Rubik's Cube

Chapter 20 - Playing Chess and Speed Thinking Chess is a game of creating opportunities and seizing those moments to your advantage. Each move you make or do not make can change the outcome of the game at the drop of a hat. Speed chess requires you to think fast on your feet while playing. This can put considerable amounts of pressure on your brain to succeed at a fast pace. Chess is very beneficial to your brain because of eyesight training. When you are moving your eyes back and forth rapidly…

Maryland - a town about an hour away from Baltimore. I was just like any other red-blooded American male teenager growing up in 1980's America. I liked video games and Pac- Man, loved "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", tried my hand at the Rubik's cube, and was concerned about the USSR and nuclear war. Oh yes, I,like millions of other teenagers loved good rock music and was just beginning to discover MTV. Before my parents got cable and MTV, I watched this other program that…

I knew in advance that it was going to happen. I knew the situation would get extremely detrimental. I told them. They listened. They laughed. I was treated like an insane kid who shouldn’t be paid any attention to. Perhaps if they had listened, they would’ve been more prepared and the conditions wouldn’t have been as bad. It was still more my fault than theirs. After all, if I hadn’t been so determined to make the others accept me and my words, I could’ve spent more time trying to sort things…

Madiha is six years old. Her birthday is March twenty-ninth. Madiha enjoys reading books and doing her homework. She loves to play with her friends. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mia. Every day, she would go to her aunt's house. Every day, she thought the walk was boring. Until one day, she went to a shop, and she found a beautiful rug. She took the rug home, and she found out that it was a magic carpet. She flew everywhere. She went to India to see an elephant. She went to…