The Perils and Promises of Praise In her article‚ “The Perils and Promises of Praise‚” Carol Dweck provides a lot of research to prove her claims that student praised for being wise‚ which according to Carol many educators belief that it will build confidence and further motivate students’ to learn‚ is untrue‚ whereas students praised for effort (works-hard ) get a boost in their performance. Indeed‚ the author has a reasonable point‚ I strongly agreed with her assessment that by giving students’
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Blind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday‚ my son leans over to ask‚ "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children ’s Story" by James Clavell‚ made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled
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Conformity and Obedience Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity)‚ as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues). The following essay will be about understanding what is meant by and distinguishing the differences between the terms conformity and obedience. It will show the evaluation of two key psychological studies which seek to explain why people do and do not conform
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In Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of Global Age‚ Christopher McKnight Nichols challenged traditional historiography regarding the emergence of isolationism in the United States which argues that the era after World War I provided the catalyst for Americans to question global interaction‚ especially militarily. However‚ the author positions the concept of isolationism within its proper framework; advocates of isolation did not desire complete withdrawal from the rest of the world but instead
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in order to decrease lawsuits and increase productivity‚ have purchased email monitoring software to track email usage during work hours. Therefore‚ with the onslaught of email monitoring‚ is a private email really private? In NetworkWorld’s The Perils of Privacy‚ Sharon Gaudin discusses the benefits of a company having a well-defined email policy. She provides the pros and cons of whether a company should invest in an email monitoring system. According to Gaudin‚ companies
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"Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living‚ and it is only the person dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond‚ with defiance or submission‚ to the commands of others. For many people‚ obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency‚ indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics‚ sympathy‚ and moral conduct. The dilemma inherent in submission to authority is ancient
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Ellie Wiesel portrays the full effect of indifference during his speech “The Perils of Indifference” by using firm language choices‚ to emphasize indifference. With the use of diction‚ alongside the use of efficacious allusions‚ he reveals the suffering “behind the black gates of Auschwitz” and presents how Jews “felt abandoned by humanity”. He impudently questions the reader “Have we really learned from our mistakes?”. He aches to get his point across‚ to allow people to look at themselves and see
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human beings.Elie Wiesel gives an example about his own experience during Holocaust: “ Synagogues burned‚ thousands of people put in concentration camps. And that ship‚ which was already in the shores of the United States‚ was sent back”(Wiesel "The Perils of Indifference"). People on the high level at that time did have ability to save the victims but they did not which means they are also members who lead victims to death. On other hand‚ we are all
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spreads awareness to those whom are silenced in the world. Both men had fallen to be victims of indifference‚ for both were abandoned by society. Indifference is an abstract concept that is portrayed as a threat to humanity by both Elie Wiesel in “The Perils of Indifference” and Ishmael Beah‚ in A Long Way Gone‚ for it diminishes humanity and silences the cries of the suffering. Elie Wiesel experiences indifference taking away his humanity by being a prisoner of war. Wiesel was kept at a secluded concentration
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Sharenting is the recurrent use of social media to post photos or news of one’s children. Adrienne LaFrance‚ the editor of TheAtlantic.com‚ wrote an article called “The Perils of Sharenting‚” which goes in depth into this subject. The article reveals the dangers that comes with parents posting innocent photos and news online about their children. Her purpose for writing this is to spread awareness regarding the terrors of sharenting; such as: stolen identities‚ digital kidnapping‚ and pedophiles
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