Jon Anderson

1. In what ways are you “smart” at math? Highlight all of the things you’re good at. (Everyone is good at some of these things and no one is good at all of them!) • making observations • making predictions • finding patterns • drawing diagrams • remembering vocabulary • estimating • organizing information into tables or charts • using symbols • visualizing • making conjectures • tinkering with problems • using math language • thinking abstractly • explaining my thinking out loud • explaining

The UFC travels to Long Island, New York on Saturday for a card headlined by a fighter who is ready risk it all for a win in his native state — a win that he has chased for quite some time. That fighter, No. 5 ranked middleweight and former title-holder Chris Weidman, will face rising star and No. 8 ranked middleweight Kelvin Gastelum in the main event of the evening. Weidman has lost three straight fights, including a title defense against Luke Rockhold and loses to Yoel Romero and most recently

that Peta has published about Pamela Anderson in a bikini with a body diagram of her body parts. The company Peta promoted there go meat diet for non-vegetarians to go vegetarian. The advisement shows the women as if she is an animal with labels of different cuts of meat on her body parts. The advisement is unacceptable because of the labeling on her body like she an animal, the statement Peta made saying ” All animals have the same parts”, and Pamela Anderson is being a sex symbol to males to promote

Youth experience college differently due to their foundations. Through many forms of communication, we have become conscious of the difficulties college students encounter because of pressures that intervene amidst their equanimity and education. The Ted talk “Bring on the learning revolution!” presented by Sir Ken Robinson, a well-received speaker of TED and the essay “College Pressures” by William Zinsser, a journalist, portray the crisis students are undoubtedly undergoing. While they executed

Is the achievement of victory an indicator of how valuable a man’s life is? This can be answered by examining several characters and the journey they travel in different stories. The short novel The Old Man and the Sea is written by Ernest Hemingway, and is the story of a Cuban fisherman who battles with a giant fish for many days. The next book, A Lesson Before Dying is written by Ernest J. Gaines, and tells the story of a man named Grant who is tasked with convincing a young man sentenced to

Director Wes Anderson and writer Stefan Zweig come together to bring this epic adventure to life. The Grand Budapest Hotel is a narrative driven master piece of cinema set in 1932. Mr. Gustave played by Ralph Fiennes, is a legendary concierge who befriends a new lobby boy Zero played by Tony Revolori. Gustave and Zero set out on an adventure together after his love Madame D. is found murdered. Anderson has come a long way since his short film Bottle Rocket, but the success of that movie at the Sundance

The Non-Profit Association People for the Ethnic Treatment of Animals, otherwise known as PETA, released an ad in 2010 where Pamela Anderson was dressed in a bikini and looked as if she had been marked by a butcher to be slaughtered and to have several of her body parts cut off for the consumption of meat (“All animals...”). In the ad, Pamela Anderson is looking very sexy and she is in a very provocative sitting position and is tagged as if she were an animal in various areas of her body like her

Wes Anderson has been recognised as one of the most successful directors in the cinematic world with a distinct authorship towards his work. The auteurs approach of analysing films include the more important elements that makes up a film such as: editing, cinematography, lighten, casting, themes, story line, art direction and aesthetic style (Rosenberg, 2010). Anderson’s films all possess distinct techniques that he was heavily involved in producing. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) featured many of his

After reading Edward E. Jones and Keith E. Davis’ essay: “From Acts to Dispositions: The Attribution Process in Person Perception”, and watching Dan Gilbert’s Ted talks, I came across a few ideas that I’ve never thought of before, and in addition to that, I acquired new insights from them, most especially Gilbert’s Ted talks. I also found relating themes between Jones and Davis’ essay and Gilbert’s Ted talk: “The surprising science of happiness” (2004), “Why we make bad decisions” (2005) and “The

Cruel Optimism and Grotesque in “Hands”, Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941), an American short story writer and novelist, is famous for subjective and self-revealing works. In “Winesburg, Ohio” (1919), a collection of short stories, Anderson wrote about citizens in Winesburg, Ohio; most of the characters are grotesque, misunderstanding, inability to articulate, and alienation in society. The grotesques should be pitied rather than dismissed. They have dream of ambition; they try to live