Outliers

impossible distances. This has always fascinated me, since there is no definitive answer to why some people are more athletic and what gives the top athletes their edge over others. Similar books such as Faster, Higher, Stronger by Mark McClusky and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell have also always peaked my interest to answer my question that seemingly has no answer. These books…

Reflection Essay Through the concluding of the Cornerstone class. I acquired a variety of skills, I also refresh my memory of concepts that I knew during my academic career, and the Course helped me to remind about. for me one the mayor hurdles during the course of this class was the interactive digital communication, it has always been one of my mayor challenges, fortunately by the end of the course, I have improved my skills, and now I am making changes to improving them with the use of…

American Dream. In comparison, “Into the Wild” goes about addressing the materialistic nature of the American Dream in almost the opposite fashion. In a modern context in which the materialism has taken over society, Penn depicts Chris as somewhat of an outlier who rejects the materialism associated with the dream in favour of a pursuit of self-enlightenment in nature, his own version of the dream. Penn depicts this through the contrast of the nature of Chris’ journey compared to that of the…

quality that could be used to make a child. After all, humans really just want the most suitable mate possible to create the best offspring they can. Park and his team then lead a similar experiment with top tennis players and although there were a few outliers for the most part the best tennis players ranked as the most attractive (Callaway). In yet another experiment conducted some time before both of these the scientists found that hockey goalies and forwards were more attractive than their…

There are several different types of plant hormones some of which inhibit or promote growth in the plant. There are also synthetic varieties of these plant hormones, specifically the plant hormone auxin which has many different synthetic compounds. There is not much data on the impact that these synthetic hormones have on plants growth rate in pea plants. In order to understand the impacts of synthetic auxin an experiment was conducted using natural auxin, naphthaleneacetic acid, and…

.) Students of today differ from the students of yesterday, and as teachers, it is very critical to know and understand them as individuals. Adolescents are maturing earlier and do so at a variety of rates, causing diversity among physical, intellectual, social, and emotional developments. Not only are students different regarding maturity, but they also may be on different comprehension levels. A student may have a learning disability or may be gifted, but both levels may be found in the same…

student I know has it worse, so respectively this article for me was mostly a gateway in a realm of empathy that I have even considered before. As a teacher obviously you want your students to be doing their homework, there will be inevitably some outliers of the person that never wants to do and never does or the one that does it immediately as it is assigned. Both opposite end of the spectrum of students is something most high school teacher are well familiar with as most of them rely on…

Gilda is in the same shot as another character, as it is typical that she will have the modified lighting scheme placed on her whereas the other character will have a more modest, dim and hard lighting scheme placed on them. However, this scene is an outlier in that the modified lighting scheme that is used on Gilda is significantly toned down, weather she is in the same shot as Max or otherwise. This change in the lighting could suggest that Gilda is no longer as passionate and vivacious as she…

Introduction Acknowledgement of one’s own vulnerability is the path to greater understanding of life, love, emotion, leadership and the moral and ethical code upon which each is built. The vulnerable are able to draw from the experience and associated emotion of others and incorporate the lessons obtained through these experiences into an ethical foundation. Building a foundation of vulnerability leads to the construction of a future mosaic of heightened emotional intelligence and endows one…

Erik Erickson was a renowned psychologist for his famous theory of stages of psychosocial development. Erickson never received a formal degree in medicine or psychology. Instead, he focused his education on subjects such as history and art. He was later offered a position at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute where he received two certifications. He moved to the U.S. in 1933 and received teaching positions at a variety of universities including: Harvard, Yale, and University of California…