“ ‘Knowledge of a boy’s IQ is of little help if you are faced with a forkful of clever boys’ ”-Hudson (Gladwell 84). An IQ threshold suggests that after a certain amount a higher IQ does not correlate to success. This introduces the aspect of individual merit into success in regards to hard work. Until reading this book I have believed my successes to be a culmination of my own efforts. As a senior in high school me and two of my peers put together an art exhibit known as The Creators in
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How long does it take before the truth is revealed? In the novel‚ The Marino Mission we meet Alexa who is on a journey to explore. Alexa’s mission is clandestine. It exudes secrecy because she completes her mission in private‚uses her dad to get information and helps a dolphin that belongs to the military. It is true that Alexa misses her friends‚ but Alexa’s adventure is quite dangerous‚ she can find herself in a world of trouble. Alexa befriends Jose who wants to help a dolphin whose searching
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stupid by saying he had a mouse in his pocket with a broken neck from being pet to hard: “Lennie looked sadly up at him. ‘They was so little‚’ he said apologetically. ‘I’d pet ‘em‚ and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead—because they was so little. I wish’t we’d get the rabbits pretty soon‚ George. They ain’t so little.’(Steinbeck 10 )”.Strength helped him get the job at the farm and win the fight with Curley where he shattered curley’s hand. Strength
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According to Google‚ personality is defined as “the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character”. Personalities stem from a person’s distinctive preferences‚ which helps them to develop their identity‚ which typically differs from the stereotypes that society has assigned to them. According to Barry McGuiness‚ personality can also be defined
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In The Alchemist‚ Santiago is a young shepherd from a small town and has a dream about a treasure. He sells all his sheep and went in search of the treasure. Santiago is determined‚ courageous and curious to learn new things. As he follows his dream‚ he experiences a lot of difficulties‚ but also he learns a lot. If Santiago doesn’t possess these traits‚ he would never be able to fulfill his dream. Determination is one of the strongest traits that Santiago possesses. As a result‚ his parents
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The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1836) AR out in the ocean‚ where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower‚ and as clear as crystal‚ it is very‚ very deep; so deep‚ indeed‚ that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples‚ piled one upon another‚ would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare yellow sand. No‚ indeed; the
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In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ the main character Ponyboy undergoes several changes over the course of the story. At the beginning of the story Ponyboy has a very negative view of the rival gang the Socs. However by the end of the novel he comes to the realization that the gang he belongs to‚ the Greasers‚ is not much different than the Socs. At the beginning of the novel Ponyboy believes that the Greasers and the Socs are completely different. When Ponyboy was talking to Cherry he
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a silly thing like driving‚ and being underage while doing it? Cap Anderson is a flower child‚ who lives in Garland Farms with his sixty-seven year old grandmother‚ Rain‚ who educates him until she has an accident. Cap is different from other characters because Cap comes from Garland which is a whole different world. In Garland‚ there is no money‚ no television and different hobbies from the “real” world. Cap would have never thought he would interact with the world outside of Garland and enjoy
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There was a young lady with her signified attitude‚ having difficulties on her living. Here she is Nexiah. Once upon a time rainy evening of February 5‚ a mother gives birth to her baby. She and her husband give name Nexiah to the little baby. They decided that the baby will be their youngest child and now‚ they have five siblings including the newborn baby. Their neighbors and relatives said‚ “It seems that the youngest one is the apple of an eye of the couple”. However‚ they just ignore
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tells how the narrator’s emotions and feelings change throughout the story‚ emotions and feelings have a big effect on the theme because the narrators change is basically the main themes of the story. It shows the narrators development as a character by describing him being a guard and witness to a man’s death‚ without explaining what that man had done wrong. First he starts off by describing the environment in which the prisoners live‚ but stays away from describing any of them directly
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