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The Great Change

3 months ago, I wrote a blog post about reading and what is my feeling towards it which was a negative feeling. But today, my feeling towards reading has totally changed. The essential reason for this staggering change is the book "Outliers". When I started to read this book, I felt that it is a distinctive one as it is talking about success and how people can reach it. Also I endeavored not to be tedious easily or I will despair because I do not love reading. The author of this book is called "Malcolm Gladwell", he talked about how any one can reach success. He has mentioned a lot of marvelous  examples like Bill Gates and The Beatles. In these examples he said that if anyone worked hard and some opportunities were given to him, he will be successful;to illustrate, Bill Gates was painstakingly working hard and working for many hours simultaneously. Also after Gladwell talked about how opportunities can affect your success, he talked about culture legacy. This point is a striking one because it is related to his family and his roots. He said that your antecedents can affect your life very much. In this book, there is no contradictions, and every thing is explained well as he expounds it. I can not deny the effect of reading Outliers on my thinking. I think it is a comprehensive book. The idea of I do not love reading big books has been changed because I have read a book with more than 300 pages without getting bored. Finally, I have convinced that reading has a lot of advantages and can change many ideas in our heads. 

Last but not least, many thanks to my teacher who helped me a lot and supported me, this person is the one who made me loves reading and improved my reading skills, this person called "Ms. Lora" . I think that she deserves to be from the OUTLIERS. Thank you for all your help.

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Egypt's Plight

Taken from "http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/scenes-from-egypts-unfinished-revolution/100194/"

No one can deny that Egypt is the most important country in the region. If Egypt lost its power, the whole region would be involved in a lot of problems as other countries are relying on Egypt. So we ,as Egyptians, have to maintain the position of Egypt. The recent catastrophic events that happened in Egypt made a lot of Egyptians upset. The protesters were attacked by the police by guns and gases that are very harmful, also the police officers behaved domineeringly. So the police lost its credibility and the protesters confront police by throwing them by rocks. This picture shows one of the street called Mohamed Mahmoud where the police attacked the protesters in. I can not imagine that this street is in Egypt. How can an Egyptian destroy his country? How can police officers attack innocent people? These people have the rights to protest, no one can compel them to leave, but the Egyptian police, the nonchalant police, ignored their rights and attacked them to leave the square. I hope that police put an end to their violence and to treat people better than before because their aim is to protect citizens not to intimidate them.

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Amr Diab "The Legend"

Amr Diab (Amr Abd-Albaset Abd-Alaziz Diab) born in Port Said on 11th of October 1961. His father, Abdul Basset, worked for Suez Canal Corporation. He knew that his son Amr has a tremendous voice when he joined a band and sang in Port Said Festival. Then his father tried to enhance his skills by making him travel to cairo as he will find more opportunities and Amr complied with his father's instructions. He graduated at the Cairo Academy of Arts, and when he was studying at this Academy,he recorded his first song "El Zaman" but it was not very good because people did not like it, but Amr tried to ignore this inconvenience and he released his first album" Ya Taree" which grabbed the attention of the people as it's was very successful. Diab's life is a very successful one, he confront his opponents to reach  success. Now Amr Diab's fans are increasing all around the world as he combined between western and Arabic rhythms.

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"Green Apple Environment"

The "Green Apple Environment" is an international award that was given to two Egyptian brothers who made a project related to the environment, "which is developing solar cells made from plants instead of silicon."They Painstakingly worked hard to comprise an invention. "This invention will tackle the problem of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by reducing petroleum use." I am intriguing in this article, which is from "http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=347114", because I found that the ages of these two Egyptian inventors "Mahmoud Mohamed Badran" and "Mohammad Badran" are 10 and 13 years old respectively. As their ages are very small, they were romanticizing to save the environment, so as a result of working hard to fulfill their project, "their project was selected from more than 500 projects from all over the world". In my opinion, their project won because they were exploiting their time and they did their work precisely. To illustrate, the two of them were able to manage their time between education and the project. I think that their parents also were one of the most factors of fulfilling the project, they for sure supported them. And also the government supported them very much and was supplying them with materials and useful advices. 

To sum up, these two Egyptians proved to the world that yes we can invent new useful things not only Europe. And I am sure that their are a lot teenagers like Mahmoud and Mohamed, but we have to support them to make Egypt the world's leader.

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Satisfying work

There are three main things in my opinion that make work satisfying to every one. To be satisfied in your work you have to connect between effort and rewards. You have to work hard in order to achieve your goals, and this for sure can and will give you a lot of rewards that will effect either your career life or your personal life. But to apply this in your own life, you have to disdain complexity in your work, and to overcome complexity, you have to be creative and to tackle with your problems correctly. Moreover, to be satisfied in your job, you must have personal independence. Everyone must do what he is intriguing in, and he is responsible for what he is doing, this called autonomy which is everyone's hope.

Ultimately, complexity, autonomy and connecting effort with reward are the three major points that can make work satisfying and to be fulfilling. 

