https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly Lessons From An Extraordinary Life en-us 2021-04-27 16:54:56 UTC 2026-01-17 13:42:23 UTC hello@padlet.com henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602033019 Zamperini, Louis, and David Rensin. Don't Give up, Don't Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Man. Piatkus, 2015. ]]> 2021-06-11 23:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602033019 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602037682 Louis Zamperini introduces himself and some of the medias that he has appeared in such as the movie Unbroken or some of his other autobiographies like Devil at My Heels. "Some of you may know my story because you've reade my 2003 autobiography, Devil at my heels. Or your read about me in...2010 bestselling biography."]]> 2021-06-11 23:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602037682 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602042445 Zamperini continues on to begin with the beginning of his life when he was a child where his father introduced the mentality of paying bills first; eating second. This demonstrated a ideology of doing the right thing before ones needs. However these ideals didn't rub off on him in his formative years. "I was a rotten kid. It's true. Sure, I helped out at home, but I was restless and mischievous (and worse), and my behavior upset my family." ]]> 2021-06-11 23:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602042445 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602051607 Zamperini then begins to explain that he would always be in trouble with everyone around him from parents to police. He continues on to explain the struggles during his youth with his broken English and how he was super self-conscious.]]> 2021-06-11 23:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602051607 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602058169 In this chapter Zamperini begins to turn his life around with the help of his brother Pete by practicing for track rather than slinking off and getting into trouble. "Thanks to Pete, who helped guide me in a positive direction , and my own developing positive ambition, I turned my life around."]]> 2021-06-11 23:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602058169 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602073238 Zamperini changes into a different story with the experience of him encountering a dangerous situations after he crashed his plane in the ocean after shot down during World War ll with the struggles of surviving on the open ocean with nothing but a life raft. "For example, I was in a plane crash at sea during the war. I couldn't do anything about that...I broke it down to smaller takss that used that various survival skills I'd already learned."]]> 2021-06-12 00:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602073238 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602084870 Zamperini tells the thrilling tale of how when he was in the raft for 58 days. He introduces the sharks the circled their raft looking for opportunities to eat just like they were. So he began to formulate a plan of which he began by catching a albatross that was resting on their raft and he took a piece of meat that was inedible to them and baited the shark to the side of the raft and grabbed on and after a couple of attempts of getting cut up by their sandpaper like skin they were able to go with the grooves and grab it onto the raft and after minutes of it thrashing it died and they ate they only edible part the liver. "...as quickly as I could, pulled the shark out of the water."]]> 2021-06-12 00:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602084870 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602090919 Zamperini tells that when he was stuck on the raft rotting away he didn't allow his mind to do the same and would go through various mental exercises in order to stay as sharp as possible reciting things from their childhood and various other things. "...when I was adrift on the Pacific Ocean...I worked my brain whenever I could, I hate mathematics, but I'd lie there and add up a column of figures in my head."]]> 2021-06-12 00:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602090919 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602096069 The story shifts back to the war where Zamperini was discovered by the Japenese and was taken as a secret prisoner of war. He was frequently tortured for information and additionally in order to break his spirits but he was never broken. "On Kwajalein we were taunted, harassed, spit upon, jabbed with sticks, starved, and medically experimented upon with near-deadly injections."]]> 2021-06-12 00:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602096069 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602099098 Then Zamperini explains how he ended up in a prisoner camp because he was as they publicized as "rescued' by the Japanese. And he continues on to talk about "The Bird". "After drifting almost two thousand miles west on the Pacific Ocean, Pete and I were "rescued" by the Japanese---Mac had died on the thrity-third day and we committed his body to the sea."]]> 2021-06-12 00:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602099098 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602111942 He goes into detail from the 2 1/2 years that he spent as a POW in a secret Japanese labor camp. During the time he spent there he was regularly met by his mortal enemies at the time 
The Bird who was a prison guard who would visit Louis daily for various forms of torture. "I had taken the Bird's daily beatings at Omori, and then, and then at Naoetsu I had to. I never complained. I just got knocked down, bled got up, got knocked down, bled, got up.]]> 2021-06-12 01:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602111942 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602117534 Zamperini then goes to say that he isn't a hero despite being an Olympian and serving in World War ll.]]> 2021-06-12 01:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602117534 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602121308 Zamperini also says that during his time that he would have likely perished during his time in the War had he not had hope he would have either given up or perished.]]> 2021-06-12 01:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602121308 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602123327 He uses a metaphor with the movie Castaway saying that the man stranded should have been the happiest man in the world because he had so many great things like true freedom the ability to gather food and to walk on nice beaches.]]> 2021-06-12 01:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602123327 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602127343 At this point in the story he is back form the war but he isn't himself and becomes depressed and suffers PTSD from the daily torture for 3 years. This begins to have an effect on his marriage and he begins taking his rage out on his wife.]]> 2021-06-12 01:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602127343 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602130280 He reaches a point of near no return and his wife leaves to be with her mother for a few weeks when she returned she was determined to get a divorce but on the way their was determined to fix their marriage and they turned to Christianity for a solution.]]> 2021-06-12 01:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602130280 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602131466 After repairing his marriage several years latter he was determined to go on a trip with but the only way he was able to do this was with a friend who owned a old giant boat. ]]> 2021-06-12 01:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602131466 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602135209 On the boat one of his friends forgot to pack any food or to fuel the boat so Zamperini was left stranded (again) at sea with next to no food. With his survival skills he was able to use Morse code with a mirror to flag down a plane.]]> 2021-06-12 01:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602135209 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602138277 During his later years Zamperini started a school to help troubled kids turn their lives around in ways that actually worked. He used many different activities in order to appeal to the boys and had a genuine interest in them and was able to change many lives of children for the better.]]> 2021-06-12 01:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602138277 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602140151 The last part of the book consisted with Zamperini's close family writing about all of the great things that he had done for them or the community and what he was able to do for others]]> 2021-06-12 01:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602140151 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602146797 2021-06-12 02:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602146797 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602148720 2021-06-12 02:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602148720 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602149855 2021-06-12 02:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602149855 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602151471 Zamperini at this point in the story was telling that he was in a heated race and was a very powerful athlete who one all of his previous races but he lost and when he lost he didn't want to be a sore loser so he happily congratulated the winner. " Bright beat me by an inch or two, That's just the way it went...When the time came I was determined to do it right. I wanted to lose cheerfully, so I congratulated Bright honestly."]]> 2021-06-12 02:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602151471 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602161008 2021-06-12 02:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602161008 henlenoa000 https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602161816 2021-06-12 02:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/henlenoa000/uli3ftvicwmypgly/wish/1602161816