What stood out to me in Chapter 6 was the chunking section on pg. 209. I am currently reading a book called "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley; it is a book primarily about how to study math and science‚ however‚ I am see that the techniques could be applied to the arts or just about any other subject. Chapters 4 and 7 primarily focus on how to chunk. The main concepts of the book are primarily about how memory works and how to make it work for you. It explains the concepts of spaced repetition
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An Inquiry into the Unwisdom in Government Govern‚ a word all people want the power to use‚ but does anyone actually do the right thing. According to Barbara W. Tuchman in her essay "An Inquiry into the Persistence of Unwisdom in Government‚" the people in government make the wrong decisions by assessing situations incorrectly. In this essay Tuchman’s main purpose is to show the distortion of government. Tuchman first uses the example of the French War in which at one point all the soldiers were
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The military single parent must know how to get advice and get answers. An important thing to remember as a family‚ and as a military parent‚ is to have a plan. The Servicemember who is a mother or father and becomes a single parent while serving in the reserves or on active duty service should ensure they have a strong‚ well thought out family care plan (Williams‚ 2001). Sometimes‚ you are at a duty station‚ your children will be with a member of the family while on deployment. It details
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One day in Florida‚ two nine-year-old kids are playing in the park. The birds are chirping. The sun is shining. A dead body is rotting. The kids‚ Quentin Jacobson and Margo Roth Spiegelman‚ run home to tell their parents. Quentin wants to push the whole finding-a-dead-body thing from his mind‚ but Margo finds out the man killed himself and wonders why. Nine years later‚ Margo Roth Spiegelman‚ who is now eighteen‚ comes to Quentin’s window in the middle of the night. They haven’t really hung out
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Barbara Kruger is by any bar one of the most unique and celebrated artists of the 21st Century. Her style of employing popular culture both as a tool and subject in her artistic works to critique common norms and values has changed the way we think about postmodern life. The questions and ideas brought forth by her work traverses consumerism‚ race‚ autonomy and economics. Her ability to use few words and an image to create an instant connection between the artist‚ the message and the viewer is a
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London HighsmithAbuse demolished my education at very early age. I can remember the rambling and tumbling and rolling on the ground‚ I could never get used of that sound‚ my mother yelling‚ “Get off of me!” Life was all over the place nothing seemed to fit directly in place as it should. My literacy took a tragic turn for the worst because of it. Gerald Graff says that he didn’t realize reading sports illustrated was reshaping his intellectual identity. Barbaba Mellix says she needed to overcome
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In this chapter‚ Barbara Arrowsmith is a young girl whose brain was asymmetry and her body was not normal since her right side was larger than her left. Due to her learning disabilities‚ she lacked the spatial reasoning. She also had kinesthetic problem as well as visual disability. She had trouble understanding math concepts‚ grammar. Due to her dyslexic‚ she couldn’t tell the different between b‚ d‚ q‚ and p‚ read “saw” as “was” which almost cost her life since she sniffles sulfuric acids. She
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provoking novel‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich explores the life of low-wage workers in America’s society. While speaking with an editor one day‚ the question of poverty and how American’s survive off six and seven dollars an hour played in Ms. Ehrenreich’s mind. So as a journalist‚ Ehrenreich goes undercover working several minimum wage jobs and tries to survive off the earnings. Seeing and living the lives of these poverty-stricken workers‚ Ehrenreich learns that hard work doesn’t always
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| | | Television journalist. Born September 25‚ 1931‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. She was the daughter of nightclub impresario Lou Walters (owner of New York ’s swanky Latin Quarter) and his wife‚ Dena. In 1937‚ Lou Walters expanded his business‚ which caused his family to adopt an itinerant lifestyle‚ moving from Boston to New York to Miami Beach. Walters attended the all-female Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville
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Dr. Barbara Wilson’s view on virtue ethics is that one’s “moral actions are guided by positive inner traits (virtues)‚ which rightly inform and guide a person’s behavior” (131). One should just be a good person and not look for a set of rules to follow in order to be a good person. Dr. Wilson’s “who you are an important as what you do” (132)‚ is a statement I agree with because‚ one should not do what they think is right for sake of the results of such. Living life just trying to be a good person
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