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fixed mindset and growth mindset. Growth mindset means that students know that they need to work strenuously to achieve success while on the other hand fixed mindset students believes that intelligence is a fixed trait and they cannot change it, if a person is smart they can do anything. Students with fixed mindset think that they were born smart and do not have to do anything to improve themselves. On the contrary, growth mindset students believe that they need to work hard and put effort to…

To Start off, I chose to react to Professor Emerson’s scholarly paper because I strongly believe to better understand a professor’s teaching style it is important to examine real life examples of their personal work. Most teaching today involves already premade PowerPoints that the teachers base their lectures off, I have noticed Professor Emerson has a Unique way of teaching, but nevertheless, there are still the same PowerPoints that are used every year. So, a personal article like “Law as…

Harmony (An Analysis of an Ideal Leader Using Plato’s, The Republic, and Machiavelli’s, The Prince) History is taught in school throughout the world in an attempt to prevent the repetition of major mistakes. From the past, we can follow the patterns of governments and societies that dwelled harmoniously, and the ones who fell to poverty and overall destruction. “America’s economic history seems to repeat itself endlessly, following irregular and dramatic cycles” (Dornbusch). No matter how…

the modern student and the behaviors they feel will help them succeed. She published her findings in a book titled Doing School. In Doing School, she follows five students at Faircrest High School. Pope analyzes their behaviors and why they do them. Firstly, Pope discusses the “Predicament of Doing School.” She describes “Doing School” as how students manipulate their teachers and the system in order to get ahead. Pope categorizes these behaviors into four different habits that students rely…

The goal of this is to show how fraternities, in particular, Pi Kappa Alpha can be a discourse community for the involved members. Also, I hope to prove that fraternities in general can be looked upon as a positive association that give “kids” opportunity who in the end will become men. I had no idea really what discourse communities were until the article, “The Concept of Discourse Community” by John Swales, a linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, who eventually proved to me that…

When two rhetors are engaging in a debate, they can easily argue past one another if a mutual level of stasis is not settled upon. In the debate of “A Short History Of Torches And Intimidation” written by Sarah Bond and “Parents Fight Over Pledging Allegiance In Schools” written by Tovia Smith, both rhetors can agree that symbols serve a certain function and when those functions are abused it can cause conflict and uproar, especially when the function confronts the question of whether or not it…

“What is the TRUTH about JonBenet Ramsey’s death?” The mystery was an eyecatcher to us and we thought it would be to you too. The reason we got deep into doing this is that our teacher mentioned it last year during class and we got very interested in it. We hoped to learn the actual evidence of the case not just opinions. We got deep looking all over the web to get the facts. This case is not been solved it is still going and has been twenty years.We also wanted to how and why she was murdered.…

budget. The in-class production had no budget but the Annie hall remake did. Because it was a SAE production we did not have to pay to hire out any equipment but for set design, food and hiring the actors it was a bit pricey for me as a university student. Next time I will get much more prior notice and save additional money if it’s a larger production such as a short film or something. It was great having to spend money on the production because it let me see how much we would have to spend on…

College Students Need to Toughen Up Essay College Students Need to Toughen Up, Quit Their Grade Whining, is an essay written by Robert Schlesinger that critiques the grading system many college students expect. Robert states that when he was in college, “Do an adequate job, get a c,” was the standard. Schlesinger shows frustration to current college students that expect high grade for doing mediocre jobs. He disagrees with students that believe that their grades should show the amount of effort…

my own individual experience the teamwork during the class has been very beneficial, especially as I worked together with students from Eastern Europe and not from Latin America. The course offered the opportunity to get in touch with new cultures, which are completely different to the German culture. Moreover, it was very interesting to exchange opinions with other students during discussions in class, for example when we talked about a Brazilian or Russian company our “experts” loved to share…