...Misunderstood Minds The Experience Firsthand activities were very interesting. The information was an eye opener on how some students having difficulties reading. I don’t know how I made it as a student. Some of the activities were very hard to understand and decode. So, I can’t imagine how students feel while trying to read and comprehend what they read. I believe as an adult we just read. We don’t actually know that we are decoding. I have never thought about decoding when reading. Reading is a form of communication. Some students begin school without having any reading skills. Reading requires several skills to become successful. Misunderstood Minds, 2002 wrote that learning to read is a sequential process; each new skill builds on the...
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...Encode/misspoke Feedback- manger, supervisor, myself in office discussion First misunderstanding example took place on one of my last days of work where I was called into the office by my manager. The manager had heard a message from one of his supervisors that I made a negative comment during work. The supervisor contacted the manager and he called me into the work office. I came in, sat down and was told that I was being negative at work that day and that I must be unhappy. The manager proceeded to tell me what he had heard I had said from the supervisor on duty. The comment that I made was somewhat negative yet I had meant it as a joke. The supervisor heard it differently, not as a joke and was upset. So the comment that I had said was misunderstood first by my supervisor and then she proceeded to tell the manager my comment what she conveyed her perception of what I said rather than what I meant. The comment became all misconstrued by the time I went into the office. We all sat down. I was told what I did wrong before I had a chance to give feedback and that I was going to be written up. Finally, I had the chance to explain myself (feedback) and correct the misunderstanding that had taken place. We all listened to each other and made sure we all understood what had occurred and then had constructive feedback to resolve the issue. The second misunderstanding example took place at an office. There was a meeting to brief staff on...
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...In many movies, there are superheroes that can supposedly read others minds and it seems like an attainable goal to be able to understand others fully. However, Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman leads to another idea. No one can truly know another individual. This inability often leads to negative consequences. Trueman depicts this theme through the conflicts and character traits that appear throughout the novel. The major conflict of the story introduces how Shawn’s abilities are misjudged by his dad and how there are adverse outcomes to both of their actions. Shawn also exhibits traits that negatively affect his personal confidence. Being able to know who someone else really is requires knowing their thoughts, opinions, and experiences,...
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...by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restrictive and repetitive behavior. The signs of autism start showing before the age of three. Christopher, or. Chris as I’m going to call him in this essay has this kind of problems. But the thing that bothered me the most is the fact, that he was completely misunderstood. He had no one to talk to and no friends. His only friend was Siobhan, who was his mentor. She was teaching him how society works and how to behave within its complex guidelines. Chris is a gifted math and science students, numbers were not a problem to him, on the contrary, they came as a second nature to him. In the novel we come across different problems that he has to solve. These problems are difficult for the reader to interpret, which makes it even more fascinating that Chris can solve them in such a succinct manner. Chris has a photographic memory and that is probably strongly connected to his was of solving problems. In the novel he says that his photographic memory is the reason why he understands Math. He says it is simple and there is only one right answer. When reading the novel, it was confusing at first because Chris’ mind is so scattered, and the way he works out problems is not they way most people would think of doing so. After reading for a while, though, his thought process is not only understandable, it becomes somewhat...
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...Williams Philosophy 180 9.18.12 Personal Identity. What am I? A mind or a body? Between both my mental and physical realities my true self is found in my mind. An intangible but highly influential, very private set of thoughts construct the perception of how I allow the physical world to experience my being. My body is a physical representation of the collective effort of thoughts and experiences of my mind. In essence our body serves as a vessel or shell for our very soul. The question, “what am I?” could also be “who are you?” What constitutes an individual’s identity? I believe between the two options of physical and mental realities that my prolonged mental consciousness gives me my identity. My memories are who I am. Without my memories I am just a body a tabula rasa all over again. This idea of memory serving as our identity can be seen with the example of Alzheimer’s patients. Alzheimer’s is an autoimmune disease that even with today’s modern medicine is still misunderstood. The patient suffering AD experiences a slow wipe out of their memory. Even though, still unclear to how or why this happens to millions of people worldwide we are able to see first hand years of life disappear into nowhere and how destructive this is to families, loved ones, and an individuals identity. They exist physically as a shell and nothing more. Their connection and relationship to the physical world is of no use without the mind. For the record I am by no means stating that an AD patient’s life...
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...because they do not take time to look into reasoning beyond a normal perspective. Ignorance doesn’t necessarily refer to one’s knowledge in an academic sense but more so is one’s understanding of our surroundings and the world. It cannot be seen with a blind eye, but when looked at on a large scale, our population’s ignorance from our entertainment, inaccurate beliefs, and media will be the downfall of our misunderstood world. Ignorance often defines and influences our morals and social dramatic instances. We let our ego control our actions by only doing things if will be amusing or influential to our piers. This kind of thinking causes us to avoid seeing as things as they really are, instead we just agree with the majority’s view. The reason we think in this sense is because of our fear of the unknown. It is a fear that is not necessarily scary and normally we don’t even realize its existence, but when our ignorance begins to fade, we see how corrupt and self-centered our world is becoming. Ignorance mainly grows from our media that often solely influences our minds. For example, what we consider entertainment is drama, comedy, and reality shows on television. The drama people see usually effects how they think and how they look at others, though most people never take time to realize that all television drama is staged and made out to be the way the producers want it to be portrayed. Comedy we see today is very crude and filled with drugs and alcohol and use situations...
