Summary: In Chapter 7‚ Steele discovered that people felt anxious under stereotype threat‚ but most people did not acknowledge it or they did not aware it. For example‚ after crossing a narrow‚ wobbly bridge‚ men tended to interpret their their feelings of anxiety as an intense attraction for interviewer. Black students who were told to finish a task which measure their intelligence would experience blood pressure rising dramatically‚ while they did not consciously aware of it. Steele later also
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and explains the mysteries of the periodic table‚ its history‚ its changes‚ its breakthroughs‚ and its contributions on mankind. Chapter 6 or Completing the Table… with a Bang deals with the revolutionary findings of the Manhattan Project‚ how the holes of the periodic table were filled and last but certainly not least‚ how the apocalypse may occur. In the sixth chapter of The Disappearing Spoon Kean explains the basics of the works of Henry Moseley. Moseley was a student at the University of Manchester
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Part 1 - Book structure and arguments In order to convey the structure and arguments of Ferguson’s Empire‚ I will split it into two parts. First‚ I will discuss each chapter in depth‚ explaining the main arguments and themes of each. Secondly‚ I will bring it to a wider sense and discuss these characteristics in term of the whole book itself. Ferguson starts out his book trying to explain the underlying reasons that Britain‚ of all empires at that present time‚ was able to become an economic phenomenon
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Chapter 1 – East and West In Chapter 1‚ the author assesses the unique and eternal achievements of 5th century BCE Athenian culture. She introduces several basic dichotomies that define her understanding of the writers and events of the period in the later chapters. One of the basic themes of the book is that the thought and the art of classical Athens is full of meaning for people of later generations. It is the full of meaning for nations‚ cultures and societies beset by broad-scale and profound
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Scarlet Letter Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: The Prison Door The first chapter pretty much sets the scene for the rest of the book. It describes a door‚ the door to the prison in seventeenth century Boston. The door is studded with iron spikes and is surrounded with overgrown weeds and one rosebush. The narrator suggests that it’s a reminder of nature’s kindness to the prisoners. It says it will provide a “sweet moral blossom” in the face of distress. Chapter 2: The Market-Place The women
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I enjoyed this book by Bell Hooks far more than I did Creative Schools by Ken Robinson. I thought this author had a better ability to lay out her thoughts and explain to the reader more efficiently her ideas. The chapters were fifty percent shorter as well‚ which helped the reading feel less drawn out and lengthy. The author did a better job providing examples from her life that related to the subject than Robinson did‚ although they were also rather lengthy. Creative Schools tended to have the examples
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Chapter six starts off with Winston writing in his diary about an encounter with a old and ugly prole prostitute three years ago and how he used to be married to a women named Katherine. They separated when they both had differences in ideology‚ which included her not enjoying sexual intercourse and only performed it to make a child for the Party. In this chapter‚ Winston also discusses how the Party did not want mean and women to form loyalties because they could not control them. In addition‚ the
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• Chapter 8: I have decent background knowledge of the differences between Calvinists and Armminists‚ but this chapter changed my thinking. The previous discussions and literature I have experienced have made Calvinists out to be irrational. This chapter appropriately represented the supporting and objecting arguments to both viewpoints. I gained an understanding of why Calvinists believe what they do‚ and I can now look at Scripture and see where they are coming from. Their beliefs are not radical;
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Eliel Pepito 8/1/10 The Beak of the Finch Summary The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner explores evolution through the most famous examples in history—the finches of the Galápagos Islands. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the process of evolution are applied directly to what scientists refer to as Darwin’s Finches. Weiner follows scientists Peter and Rosemary Grant as they study the finches in real time on the Galápagos. Years of previous work‚ study and data is collected
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Summary – Chapter 1 starts with a young boy named Ralph‚ searching the area around him to find other life after their plane crash landed on a deserted island. Ralph eventually finds another boy with the nickname "Piggy" and they realize that are no adults and that they can’t find their plane. Then they decide to go to the shore to swim and Ralph tells Piggy that his dad will save them since he is in the navy but Piggy tells him that the pilot had told them that an atom bomb had gone off and everyone
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