Crushing Learned Helplessness What exactly is learned helplessness and how do we defeat it? I think this reddit post sums it up very nicely. So‚ combing through a couple of informative videos I learned about something called learned helplessness. It’s essentially a condition in which an individual learns that there is nothing he/she can do to stop an uncomfortable stimuli‚ and therefore he stops trying to escape said stimuli altogether. They actually performed some experiments on this with dogs
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“Where I come From Is Like This” by Gunn Allen In her essay Gunn Allen utilizes effective ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos to convince ethnic studies woman‚ and feminist scholars‚ of her claim that European woman are in a bicultural bind between strong mighty Indian woman and Europeans who think of woman as weaker and lesser. Allen states that Indian woman were always thought as savage by the different views she had been taught‚ an example was when she talks about her Christian education they would tell
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Bad day One day‚ I was playing with my two sisters hide and find game. It was our favorite game ever‚ and we used to play it every day. But‚ in that day we were alone and our parents were in my aunt’s house. while we were playing it‚ my sisters hide from me. Suddenly‚ I heard their voices in our parent’s room‚ so I quickly ran to their room. But‚ when I tried to open the door‚ I found it closed. Then‚ I shouted for them to open the door‚ but they didn’t answer. After that‚ I sat down to think
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“Explain the argument from religious experience for the existence of God.”30 marks Expect different forms of the argument from religious experience‚ e.g. inductive argument‚ direct awareness‚ cumulative argument. Also expect reference to Swinburne’s principle of credulity and principle of testimony. Maximum Level 2 if summary of types of religious experience with no reference to argument for God. ------------------------------------------------- Level 7 for one fully developed argument‚ or two
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Bad Law/Lawyers Introduction: Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition‚ but one definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior. What is bad law you may ask? Bad law ties in with quite a few things‚ as a matter of fact it’s a very big subject but I would like to break it down to just a few certain topics. The topics that I would like to discuss are what is and makes a bad lawyer in general
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by far the strongest person I had ever met. She had to support herself; she lived alone after my grandfather passed away (Which was ironically on my birthday July 15th‚ 1978). She slept with a loaded handgun in her bedside table and a police club shoved into the side of her waterbed. I was lucky to spend nine years getting to know her as my grandma. In 1984 we move from Maine into my grandmas house at 319 Filmore Avenue‚ Cape Canaveral‚ Florida. It was one block from the Atlantic Ocean; we went
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been said‚ “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion‚ which source is more important? Why? 1.Upon the question that which source is more important? gaining knowledge from experience or from books? People may have different opinions. Admittedly‚ both have advantages and they are important. We can’t reject the fact that ‘Not everything that is learned is contained in books.”If we say
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Bad Habits Many people are trapped in some kind of a bad habit that they wish they never had. Bad habits are formed more easily than good habits‚ and are usually the hardest to get rid of. People who know of their bad habits want to change‚ but no matter how hard they try‚ they usually find themselves not being able to. Bad habits are formed over a period of time; it is important for us to avoid bad habits and try to control bad habits to improve our confidence and self-image. Smoking‚ drinking
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Good and Bad of Crowdsourcing Terry Harrington Southern New Hampshire University IT-100-X3088 Introduction to Info Tech 15EW3 The Good and Bad of Crowdsourcing "...we are only as strong as we are united‚ as weak as we are divided" (Rowling‚ 2000‚ p. 723). This famous quote could not be truer when it comes to the world of internet and crowdsourcing—“ the practice of obtaining needed services‚ ideas‚ or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online
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LESSON LEARNED There are many valuable lessons that I have learned throughout my life. The most important aspect of these lessons is that I have gained valuable knowledge through their experiences. We pay money for lessons taught in college and pay emotionally for our personal lessons‚ whether they are taught in school or through a personal experience that usually stands out from the rest. My lesson learned was a personal lesson. I played on my high school basketball team. I have some
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