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...because they do not take time to look into reasoning beyond a normal perspective. Ignorance doesn’t necessarily refer to one’s knowledge in an academic sense but more so is one’s understanding of our surroundings and the world. It cannot be seen with a blind eye, but when looked at on a large scale, our population’s ignorance from our entertainment, inaccurate beliefs, and media will be the downfall of our misunderstood world. Ignorance often defines and influences our morals and social dramatic instances. We let our ego control our actions by only doing things if will be amusing or influential to our piers. This kind of thinking causes us to avoid seeing as things as they really are, instead we just agree with the majority’s view. The reason we think in this sense is because of our fear of the unknown. It is a fear that is not necessarily scary and normally we don’t even realize its existence, but when our ignorance begins to fade, we see how corrupt and self-centered our world is becoming. Ignorance mainly grows from our media that often solely influences our minds. For example, what we consider entertainment is drama, comedy, and reality shows on television. The drama people see usually effects how they think and how they look at others, though most people never take time to realize that all television drama is staged and made out to be the way the producers want it to be portrayed. Comedy we see today is very crude and filled with drugs and alcohol and use situations...
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...locals. The younger generation adapts it thru their ate’s and kuya’s who speak “Bekimon” or say some “Bekimon” terms. The Gay Lingo is a language dedicated for the homosexual people to have their own language and to develop their culture to become one of the respected ones and it was not just made for fun. Gay Lingo is a spectrum of culture varying from different city, province, region or country thus, Gay Lingo made significant breakthrough to the LGBT community in the world, this is their form of conformity or acceptance to the society since not all who speak the “gay lingo” are part of the LGBT community. By studying the effects of using “Bekimon” we can see how it will affect the memory retrieval of the students. Some of the people misunderstood some words or even the people who uses the gay lingo, because some says it can ruin the culture and the main language of the Filipinos but actually it’s the other way around because some terms are now frequently used than before. The definition of “Bekimon” is: (Noun) (Expression) Defines gays or girly gays that speaks “Gay Lingo” or gay language in a different way or more enhanced way. (2014 Farlex, Inc.) Although most of the older people are not yet open to homosexuality, the younger generation are now much aware and much open to homosexuality making the younger generation much vulnerable in using “Bekimon” or the local Gay Lingo. Through “Bekimon”, the younger generations easily expresses their selves when communicating thru social...
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...that is explains life as composed of two worlds. The physical world is known thorough our experience or sense, and mental world is know though your imagination or mind. According to Plato’s cave theory, the story was written about 2400 years ago. There are groups of prisoner living in a black cave, who cannot move or leave the cave, because they were locked in that cave. Therefore, these people do not have any opportunity to feel the real world and all they see was just the image of the shadow. Accidentally, one of them escaped the chains and had a chance to get out of the cave. He realize that the real world contain lots of unknown things such as sun, moon etc. Finally, he went back to cave and tell the prisoner what was the real world look like, but everyone was unexpected and totally think that people was stupid than before. They are trying to kill that people who leave the cave. By reading this story, I would like to talk about some point of views about this article. I think all human beings should not always believe what they see, because seeing is not always true. For example, prisoners were living in the cave. They saw the shadow of every thing in the cave when they had fire as light and thought that was real. But in fact, it is not a real animal or living things, because they lack of knowledge and misunderstood every thing. For that reason, they cannot find a reasonable excuse to explain the physics. Because people have not the spirit of exploration and have not received...
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...yes!” was the response from many members of this meeting. I was dreading this fourth Monday of the month. I was just too curious to pass it up. I knew I had to be there to find out how this subculture really was. I kept reminding myself, of how I grew up. In foster homes, you see a lot of terrible things. This can’t be that bad. The meeting started. The members the members sat casually and socialized, and discussed ways to make each other’s lives better. I was sitting and listening, grateful the welcoming I received. The whole room was chatting about their cultivation. It was already evident that they all have the same belief. The marijuana helps their ailments. As the night went on, my curiosity grew stronger. My thirty-seven-year old mind was hooked on the fascination of it all. Speakers rotated and gave advice on many topics. The first speaker spoke of the laws and regulations. Next, there was a young woman who explained some of her new organic soil. The tw- hour meeting seemed to fly by, as each person spoke. As I listened to each person, I encountered several different ailments. The range was quite extreme. The most common seemed to be migraines. I heard many different stories. I recall a few the most. One of the conversations I had was a nice lady who explained to me why she uses it. She described the excruciating pain in her legs, due to her diabetes. She expressed her reasoning. The pain was too much to bear. The marijuana made her relax and feel less pain. This hit...
