Shamyra Jones Vejea Jennings English 097 March 23‚ 2013 Why Do We Hate The Smart Kids? My initial reaction to Grant Penrod essay was flabbergasting because even thou I am not in high school anymore I could look back and remember how all the jocks did get more recognition then the nerds. In my days at school the nerds were the smart people or the teacher’s pet. According to Grant Penrod‚ “Social stereotypes began to emerge as early as high school.”(Grant. Chapter 57 Pg. 692) I agree with
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a delightful story of a young boy and his many adventures. Many of the situations Huck finds himself in require a specific sense of “street smarts” in order to successfully overcome these various predicaments. To that end‚ I believe that Huck’s so-called “street smarts” prove beneficial to his endeavors‚ if only to a certain extent. One skill that Huck seems to have successfully mastered is the ability to lie without a single prick to his conscience. For instance
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The Very Personal Another perspective—a poignant one at that—about the shortcomings of Abstinence–Only comes from Elizabeth Smart‚ the young woman who made headlines after being abducted for nine months at age 14. At a Johns Hopkins University forum on human trafficking‚ Smart (who was raped repeatedly by her abductors) spoke out against the abstinence-only education she received as a child‚ suggesting that it deterred her from escaping her captors. She said that abstinence-only education makes
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The author is trying to persuade and inform us. I know this because in “How Smart Are Animals” on line 9 it states “She leapt over the five-foot fence and rushed to Andrea’s side”. So that is informing us about how dogs leap into action‚ but after that it states “But some people think her action was unthinking‚ after all it is a instinked and dogs have evolved from wolves who are highly social animals”. So all of that information are explanations. They tell us all of the pros they can do‚ then
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market that’s shifting rapidly towards smart phones‚ Nokia puts its American marketing might behind phones with less functionality. 2. In a market where the top smart phone manufacturers have close partnerships with carriers‚ Nokia has few. 3. It has big consumer awareness problems: When asked to name the top smart phones‚ people will think of the iPhone‚ Blackberries‚ even HTC and Samsung before they’ll think of Nokia. 4. Nokia simply hasn’t marketed smart phones much‚ or well‚ here. Nokia
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Advancing or furthering your ability to excel in your job or career is a smart reason for considering graduate education. The new skills and knowledge it gain as graduate education can improve my ability to do best work and better position to me for more opportunities for advancement in career. While a graduate degree does not automatically lead to a promotion in title‚ salary‚ or responsibility‚ it can be very personally‚ if not also professionally‚ rewarding. Hopefully my investment in yourself
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effects of smart phone in our life Do you know how smart phones are important in our lives? Nowadays‚ everyone is practically has one cell phones‚ and smart phones are gradually occupying a big part of it. In recent years‚ smart phones have a rapid and tremendous development (Chang‚ Chen & Hao‚ 2009).Correspondingly‚ all the cell phones’ industry are having intense competition‚ so they made smart phones not only have the original function‚ but also have a lot of new works that make smart phones have
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“The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” by psychologist Carol S. Dweck is a scientific research article focused on encouraging parents and teachers to promote growth mind-set rather than fixed mind-set to allow students to be successful in school and life. A challenge many teachers and parents are facing today is due to society’s stigma that innate intelligence produces success. Teachers and parents are praising the intelligence of kids rather than valuing the process of learning to be successful; as
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the reason I am getting behind and cramming doing the report is because I have not allocated the time to work on it. I want to elaborate a SMART goal setting that allow me to complete my weekly work assignment and the biweekly report. Goal: To reconcile the Medicare report biweekly on time‚ and without affecting my regular workflow. This goal fits the SMART model as follows: Specific: because I am the only person involved. The reason
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This week’s article‚ Struggle for Smarts? How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Learning‚ was written by Alix Spiegel on November 12 of 2012. It goes over the cultural norms regarding education in the United States and compares it to the schooling systems in Eastern Asia‚ particularly Japan and Taiwan. The biggest differences he pointed out were the widely contrasting views on struggling in the learning process. In America‚ he points out‚ struggling is a sign of weakness. If a person struggles
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