Chapter 10-18 Analysis

In chapter 5, Pink presents Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. At the age of twenty-two, Csikszentmihalyi moved to the United States to study psychology. He registered at the University of Illinois-Chicago and earned a Ph.D. in nine years after moving to the United States. Csikszentmihalyi set up an experiment with the electronic pager to study what he called “autotelic experiences” which is the objective of self-fulfillment and the endeavor acts as is its own incentive. The outcomes from the experiment led to the finest moments of flow: “The highest most satisfying experiences in people’s lives were when they were in flow” (112). The thought of flow is important to mastery because goals are strong and an individual is engaged as people in flow is

For this book analysis, I read the book A Piece of Cake by Cupcake brown. It is a memoir told by Cupcake about her life. She starts the book at age 11, when she was living a normal and pleasant life with her mother in San Diego. She was quite close to her along with her step father (who, at the time, she thought was her biological father), and her uncle. Then out of nowhere, she finds her mother dead in her room and her life is shaken into disaster. The court system had to turn both her and her brother over to her biological father whom she never met, instead of giving her to the man she was raised by. Her father then sent her to a foster home where she was raped and beaten constantly. When she

Unwritten #9” is a work by contemporary artist, Vernon Ah Kee that focuses on the racial discrimination of indigenous Australians. Apparent in his works are themes such as racism, identity and culture that references the artist’s own backgrounds and experiences. Ah Kee draws on his own experiences of being and aboriginal Australian in the contemporary life in Australia.

1) Describe the 3 estates of France. Who paid the taxes? Who held the wealth and power in France?

In Chapter 3-Control the Tense of Thank You for Arguing, we are shown how changing your argument to a different tense can give you the upperhand. This is the task presented by the rhetorical lab on page 29. The directions tell to examine the tenses if we “find ourselves a victim” in an argument, and to then switch from the past or present tense to the future. I tested this technique on my brother, whom I have years of fighting with under my belt, but very little experience arguing with.

“It's a vector, basically...someone who devotes all of the time in his or her life to a single direction, to reach a given maximum potential.” (Nisioisin 324) This is the definition of a genius. In Zaregoto Book 1: The Kubikiri Cylce written by Nisioisin, there is an island with twelve people total, five of which are geniuses invited there by the mistress of the island, and a murder occurs leading to a mystery of how it was done and who did it. However, the question of what a real “genius” is and what defines one is an overarching theme in the book. With that being said, the reason this is the definition for a genius is that in order to be one, the honing of one skill is required as well as dedicating time to honing that skill along with the neglecting of developing other skills.

As I read your case, I thought it would be best to use sections 34, 35, 36, and 37 of the Canadian criminal code to apply to your case, legal position, and aquittal. These sections will help you defend yourself in court and possibly lower your sentence if needed. I have gone over each section to determine how they apply to you.

The passage from p. 1187 to 1193 was interesting as it focuses on masking one’s identity in public and when applying for schools or jobs. What caught my attention most was the idea that one who masks their identity both gives up their real identity and claims a new identity; the dual-faceted transition from non-white to white creates at least the same number of internal conflicts. To be a Latina woman and have to exclude that intersectional characteristic when writing a personal statement is a bizarre situation; one, in order to not be subject to discrimination they want to appear white, which has become what is considered normal, or standard, and two, excluding the struggle of being a non-white woman means that the potential for a personal

In chapter 2&3, Mary Pipher first talk about that life likes a trial, and viewing past will make you to know yourself better. Later on, she started to talk about her story, she lived in the Beaver City, and growed up from a big religious family. However, in her family, everyone had their own view on different things. Therefore, she was seeking for the solution why. That is the reason made her became a very independent thinker, another reason becasue she loved reading so much. Pipher had a wonderful childhood. From her experiences, she knew thatg everyone has their own experiences, and Pipher expressed that for herself writing is best way to find her voice. She tried to write different types stories. Moreover, she tired to compare her writing

Scott Kruh’s “14” is a story about a Jewish boy who loves America. When reading the story, the author gives hints to his reader’s about the narrator being a pro-American, Jewish boy. “My Israeli Son” and “summers were fun, my grandmother lived in Jerusalem and I spent days exploring mysterious alleys of white stone and strange shells” (1). We know the narrator loves America when it was stated “My favorite subject in school was American history” (1).

During the third chapter, we learn about George. He is eight years old and attends school at Louise A. Spencer Elementary School. George worships going to school and adores his marvelous teacher, Miss Johnson. Miss Johnson educates her third grade class about William Shakespeare. Which gets them all very fascinated in plays and drama. The students enjoyed Shakespeare so much that they formed their own club about him. Miss Johnson even bought them sweaters for their club. Miss Johnson is a very good teacher and often stays after school with her students. She also took them to New York City to see plays and concerts. One time while they were attending a play, this woman complimented the students calling them well behaved. She assumed

This character appears all throughout the book. Okonkwo was a famous wrestler who didn’t really enjoy his father. It all starts in Chapter 1, where it described Okonkwo being a wrestler with a poor Father, named Unoka. Unoka was really poor, when Okonkwo was famous. Okonkwo didn’t like this, so he didn’t talk to his father much. Later his father got a sickness and died. Okonkwo kept living his life normally after this.

The main theme of the handbill illustrated in Exhibit 5.10 is a message describing all the benefits that the company can provide if employees vote no for the union. The handbill is very captivating as it promises employees better wages, more paid time off, and additional employee perks. During a union organizing drive, the employer will likely try to convince employees that joining a union is not in their or the company's best interests. Union organizations, of course, will have a different message. The mission on the union is to "sell" the union to the company's employees. Companies rarely ever tell employees about the advantages of being a union member, just as Unions rarely, if ever, tell employees about the possible disadvantages that come

The Vita Nova has many symbolic themes throughout its structure such as the words “vita and nova” themselves. In both Italian and English, “vita” refers to life and “nova” in Italian refers to marvelous or strange, however in English, it refers to brightness (of light). Another symbol in the poem is the Trinity number nine as Dante refers to it every time he has an encounter with Beatrice. In this essay, because Vita Nova has 42 chapters, I will discuss how Beatrice represents (and/or mirrors) light throughout chapters 2-8 (with the definition of Trinity mentioned in chapter 29), through Dante’s actual sight and uncontrollable dreams. Dante’s muse represents light in chapter two because she can see all throughout his body as, during his first

After Hester is released from prison Hawthorne leaves us wondering if her choice to stay in Boston was even a choice she could make. Chapter five opens with Hester coming into the light and leaving the cell in which she had been punished in for so long. However, once she is out, she decides to stay in Massachusetts, in the same community which has shamed her for so long. Hawthorne describes the decision when he writes, “it may seem marvelous, that this woman should still call that place her home… But there is a fatality… which almost invariably compels human beings to linger … the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime” (71). In this quote Hawthorne is not only speaking of Hester, he is speaking of