Carol Kuhlthau

As a wise man once said “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”. Scrooge in The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickison, is an old miser that is wealthy who didn’t care about others until three Christmas ghosts visited him and taught him a lesson about caring for others. George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, is a spirited adult who always lived his life helping others until something tragic happens and he gets visited by an angel. Scrooge and Bailey have similarities…

DRC MHSS ISP Quarterly Review 11/4/16-02/01/17 Grocery Skills During this quarter, Kenyatda had shown a bit of improvement with his diet and nutrition. Kenyatda manage to make wise food choice the majority of times. Kenyatda also improved on his budget. He would always make a list of the items that he needs from the grocery store. Psychiatric Wellness During this quarter, Kenyatda visited his primary care physician due to back pain. Kenyatda experienced back and it had been going for a…

The View of a Mindset A mindset controls your views, outlooks, and the way you approach situations in life. In Carol Dweck’s essay, “Excerpt from Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development”, Dweck shows the reader how a mindset can affect a person and ultimately set them up for success or failure. In Dweck’s essay she argues the differences between the fixed and growth oriented mindset. Dweck explains that the fixed mindset has a “carved in stone” perspective on things…

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is the story of the events that occured in the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is a mean spirited old man who only cares about himself, and his money He has little concern about any of his surrounding or the people in his life. In the story Scrooge is visited three unlikely guests, they are the ghosts of Christmas past, present and the yet to come or the future. As a result of these visits Scrooge turns his life around and finds the true meaning of…

Similar in many ways, every story read has a lesson learned at the end. For instance, Ebeneezer Scrooge is one of the wealthiest men in town, but his greed and grumpy attitude causes him to encounter the three ghosts of Christmas, that change his personality into a more loving and caring man. Without a doubt, Mr. Scrooge is an example of a character that changes throughout the story for the better. In other words, he is an archetype. An archetype is a prototype or model. Literary characters are…

A Stanford researcher, Carol Dweck, has been studying motivation and perseverance since the 1960´s, and found that children fall into two categories. Those with a fixed mindset, and Those with a growth mindset. She supports her argument by a research, were kids with a ¨Fixed mindset¨ are ¨stereotyped¨ by ¨ If you have to work hard, you don't have the ability¨. Kids with a ¨Growth mindset¨ are ¨stereotyped¨ by ¨ The more you challenge yourself, the smarter you become¨. In the article her…

A Christmas Carol is the story of an old man’s fantastic adventure one Christmas Eve. Ebenezer Scrooge’s adventure is a journey of discovery – learning that a heart filled with goodwill and charity, instead of bitterness and greed are more valuable and prosperous to the soul than material riches. Before his adventure, Ebenezer Scrooge complained to his nephew the morning of Christmas Eve, “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled…

The film shown in class demonstrate the son with a mastery growth mindset. According to Dyer lecture in class, she mentioned Carol Dweck mindset of people having learning goals, brainstorm strategies , and persist at challenges. Indeed, those who have learning goals are more likely to evaluate their own effort rather than asking others about their performance. During a situation, individual with a mastery growth mindset would brainstorm strategies to overcome challenges rather than to predict…

Gabriela Lopez Lopez 1 Professor Stern English 071 28 August 2014 Fixed mindset or growth mindset? Many argue that brains are fixed, that everyone has a certain amount of intelligence. This usually is known as a fixed mindset, but today we know the intelligence can be developed .In other words the difference between these to types of…

This essay is about Uncle Scrooge, and how his personality changed throughout the book, movie, and play. Uncle Scrooge was a biusness man. All he thought about was how to make more money. He had a partner his name was Jacob Marley. He died as a greedy, and mean old man that only cared about money. Ebenezer Scrooge soon caught on with this trait. In the beginning of the story Scrooge is a horrible man. All he wanted was money and nothing to do with anybody else or Christmas. He was greedy,…