Throughout the book ¨The Overachievers:The Secret Lives of Driven Kids‚¨ Alexandra Robbins develops the theme of competition between the students at Whitman High School and the students she individually observed. The Journalist Alexandra Robbins returns to Whitman‚ where she attended her high school years to follow a few of Whitman’s upperclassmen and journal about their experiences in high school towards achieving admissions to top elite colleges and universities.The students she follows around
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Francesca Colilli August 18‚ 2014 Period 3 The Overachievers: the secret life of driven kids. Student stress is a major theme throughout The Overachievers: the secret life of driven kids. Alexandra Robbins develops this theme by using examples of stress caused by their parents‚ academics and social lives. Stress is the root to each student’s problems. They are all self-driven‚ intelligent and have good heads on their shoulders yet they all stress over not being good enough. Whether it is not living
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gym class so that AP Frank could have a perfect GPA of 5.0. (pg.13)” He was never really allowed to have a life. Even though Frank’s story is very crazy it is relatable. Many parents nowadays are so obsessed with their kid’s lives and success that it becomes the parent’s lives too. Because of the high expectations parents set for the
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. [pic] The argument in Alexandra Robbins‚ The Overachievers‚ is why should many high school students get pressured or feel the need to take all AP classes or do extracurricular activities so they can get into an Ivy League college & be successful. Alexandra Robbins tells us about the lives of nine students when they were attending Whitman high school. Many parents pressure their children to be on top of all their classmates
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she has mothers all around her‚ Rosaline’s protection‚ May’s caring‚ and August’s love‚ Lily finds a mother in everyone around her‚ including herself. Sue Monk Kidd begins her story with a character by the name of Lilly Ray‚ a fourteen old girl who lives with her abusive father‚ T-Ray Brown. Lily had the tragic experience of losing her mother at a young age. She never had the intimate relationship that comes with having a mother in your life. She never experienced the soft voice or embrace of a mothers
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Overachievers Essay College application season can be the most stressful period of time for any high school student. The combination of regret for not doing better in school‚ doubt in your own chances of admission‚ and the fear of rejection is enough to break even the most stable students. Author Alexandra Robbins‚ however‚ realized that the stress of college admission starts well before‚ as well as lingers well after‚ the actual application period. Through her observations‚ she concludes that the
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PSYC 100/201 The Secret to Raising Smart Kids Carol Dweck wrote this article on December 2007. She is Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She has held professorships at Columbia University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book is Mindset. In this article she discuss the topic of raising smart children. Her theory is that with more than three decades of research an overemphasis on intellect or talent
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to work hard at something was a sign of low ability. They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well”. This means that a fixed mind set are kids who believe that they are very smart‚ believing that they are talented instead of developing their smartness and talents. Also kids believe that a fixed mind set can lead you to a successful life without any effort. Many students I have known are fixed mind set because students believe that just because they are
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You Probably Think I’m An Overachiever Ever since I was young‚ I have fought against stereotypes. Definitionally‚ it means “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing‚” however it has impacted me much more. From childhood to now‚ several stereotypes (spoken and unspoken) have been placed on me. Not only has this affected my emotions‚ I have formed my perspective of life around it. But it doesn’t stop there. I learned how to fight against these
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The Secret Lives of Sergeant Jack Wilson Journal #2 The character John Wilson is portrayed in the beginning as an honest man trying to make a better life for his family back home in Scotland. As the story unfolds we learn that jack’s intentions are not what were originally portrayed. My opinion of jack Wilson started out as "just a man trying to better his family in a new world" but shortly after was challenged. Jack starts life out in Canada pretty rough‚ he can’t find good work and the climate
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