DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – LIBRARIANS ARE GENERATING MAJOR LEARNING IN OUR DIVIDED COUNTRY

Thanks to all librarians and teachers who are fighting to educate our children at this critical time in our country’s history. Support your local library with your money and engagement of yourself and your children and grandchildren and great grandchildren in their learning initiatives. U.S. Department of Education  From helping students borrow books, To recommending research resources, To managing multimedia & maker spaces, Thank you, school librarians, for all the ways you inspire a love for reading & learning in your students! Have a healthy and impactful life. Peter Prichard […]

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DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – 8 LESSONS FROM THE “BOOK TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

  “1.Stand up for what is right, even when it is difficult. Atticus Finch teaches his children that it is important to stand up for what is right, even when it is difficult. He does this by defending Tom Robinson in court, even though he knows that it will be unpopular. 2.Be kind and compassionate to others, even those who are different from you. Scout Finch learns to be kind and compassionate to others, even those who are different from her. She learns this when she meets Boo Radley, a […]

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DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND

I was so completely touched by this today. A funeral procession was passing by and this soldier got out of his jeep to stand at attention in the pouring rain. I always get frustrated when I see cars that don’t pull to the side and stop for a procession, but this gentlemen went above and beyond. I feel pretty confident that there isn’t a military rule that soldiers have to do this. This made my heart happy to see the amount of respect that this gentleman showed a family that […]

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DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – LESSEN DEATHS BY TOBACCO! TODAY IS TAKE DOWN TOBACCO NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION!

Tobacco products killed my father and many individuals that readers of this article loved. I encourage you to donate to Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids – https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/ – in support of their National Day of Action today, April 1st or on any day in the future. Big Tobacco never gives up on their efforts to sell their products that kill people and make them more money. Have a healthy and impactful life. Peter Prichard WEBSITE/BLOG – Have Positive Impact: https://havepositiveimpact.com/ “At hundreds of youth-led events across the U.S., people are […]

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DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – AN INTELLECTUAL WITH A HEART

Wonders Of The History At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please […]

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DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – FIRST FEMALE FROM WITHIN HARVARD PROMOTED TO FULL PROFESSOR

In Bizarre and Interesting Things: Jeremy Knowles, discusses the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE. Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge. Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there was not much exposure for women, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard. Cecilia […]

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DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT-SAVING A STRANGERS WEDDING RING

“On Sunday a woman in New York City accidentally threw out her diamond wedding ring. She realized it in the middle of the night, and did the only thing she could think of, she left a NOTE on the windshield of a parked garbage truck. When the garbage man got to work, he read the note, dug through tons of garbage, and FOUND her ring. The driver’s name is Gary Gaddist, and he went through the garbage HIMSELF. It took him about an hour, but he was able to find […]

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