Six Thinking Hats

Rube Goldberg and Beyond The objective of this essay is to ask a question that you would like to answer as part of the scholarship application. My question is “What is an example of a creative approach you took to accomplish a project you were assigned?” As a high school physics student in my junior year, I was placed on a team and tasked with building a Rube Goldberg machine that could move an object 20 feet. I started the process by watching several YouTube videos that demonstrated the…

Will Gunderson was a good boy, as boys go. He grew up in the high plains of Colorado where cattle bellowed and grazed, and cowboys rode through his small town, donned with spurs, chaps, and big wide hats. He was full of dreams, fed by the white billowing clouds that danced in the bright blue sky above his house, and he spent his days riding his pony over the big meadows near the edge of town, and as he rode across the meadow, he was anywhere, but, home. William lived in a parsonage with…

“We are anonymous. We are a legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” There’s no bomb going off, shots are not being fired, but they say they are fighting a war, daily. Anonymous, their battleground is the internet, they support human rights and freedom. Their attacks have taken down, a website like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Corporations, foreign governments, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). What happens behind the curtains, for governments that…

In the future world where advance technology is available such as robotic bodies, invisibility, and night vision, many people lost their understanding and feeling of being human. “Ghost in the Shell” shows a cyborg girl to be hacking the Puppet Master. Major Mira, is not only a cyborg but is a human cyborg. This film shows the audience that technology will one day evolve, and robotics will improve life in ways that ordinary people will not be able to handle. This paper seeks to explore how…

examples each article provides, yet are similar in that they to the same central topic of hacking, and how white and black hat hackers differ, as the main objective. In the introduction of this article, the author explains that there are good and bad hackers. He continues by explaining the three different types of hackers, the white hat hackers, the gray hat hackers, and the black hat hackers. It states in the reading, that around the 1950s, a group of model-train enthusiasts decided to tinker…

How does Anonymous portray itself? The portrayal of Anonymous has two dimensions; a portrayal for the world to see and a portrayal for its members to see. Those two portrayals are for different purposes. The portrayal for the world is so that there can be a branded identity which society recognizes is “Anonymous.” This is portrayed to the world through its symbology, its activities or lack thereof, its tools and products. The primary symbology for Anonymous has become the Guy Fawkes mask.…

The first hat is blue which represents process oriented person. Next, the white hat represents person is who likes to focus on issues. The red hat is based on someone who relies on feelings. The gray hat is for a person who is collaborative. The yellow hat looks at the benefits of the situations. Lastly, the black hat is the cautious one that looks at the impacts of a given scenario. Overall, when you are in a meeting people you feel find that they stick with one hat. In order to have people…

‘Stormbreaker’ by Anthony Horowitz is a novel of spy fiction and is evidently an adequate example of spy fiction for many reasons. Some of which include: The protagonist’s gadgets, the revelation of the antagonist’s entire master plan, and the protagonist saving the day with mere moments to spare. In Horowitz’s novel of spy fiction contains many gadgets unique to his novel, as Alex Rider’s gadgets may appear to be ordinary products and items a teenage boy would own, like most spy’s gadgets are,…

What makes Theodor Seuss Geisel an interesting person? Geisel was an interesting person because he was writer, had crazy looking creatures, and unique individual. He had a good background, no conflicts and his crazy drawings made him famous. He was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2,1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Theodor went on to graduated from Dartmouth college in 1925. He then studied at Lincoln college of Oxford University. After dropping out from Oxford, he traveled throughout…

the Black Hat Hackers, they are the ones who have given hackers a bad name. Almost everyone in my school, in Castle Rock says "Your a terrorist Daniel", or "Your gonna screw everything up, your gonna destroy the internet". Seriously? I 'm not a bad person, I may be able to break the schools fire wall, and on occasion, Hack into the Pentagon, but I don 't do anything bad with it, I just hack the Pentagon, just to prove that I can. I 'm not an evil hacker, I 'm what is called a White Hat…