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I, too am human.
I am the different sibling, They hide me in the closet and make me act as someone I am not, When family comes, They call me ruthless names, And violently attack me when they find out who I truly am, But I still stay vibrant, And laugh in joy. Next time family comes, I won't be in the closet, I will be expressing who I am, Not caring about the consequences, No one will tell me to go back to the closet, Nor will they call me such hideous things or attack me, They will feel guilty, Plus, When they see that I am a radiant rainbow, They will learn to accept me, I, too, am America.
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Being American can mean anything. As I see it, being American means that you have freedom and human rights that you are born with. You work hard to achieve what you want. Basically from "rags to riches." To be American, you have to love your country and treat it as if it were a significant part of your life, which it is. The American life is where you work hard to achieve what you want. Being American is believing in the idea that you can have a better life. Being an American means that have you have freedom of speech, hope to change, and have power. The American life is a goal most people strive for. I feel like everyone who doesn't have the same freedom and rights as Americans want to have the American rights. To be American, you can express who you are. To be American, you have the freedom to express what's on your mind and choose your decisions. You are free, you have freedom, and you have so many great opportunities.
The project represents the Turkish Astronomer and how society did not accept him because of the way he dressed. On the left side, he is wearing his Turkish attire, and society disapproves of it, thinking that it does not go in order. The line in the middle represents the border between what grown ups think is order and what they do not think order is. On the right side, the Turkish Astronomer is now being accepted because he is dressed in what they think fits into order and society.
Perception: Can be clear or unclear.
People see things differently. In the image above, someone can see it as a cloud, a piece of cotton candy, the top of a tree or a cotton ball. Some may even see it as a brain. Perspective is changed by authority, culture and tradition, causing someone to think a certain way/cause an irrational mind. Everyone has different view points. Not everyone thinks the same way. But the fact that we can think is an irrefutable truth because we cannot deny that we think, which proves our existence. Faith's wristband lead to wristbands, which lead to accesories, which lead to money, which lead to business, which lead to jobs, which lead industry, which lead to systems.
This oil-pastek based drawing is meant to show how systems can be a mess, and industries and business can be corrupt, but in the end, they all end up in the same spot, in the same phases, and maybe even the same problems they have faced. „I think therefore I am," is a famous quote sad by Rene Descartes. After studying and reading about him, I figured that what Descartes was meaning in this quote is that he knows he exists because he thinks, and that his thinking is an irrefutable truth, or a truth that cannot be denied. So „I think therefore I am," means that he knows he exists because he questions his existence and his life.
The growth v. fixed mindset has contributed to solving unanswered question about whether certain individuals are prosperous in life or not. Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Stanford University developed a growth v. fixed mindset theory. Dweck answered many of the unanswered questions about the psychology of why people are successful. With her contribution to psychology, she had change the way others think about success. In her study, Dweck theorized, “...that parents' well-intentioned praise contributes to the formation of unproductive fixed-mindset thoughts” (Dweck, p.3). Dweck had related this to employers who came to her stating young people can’t go through a day without a reward or praise. They had refer to these groups of people with the fixed mindset. An unanswered question about the article was which mindset was most likely to jump grades. Apparently, a growth mindset is mostly likely to jump from a low grade to a high grade. “D students often jump an entire letter grade or more after a growth-mindset intervention just by re engaging with their work.” The growth and fixed mindset are what both contributed to success or failure within an individual. With recent discovery, we’ve learned that these mindset begin to unfold at a young age. It greatly determines with how we cope with success and failure. Dweck concluded in her analysis that this is impacts our outlook and how we deem our personality today. She believed that if your “...qualities are carved in stone -- the fixed mindset-- creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over”(Dweck, p. 4). I believe that fixed-mindset can occur when you fail multiple times and you feel like you just can’t do it.There are many unanswered questions about growth and fixed mindset, and also a ton of things about how we can all relate to fixed mindset at some point. An unanswered question is that if a growth mindset can manifest into fixed mindset. Ultimately, this matters because whether the numbers of students that have fixed mindset, they can always transform into a growth mindset. The queen bee represent a fixed mindset because of it superiority over other bees. While the growth mindset are symbolized by worker bees. Worker bees work diligently to collect honey just like a growth mindset. The beehive represents the origin of the childhood where they developed these mindset. The catacombs of which the bee’s inhabit are like the brain developing and growing. Differences between these two mindset are that the queen bee is fed royal jelly for the rest of her life. While worker bee are only fed royal jelly for the first two days of their life. We compare this to a fixed mindset. Where a queen bee is given royal jelly, while a fixed mindset is being told by other people they are smart. In a growth mindset, they have to work towards being classified as intellectual individual. Like a worker bee, a growth mindset person work to reach their goal. The stars and green glitter represent the achievements of a growth mindset and the question mark represent the unanswered questions icon. |