Outliers Summer Reading Assignment Introduction: The beginning of the book‚ Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell‚ starts off with the story of the Roseto Mystery. This is referencing from a true story taken place in a small town named Roseto in Pennsylvania. The name Roseto originated from Italy‚ this is named so because the people who make up Roseto‚ Pennsylvania are immigrants from Italy. People from this small‚ self-sufficient town amazed many doctors such as Stewart Wolf; the fact that heart disease
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Hello‚ my name is Ryo I am a second affirmative speaker. Our first speaker Nhu argued that children’s skills to keep on living . I will be claiming about children’s brain is suitable for learning a second language. My first point is learning foreign language has a wonderful effect on human’s brain. This is because the research which looked at brain densities of bilingual people. There were three types of people‚ some of them speak only one language‚ and some of them learned a second language before
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Live for yourself‚ as you deem fit. Razumihin’s “inspirational” quote while said with good intentions is idiotic. Being wrong in your own eyes is failure. Failure is not an option when all people think the same. If all people desire the same things‚ utopia is an easily achieved feat. A true utopian society would purge against free thought. No one would question authority because authority would mirror the entire population’s single list of desires. A society where everyone has their wants and needs
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The biggest addiction that is forced upon the youth is school. In the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto‚ states the unimportance of schools and that school should be avoided. As Gatto talks about his personal experience and the concept of schooling is an absolute boredom persuades me to agree on this fact. The idea that students have to attend school without having interest to the students makes it really boring. Students learning in schools must be interested in the subjects. In my High
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anyone who would drink his favorite beverage. The weirdo is all together more mysterious that leaves no reflection in societies mirror. 8. Iyer uses examples Jerry Lee Lewis‚ Gary Gilmore and Bernard Goetz. 9. Iyer uses the comparison between geniuses and psychopaths to show that both are out of the ordinary. If the successful are often strange‚ then being strange is a way of becoming
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Running Head: Dyslexia a learning disorder The Threshold Dyslexia a learning disorder Kaplan University The Threshold At the age of six‚ she was diagnosed with dyslexia‚ a learning disorder‚ and for her would be a life long challenge. Dyslexia does not only affect her reading‚ writing‚ and spelling skills‚ it also affected her concentration and her ability to memorize things like a simple rhyme. Children with dyslexia absorb information differently than
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Assuming Names: A Con Artist’s Masquerade by Tanya Thompson‚ is a non-fiction‚ autobiography. The story is about a 15 years old girl named Tanya. In the first part of the book she run away from home in Tennessee to‚ seek out the high class life she believe exist only in populated city‚ Dallas. While pretending to be a 23 years old high class countess‚ that travel with her “master”‚ she gained country wide attention. From FBI‚ to immigration and naturalization office. Tanya was known as “Counterfeit
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considerations 3.2.1 Qualitative framework of study 3.3. Data collection and procedure 3.3.1 Instruments‚participants 3.3.2 Data analysis 4.Discussions;summary of discussion 1.INTRODUCTION 1.1 background to the research Are people typically geniuses? Statistically‚ people probably are not. In fact‚ most people probably aren’t even intellectually gifted at all. Most people are likely to be pretty much average‚ maybe a little bit above average‚ or a little below‚ but very average none the less
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How Does The Constitution Work and How Does it Affect You? The president is the chief executive and is charged with enforcing the laws. The heads of all the government departments report to him. He is responsible for managing the government and spending the money that congress appropriates. He is the commander in chief of the armed forces but is a civilian. He can‚ with the advice and consent of the Senate‚ negotiate treaties and appoint justices of the Supreme Court and judges of lower courts
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The intelligence that you’ve had ever since childhood is beyond any wise men’s wisdom and that my friend‚ or preferably‚ mother‚ can take you very far in life. Whether that life will continue to be in your small hometown of Ghana‚ or across the ocean to somewhere big like America. Just know that no matter where you end up‚ you’ll always be a genius. Recently here in America‚ many citizens are still in loathe of us immigrants‚ especially the president‚ Trump. He dislikes the fact that different
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