Tushall Sharma Scott Lankford English 1A / Essay 2 / Prompt 1 03/17/2015 Overcoming Odds the Singaporean Way: Lee Kuan Yew Once a small fishing village with almost no natural resources‚ Singapore has flourished into a point of pride for the world. As Nicolas Berggruen‚ a famous French investor and philanthropist said‚ “Singapore was created out of the swamp‚ with a strong emotional idea: a safe place mostly for Chinese‚ but accepting other cultures and other races.” Singapore had been at a disadvantage
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The hidden curriculum American Marxist economists and sociologists Bowles and Gintis (1976) believed that through education there is a “Hidden Curriculum” which helped to achieve the objectives of the capitalists. (To provide capitalists with a hardworking‚ subservient‚ docile and obedient work force.) The hidden curriculum consists of those things that pupils learn through the experience of attending school‚ not educational objectives. Bowles and Gintis state that the hidden curriculum shapes
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HIDDEN LOVE A boy & a girl met each other one day. They became friends & then slowly best friends. The girl fell in love with the boy but she was unable to express her feelings for him. “Hey! I’m getting married. Please do come in my wedding. As you are my best friend I’m giving the first card to you” said the boy to the girl one day. The girl was heart broken but still she hid her feelings for him & smilingly congratulated him. Slowly-slowly she started avoiding him but‚ one day
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In his essay "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff argues that intellectualism is not something that can only be archived through proper education like school or college‚ but with subjects that people consider non academics as sports and cars. The writer considers "street smart" to those people who learn things outside of an academic environment‚ for example in the streets of their neighborhood. The writer argues that educators should let students decide on the subject that they are more interested
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David Ricardo David Ricardo was one of those rare people who achieved both tremendous success and lasting fame. After his family disinherited him for marrying outside his Jewish faith‚ Ricardo made a fortune as a stockbroker and loan broker. When he died‚ his estate was worth more than $100 million in today’s dollars. At age twenty-seven‚ after reading Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations‚ Ricardo got excited about economics. He wrote his first economics article at age thirty-seven and then spent
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A Hidden World Was To Be Found Everything was still no creature moved as the almighty wizard walked through the grand castle taking the secret passage up to his labtorary where he made the future potion .The wizard was disgusted at what he saw he knew that the enemy was coming he could feel it .The wizard told his beautiful assistant Lucy to warn all the people in the village‚ but the wizard new that Alexander the enemy wouldn’t let nothing get in his way the wizard knew it deep down inside
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[pic] EMMANUEL KWAME ANTWI ID: UD16761BBU24478 SEMINAR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT I “D” THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS (ESSAY) ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HONOLULU‚ HAWAII DECEMBER 17‚ 2011 INTRODUCTION The Hidden Connections is a book authored by Fritjof Capra. In this book‚ Capra relates today’s dynamic and complex human life styles to the symbiotic lives of different interrelated and interdependent organisms. Specifically‚ he is trying to apply the ideology of obscurity assumptions
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Discover Your Products’ Hidden Potential by Ian C. MacMillan and Rita Gunther McGrath A simple matrix helps you identify the attributes that will make your goods and services most competitive. Why did a minor math error that would occur only once every 27‚000 years so enrage customers that it briefly threatened to derail Intel’s Pentium chip? And how could a feature as trivial as an inexpensive cup holder swing millions of customers to purchase a $17‚000 automobile—particularly when only
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In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Gerald Graff‚ is arguing that street smart people are unable to apply their intelligence to academic work. Graff wants schools to expand avenues of what is taught in class. Graff expresses that the educated life is narrow and exclusive with subjects and text that are boring and heavy. I believe schools should allow students to learn about topics that interest them. Schools should create a setting where no subject is discriminated. If we talk about actual
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Hidden Intellectualism In his article "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff criticizes those that do not put value into "street smarts." Graff insists that knowledge goes far beyond academic learning and continues into the everyday world. As a child‚ Graff always looked for a happy medium between brawn and brain. As Graff describes‚ he felt "the need to prove I was smart and the fear of a beating if I proved it too well." In a culture that values sports and entertainment‚ Gerald knew he would
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