THE KNAVE STRATAGEM

A full-length moion picture screenplay.

Log Line: Motivated by justice, online predator's daring and cunning is subjugated, eventually rendering the title duplicitous leading to wonder if it applies to the antagonists or protagonists.

Pitch: I swear, this is my first time.

© 2009 by Tommy Fraga

BRAHMS

A full-length moion picture screenplay.

Log Line: Notwithstanding an enervative, laming accident and being horrifically and sadistically sexually molested and raped by bar-room prostitutes as a prepubescent nine-year old prodigious slum-boy, resulting in his late puberty at 24 and a virulent attitude towards women thereafter, Johannes Brahms prevailed and became one of the world’s greatest composers and heroes, all while enduring the severe and extreme psychological scars that left him a bipolar schizophrenic, and the perpetual lifelong satanic day and nightmares of his terrifying childhood abuse.

Pitch: Heart of a child, character of a hero, extraordinary amalgam of opposites.

© 2009 by Tommy Fraga

THE BRAIN HUMAN

How To Store Information
And
Retrieve It At The Speed Of Thought

By Tommy Fraga

If human beings are naturally inquisitive and in constant search for knowledge, then why is it the vast majority of us hate going to school?  Why do we struggle to store information in our brains? 

It’s as if we choose to block our minds from accepting certain information purposely; as if we refuse to accept that information.  We don’t tell ourselves that, but in reality we are saying, “nah, nah, I do not want to learn that and I am NOT going to learn that, the hell with it.”

Part of the problem is that we do not use the full capacity of our God-Given intellect.  Thinking is one thing, but using your intellect is another; I mean REALLY using your intellect. 

People can use their brains all day for jobs that require their use, but that does not mean they are using their intellect.  With the exception of the mentally challenged, ALL human beings have the same intellect.  Some of us just use it more than others while some of us could care less and don’t use it at all.

So, for those of us who want to use it and go to school to become professionals, why then do the vast majority hate school?  Once again the answer is the lack of the ability to use their intellect which in and of itself takes the FUN away from learning.

Learning becomes a drag and a chore they do not want to do.  They learn to hate it.  They learn to hate something which is supposed to be FUN.  And when they do not know how to use their intellect properly to allow them to store information in their brains, the FUN aspect is NEVER experienced or even realized for that matter.

The scary part of this is that they lose the discipline to sit there and learn.  Once this sets in, then mediocrity becomes the norm and the world is filled with half-assed professionals who got by in school, but did not excel.  Our last president is clear evidence of that.  ‘C’s’ and ‘D’s’ ARE NOT OK OR ACCEPTABLE AT ANYTIME!!!

How would you like to go to the dentist for a root canal who got a ‘C’ in root canal class?  How would you like to have a surgeon perform an appendectomy on you who got a ‘C’ in appendectomy class?  How would you like to have a ‘C’ average attorney represent you?  Am I making my point?  Am I getting through to you?  These people are out there you know.

I loathe mediocrity!  You should too!

One of the sad effects of all of this is the loss of good study habits.  My upcoming book will address these subjects and a host of others that include:

-Foods you can eat that will dramatically increase your brains ability to not only STORE information, but its RETREIVAL as well,

-When to study,

-When NOT to study,

-Repetition as the mother of education,

-Why ‘cramming’ is bad and does not work.

I have spent the last twenty years practicing this technique on many of my students with a 100% success rate.  IT HAS NEVER FAILED!  It worked for me and it worked for them as well.

It also works for those people who are not students and works for the older generation who think they are losing their ability to remember.  I use the word ‘think’ here because they only THINK they cannot remember.

Those memories of theirs are still stored in their brains; they just lack the ability to locate them and retrieve them at will.  I am even working with people who have Alzheimer’s disease with profound results.

So, whether you are a student or not, this adjustment to your daily life will greatly increase your short and long term memory and enhance your intellect beyond your wildest expectations and even to its fullest potential.

Available soon.

© 2009 by Tommy Fraga ISBN 0-9786303-4-3

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

How I Conquered It
And
Steps You Can Take To Change Your Life
And
Conquer It As Well

By Tommy Fraga

It has been my most painful experience and determination that whoever chose the name for this disease, because that is what it is, a dis-ease, never actually HAD this enervative affliction and never suffered from its terribly awful painful effects and symptoms.

To say that a person who has this dreadful disease is fatigued is wholly and absurdly wrong.  If anything, perhaps they should call it ‘Chronic Severe Pain Syndrome’ because that is what a person feels; that is what I felt the entire five plus years I suffered from its hold on me.  I was NOT fatigued; I was in horrible, awful pain!

I wish I could call it excruciating pain, but I cannot because I’ve never been crucified, but there were countless times daily during those five plus years when I felt like dying and I often thought crucifixion would be a welcome guest.  I actually used to pray to God to allow me to die because the pain was so grossly wicked and abominable.

It wasn’t until I started really thinking about the time I got it and realizing what I was doing in my life at the time that I began to put the pieces together and try to figure a way out of this disease.  Since God was NOT going to allow me to die, I figured I had better use the logic and intellect He gave me to conquer this most heinous affliction.

After I had figured everything out and began putting into practice and applying the steps to my daily life, I soon conquered the disease and changed my determination of the other part of the name ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ or ‘Chronic Severe Pain Syndrome.’

I learned that in fact, this disease is NOT chronic and CAN be conquered never to manifest its ugly symptoms on me ever again.  If I can do it, anyone can.  If it worked for me, it will work for you.  All you have to do is change a few things in your daily life.

My only regret is that I have not taken the time to write about it earlier.  You see, I had the disease from 1991 through 1996 and here it is now 2009.  The damn thing even affected my short term memory and my ability to think clearly and thoroughly while I had it and I was in doctoral school at the time.

Since then, I have been extraordinarily busy and I have accomplished a great deal of goals I set for myself.  My plan is to complete this book as soon as possible.

For those of you suffering from this terrible affliction, please hang in there until I finish.  Don’t despair as help is on the way.  I know there is nothing your doctors can do for you; they can’t even see it under their microscopes so most of them think it doesn’t really exist and perhaps we’re all acting like a bunch of babies and that there is really nothing wrong with us.

I only hope and pray THEY do not catch this debilitating disease as I, like all of you, would never wish this on anyone, even our worst enemies or people we dislike the most.