Idea of Progress

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Imagination runs this world. Imagination creates what we live in today, and will evolve into what we live in tomorrow. “Imagination is more important than education” (Albert Einstein). Einstein was an extremely smart person who lived for education, but the importance of imagination is heavily stressed. In the animated music video “Shelter”, a girl is living in her own world through her imagination and it allows her to keep living in the horrible situation that she is facing. Contrary to…

Gingerbread House Analysis On December 11th 2017, the critical thinking class started making gingerbread house. Grace’s class decided to make these fun gingerbread houses to bring holiday cheer and celebrate the holidays. This project was a one day project and was very enjoyable. It was very easy and related to the E in STEM. The E stands for Engineering and there was a lot of that. This project only took one class period, which is surprising because the quality of some of them are astonishing…

literature of the chosen disciplines. Concept analysis is the first step at concept advancement (Hupcey & Penrod). Concept analysis might assist individual to understand the idea easily, especially the concept in science. Concept analysis in science and research is necessary for a person, so that an individual can understand essential ideas via ideal…

Michelle Hanabusa said she always aspired to be her own boss, and that she would find a way to do so. For the 26-year-old entrepreneur, that goal is becoming a reality. Hanabusa, along with two other business partners, started their own clothing brand called Uprising in November of last year. Hanabusa said that she and her co-founders named the brand Uprising because the purpose of their clothing is to empower young professionals to rise up and strive to reach their goals. “We’re for the…

Have you ever wondered why people are unaccepted? To be accepted is a common thing that rings through books, like the books Divergent and the girl that only had 2 arms and 2 legs. In the book Divergent, people are always nagging on each other. This also appears in the short story “The girl that had only 2 arms and 2 legs.” You may not realize it reading it, but they are very alike. In both stories, they all need to accept each other. That’s the common theme that rings through both of the…

Plagiarism may seem like a small unimportant The dictionary definition of plagiarism is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own” Plagiarism is hurtful to both the person plagiarizing and the creator of the content. It hurts the creator because they aren’t receiving proper credit for their hard work and creativity. It’s hurtful to the person plagiarizing because they aren’t fully solidifying the matter they’ve been learning into the brain and they…

him to. When Douglass says “I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without a remedy.” (27). I felt his pain, He had a voice, he had his own options and ideas and yet because he was a slave that all meant nothing. Douglass was aware of the world around him and yet his hands were tied, and he was pretty much forced to act oblivious to was going…

Eve Arnold, a well-known photojournalist of the 20th century, once asked her grandson, “What do you hang on the walls of your mind?” How would you answer? Imagine oneself in a pitch black room with unknown dimensions. Time seems to stand still and there is no way to perceive anything other than just how dark everything seems. This is my mind in its resting state. I’ve recently come to appreciate that emptiness and jump at the opportunity to spend time detoxing my mind. The only reasonable…

Touch wood, I like to think that I have lead a relatively healthy life up to this point. I like to eat healthily for the majority of the time and look back on some of the choices I made when I was a young adult and cringe at the fact that I did at one point smoke cigarettes. Apart from routine check-ups it is fairly rare for me to need to see a doctor. Working with children I like to think that I have a fairly strong immune system. If I do feel as though my throat is getting a bit scratchy I…