Imagine this scenario‚ a radical political leader comes to power. His promises lead a small group of people to believe in him and trust his guidance. However‚ his party is sent crashing down leave his supports scattered. A question then arises‚ “Who is dumber the leader or those who followed him.” Ultimately‚ those who blindly follow leaders are the dumbest. This analogy fits the story of “Romeo and Juliet”. Romeo is the psychotic leader with impossible goals‚ and Juliet is the blind follower who meets
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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environmental influences and that 30‚000 genes were too few to explain human nature‚ whereas 100‚000 would have been enough. As one scientist put it to me a few weeks later‚ just 33 genes‚ each coming in two varieties (on or off)‚ would be enough to make every human being in the world unique. There are more than 10 billion combinations that could come from flipping
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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Hall-Evans 1 Susan Hall-Evans S. Fong English 1a 09/25/2014 What Makes You Happy? Advertising is tricky. The challenge facing most advertising groups is creating the allure to get the consumer to buy their products. In advertising the lay out is just as important as the context of the ad. The advertisers use all forms to entice us: color‚ typography‚ catch words‚ and of course things that appeal to our vulnerabilities. These catch words are words which are
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Dumber Than a Doornail Stereotypes are assumptions made about a group of people based on commonalities shared among that group. These assumptions normally have to do with religion‚ ethnicity‚ cultural values‚ and even outward appearances. One of the common reasons stereotypes exist is that it is easy to identify individuals without interacting with them. A person can identify a face and immediately categorize him or her based on information derived from upbringing‚ past experiences‚ and the media
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What makes an American an American? Is it the accent‚ the clothing‚ the fact that you can speak the English language‚ or is it the fact that you were born on American soil? I believe it’s certain characteristics that set us apart from other countries. The fact we are self-reliant‚ and competitive‚ and the compassion we bring to others are some‚ of many‚ American characteristics that help set us apart. These are the three characteristics that I have chosen to write about. Our self-reliance
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Do television advertisements make consumers want to make changes in their lives? Some advertisements can make young people feel insecure about their physical appearance. They can also create a need for young people to be attractive which could lead to a result of insufficient funds. In short‚ advertisements today encourage adolescents to spend more time and money on products that will help make them the “perfect human”. Television advertisements may use skinny models‚ which can give young women
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However‚ there is a strong argument from previous generations that this generation is becoming “dumber” due to the easy access and overreliance on technology for education‚ leading us to wonder whether technology is truly benefiting or harming this generation’s intelligence. While the author Mark Bauerlain believes that the arrival of technology has affected the way millennials think‚ making them “dumber”‚ technology has rather provided for us a more approachable‚ time-saving‚ and broader range of
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The twenty-first century is defined as a digital world. Technology has taken over our present lives. It does not in any way resemble our past lives. Societies all over the world managed to master these technologies and make the best out of them and so far one could argue they have been successful. However one cannot deny that downsides do exist. People today are unable to extract themselves from the internet and all the technologies that come along with it. The Internet is definitely a complex tool
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