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really benefit from it. Leon Botstein states that “high school [just] doesn’t work anymore” in today’s society (Source 3). Education has fallen behind as the world has progressed. In order for education to be effective and useful in our adult years, we must not “prolong the life of a flawed institution that is out of date” (Source 3). Society as a whole must find a way to teach differently and more efficiently to get the societal results we want. One strong concept in Leon Botstein's critique…

Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and the first explorer to set foot in North America. De Leon was one of the many people to influence Florida, as we know it today. De Leon is a highly recognized for being Florida’s first resident and governor. Ponce de Leon was a Spanish Explorer who was born in 1460. He sailed to Florida from Puerto Rico in 1513. Shortly thereafter, de Leon and his crew arrived at Florida’s east coast, near St. Augustine. He claimed the land for Spain and called it La…

Ponce de Leon; Understanding the New World After the Exploration of the new world there were many figures that helped the Spaniards understand the new territory like the influential Ponce de Leon. As a young boy born into a noble family de Leon became a page and quickly thrived and grew into a strong soldier. Ponce de Leon joined Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to help found and develop connections with the Indians to be able to start colonizing for Spain. Juan Ponce de Leon…

Brief of U.S. v. Leon 2 United States v. Leon 468 U.S. 897, 104 Ct. 3430, 104 S. Ct.3405,82L. Ed.2d677 (1984) Petitioner: Unites States Respondent: Alberto Leon Police officers monitored the drug activities of Leon. A search warrant had been issued upon the monitoring of the activities. A lot of drugs were confiscated. Leon was charged…

In the mid of 1950’s, the Behavioral Sciences Division of the Ford Foundation gave Leon Festinger a grant, which was part of the program of the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations. From this grant, he was able to write his first document on the Social Comparison Theory which was published in the Journal of Human Relations in 1954. Leon Festinger at 1954 was the first who used the theory of social comparison and the first proposed the theory of methodology, but the general concept in…

Leon Festinger’s (1957) cognitive dissonance theory holds that people seek to reduce inharmonious cognitions. Like dissonant notes in music, these inconsistent thoughts are very grating to the individual. Measures must be taken to alleviate the tension brought on by the inconsistency. The intensity of the dissonance depends on the ratio between dissonant cognitions. The desire to relieve that pressure will intensify as the gap becomes wider. Cognitive dissonance reduction methods include:…

United States of America is said to be the melting pot, but Oscar de Leon would disagree. Immigrating to the United States is not an easy transition, especially when an induvial is trying to identify themselves within a new nation. Do they follow a new path or do they follow their ancestor 's path and continue to follow in their family and cultural footsteps? They yearn to find who they are. But for some characters such as Oscar de Leon, they refuse to change the person they are. Not only is it…

Which explorer had the greatest impact? Juan Ponce de Leon because he accompanied Christopher Columbus on his 1493 voyage Ponce de León was a member of this expedition, one of 200 "gentleman volunteers." They took the second voyage to America He and his family settled on an island in the Caribbean named Hispaniola (Dominican Republic). De Leon A decade later, he was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became Puerto Rico.…

Leon Brooks finally regained consciousness. He couldn’t see. He was stuck in a trunk of a car with his hands and feet cuffed. Although he kept trying to wiggle his hands and feet free, he couldn’t release himself from the hand and leg cuffs. He couldn’t shout either (not that anyone would care) because they tied a rag across his mouth. He could only barely breathe through his nose. After about ten minutes of desperately trying, he gave up. He knew it was hopeless. He had to gather his thoughts…

value and agency of human beings. Humanist individuals prefer critical thinking and evidence over superstition. Humanism came about from the renaissance, the rebirth of Europe after the middle ages. A perfect example of a humanist, renaissance man is Leon Battista Alberti. Born on February 14, 1404 in Genoa, Italy, place were the Renaissance began. Alberti is also known as the quintessential Renaissance “universal man” by many scholars. Alberti was noted for his great talent in architecture,…