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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

129 min

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02:41

Monday Motivation 14 years in the Making, Connecticut College Student Gets Diploma

NEW HAVEN – Family, friends, and faculty came to Engleman Hall on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University to celebrate the achievement of Charles Vaughan. Vaughan, who is on the autism spectrum, has worked, grade by grade, class by class to earn his college degree.

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2020
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06:26

From ‘D’ Grades to ‘A’ Grades—Student Motivation

In the latest videos on my second channel, I show you how I went from a GPA of 1.3 at high school to graduating with a 4.0 GPA at university. I lay out 5 simple daily habits that I implemented into my life that completely transformed my grades—and how you can do exactly the same.

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2020
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Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

For a long time, Carmelo Anthony’s world wasn’t any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family’s first-floor project apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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Carmelo Anthony
2024
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The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick.

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Christopher Clarey
2024
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07:54

What Quality Do the Most Successful People Share? True Grit

What makes a person successful? For Professor Angela Duckworth, the answer is grit, an intangible trait that motivates passion and perseverance. In a study at West Point, Duckworth found that grit mattered more for success than leadership ability, intelligence and physical fitness.

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Angela Duckworth
2016
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Why Grit Isn’t Everything

Interview with Professor Angela Duckworth

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Michelle McQuaid
2017
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