Max Marshall's Among the Bros in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Among the Bros" by Max Marshall delves into the life of Mikey Schmidt, who, after a growth spurt, enters the College of Charleston aiming to join a fraternity. Known for his rebellious behavior, Mikey engages in underage drinking and drug dealing. Marshall investigates following a drug bust involving Mikey and other affluent young...
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#1 Irenne Adkins, the great-grandmother, had a strange encounter with her brother, Terry, who had come to visit her. She had never known she had a brother.
#2 The Holy Spirit is a wonderful, kind, helpful, and gentle person, and I am grieved to think back on the advice my pastor gave me when I was preparing to leave home to attend Bible college. He warned me to be careful...
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#1 A group of south Louisiana college students wanted to talk to me about leaving Christianity. I was a young Christian minister in San Francisco, and I didn't know what to do.
#2 Christianity is a lot of things to a lot of people.
#3 I was a Christian. I was on eleven of eleven indicators. And yet, eventually, every single marker became problematic for me.
#4 Christianity...
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#1 You're doing it wrong. But here's the thing: you can't go back. You can't change your major. You can't change your mind. This degree is a done deal and there's no going back. I'm not going to tell you never to lie about your college plans, because it's perfectly safe to do so. But don't do it for the reaction, because you'll only make yourself feel worse when the real...
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Get the Summary of Carrie Sun's Private Equity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Private Equity" by Carrie Sun is a narrative that delves into the intricacies of the financial industry through the author's personal journey. Sun's story unfolds as she transitions from a high-achieving background, with a dual degree from MIT and a stint at Fidelity Investments, to becoming the right-hand person to Boone Prescott,...
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Get the Summary of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.
Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas...
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Land's Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples...
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Get the Summary of Chris Hedges's Our Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Our Class" by Chris Hedges is a profound exploration of the author's experiences teaching college courses in East Jersey State Prison. Hedges, a former New York Times reporter and ordained Presbyterian minister, delves into the lives of his incarcerated students, revealing the transformative power of education and the arts within the...
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Get the Summary of Kate Zernike's The Exceptions in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Exceptions" chronicles the journey of Nancy Doe, a Radcliffe College student with a passion for molecular biology, against the backdrop of the 1960s and beyond, a time of significant societal change and the rise of the women's movement. Nancy's story unfolds within the male-dominated world of science, where she aspires to work...
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