Intelligence analysis

Picture books are distinct compared to other types of books. They have simple illustrations, large fonts, few words, and various colors. These characteristics are meant to attract the reader’s attention. Picture books provide both literal and visual enjoyment. This is also the case in the picture book We Are Growing by Laurie Keller and Mo Willems. This book, although having the characteristics listed above, has particularly an educational strength different from others. It shows the simplest…

The “10,000 Hour” phenomenon does not make an outlier as Gladwell proposes, it is a result, not the cause. Each of the “outliers” spent time, practiced their skill because they loved what they were doing. Gladwell quotes (Outliers, pg. 52) Bill Gates as saying “It was my obsession”. All of the “outliers” found their talent, loved it and spent as much time as they could learning and perfecting it. Gladwell uses Wolfgang Mozart as an example of the “10,000 Hour” phenomenon (Outliers, pg. 40)…

Some essential information about me is my personality and my interests. I’m a pretty shy person until you get to know me. I don’t like attention of any sort on me. Some of my interests are going down the shore and hanging out with my friends. I like going down the shore because I enjoy going in the ocean and laying on a blanket in the sand and reading a book. Hanging out with my friends is probably my favorite thing because I don’t get to see them a lot anymore so it’s really fun when we get to…

To begin with, a couple of weeks after Charlie, a 32-year-old man with an I.Q. of 68, has an operation to make him “smart”, he doesn't see any progress in his intelligence. After work one day, Frank and Joe, Two employees at Donner’s Bakery who often pick on Charlie, take Charlie to a bar, where they urge him to dance like a buffoon and then abandon him, but charlie is unaware of that and thinks they're all having a good time. “Everyone laffed and we had a good time and they gave me lots of…

The speaker asserts that imagination is "sometimes" more valuable than experience because individuals who lack experience can more freely imagine possibilities for approaching tasks than those entrenched in established habits and attitudes. I fundamentally agree; however, as the speaker implies, it is important not to overstate the comparative value of imagination. Examples from the arts and the sciences aptly illustrate both the speaker's point and my caveat. One need only observe young…

In the article The impact of physical exercise on convergent and divergent thinking, by Frontiers in Psychology, researchers set out to study how physical exercise can affect convergent and divergent thinking. Convergent thinking is finding out one possible solution for particular problem using logic and speed, such as a multiple choice quiz. Divergent thinking allows many ideas to be generated, such as brainstorming. It is important to know if physical exercise can help us become more creative…

Intelligence is not what one can acquire from books, but how one can effectively react to non-receptive content. In the article “Blue-collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose contends that workers in the professional field are not more resourcefully adequate than blue-collar and service workers. Being successful in the labor or service field requires the same set of mind tools as doctors, lawyers, scientists, and other professionals. The way a doctor generates a diagnosis based on intuition and medical…

August Spies was one of the “anarchists, foreign born-Germany” that was involved in the “Haymarket Affair” (Source). August Spies was a man raised in Germany who had ambitions to create a better world no matter where he was (Source). It just so happened that the “New World” was a place he ended up and wanted to help change to be better (Source). During his autobiography, he expresses in great detail on how he was raised, and how he looks at life, living in Germany, and living in the New World…

provides to him a great deal of intelligence, but for only a short amount of time. I believe that this procedure benefitted Charlie greatly, let me explain why. To start, what was Charlie like before this operation? Though he was a great guy, worked hard and was dedicated to his learning, two colleagues were constantly laughing at the poor guy. Charlie never even knew it. Many people respected Charlie for who he was despite his obvious downfalls. With an I.Q(intelligence quotient) score of 68,…

I have met some of the smartest incoherent people in my life because they live their lives through what they learned in school. This begs me to classify, which is more valuable in life: book smarts, street smarts or to possess both qualities equally. Book smart people are usually the individuals who most likely exceed in school and graduate with straight honors or scholars. As well as, these people follow the rules and gain information from someone else’s writing. To clarify, book smart…