Book Review -Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

I read "Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations" last week. It was a very good book written by Twin authors Alex and Brett Harris. I'd like if every teenager reads this book, but I'm just as eager for every parent, church leader, and educator to read it. This book has very strong impact and by reading this book a kid's life can change.

The book Do Hard Things is about doing the following:-

• Things which are outside your comfort zone.
• Things that go beyond what is expected or required.
• Things that are to big to accomplish alone.
• Things that don't earn an immediate payoff.
  
• Things that challenge the cultural norm.
  

If you can do one of these things you can be one of the Einsteins. I bet Do Hard Things is going to awaken the dreams and passions of thousands of young people all over the world. In a culture where laziness and ease is often the order of the day for teenagers, Do Hard Things presents a radical and provocative alternative. If you take my opinion, this book can be the book of the decade.

e-book's

e-book or a digital book is a electronic book which can be read on a iLiad, iPad, kindle etc. Among the earliest general e-books were those in the Gutenberg Project, started by Michael S. Hart in 1971. Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups.

Many software companies have started making their own e-books or an e-book from a small level author. On the other hand some companies are making devices to read e-books such as iPad and iLiad. On the first day of launch of iPad more than 1000 e-books were added to the iLibrary.


As of 2009^[update], new marketing models for e-books were being developed and dedicated reading hardware was produced. E-books have yet to achieve global distribution. e-book is going to be the future for education. May be, by 2020 most of the students in developed countries will be having one of the gadgets used to read e-books.

Apple for their iPad and amazon for their kindle will be having a tough competition in the future for the sales of their gadgets for e-books.

iPad - A revolutionary gadget

The iPad is a tablet computer developed by Apple Inc, Announced on January 27, 2010, it is part of a category between a smartphone and a laptop computer. iPad was launched on April 3rd all over the world. It is a revolutionary gadget because of the following reasons- it is multitouch, size is as big as the keyboard of a laptop, you can read ebook in iPad and it is very cheap.

iPad was made by Apple mostly to enhance reading skills and gaming world. The new software added in iPad is the iLibrary. iLibrary is just a collection of ebooks which are added with voice and mini dictionary. I think Apple launched iPad just to give a base for iLibrary.

iPad is adored with digital compass, liquid crystal display, rotation of any angle, Wi-Fi network trilateration to locate itself in Google Maps and A-Gps. iPad is very light weight which makes it easy to carry. Its body is very slim and the screen is perfect for an ebook.


Yair Reiner said the iPad will compete against e-book devices such as the Barnes and Noble nook and the Amazon Kindle while offering 70% of revenue to publishers, the same arrangement afforded developers on the Apple App Store. Apple claims that iPad is capable of providing video for 10 hours and audio for 140 hours and so more....

Right To Education

Very recently Indian government had passed the Education Bill. It will determine that each and every kid of age between 4-16 should get guaranteed education. Kapil Sibal got the idea of this Bill and finally got it approved by the members of Parliament. In a country like India where the population is more than a billion, the ratio of literacy to illiteracy is 3:7. The country is one of the developing and populated countries.

Illiterate kids in India of age varying from 10-14 find their works as labors and thieves. In last 5 years government had tried many ways to decease the number of illiterate people in India. Some of them had worked also example - government schools which provide free food and education to the students and vidhya organization.

Education bill is a revolutionary bill because in a country like India where the number of illiterate kids is more than 20 million and making a promise to the public that each and every kid in India will get education is a really big deal.
So help the government to help the kids of India.