...REVIEW OF THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD NUMBER OF WORDS: 5125 “Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” ― O G Mandino Born in the USA on the 12th of December, 1923, Mandino was named after his paternal grandfather. Having been the editor of his high school paper, he planned to attend the University of Missouri for journalism. But as destiny would be he couldn’t attend the college as his mother died of a massive heart attack when she was in the kitchen preparing his lunch. It was after this incident that he decided not to go for college and instead joint a paper factory. Mandino was a military officer and a bombardier in the United States Army Air Corps. Mandino’s greatest inspiration was his fellow pilot and movie star, James Stewart. He used to keep a personalized photo of Stewart near him and then wrote his books. After his military services, Mandino found himself as an insurance salesman. But this job did not last him long due to his drinking habit and these habits also made his wife and child away from him. There was a time when Mandino almost tried to kill himself but his various volumes of self help and motivation books helped him leave his alcoholism and become a successful writer and speaker. His famous books were A Better Way to Live; The Choice; The Christ Commission; The Greatest Salesman in the World; The Greatest Salesman in the World, part 2: The End of the...
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...HUM 1000: WORLD CIVILIZATIONS NOTES BY DR. KAKAI P.W THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION IN AFRICA Definition of key terms As we begin this course, it is crucial to first discuss our understanding of the concept ‘civilization’. This is a comparative term which is usually applied in comparison to such words as ‘barbarian’ ‘savage’ and ‘primitive’. In classical antiquity the Europeans used the word ‘barbarian’ to refer to a foreigner who was regarded as inferior (Ogutu and Kenyanchui, An Introduction To African History, 1991 p33). Do you think this is still the way we use the word barbarian? The Latin speakers referred to hunters, food-gatherers as savage. In the 17th century this term ‘savage’ referred to a person without art, literacy, or society who lived in fear of existence and death. ‘Primitive’ on the other hand, in Latin meant ‘the first or original’. Europeans used these words interchangeably when referring to non-Europeans while the word civilization was preserved to describe historical developments of European people (ibid). Now the term civilization is no longer confined to the above development but also extends reference to non-European communities. Attributes of civilization includes observance to law, belonging to an organized society, having a society of literate people with advanced developments in urbanization, agriculture, commerce, arts and technology. The French thinkers of the 18th century referred to a person of the arts and literature...
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