Slumdog Millionaire

The 10 pillars of wealth. Alex Becker The reason i have choose this book is because it seem interesting the way Alex Becker explains the way how to get wealthy is beyond what other people would talk about although it would be hard and tiring to work it will pay off in the future. Five facts that I learned in this book is that it is hard to become a wealthy person in the future because you have to have a good job that pays good money and you are going to work for a while to get enough money for…

In 1996, the book “The Millionaire Next Door” exposed the long-held secret of millionaires in America. Their secret? With the exception of a handful, most millionaires don’t live like the superstar millionaires on TV do. Instead, they look like regular guys and they work regular jobs. And yet, they manage to amass up to $10 million or more in money and assets. If you’re asking yourself how this is possible, it may be that their millionaire tricks have eluded you. But that doesn’t mean it’s too…

“The Richest Man in Babylon” By George Clason As a young man of 18 who has yet to make his fortune in this world, I found this to be a very interesting article and I did take the time to listen to a snippet of the book on Youtube. I have to admit that at first I thought it would be boring, but after listening to it on Youtube; it turned out to be an okay book. Like most people in the world, I would like to be “rich” by the world’s standards in regards to financial gain. As a man, I want to…

The book “The Millionaire Nest Door” is about the millionaires of America and their lifestyle. The authors went to investigate on how millionaires get wealthy and how they stay that way. They wondered are most of the millionaires from rich families that get inheritance from their parents. Do the millionaires of this county live in big houses with numerous foreign cars? Do millionaires buy thousand dollar suits and watches? Do they by no means have to worry about budgeting and investing their…

Lying”, I know what you’re thinking as you opened this blog post and read that headline. Millionaires live lavishly in huge mansions, drive expensive cars and eat at fancy restaurants every night. Growing up watching MTV Cribs and seeing how celebrities and athletes lived I assumed every millionaire had this lifestyle. I was completely wrong and unaware of how the average millionaire moves. Reading The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley was extremely eye-opening for me. I highly…

The book Automatic Millionaire by David Bach has taught me so many different ways to become rich from a young age, let alone in ways that you can start late and still finish rich, which happens to be the title of another book. I never really thought about being a millionaire until after reading this book. The best thing about this book was that it showed me what I was already doing right, and what I needed to work on to perfect my goal of being a millionaire. My previous thoughts on how to…

This is it. It ends now. I’m shattering shackles, Taking back my power. Getting suited up for a personal revolution; John Mark Green (johnmarkgreenpoetry.tumblr.com) Emotions. Emotion is just one simple word that has a huge impact on our day to day lives. Without it, life would be dull. There are many sayings about people and emotions which compares them to things in our lives, such as onions-- “People are like onions, they have many layers…” The poem stated above, Personal Revolution, could…

In Act Three of Othello by William Shakespeare, Iago begins the second part of his plan to destroy those who wronged him. To those around him, Iago seems harmless because we associate evil with an evil appearance. In this story, Iago looks just the same as every other soldier. His evil is not recognizable, and he can easily act with deceit. The entirety of the plot is built upon miscommunication, distrust, and especially lies, and Iago uses those to his advantage. The exchange between Iago and…

My face was burning as I sat facing the campfire, next to a field of yaks. The sophomore class was on edge because the staff at the Heifer International farm in Massachusetts had told us that yaks attack when provoked. The farm had different “camps” dedicated to areas of the world their organization helps. In the “Tibet” camp, a group of us had started discussing how the Dalai Lama wasn’t allowed to return to Tibet when one of my closest friends Mary walked up to me. Mary was an energetic…

Molly, one of the main characters in Orphan Train, has to serve community service hours for a crime that she committed. In order for her to get those hours done, her boyfriend gets his mom to help her out. She assigned her to an old lady’s house, who wants to clean out her attic and needs some help. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude” (Kline 52). She just wants to go in and get her hours done as soon as possible. As you continue to read the novel, you figure out that…