Children and youth literature: PINOCHO

Once upon a time, a carpenter named Gepetto decided to build a wooden doll,
which he called Pinocchio. With him, he managed not to feel as alone as he had
felt until that moment.
- How well I have stayed! - exclaimed once finished building and painting. How I
wish he had life and was a real boy!
As he had been a very good man throughout his life, and his feelings were sincere.
A fairy decided to grant her wish and during the night she gave life to Pinocchio.
The next day, when Gepetto went to his workshop, he got quite a shock when he
heard someone saying hello:
- Hello dad! - said Pinocchio.
- Who speaks? - Gepetto asked.
- It's me, Pinocchio. Do not you know me? - he asked.
Gepetto went to the doll.
- It's you? It looks like I'm dreaming! I finally have a son!
Gepetto wanted to take care of his son as he would have done with anyone who
was not made of wood. Pinocchio had to go to school, learn and meet other
children. But the carpenter had no money, and had to sell his coat to buy a wallet
and books

SELF-HELP LITERATURE: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

2. ANATOMY OF AN EMOTIONAL SEQUEST
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who
feel
Horace Walpole
It was a hot August afternoon in 1963, the same as the Reverend Martin Luther
King, jr. In Washington, he delivered that famous conference that began with the
phrase "Today I had a dream" before the demonstrators of the march for civil
rights. That afternoon, Richard Robles, a habitual criminal sentenced to three years
in prison for the more than one hundred robberies he had carried out to maintain
his addiction to heroin and who, at that time, was on probation, decided to steal
last time. As he stated later, he had made the decision to stop stealing but
desperately needed money for his friend and his three-year-old daughter.
The luxurious Upper East Side apartment in New York that Robles chose for
that occasion belonged to two young women, Janice Wylie, a twenty-one-year-old
Newsweek researcher, and twenty-three-year-old Emily Hoffert and a teacher at a
primary school. . Robles believed that nobody was home but he was wrong and.
Once inside, he met Wylie and was forced to threaten her with a knife and gag,
and he had to do the same when, about to leave, he stumbled upon Hoffert.
According to him years later, while he was gagging Hoffert, Janice Wylie
assured him that he would never escape because she would remember his face
and would not stop until the police found him. Robles, who had sworn that this
would be his last robbery, then went into a panic and completely lost control of
himself. Then, in full attack of madness, hit the two women with a bottle until they
were unconscious and, overcome by anger and fear, stabbed them again and
again with a kitchen knife. Twenty-five years later, recalling the incident, he
lamented saying: "I was crazy. My head simply exploded ».
During all this time Robles has not stopped regretting that outburst of violence.
Today, thirty years later, he is still in prison for what has come to be known as "the
murder of the university students".
This type of emotional explosions constitutes a kind of neuronal abduction. As
the evidence suggests, at such times a center of the limbic system declares a state
of urgency and recruits all the resources of the brain to carry out its urgent task.
This abduction takes place in an instant and triggers a decisive reaction even
before the neocortex - the thinking brain - even has the possibility to fully realize
what is happening, much less to decide if it is an adequate response . The
distinctive feature of this type of kidnapping is that, after the critical moment, the
subject does not know what has just happened.
 BIOGRAPHY: MAGIC JOHNSON [Earvin Johnson]

(Lansing, USA, 1959) American Baloncestist. In 1979, after obtaining the title of the
NCAA (the American university league) with the team of the University of Michigan,
he signed for Los Angeles Lakers, club in which he played throughout his career
and with which he obtained five NBA championships (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and
1988).

Considered one of the best players of all time, was characterized by its scoring
ability, its leadership on and off the field and its ability to improve the game of the
team thanks to its great ease for the pass, category in which led the league
statistics for a good part of his career. He was named best player in the NBA in
1987, 1989 and 1990.

In the Olympic Games of 1992, celebrated in Barcelona, was member of the

American selection that obtained the gold medal. That same year caused a real
commotion when he publicly declared that he was a carrier of the AIDS virus and
that, consequently, he abandoned the practice of basketball. He returned,
however, in 1994, year in which he served as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers,
then, in the following season, return to play several games as a player.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a

Yogi

CHAPTER I
MY PARENTS AND THE FIRST CHILDHOOD

The characteristic features of Indian culture have long been the search for ultimate
truths and the concomitant relationship between disciple and guru. My own path
led me to a wise man, similar to Christ, whose beautiful life was engraved for all
times. He was one of the great masters who represent in the present time the only
wealth left in India; rising in each generation, they are
those who have defended their land against the fate that extinguished Babylon and
Egypt.
Among my earliest memories are the anachronistic features of my previous
incarnation. Clear memories come to my mind from a remote past life; those of a
yogi in the middle of the snows of the Himalayas. These bursts of the past, through
some immeasurable link, have also given me glimpses of the future. The helpless
humiliations of my childhood have not faded from my mind. I had the conscious
resentment of not being able to walk or express myself freely.
Waves of prayers woke up inside me, as I realized my physical impotence. My
strong emotional life assumed a silent form as words from many languages.
Among the internal confusion of the languages, my ear gradually became
accustomed to the environment that surrounded me with syllables in Bengali, from
my relatives. The changing perspective of a child mind, seen by adults as confined
only to toys and toes!