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In Dweck 's article, “Transforming student’s motivation to learn” she describes how different people have different types of mindsets. There are two type of mindsets, fixed mindset and growth mindset. Fixed mindset think they are limited to what they can do and they always pretend to look good. They work under the limits and they never think outside the box. Growth mindset is what people think about themselves or what they are capable of doing. They see themselves as smart or hard worker . They…

My Name (Samia) My name, a lot people have it and it 's mine. In Arabic it means to be placed at a high level. Maybe that 's my future or maybe that 's what my parents expect from. Will I disappoint? Will I rise up to the challenge who knows? I want the successful life, the one people get handed to them or the one some work for. I don 't want my parents life for me, I want to succeed but what if I don’t live up to their standards. I was named after my great aunt she was noble and found success,…

remind me of the pain I caused. Those memories haunt me, and make me question myself a lot, but that’s okay. Some lessons, you just have to learn the hard way. When I was, for obvious reasons, a lot younger, my life was centered around my mom. Being a single parent, she had to work from literally dusk to dawn. We would wake up ar three a.m., she would get ready for work, I would fix my school uniform into a bag and…

Goal: Slow down at the heart of the story and use precise details and figurative language. Florida, By: Sydney Driving to the airport was the best part. I was very excited but very sad at the same time. I was sad because this was the first vacation that I had ever been on before and I was sad that I would have to leave my pets. Driving was the best part because that meant we were getting closer to Florida. But knowing I was 5 at the time I started getting really antsy. When…

In this term project i will be using lime green as my color. The story that I am creating is about a mint lime honey candy is eaten by people (depends on how many page I draw). The person shows an expression with eyes popping and mainly the expression when eating mint flavors. The facial expression of the character is the main, and around might be an aura like include the flying hair or belongings of the character. I am thinking of initially doing a girl eating a mint candy at first. Then I…

This is the story of X, who took the responsibility of her mistake and found a way out. She was a very lazy girl, and therefore, she never did her work on time. On one fine day, all the students of her class were asked to do a research and then write a report on it. They were given a weeks’ time to do that. X thought that 1 week was more than enough and took the assignment for granted. Though she never did her work on time, but she never failed to submit her assignments on the given time, and…

Almost a year ago , I made the biggest impact in my life, Something I’ve Never thought I will had the courage to leave my house and go to the other side of the country and hide there for a couple days , So I wouldn’t Come Back To United States Especially here Grand Island Nebraska. My trip to Nicaragua was scheduled for 2 weeks once I was there I act normal , like if I wasn’t thinking about escaping but I’ve planned all this 8 months before I even went to nicaragua, I had everything on point to…

The hit the road project was a great experience. I got to visit the Athletes building. We got to speak to Ross he works in the athlete department. His interview was great. During the in interview I got the vive like I was in the in a professional football player interview his words was pronounced clear and pronounce. While in his interview he had some good answers. One of the question we asked him was “can you describe a time when you felt “lost” in the process of defining your life and…

“I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.” -Chuck Norris. Chuck is anticipating on making it known that there will always be obstacles in the way, and people have to overcome them. No matter what life throws in the way, it will fade away soon enough. Someone once told me I would go nowhere in life, but that did not…

When Roger tried to mug Mrs. Jones he got more than just the ten dollars he tried to steal. Roger took away life lessons such as; working for what he wanted, to forgive, and to never give up on someone. Roger took away that if he wanted something he would’ve had to work for it. He tried to steal Mrs. Jones’s purse that had money in it. Instead of working for the blue suede shoes he wanted, he wanted to take the easy way out and steal it. Although Mrs. Jones didn’t necessarily have Roger work…