FIXED vs. GROWTH MINDSET – Which one are you? Based on the research of Dr. Carol Dweck Which Mindset Are You? Self-Assessment* For each item below‚ decide whether the item is true or false FOR YOU. Answer each item honestly. There is no right or wrong answer. 1. I want to do better than other students in my class. TRUE 2. An important reason why I do my class work is because I like to learn new things. TRUE 3. I would like to show my instructors that I am smarter than the other students
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Discussion Question 6 How did the "Doctrine of Empiricism" change the way artists created art? Give examples. The term "empiricism" has a dual etymology‚ stemming both from the Greek word for "experience".(http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_empiricism.html) The “Doctrine of Empiricism” changed the way artists created art. They went from an open-minded outlook on the way to express art to a more structured view. It vanished the idea of metaphysical‚ tradition‚ and myth and replaced it
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The Way You Look (at me) Tonight was a performance done by Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham. The performance brought up very important themes throughout the entire piece. The major theme I took from this performance is love. Love was talked about and there was movement to help correlate with it. The dancers would speak on a subject and it would shortly be followed by a movement. This performance was very thought provoking and heartwarming. There were many little pieces each of them preformed to
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In Jean Kilbourne’s essay‚ “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt”: Advertising and Violence‚ she paints a picture of repression‚ abuse‚ and objectification of women. Kilbourne gives an eye-opening view to the way American advertisers portray women and girls. Throughout the essay she has images that depict women in compromising poses. These images are examples of how often we see women in dehumanizing positions in advertisements and how desensitized we have become. Kilbourne implores us to take the media
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in class regularly(Barrington Petition). In my opinion‚ school should start later because it increases focus in class‚ better grades‚ and it is becoming a regular thing in schools nationwide. (1)The reason many students and faculty feel this way is because they notice the student’s attention spans. (2) In the morning‚ I can personally recall yawning‚ shutting my eyes‚ and not doing my work to my full abilities. (3) Interestingly‚ I have noticed on the days I sleep in‚ my grades increase higher
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our lives. While we have a clear idea as children we often get discouraged because what we desire to pursue doesn’t go well with what our parents want for us: security and money. They want us to get a good career that provides us with a steady income. What it is doesn’t really matter as long as it puts food on the table. They’re not
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friends most of them said he was crazy to work as hard as he was working. Eric says he just felt that he "had to do things my own way" and built his business to become the second largest of its type in the area. Answer these two questions in an essay format in at least 250-500 words: 1. Eric seems to have beaten the odds already. What do you think Eric would tell you about success (or failure) and how to learn to be a successful small business owner? 2. Now‚ fast forward a few years. Eric
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In the story‚ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie‚ Vera Claythorne had shown that she is a survivalist‚ which helped prove she had the mental strength‚ and power to survive. Vera‚ a younger-aged‚ games mistress at an elementary school had been watching over her nephew‚ Cyril‚ and he had been begging her to swim out to a rock in the ocean. “Well‚ you see‚ Cyril‚ your mother gets so nervous about you. I’ll tell you what. Tomorrow you can swim out to the rock. I’ll talk to your mother on the
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WHAT FIELD OF STUDY WILL YOU PURSUE AND WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN THIS AREA AND CAREER PATH? The world today is faced with enormous energy challenges in all ramifications. The ability to proffer solutions to these problems makes us a veritable tool in the society and it depends solely on the amount of information we have per time. Since childhood‚ the studies of science and basic engineering have interested me profoundly. I had passion for repairing simple devices‚ knowing their content and how they
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impact of parents‚ whole family or even the society. Our future plans are very often made by our parents‚ who feel sometimes too responsible for our life. Knowing that we should accept all their decicions or being assumed that they want to do all their can for us and they want only tthe best things‚ we try not to argue with them. Besides‚ after some time‚ we agree with them that the education is the most important component of our life and we should invest in it all our money‚ talents and time. The quite
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