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Take My Hand
Take My Hand
Author: Devon Mitchell
Stand still and look all around
you. What do you see? Parents, kids, grandparents, teachers, counselors all
going about their days hoping to accomplish something. But are they? Can you
hear what they are saying to each other? Are they really listening to what the
other person is saying? Being a parent or even an educator requires work, time,
effort, patience and understanding. Believe it or not kids, it requires the
same from you if you are going to choose the right path and want to be
successful. Actions speak louder than words and people often judge you by the
way you look, dress, react and behave in situations where you interact with
others. Author Devon Mitchell begins this Simple Guide to Success from Child to
Adult by applying what he learned at an early age, the tough situations he
encountered, dealing the consequences meted out by his parents and hopefully
imparting to everyone what he learned to make each and everyone one of us
better adults or more successful children. Sharing his failures, successes and
trying to explain to the reader how to eliminate failure from the lives of your
children. Relating how he often took the wrong path or roads, the frustrations
he faced and overcame we learn more about the author and how we can emulate and
teach others what he has learned. By learning from his mistakes the author
understood more clearly the roadblocks, obstacles and hindrances blocking his
way to success. His children and their mothers endured a lot of pain but now he
is trying to rectify that and give them a better life. At 37 he has five
children and he had accomplished a lot. Learning that he has to move forward
and not travel the roads in the past he has chosen to become successful in his
own right.
Success is not easy. The choices
and decisions you make will determine your level of success. Children need help
in planning their actions and they need to understand the consequences attached
to them when they falter and do the wrong thing. Many parents do not structure
the lives of their children and teach them how to go from one point to the
final endpoint and understand the long-range goals and not just what happens on
a daily basis. There are different stages that children need to go through are
outlined in Chapter One. From infancy, child, Young Adult, Grown Man, each
person has to move to the next stage while acquiring the qualities for success.
Whether the work you perform or choose to do and the decisions you make in each
stage, your successes and failures come along with you to every new milestone.
Your accomplishments in each stage are critical to your success. A critical
point made by the author is that applying effort and how to achieve success
requires that you think about your actions before the situation arises. You
should have an idea of what you will do when difficulties arise beforehand.
Chapter 2 discusses and outlines
his program. Defining success as begin experienced differently by different
people. Depending on what each person wants to achieve hinges on their level of
success. Setting goals is important and reaching them means finally “enjoying
the fulfillment of a goal you have set and watching it develop from an idea,”
that you have achieved. Next he defines interdependence as a dynamic of being
mutually and physically responsible to “ and sharing a common set of principles
with others.” He elaborates on other forms of success throughout the chapter
and continues with several important points. First, be aware of your position
and do not take advantage of it. Your actions will show others what you think
of them and that is vital to getting along with them. If being successful means
hurting, destroying and harming others what you think is success is not. If
your success come at the cost of others and deflate them are you truly
successful? The author then refers to examples of success from the Bible. He
closes the chapter with an important point. You hold the key to your success
and the traits you are taught come from your parents. You are born with them.
Parents are supposed to be responsible fro your growth, development and welfare
until you can take responsibility on your own. Parents, you are responsible for
100 percent of the parenting required to hopefully teach your child values,
morals, importance of hard work, making the right decisions and more. The
guidance you give a child at young age often reflects the guidance you
received. Read the rest of the chapter to learn more and the final valuable
definition of the Role of parenting.
