Problem: To succeed in business or life we must continually take actions. Putting yourself on the line day after day can be extremely boring, especially when things do not work out as desired. Each time a disappointing event happens, I like to get reminded of these famous failures: Gates has literally changed the work culture of the world in the 20the and the 21st centuries, by simplifying the way the computer is being used. He was the world's richest man for more than one decade. However, in the 1970's before starting out, he was a Harvard University dropout. The most ironic part is that he started a software company by purchasing the software technology from someone for only $50 back then. Lincoln received no more than five years of formal education throughout his lifetime. When he grew up, he joined politics and had 12 major failures before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America. Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation made him one of the greatest scientists the world has even known. Many thought that Newton was born a genius, but he wasn't! When he was young, he did very poorly in grade school, so poor that his teachers became helpless in improving his grades. Beethoven is widely regarded as one of history's great composers. His reputation has inspired composers, musicians and audiences who were to come after him. Before the start of his career, Beethoven's music teacher once said of him "as a composer, he is hopeless". And during his career, he lost his hearing yet he managed to produce great music. A deaf man composing music, ironic, isn't it!
1. What must we do to succeed in business?
2. What can be extremely boring?
3. Who was supposedly the world's richest man for over a decade?
4. What did many think of Newton?
5. Where was Newton from?
6. How did he perform in school?
7. Who is one of history's best composers?
8. What did he lose as an adult?
9. Who was the 16th president?
10. How did Gates change work culture?
Answer: 1. take action
2. putting yourself on the line every day
3. Gates
4. he was born a genius
5. zEngland
6. poorly
7. Beethoven
8. his hearing
9. Lincoln
10. simplifying computer use'

Q: Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.59910. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100.

Answer the following questions:
1. What system of values is the U.S dollar based upon?
2. What is the value of an eagle in the U.S monetary system?
3. In circulating for what are denominations less than a dollar issued as?
4. When was the coin known as the double eagle discontinued?
5. What are mils sometimes used for?
6. Has any $100 dollar coin knows as the Union ever been issued?
7. Who suggested creating $100, $50, $25 gold coins in 1954?
8. What is the value of a Dime coin?
9. What is paper currency less than one dollar sometimes called?
10. Are the Union and the mill known well to the general public?
A: 1. decimal system
2. ten dollars
3. cents
4. 1930s
5. tax levies
6. unknown
7. James Guthrie in 1854
8. 10
9. fractional currency
10. no

Problem: James was getting ready for the weekend. He needed to go to the store. He needed to get food for his friend's birthday party. James made a list of things to get. He wrote down strawberries, apples, cupcakes, juice, and bananas. James was going to make a fruit salad. James went to the store. He bought the apples, cupcakes, and bananas that were on the shopping list. He forgot to buy the juice. James also bought a toy mouse for a present for his friend. James was very excited for the party this weekend.

The day of the party finally arrived. James made the fruit salad with the apples, strawberries, and bananas he bought. He set out the cupcakes and fruit salad on the table. He placed the toy mouse in shiny paper and set it on the table too. He checked his watch. It was almost time for the party. The birthday guests would be there soon.

Once the guests came they ate cupcakes and fruit salad. Everyone liked the food. James gave his friend the present. His friend really liked the toy mouse. James was very happy because his friend had a great birthday.
1. Who was getting ready for the weekend?
2. where did he need to go?
3. What did he need to get?
4. Did he make a list of things he needed to get?
5. What was on the list?
6. What was he going to make?
7. What did he forget to buy?
8. What kind of toy did he buy?
9. What did he set out with the fruit salad on the table?
10. What did he place in shiny paper?
Answer:
1. James
2. the store
3. food for his friend's birthday party
4. yes
5. strawberries, apples, cupcakes, juice, and bananas
6. fruit salad.
7. juice
8. a toy mouse
9. cupcakes
10. the toy mouse