Mindset

American poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Gwendolyn Brooks, National Book Award Winner, Ai Ogawa, and Emmy Award Winning Poet, Kwame Dawes are all essential components of the time of which they wrote. Writer Gwendolyn Brooks is a unique poet who is publishing poems that withstands the Civil Rights Movement. The poem “We Real Cool”, written by Gwendolyn, talks about seven young pool players whom left school to live the fast life and die young trying. Ai Ogawa develops poems with substantial…

miss out due to the fact you got a C- instead of your peer who got an A. During the summer, I have learned various study skills in my College study skills class, such as active reading skills, test taking strategies, different types of an academic mindset, and using resources around campus. I was putting all of these in practice…

“The revolution will not go better with coke” (Heron 1). The true revolution, Heron speaks of is a change in the mentality of the oppressed. The restlessness and demand for change will be the true definition of a revolution. In this change of my mindset, Heron stresses the futility of standing by coolly as the revolution takes place. “You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out” because successful efforts toward the liberation of the oppressed must be preceded by the liberation and…

in your corner. It’s about having the strive to go above and beyond to get what you want no matter what. When it comes to life we never know what’s next so when life causes you to have a major setback, you have the ability to come back with a new mindset knowing that anything is possible and that it can be done. Perseverance consist of three major keys believing, setting your goals, and then achieving them. I’ve been serving for the past three years’ different places but same job. Customer…

students mistake by thinking of their teacher as their only audience for their composition project. Therefore, Bean highlights the need to have students practicing writing to imaginary audiences in order to develop their skills to target different mindsets using different rhetorical…

can help mold you into who you will be in the future. Coming from a small school, there are two main cliques in our student body. These consist of the student-athletes and the students who don’t compete in sports. Student-athletes have a different mindsets, physique, and success rate compared to the students who are not involved in athletics. Granted the percentage of students involved in sports is low, the benefits are still significant. According to a survey conducted by NFHS (National…

settle on decisions that shape their lives, but at the same time, individuals align their beliefs with society and therefore, a person's conduct can impact others despite the how insignificant they can be. I believe that an individual’s actions and mindset is influenced by a combination of what is learned from passed events and the environment they live in, and how we act upon circumstances. Determinism can be boiled down to an individual's behavior being explained to be affected by surrounding…

around it in some way, only humans possess the knowledge and abilities to severely alter the environment in a way singular to their species. The human concept of nature constantly evolves depending on the state of technological progress and moral mindset people find themselves surrounded by. Historical changes, such as industrialization of cities in the United States, play a crucial a role in impacting human’s actions and viewpoint on the surrounding world. Therefore, throughout recent American…

How does the world see women? The unfortunate answer is that not everywhere, but in numerous different countries women are seen as inferior and not seen as equals to men, including the U.S. Women are not paid as much as men, they experience more violent and sexual harassment, and in other countries, having a son is actually seen as better than having a daughter. In "The Girl Effect," written by Nicholas D. Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn, the couple addresses the issues of discrimination and…

Within both sets of images there is an overall depiction of the historic mindset of those within Indonesia. Through the filming of the creation of reenactments viewers are provided with a sense of meta when watching; seeing that they are constantly reminded that they are watching the process of art imitate life, while watching…