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The Adventures of Oliver Twist

"The Adventures of Oliver Twist" novel is one of the novels that I like very much and have read it many times. The author of this novel is Charles Dickens and he had written it in 1837. The book is about a boy's life called Oliver Twist who was born in a workhouse which shows how the background of a person can effect his entire life. Oliver's mother died after she gave birth to him. Then a man called Mr. Bumble who was working in the workhouse took Oliver to raise him. But he made a lot of mistakes so Mr Bumble send him to work with an undertaker called Mr. Sowerberry. He was a kind guy, but his son always abuses Oliver's dead mother which forced Oliver to attach him so he was punished. As a result, Oliver ran away to London and became a member in Jew Fagin's gang of boys. Fagin has trained the boys how to pickpockets. But Oliver was still a young boy and he did not understand that he is a criminal. Day after day, while Oliver and some of Fagin's boys were pickpocketing a man, two of them were caught and Oliver was on the way, but the victim of the thieves was a gentleman called MR. Brownlow recuses Oliver and this was an opportunity that was given to Oliver to live a pleasant life because this man took Oliver to live with him. When I was reading this part in the book, I found that every one can have an opportunity, but you have to make use of it in something positive. So Oliver was given an opportunity to live in a wealthy family, and this changed his live and made him to forget his horrible old days.

Charles Dickens wrote in this novel a famous phrase which "please sir, I want some more". This said by Oliver Twist when he was in the workhouse. I think Charles meant by this phrase that first Oliver was very polite boy and how poor people in the 19th century did not have the rights to ask for any thing even the food. I really like this novel, I is so attractive and shows how background and opportunities can really change a person's life.

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Mathematics

when I was in the secondary stage, there was a teacher called Mr. Amin. He was very kind. he was treating us as if we are his siblings. He was a math teacher. At first, as he was giving us a lot of homeworks to do, I started to hate the subject. But by the time, he told us that I was pushing you to work hard and not to give up easily. He was punishing the student who did not make his homework. Also he was giving the idea in the simplest form to be able to get it easily. So I loved this subject, I started to motivate and be able to solve any hard question. At this time, I decided to be an engineer as i love mathematics very much. I want to get deep in it by studying all the concepts of it.

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Intellignece in Egypt

In Europe countries, people consider that the IQ of a person is one of the reasons of a successful life. But here in Egypt, people think that if your practical intelligence is high, so you will prosper in your life and they do not consider IQ as a necessarily factor of success. for example, Mahmoud Wael Mahmoud, the smartest child in Egypt, he is 9 years old. His IQ is 155 which is the highest score recorded among all the children in this age. when this boy introduced to the world, the United States government wanted to take him to finish his education there, as they think that the Egyptian government will not help him to increase his analytical intelligence. but he himself decided to sit in his country. Ultimately, people here in Egypt prefer practical intelligence, they think you can be a unique person if you used your creativity in you life.

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The Story of Success

"Outliers" is a book for Malcolm Gladwell that is talking about the success. I started to read it about 1 month ago. At first, I felt that it is very boring, and i cannot get it's points and there were a lot of ideas I did not understand easily. But by the time, as i got deeper and deeper in reading it, i have found that it is a meaningful book.

It shows how opportunities, the society and the surrounding environment can effect you and can make you the best. I have learned from reading 4 chapters only a lot of vocabulary that helped me in my daily life, in writing essays and for sure in writing blog posts. Also it made me think analytically and to be motivated as Gladwell proved and showed how these successful people reached their goals. So I took a lot of experience how to reach your goals. Reading really can improve our language and make you think critically, but you must love it.

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Me and the British Educational System

3 years ago, my family decided to transfer me from the national educational system to the British educational system which called "IGCSE". So I applied in it and it was a great transformation in my life. The British system has a lot of advantages that is Undeniably. I have learnt how to manage my time both in exams and in my life, also i have learnt how to emerge my potential energy in my study and how to collaborate with my classmates.I took many experiences that helped me a lot in my daily life. Teachers there are trying to make their students accomplish their goals. I think that if I have studied in the national system, I would not take all of these advantages and for sure I will not be accepted in AUC. I really took an opportunity that really changed a lot in my life and helped me to reach my first step to the successful life.

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My dream finally came true

Last year, my dream was to be a student in the American University in Cairo. But many people said to me that i have to get a high score in the advanced level of math to be accepted in it. So my intent was to get this high score. I started to work hard, to study about 5 hours a day. Also an elite teacher has taught me how to achieve my goals. He has emerged my skills. But when i entered one of the math's exams, I could not able to solve any question in it. It was such a bad dream. But I did my best ,and I tried to understand the questions and solve them. In this horrible exam, my goal was always in my head and front of me. And finally i accomplished this high score and achieved my goals.

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Meritocracy in Egypt

To be a successful man/woman is not a vast obstacle in our society. But to merit in something for example, in your job career, it is a very hard achievement. As Meritocracy in Egypt does not depend on one person, but it mainly depends on working in groups, people who are supporters and persist on working. And When we talk about education in Egypt, It's failure is one of the underlying causes of youth discontent in the region and has critical consequences. The current education system and all aspects of life have sufficiency suffered. It is time for meritocracy to arise.

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My Feelings Towards Reading

Many people said to me that reading is very important.It supports the human’s brain and make him able to understand many thing in our life.But i dont love reading at all.I am feeling bored when i read books especially large books which have 300 and 400 pages.It is a waste of time.Also when i read a book and did not get its point,it makes me upset.So i read books only when i have to,for example in my education. At last,i know very well that reading can improve my life.but i dont love it.