Nathan Griffith Professor Bolton English 102 January 30‚ 2014 The Traditions They Follow Why do some societies follow traditions that have pointless rules? “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson that asks the same question. The narrator presents a small-town where a traditional lottery is held annually every summer on June 27th. The town’s people get together for a lottery (1). The reward is unknown at the beginning to reader‚ but increasingly becomes more apparent as
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public? Well‚ here is one that I heard and got me interested. I am mostly agreed with the ideas or examples given by Kie Ho in the article “We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think” Fist thing I agree with Ho is the freedom to freely think‚ write and be creative. I like it when Ho mentions that we might not have the vest education standard but we have the best school for students to share their ideas and opinions. One good example that he mentioned was the differences between his high
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January 24‚ 2011 Think & Grow Rich Most people in today’s society define success as someone who makes a lot of money or has done something important to help form today’s society. People such as Bill Gates or Donald Trump are considered successful because they have lots of money. Even actors whose lives are wrecked and destroyed are considered successful because of the money they have. Others‚ like Thomas Edison‚ are considered successful because of accomplishments they achieved in their lives
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Think And Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill CONTENTS FOREWORD PUBLISHER’S PREFACE AUTHOR’S PREFACE CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 - DESIRE CHAPTER 3 - FAITH CHAPTER 4 - AUTO-SUGGESTION CHAPTER 5 - SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER 6 - IMAGINATION PART II CHAPTER 7 - ORGANIZED PLANNING CHAPTER 8 - DECISION CHAPTER 9 - PERSISTENCE CHAPTER 10 - POWER OF THE MASTER MIND CHAPTER 11 - THE MYSTERY OF SEX TRANSMUTATION CHAPTER 12 - THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND CHAPTER 13 - THE BRAIN CHAPTER 14 - THE SIXTH SENSE
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?We should Cherish Our Children?s Freedom to Think? In Kie Ho?s essay ?We should Cherish Our Children?s Freedom to Think‚? Ho argues that America education is not as advanced in academics as other countries but it is surely much better in other ways than many countries in the world. Ho shows that American education tends to teach young children to develop their own creativity more‚ rather than trying to fill their brain with knowledge‚ like a can of sausage. The essay consists mainly of the personal
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“We need first to love our own” -ACAA “To learn the culture of other nations‚ we need first to love our own”‚ This was my final remarks at the end of my speech during the 48th NATIONAL RIZAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE CONFERENCE-National Extemporaneous Speaking Contest held last December 16‚ 2010. During that contest‚ we were asked to discuss about our rich and diverse culture and how it affects the history of our nation. Culture (Kultura in Filipino and văn hóa in Vietnamese) in my own words
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A Critique of “We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think” Kie Ho‚ in his article‚ tried to prove that American education is better than any other even though it doesn’t have high standards in basic skills. He sustained his thesis by saying that “[American] children are able to experiment freely with ideas”(Ho‚ 1996‚ p.126)‚ while children in many other countries are demanded to practice mathematics or language skills. However‚ I don’t agree with his stance; he defined education in other
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graduation‚ our government came to a conclussion that the education system is failing. After examining the information out of the different articles‚ it is obvious that the U.S. educational system should adopt some Asian techniques in teaching‚ but there are some methods wich must not be changed because of cultural differences. The U.S. educational
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Education: "We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom To Think" This essay is about the article called "We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think." It was written by Kie Ho‚ a business executive who was born and raised in Indonesia. Ho writes this article about why he thinks that American education is‚ in many ways better than any other in the world. He raises the question‚ "If American education is so tragically inferior‚ why is it that this is still the country of innovation?" Everyone
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We read the article‚ “We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think” last week. The author Kie Ho uses his own experiences about his son’s thought and many examples to prove his point. He thinks that public education certainly is not perfect in America‚ but it is a great deal better than any other country. Children should be more liberal thinking‚ writing and imagining‚ rather than comply with the rules or follow the prescribed order of their parents and the execution of what adults say. Children’s
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