What Parents do not Know is the
focus of Chapter 3. A question asked as the start of this invaluable chapter
is, “ Is it fair or right for parents at anytime to imply or overtly place all
of the blame on a child for not realizing his potential as an adult?” Great
Question! “ Who is to be blamed for the child’s failure?” The author elaborates
by giving detailed examples that show how outside factors contribute to the
failures systematically over time with no one doing anything about it. He
continues by stating that parents need to remember their connection to their
children and their obligation to taking care of them responsibly adding that
parents and this is vital, must take their jobs seriously. He then continues to
explain that it’s “ a child’s duty to live by his parents’ rules. How parents
need to monitor teens, parents must examine themselves; they need to be concerned
about their child and mindful of their behaviors. There are many salient points
made in this chapter including children “are to obey their parents and have fun
living.” The rest you will learn as a parent and child together when you read
Chapter 3. Chapters 4 and 5 focus on important actions and who benefits from
you actions beginning with this statement, “ every action we take starts with a
desire to accomplish a task, and the purpose of the task, is to move forward
from one point to the next.” He elaborates and gives many examples throughout
the chapters. He includes teaching your children, training and instructing
them, the Direction you want them to take and of course the challenges along
the way. A Major question: Page 53 will help both parents and children create a
plan that will focus your directions. These questions are clearly stated and
defined. Chapter Five Who Benefits From Your Actions, followed by Chapter 6
which is the core of this program I feel: Communication. Defining communication
on page 63 and explaining how communication impacts on your emotions and
reactions is the focal point of this chapter. Read pages 67-68 to learn the
definition and the 9-point explanation that follows. The first I feel in my
opinion is the downfall at times of some parents when the author states: Giving
your child just enough and not giving them everything they want. “ Instill
manners in the child. A child can never bee too polite.” Most important. Throughout
Chapter 7 you learn the importance of naming your child the right way, in 8
What happens when a child rebels. This crucial chapter and many parents
experience the frustration of a rebellious teen. In this chapter the author
explains why teens and children rebel beginning with some notice that
everything is not going their way. Some refuse to listen, go to school and
follow the rules. The author states to focus on what is important which is not
to push back in response to the rebellion. Read pages 75-76 to learn more. He
includes viable short- term solutions that will lead to long term solutions and
hopefully successful outcomes. Chapter 9: Focuses on: They Live to Do What they
Learn which incorporates helping children succeed followed by Chapter 10: What
is your Destiny? Throughout the book the author focuses on different solutions
to create success. The training and guidance parents received as children they
need to impart that in a positive way. Children need to be responsible and
manage their own actions, which require Commitment and hard work. Author Devon
Mitchell relates his real life experiences that led him to writing this book.
Fathering children with different women and making mistakes, raised in poverty
with a family of 8 children, he hopes devotes his life to helping others. He
includes motivators, which are reasons we have to live each day and accumulate
achievements for that day to foster success. He also defines motivators as
ideas and the smallest part of a goal. Chapter 13 Commitment, which can be long
or short-term depending upon the amount of time, required to attain what you
want. But, to me without the next work Confidence you will not succeed.
As an educator I have to agree that
Chapter 14 says quite a bit as it deals with Why Education is Necessary and the
power of knowledge. Next and foremost is Social Interactions and monitoring
your child’s activities, who they are friends with, watching out for peer
pressures, and knowing where they are going at all times. Read pages 151-158. The
remainder of the book focuses on the Church, Responsibilities and Chores,
Recreation, Children’s Language and Manners and Speaking the Truth. Chapter 20
says it all in one line: Treat Your Child With Love! Finally Sex Education and
Influences, How Does your child Spent their Time? “ Do you want to emulate your
Parents?” I did and still do. My best teachers were my parents and grandparents
that taught me the rules, respect, manners and the discipline I needed to focus
on my responsibilities in school leading to be a dedicated educator as an
adult.
Demons or Problems and Extending
Love and How money affects your Life round out the rest of the book. On pages
252- 253 the author created a list of the most salient points that sum it all
up for you. Beginning with “ Consider what you need to take before you act. Followed
by 23 valuable points to remember to be a success. So take this book and share
it with you whole family. Read it together and discuss the many chapters and
lessons learned. Respect each other, listen to what your children are saying
and of course point 6 School is the place for a child to be. Use what this
outstanding parent and author learned to make his life better, the lives of his
family and so many others.
