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    Growth Mindset

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    behind. This is usually said by parents, and their children usually fall behind due to their mindset, not failed attempts in learning. A mindset is what every student has and it shows how they are gaining knowledge or intelligence in classes. Two mindsets are in place in school: a fixed mindset where students are afraid of challenges and going further with learning because they don’t have the ability to become intelligent, and a growth mindset where students believe learning is the key way to…

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    Taking Life Step- By- Step '. For me, this law means that it 's nature 's assurance that I can achieve any goal by breaking it down into smaller, sure steps. It reminds me to not set a goal and follow through with it with the journey 's end in mind because that would be overwhelming. Instead, by breaking down any task into manageable steps, I don 't have to wait for success at the journey 's end, but rather create a series of small successes along the way. This way my goal would be more…

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    Think Before You Eat Chocolate “At 6 a.m., 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes and readies himself for a day of labor in the cocoa fields. Along the way, he watches as other kids walk in the opposite direction - toward school. He reaches the fields at sunrise and uses his machete to slice ripe cocoa pods from the tree. Later, he carries the cocoa pods he’s harvested from the field, hacks them open and gathers the beans, which will later be used to make chocolate.” Kids in Ghana have to wake up every day…

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    mainly perseverance. In the novel The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, a young African American boy is struggling to find a passion in life despite the discrimination he faces during this time period. When Albert does find his passion, people are constantly trying to bring him down or stop him from succeeding. The main point of this essay is to prove how we choose to perceive grit can either help or hurt situations, that we cannot overcome certain issues with enough grit, and how our passions in…

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    making money off of it this needs to stop. I’m in front of the gates that lead to the Asylum I grab my camcorder and slowly step out of my JEEP Cherokee. I start feeling sick just looking at this place, especially at dark. Mount Massive Asylum, shut down amid scandal and government secrecy in 1971, reopened by Murkoff Psychiatric…

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    Street Children In Brazil

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    street children, highlighting different aspects of their daily life. Mainly, the children in the radio workshop mention that they do not belong to gangs because they are hierarchal where children serve the leader of the gang. Thus, they prefer the way where “it’s each one for himself”. They also sleep in the busiest areas of the city where they generate money through begging, stealing and washing cars. Also, the author highlights the different experiences lived by boys and girls in the street,…

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    For my writing assignment I chose “My Beloved Brontosaurus”. This was such an interesting read to me because I feel as if he put so much effort and thought into it. For example he starts off the book by saying, “From the time I was a toddler, I desperately wanted to meet the gigantic herbivore.” He has had this interest clearly since he was a child and he goes into such depth about it. Many people feel otherwise as well. “My Beloved Brontosaurus” has many reviews including some from NY Times.…

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    Cognitive Dissonance

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    It gives the idea that a theoretical way to deal with comprehension the mental procedures of cognitive dissonance and self-attribution, is that both of these mental procedures are self-regard based procedures, which originate from an individual's have to feel that they are imperative, effective, and in control. Such theoretical point of view additionally includes the impact of inclination, because of the way that people would tend to promptly credit effective results to themselves and their…

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    her fellow inmates have to ask her if she heard the announcement. Her response to them was, “Who the fuck knows” (3491). The emotions she displays in front of her inmates’ mask the emotional and mental pain she is feeling inside. When she is on her way to the captain’s office her body is beginning to expose that pain, “My heart is beating much too fast. My mouth is dry, my tongue feels like a landed trout thrashing in that arid, alien place.”…

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    Global Learner

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    Who am I as a learner and global citizen is as follows, This will also link to my goals as a learner. One of my Goals is to truly be myself, and not listen when people judge me and all the stuff that they just throw in my face, but you can just ignore it and put it down. Which is why one of my heroes is Eminem, as a result, that’s exactly what he does, and he still goes the same path that he’s chosen, and he’s still great. One of my school goals is to try not to chop into so much trouble,…

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