Chapter13: Road to Success

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Success is the status of getting achieved and accomplished a goal. Being successful means the achievement of desired visions with happiness, in addition, success can be a certain social position that describes a prosperous individual that could also have gained fame for its favorable outcome.

Chapter14 : Career in Changing World of Work

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The world of work is changing, we all hear about it. There is an increasing amount of self-checkout machines in customer care, more and more people are getting involved in virtual jobs, and employers are ever more eager to hire people with abilities to learn and adapt, rather than with fixed knowledge or skills… All these changes happened quite rapidly, and the pace of change—driven by technology, automation and AI in particular—seems only to accelerate. What is there to expect in another decade then?

Kate Chopin – Regret

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Kate Chopin was born in 1851 in the southern US state of Missouri. Her father was an Irish immigrant and her mother’s family were from Canada. She married at twenty and, before she was thirty, had six children. Her husband’s business failed, which meant the family moved to Louisiana, where he managed other people’s property and opened a general store. This was not enough, however, to pay his debts and, when he suddenly died, Chopin was left penniless and moved back with her mother, who soon died as well.

Kate Chopin – The Storm

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Kate Chopin was born in 1851 in the southern US state of Missouri. Her father was an Irish immigrant and her mother’s family were from Canada. She married at twenty and, before she was thirty, had six children. Her husband’s business failed, which meant the family moved to Louisiana, where he managed other people’s property and opened a general store. This was not enough, however, to pay his

Ambrose Bierce – The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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Ambrose Bierce was the tenth of thirteen children born to poor but literary parents in Indiana, USA, in 1842. He left home at fifteen and never studied at high school or university but is now seen as a master of English writing. Many of his short stories are based on his experience in the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. He joined the Union Army as a

The First World War

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The First World War meant a creative outpouring of great, great literature, which represented a complete break from the long Victorian novel and patriotic, nationalist poetry that came before it. Here are a few of the writers you might like to try from that period:

The Killing of Franz Ferdinand

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In 1914, Europe was afraid. Everyone was waiting for war to begin. Germany was strong and wanted an empire, just the same as France and Britain had. Austria already had a huge one but it was starting to break up. The Turkish Ottoman Empire was many centuries old and was sick, maybe dying. But Germany

Prosper Merimée

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Prosper Merimée was born in France in 1803 to a wealthy family. At university, he studied law, Greek, Spanish, English and Russian and learnt these languages well enough to translate many Russian and Greek writers to French for the first time. He was the private teacher of a Spanish aristocrat,

Ambrose Bierce

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Bierce is best remembered for his ‘Devil’s Dictionary’, which was a cynical and very funny book of political criticism. His journalism was also quite sharp and he made many enemies in the world of politics. He disappeared at the age of 71, when he was sent to Mexico in 1913 to report on the war there. He never returned. The Stranger A man stepped out of the darkness into the little circle of light around our dying camp-fire and sat on