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Mike Baker is a 22 year old University of Virginia graduate, who gets drafted in the 2nd round of the MLB draft to the Baltimore Orioles. In his 3rd career start for the Fredrick Keys (minor league affiliate) he is hit in the head, from a comebacker up the middle. He goes into a coma, but something spectacular happens. His REM Cycle that controls when you can dream isn’t cycling and remains on. In the real world Mike Bakers family and friends have to deal with the pain and suffering, worrying for Mike. However after being hit by the ball, Mike (in his REM Cycle) moves on with life. To him he just has a bruise on his head. The basis of the novel focuses on the difficulties the outside world faces adjusting to Mike’s condition, while in Mike’s world he is continuing to live his normal life. As Mike’s condition digresses in the real world, Mike begins to feel the repercussion’s in his dream. He develops bruises over his body and regularly gets increasingly worse nose bleeds. Mike in the dream hides the condition from the Baltimore Orioles organization and works his way up the system. Eventually Mike makes it into the MLB. Near the same time in the real world, his condition has gotten worse and he is now on life support. Mike’s dream since he was a little kid was to pitch against the New York Yankees. He gets his chance in his first major league start in New York Stadium. Mike pitches the game of his life and is near throwing a no hitter. Meanwhile in the real world, Mike has minutes left in his life. Life Support is struggling to keep him alive and his family decides to pull the plug. As Mike strikes out the last hitter, he completes his dream of throwing a no hitter against the Yankees. As his team runs out to celebrate with him, Mike feels a sharp pain in his heart. The plug has been pulled and Mike in the dream is dying. He is rushed to the hospital where he dies of a heart attack. Mikes family mourns him and has a funeral. At the funeral the play videos and pictures of Mike getting his first baseball bat, his first hit, his first homerun, and the day he was drafted. The audience sheds tears, commemorates Mike’s wonderful life, and buries him in his grave. The novel ends.

Justina Walker-a 28 year-old teacher of a Charity School. She is a strong-willed woman but often stressed out from her low wages and unruly students. She came from a poor family with barely enough to supply themselves; her father died in a war, her mother suffered a stroke, her brothers and sister had to work in their tobacco field before sunrise. Since her mother’s stroke and her sister’s elopement with a stranger, she had take care of herself from an early age, she promised herself that she would never end up like her mother or her sister. She has survived on her own, with her knowledge and wits, and with her pushiness and pessimism.
Sarah Clive-a 14 year-old Irish girl who moved to America with her parents, but they died in an accident and left Sarah on her own. She grew up in the streets learning English on her own, stealing from bakeries and fruit markets, sometimes begging and sometimes taking charity. Sarah is a tough girl, rude and self-justifying, but sensitive and sensible.
Melanie Barfield-a 14 year old teenager. She works in the bakery with her mother, but dreams of becoming an actress, a very good dream, but Melanie has a lot to show; she’s very stubborn and angry because of all the hard work she has to do, and because she’s prone to being impatient. But she doesn’t always mean to be mean-spirited, she just doesn’t want to be seen as this daydreamer with poor grades. Deep inside she is talented and self-assured. She even knows how to fence.
Barbara Hardy-a 13 year old girl and friend to Melanie. Barbara loves to read books and likes to draw pictures of jungles and native people, but she always base them on caricatures. She’s an intelligent girl, but often prone to envy and jealousy. Her family are neither rich or poor, but they can’t get everything Barbara wants. So she would retreat to her books and dream about politics and revolutions. She doesn’t socialize much but talks to Melanie whenever she’s lonely. She has a good skill in archery.
Corinne Bennett-a 12 year-old British girl. Corinne comes from a rich family, goes to a private school and has her own horse to ride. Corinne is pretty but greedy and selfish like her Banker Father. She likes going to parties and banquets but quickly tires of it. She is truly a deep thinker and lonely girl because she barely has any friends to talk to or play with, except for her snooty sister and frivolous classmates. She does enjoy going to America visit her cousin and talk to his friend’s sisters. She likes to play with knives often and even has her own secret pocketknife.
Lenny Tully-an 8 year-old English girl, a crybaby and whiner. Often ignored by her friends for her whining and complaining. She hates going outside in the dark, and sleeps with a small light in her room. She can be timid, quiet, and stubborn, but she has hidden confidence, dreams of adventure and likes to wander around new places.

Will it be difficult for me later in life if I have such a broad way of looking at life, to the point that I do not specialize in anything? My dream career is to be an artist. I would willingly try any medium; visual, music, literature, video games! But I always thought that to be an artist, you need to have a sincere fascination with the things of the world, and I cannot imagine doing that, if I am not open to any point of view, every walk of life. I would be the type to write about things I’ve never experienced.
But people would tell me, and I am worried myself, that I need to specialize in something or else I wouldn’t really have much value to give to the world. Like if I need to be hired, what would they need in me, that’s so unique or unfounded, to hire me?
Is it really worth it to scale yourself down? I can aim as high as I want and at the same time swear to myself that I would never get disappointed because I realistically accept that it might not come true. I don’t care. I am just happy anyway that THAT is not the only view to life. I guess I can take a day job. I do want to have my own name and be employed based on that. I don’t know. I’m only 16. But in my country, I’m a senior already and going to college next year.
So is it really bad not to specialize in anything? Will I not have a name by not having a niche?

I am a native Caribbean, currently a high school student in the UK. I’ve had a lot of success with businesses I’ve done in the past as a teenager. My dream has always been to open my own resort, particularly in the Caribbean. However, during this time of crisis I’m not sure this is a good idea, but who knows by the time it has been built the economy may have recovered. So I have the following questions:
(1) Is it a good idea to venture on the Caribbean Resort Business? Why or why not?
(2) Would a good niche be something health-related? [Not a spa resort, but more to do with medicine and treatment, like a hospital combined with a resort]
(3) How can I get it started in future?
Thank you so much!

….if my ultimate dream is to pursue MBA from prestigious IIMs…..

I feel like im wasting away. Im 25, and i dont do ANYTHING. I’ve been off for nearly 3 weeks now and i’ve done nothing but sit on my *** day in day out watching tv and playing on my laptop. I’ve yet to get my drivers licence cause, i don’t care. I Went to college but ended up dropping out cause yes, i stopped caring. My lifelong dream of going sky diving was accomplished this past summer and yeah, i feel like it wasn’t as great as it should have been.
I’ve tried just about everything i could think of, career-wise and hobby-wise and i feel like i just can’t find what i need. For about a year i used to hit he gym just about every 2nd day, then i stopped caring. I’ve taken courses galore hoping to find that niche that everybody is supposed to have, but every time it starts, i get sick of it.
As a child i was in advanced classes, im not a stupid person, but i just dont have any motivation. More and more im becoming hesitant in spending my money trying anything cause i feel like the materials will just end up taking up space in my closet like the rest.
Any suggestions as to what i could do?