Get Smart

If there was a battle between street smarts and book smarts, who would win? Geeks or jocks? But the question is who is more intelligent? In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff , he argues that schools are not teaching students the right way of learning. He says that schools are to blame for being too broad with the courses that students are studying. Graff thinks book smarts are more knowledgeable and that street smarts are people who have situational awareness. His point of…

cities so convenient is the attempt at smart growth. Smart growth was brought around in the 1950’s. Smart growth brings communities together and helps the economy while effectively protecting the environment and human health. The government also does projects…

To me that is frightening, yes some of the devices that are available offer you and your family some security. You are able to get devices that will lock your door, warn you of gas, or water leaks. What I am afraid is that the power to access your home is just a hack away. There are so many potential and available IoT devices that if hacked can have serious consequences for the…

conversation. The device I’m referring to is none other than a smart phone. A smart phone is a mobile device with advanced features. It has a high-resolution touch screen display, WIFI connectivity, web browsing capabilities, and the ability to run sophisticated applications.(Jannsen) These devises have changed the world. They allow us to communicate with one another more easily than ever before. Although, in order to use and manage a smart phone, you will first need to know English: speaking,…

because many of the adolescents I work with come from single parent households and face these challenges each day with food insecurity being the biggest issue. As an intern at The Boys & Girls Club of Glasgow-Barren County I have been able to teach the SMART Moves program. This program is the clubs Skills, Mastery, and Resistance Training prevention program. This program can help the youth learn about the immediate dangers of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and how to avoid the threats along…

AWOL #3 (By Alix Spiegel for NPR, 11-12-12) Jim Stigler was sent to japan from university of michigan to test how others countries education is different from the education that american kids get. I strongly disagree with what Jim says about japan's kids versus american kids, how he put it as were just robots just following instructions under programing and to say that means he would have to take out all of the feelings all the way up to the brain control, and yes americans kids do no…

This shows you that smart phones have a bigger impact in our families than you think. Phones are so much a part of people’s lives that they can not even put them down for a thirty minute dinner with their family. Back when cell phones were just starting to become a big thing you would have never caught a smart phone out at a dinner table. Most teens did not even have a smart phone until they could afford to buy one or started driving now there are elementary school kids having smart phones. So…

drop dead gorgeous and sexy but at the same time incredibly smart” (250). I can see that men would use Elizabeth as a plaque because of her looks and intelligence; I believe she would be the type to take guys for granted only due to looks. She can easily pull a guy in if she really wanted to. In chapter seventeen she sleeps with Leonard and Raj in such a short period of time, which I believe she totally blindsided both of the men to just get what she wanted just to ditch them afterwards. Then…

In How Smart Are Animals the author , Dorothy Patent, is informing the audience by telling us that animals are smart and no dumb. It states in the story that animals think good are but, because they’re trained and taught. The way animals think is very difficult for them. That’s because they have a color vision and if someone say’s here blue they will know, but they need to train first. There was a dog that won an award for answering questions his name is Villa. The author Dorothy Patent in…

How might it affect a particular population and/or geographic region? IBM and UPMC first launched the smart rooms. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is now integrating 20 hospitals, 400 doctors' offices and outpatient sites, long-term care facilities and a major health insurance services division, and in collaboration with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC has advanced the quality and efficiency of health care and developed…