Mindset

your test it was separated from how well u comprehend and understood the field. This way of grading showed a great deal within the students. If this method of grading was done throughout our country their would be a large adjustment toward students mindsets. We will see an improvement of the students more fully involved with their education. But in order for this to happen people need to first see that our grading system is broken. They need to see and understand the affects it has on the…

Hill wrote, “growth mindset benefits girls” (Hill, n.d). A growth mindset is when you believe your intelligence can be developed. Having a “fixed mindset” does not allow you to grow and learn more as an adult. Having a “growth mindset” allows women to learn more about the math and science that goes into computer science and programming. If a woman has a “fixed mindset” then she will give up on programming when she cannot learn something new and…

Western cultures are not as perfect as it is depicted to be to our citizens. Throughout my educational experience, America has been taught in school systems as one whom does no harm unto others and has proper intent with all actions. In reality, however, I realized the truth that America, in fact, makes poor decisions and manipulates nations for their own benefit, which is sustained throughout Shailja Patel’s novel, Migritude. Western societies are portrayed as faultless in a dishonorably…

Throughout the beginning of the novel Darl is displayed as a more rational figure until he reaches a chiasmic shift caused by Addie's death leads him to have a mentally altered mindset. This chiastic shift alters the entirety of the mood within As I Lay Dying. Given that Darl is the primary narrator in the book, his own chiasmic shift is what determines the outcome of events. Darl's own awareness of the other narrators and their ideals and own narrations of the events in As I Lay Dying…

Everything That Narrows Will Reach an End The short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” centers on the dysfunctional relationship between recent college graduate Julian and his outspoken mother. Set during the civil rights movement, the author Flannery O’Connor uses racial tensions as a template to demonstrate how detrimental small mindedness can be in a relationship.The story consists simply of Julian’s mother traveling to her fitness class with her son via the bus. However, during this…

Experiencing “Black Sundays” are what has influenced who I am. Waking up that Sunday morning, to the harmonies of my granny’s loud Gospel music, the pungent smell of bleach, or the sweet lemon scent of Pine Sol has immeasurably affected my life, and the person I’ve grown into. Growing up in a predominantly black neighborhood has never altered how I’ve seen success, but it has made me aware everyday I stepped outside that to get to my success I had to work harder than the average suburban-raised…

The responsibilities that the enlightened have to society is to overcome the wave of stubbornness that they will receive from all those people that they would have to convince. They have to keep on trying to really alter their ways of thinking and maybe show some examples that what they’re saying is true. There are many examples of acts like this in history and today of people trying to share some new ideas or “enlighten” them. One example of this act is Donald Trump running for President today…

After a generation or two passed with this kind of mindset, the Colonists came to realize that they wanted self-governance. In 1775 the American’s knew they did not have the same religion but shared the idea of Independence. Therefore, the Great Awakening pushed towards a coming Revolution. Whitefield and…

Not everything in the world is perfect as seen through the mindset of the people. An intense quote Baldwin states, “This rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is one of the things that makes history.” Discrimination is still seen a norm. Acception without progress, is seen worse as without exception. Similar to saying that just watching the crime happen is almost as worse as the one who commited the crime. People are slowly…

American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain draws upon two contrasting environments to construct the beneficial aspects and importance of a natural life. While doing so, he emphasizes the idea civilization often clouds individual mindsets. Analysis of Literature Numerous critics describe Mark Twain’s accentuation that environments curb individual choices. The critic T. S. Eliot discusses the river’s…