Book Notes: Talent is overrated 1. The Mystery – Where great performance really comes from? 2. Talent is overrated – unexpected facts about innate abilities 3. How smart do you have to be? 4. A better idea – explanation of great performance that makes sense a. Jerry Rice i. Six-days-a-week off-season workouts 1. Practicing long after the rest of the team had gone home 2. Very little time on football – focused concentration on specific needs
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In chapter one "Time and the Mythic Present" of the novel‚ "Thunder Rides A Black Horse" by Claire R. Farrer discussed Native American people live with those who have gone before them with those who are present at the moment. In the American West and Southwest‚ Indians on multiple reservations live their life in the "mythic present". What modern Americans considered to have occurred long ago‚ if it even occurred at all‚ is actual
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Knowledge is power. For Sherman Alexie learning to read gave him the power to rise above the stereotype for native americans. In his essay‚ “Superman and Me”‚ Alexie reveals the story of how against all odds‚ he learned to read‚ and how it changed his life. He builds a persuasive argument by proving his credibility as an impoverished child and the use of strong emotional appeals to convince the reader on the importance of the difference an education can make in someone’s life. In his short story
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Summary of ‘the Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me’ In his essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie claimed that it was reading and knowledge which saved his life. Because‚ besides reading and books‚ his family and background was the same as other Indians who lived in the reservation: poor and underprivileged. Alexie then recalled how his father read as many books as possible‚ which made himself a role model to the author. Under his father’s influence‚ Alexie
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something that any older kid will do to someone that cannot defend themselves. It had started during his elementary school years. First‚ Logan was bullied for his clothes‚ thick glasses‚ crossed eyes‚ and lisp pronunciation. His mom would bring hand-me downs and made him wear them‚ other kids would see and make fun of him. He was bullied for that. When he thought his prayers were answered‚ was when they had to move and go to a different school‚ he noticed that no one payed much attention to him on
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You can’t determine those things and those kinds of things are the biggest parts of who you are. Yes‚ you can determine how you act and what you want to look like‚ but as far as the cultural aspect you are who you are because you were raised into it by your family. In the essay “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples‚ he is African American because his parents were and now is stereotyped into being dangerous. He can’t control that though. Also‚ in the essay “Longing
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Rose Mary is supposed to play the role of caring for the kids and watching over them while the father is at work. The father‚ Rex Walls‚ is supposed to provide for the family such as‚ bring home money and food for the kids to survive. Throughout the book the parents‚ Rose Mary and Rex‚ often do not pay attention to their kids and are not responsible in looking after them. This issue causes the Walls’ kids to work for what they needed and how to be more independent in life. The Walls’
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day. They use their beliefs to almost in a way justify their actions to their followers‚ and it unfortunately works. It is perceived that they know what they’re doing is not actually under their religious codes‚ but they are fine with that. In Black Flags‚ by Joby Warrick‚ he talks about the mayhem that is caused between individuals and their groups because of their religious beliefs they follow. Warrick talks about how Sunni Muslims lack a centralized religious hierarchy‚ which is why they cannot
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How would you feel if someone you loved was taking advantage of you? Would you feel sad? Would you feel angry? What if they were only coming back enough to keep you interested? In the book The Giving Tree‚ the boy was interested in the tree for a short while and then he started to grow up‚ causing him to leave the tree periodically. And every time the boy came back he would take something of the trees and use it for himself‚ but the tree loved the boy so much that it made the tree happy. Every time
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I convene to ponder David Mills’ article on self- esteem‚ Thomas Wolfe’s dubbing of the baby boomer generation as the “me generation” persists in tugging at my mind. Wolfe accurately describes a change that transpired in the decade of the seventies following one of togetherness in the sixties to one of self-absorption and hedonism‚ through those two words accentuating the word “me.” Unfortunately‚ each generation subsequent ensures onto their children the idea in which every individual exists in the
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