Get Smart

Goals. Resolutions are the commercial gimmicks used to get you to buy products and services that you won’t use (i.e. gym memberships). They are inauthentic and trivial at best. Goals are personal, and thus more meaningful, they force us to go deeper. Goals are concrete, thoughtful, and…

My SMART goal was to maintain my A’s for Quarter 2 in all seven classes. I was able to achieve this goal. In these next paragraphs, I will explain more about my effort, difficulties, successes, and changes. I put in a lot of effort into achieving this goal. To me, one of the most important things in getting good grades is always putting your best effort into things. I especially showed effort in using my time wisely, and doing my homework when I that needed to get done. When I made my SMART goal…

technologies like 3D printing, SMART boards, and mobile technology have changed the teaching and learning processes in ways that are beneficial for students and teachers in elementary and secondary education. 3D Printing Originally developed in the 1980s, 3D printers were first used mainly to…

“I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” The impact of this quote tells us how he knew he was smart, and lucky. The young indians were thought of to be dumb, and were treated differently, but he stood up, he knew he was smart, he knew that being able to read and being able to have an education made him lucky. The meaning of the quote is very similar to the explanation, because what the quote is saying is that he knew that he was all those things. No one had to tell him that…

Advertisers what they use to sell there products Many school have rejected street smarts as an intellectual idea. As Ned Laff put it "is not simply to exploit students' nonacademic interests, but get those interest through academic eye."(p.269) Gerald Graff believes street smarts can benefit intellectually. The particular appeals that advertisers use to sell me certain products is intellectualism. The product can make me part of communities. Being part of these communities I learn…

at all.Charlie writes down everything that he does or that happened in his journal in separate journal entries.Then one day Charlie gets a special surgery to make him a genius, suddenly he rapidly starts to get smarter and smart with grammar spelling and intelligence and this changes Charlie's life, for now.The main theme of this story is that you don't have to be smart to fit in. Charlie's main goal is to fit in with everyone.Charlie works at a factory and little does he know, but all his…

only are book smarts good to have but also street smarts. He touches on how he thinks schools systems have killed our interest and passion of being intellectuals? And what subjects are better to write about, sports, cars, fashion, Plato and Shakespeare? In the article the author states “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poorly in school” (Graff 380). He goes on to say how our schools could be at fault for our thinking that street smarts will not make…

Smartphones: Does the Good Outweigh the Bad? “The first smart phone became available for purchase to the public in 1993. This ‘smart’ phone was referred to as Simon” (History of the Smartphone) (QRCodeScanning.com). Today there are thousands of phones that can be referred to as ‘smart’ phones. Smart phones have become a part of most American’s daily lives. While smart phones can be very beneficial, they also have the potential to be dangerous. Smart phones are used in multiples ways for…

the reader would wonder why the character is alive. And that character's name is Clay Dilham. But, he is not only daring, he is also smart and clever. In the story “Up the slide”, Clay Dilham is sent on a duplicitous adventure to find wood to sell. But it is getting cold and he has to hurry. But, there is also another problem. He needs to climb a mountain to get the wood in time. Just knowing about what he is about to do proves that he is daring. But one reason that stood out to me was on page…

traits such as Brave , smart , and strong. In Homer’s Odyssey, it is my belief that Odysseus is heroic mostly because he was smart. For example, in the movie on his first trip home he met Poseidon’s son the cyclops. In that scene the cyclops asked for Odysseus’s name and he was smart enough to say “ nobody” so that when the cyclops went to tell his father or anyone they would think it was nobody. Also in the scene of the cyclops Odysseus and his men had to escape, he was a smart hero for coming…