Fran Lewis: reviewer
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Corpalism
Corpalism: Arun
Ellis
Imagine a world
where people are no longer able to voice their opinions, speak up and express
their own thoughts and allowed to live, as they want. Imagine living in a
repressive socially controlled environment where only a few select or elite few
make the decisions where you live, work, what you eat and where you sleep for
you. Dystopian societies feature this type of social control repressing those
who live under their domination. Ideas and works in these societies explore the
concept of people or humans abusing each person’s individuality, collective
reasoning, coping, or not being able to properly handle and deal with the
technology that has evolved far more quickly and advanced than most humans can
handle. Enter the world that author Arun Ellis has created in his breakthrough
novel, Corpalism, that will create many questions within the reader’s mind,
fear within your own thoughts and definitely keep you glued to the printed page
until you learn the final outcome of what happens when the New World Order decides
to take over and the end result. Would you want your every move programmed:
Would you want someone to have unlimited power over you? Would you want to live
in a society run by survival of the fitness and class distinction?
What would
happen when corporate greed wins and a new World Order takes over. Set in the
UK this unique novel will make everyone one of us search for answers to
questions that you might never have asked and be more vigilante when taking
what you have fore granted. Let’s me the people of the New World Order and
final out more about them. Beginning with Mrs. Mayweather who seems to be in a
serious quandary over how do deal with several children who are in her charge
and whose placements and adoptions are under her control. But, a communiqué
would change that for one child but which one? Which one would disappear Robert
or Alan? Which child would never be the same?
Moving to
another group of people who work for a unit called Relocations 1. Being late
can be hazardous to more than just your job, your welfare and your human
rights. Being late for your job can get you arrested, fined, dragged in chains
and seriously in debt as one young man named Terry Jones would learn the hard
way. Beaten by the police and taken away in chains Terry Jones would learn more
than just some harsh realities when his supervisor decides to terminate him on
the spot. Losing his housing, his privileges, his job, his money and in total
debt for everything from failing to keep his job, using bad language to express
himself, fined over 178 thousand pounds, 300 thousand more as fine, a projected
welfare debt of 130 thousand and an interest rate of 12 and a half percent over
25 years totally almost 2 million pounds all because he was late a few times. I
would hate to think what would have happened if he was a poor worker. Missing
the meeting that stated that his division was merging with another and that
employees would have to pay for their drinks and the things the company would
not do and do and what was expected of them was frightening to say the least. His
end result was he was provided with the basic necessities of life and a menial
job with sanitation. Would Terry learn how to tell time? But, his first
encounter with the crowd where he lived with bring on a fight that some kids
thought were great, a new fan club of his own and the hopes of learning what he
knew how to do. But, Terry was rude, mean and defiant and never gives anyone a
chance. But, then he meets Sandra a caregiver and they develop an unusual friendship
after their awkward moments and when she realizes what is he and what he is
not. Added to the group are his co-workers and a group of kids that want to be
just like him that he teaches self-defense. But, what Terry does not realize is
that the world is programmed and different and his every move, word and
thoughts are being monitored. This first volume is set in the future as we
learn what happens when the terrorist attacks run high, warnings are placed and
people are categorized according to genetic defects and intelligence. But
Terrence would learn that teaching martial arts to kids is forbidden and the
punishment severe.
Joining Dan and
Donald in their meetings Terry becomes friends with many others just like him. Working
in Relocations gave him a healthy respect for Galaxy’s ability to link Resource
Requirements and Resources available across the continents. But, what he did
not know was about the upgrade to Signus, which would allow the government to
know the whereabouts of every person in the UK at any time. Would you like your
life controlled and monitored? Thin about this carefully. When some of their
get caught and the realities set in just who will be left in their small group
as the author and the characters explain to the reader that the government and
the rich want these people in debt forever.
When all of
Don’s group are arrested or killed the author provides a twist that you won’t
see coming as we learn more Terry, who he really is and his relation to a man
named Sir Phillip. As Donald is questioned and he begins to understand what is
about to happen they explain the truth behind the organization called the Black
Hand and the reasons why they were created. Some people feel that the way the
government is being run needs to be changed and if they create a terrorist
group that appears on the scene, takes credit for the bombings maybe things we
change.
One meeting
would not only enlighten the reader but each of the men living in the sink and
having little to show for lives. As Terry explains to the unyielding crowd
about what the government and the wealthy are doing to the poor and downtrodden
that work hard and do not reap the benefits some listen and others are more
angered. When all is almost said and done what is revealed is that those at the
meeting are government plants or informants that have to report back to the
authorities. He also states that he knows that the meeting is being monitored
and that they are the majority and the others need to start paying attention to
them. What he wants them to do you need to read for yourself and learn what
happens when the government and the ruling masses get too greedy and the masses
might finally get it and do something about it.
As Terry tries
to explain to his audience the point the author is making about capitalism and
its definition we learn as Terry states that everyone is supposed to benefit
but in the world created in this book that is not so. Those with the most are
getting it all and those that are at the bottom get less and are lower down as
some might say on the food chain. Added in at the bottom of some of the pages
are interesting historical footnotes that the reader might find enlightening. What
happens next will surprise the reader as they try to turn the tables and Volume
One is completed as the deceptions and lies are revealed and Terry learns some
harsh truths.
Volume 2
This Volume
begins with the disappearance of Delores Grey and her returning home after
forty days and forty nights. Questioned she cannot remember where she was or
how she got there. The police however think it was a stunt of some kind and do
not believe she was kidnapped. When interviewed on television she presents a
strange demeanor, her answers to the questions are way off base and her
reactions out of character. Just her definition of religion was shocking alone
when you read page 249 and get to know how she thinks. Poor Delores thinks she
is in a loony world or is she the loony? But, the end result is the public
loved her and praised her honesty. Delores presents to the listening audience
her personal viewpoint on how singers and talent gets discovered, why some are
successful and others not and why she feels the program called The Talent is
fixed. She presents her viewpoint on God and her beliefs about the system and
government in general. Her viewpoint on life is quite unique, somewhat
disturbing and as her agent and the host listens to her they have to begin to
wonder just where she was for the days she was missing and what might have
happened to her. The end of the interview is quite startling and her
reflections on life even more. The entire volume is devoted to Delores, her
thoughts and her ideas. Delores has her own perspective on why the world is so
mixed up and why we need to focus on doing something with our lives, which is
our only free resource. Think about it. Meet the rest of the staff of this
hospital and find out what really happens to Delores, Stephanie White and your
decide what is real and what is not.
Volumes 3 and 4
The next two
volumes sum up the way people feel about the world, the world is viewed, its
problems and the reasons why people need to fight for their rights and change
is needed. In Volume 3 the author presents his views and arguments in unique
way. Using fictional characters from literature, television, movies and
relating their conversations to real historical events allows the reader to
come back to the initial first volume dealing with the World Order as we meet
Terry, Rob and some of the main characters again flowing right into Volume Five
but not before revisiting the prologue and Mary Mayweather and the end of Volume
2. Volume Five begins with the definition of Democracy, the viewpoints of many
of the characters calling themselves Independent Candidates and throughout the
first section explaining quite clearly to the reader the pitfalls of watching
junk TV, the lies you listen to about the economy, the fact that the rich and
many corporations have outsourced jobs to third world countries and the fact
that armies are willing to crush any workers that ask for more. This is heard
throughout Volume Five, which leads to the dramatic conclusion where we learn
whether Democracy wins, The World Order takes over, Things stay the same or
something else happens leading up to the final finale or 12/12/12/. We meet
many new characters in this Volume such as the Preacher, Catherine Jenkins, Colin
Carpenter and many others that consider themselves Independent Candidates. It
is almost as if we the author created his own debates for a major election
where every candidate gives his/her ideas to a huge forum of people. But,
intertwined we have Rob, Terry, the Prime Minister and the Terrorists. So, what
is the final plan of the PM, Blackmore and the rest? You decide when you read
this novel just where the world is going and how we can all work together to
keep our freedoms and rid the world of hate and intolerance. A well-written
novel that brings to light many issues about our both the UK and America and
our viewpoints on economic and world policies in a way that will definitely
make the reader think. Fran Lewis:
reviewer
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