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...The action sport is a lifestyle open to everyone. Their are no boundaries. If you accept it's beauty and admire it's artist display your accepted. Like art people have used in a meditative state. Authorities often attempt prohibit the activity. Yet it remains alive and timeless like art. Everything from Deck graphics to the lingo is art. The culture features different creative mediums. Art galleries give visitors an opportunity to witness forms of art. They are exposed to numerous mediums. Each one was created by passion and an open mind. Skateboarding is also showcased. It's fans attend and watch various events. Everything from street skating to downhill are view able. These various mediums are located in galleries around the world. When skate shops operate their not only turning a profit. The shops operate like an art gallery. Artistic merchandise lines their wall. Sometimes it was produced by local artists. Other times the artistic items weren't. If skaters are talented enough they become sponsored. This opportunity gives artists a spotlight. A rare opportunity similar to major art...
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...While watching Through Deaf Eyes, there were a lot of things that I didn’t think about before. For example, when they started talking about how even in deaf schools, African Americans were segregated from the rest of the white people I was a little thrown off by this. When talking about this in history classes, I never thought about segregating people twice?! The deaf community was already misunderstood and had to have their own schools and now the black deaf community had to be pushed out even farther? This concept started a whole new world for me. In my life, I really have never been exposed to sign language before. I think I have only met one real deaf person and he was about three and had a cochlear implant. So, the deaf community has never popped into my mind when it came to things like this. I think that another big part of the movie, for me, was when the students from Gallaudet University protested against their new president because she wasn’t deaf. Again, this is not something that I had never thought about before. It was big when Obama first became president that was a big turning point for America and also very moving. I know it was more important to the African American community because of their history and how crazy that was for them! Now, I know I can’t relate to the deaf community but I do understand that as an all-deaf university there should be an all-deaf staff, including the president. For those students to fight that hard and win just goes to show how dedicated...
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...The Absorbent Mind The Absorbent Mind I decided to do my report on The Absorbent Mind written by Maria Montessori. This book is about the mental powers of a child from birth to age six. Dr. Montessori believes that if a child is properly educated by unlocking their mental ability than the world can overcome things such as war. The book explains how a child from birth to age six with obstruction and without teaching surpasses all living things. Dr. Montessori says that a child cannot be taught at such a young age as birth to age two so their learning ‘’transcends the narrow limits of teaching’’ (Montessori, 1949). After all a child does not yet fully understand launge at that young of an age. Because of the time in history when this book was written, the end of World War II, the first chapter has a stong call to advance society through the education and understanding of our children. The author states ‘’Men are not sufficiently educated to control the events, rather they become the victims of them’’ (Montessori, 1949). The book goes over the current tools being used in the advancement of society. Philosophies, religions, and the old lines of education of transmitting knowledge. Dr. Montessori says that if we stick to only these tools ‘’there would be no hope for the world’’ and that ‘’the human personality alone can lead us to salvation.’’ (Montessori, 1949). The author then goes into detail of why a child in it’s frist two years of life shows ‘’the laws of psychic construction’’...
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...When thinking back on the fable the first words that come to mind are fascinating, compelling, and utterly memorable. The Five Temptations of a CEO was like no other business book that I have ever read before. Management consultant Patrick Lencioni told the tale of a young CEO who, facing his first annual board review, knows he is failing, but doesn't know why. It was a great book for current and future leaders to recognize the mistakes that can be made and how to avoid them. In this fable I learned that success as a leader can come down to practicing a few simple behaviors that can be difficult for each of us to master. The author begins with a statement that’s speaks of a reality. It is the idea that when an individual becomes a CEO, they will be presented with incredible difficulties. These challenges are the result of falling prey to one or more of the five temptations. This fable allowed me to truly absorb the meanings of the temptations so I could more easily associate with them. The five temptations are: results vs. status, accountability vs. popularity, clarity vs. certainty, conflict vs. harmony and trust vs. invulnerability. What is it like to be a CEO of a company? I have wondered this for as long as I have dreamt to be in the position of a Chief Executive someday, somehow, somewhere. The more I read, the more I realize that this lofty ambition, held by millions of others, is more difficult than I may like to bargain for in a large corporate environment...
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...As soon as he finds an opportunity to obtain an acquaintance, which surpasses the barrier of language, he sacrifices his will power to live according to the influencer’s teachings. Through the dragon he learns to be the evil; from the shaper he learns to change people’s minds for “their” betterment. Both teachings concentrate on concepts of achieving superiority. Therefore, love is still a foreign concept to Grendel, because love does not have a bad guy. Since his mother can never love him in a way he finds acceptable, Grendel falls apart at the alien feelings he has for Wealtheow. Once again, the lack of foundational influence deprives Grendel the essences of love. He expresses his frustration through horrific visions of cruelty towards Wealtheow. The dragon’s ideologies, which are drilled into Grendel, promote violence; thus, leading Grendel to making sense out of confusing feelings through violence. He becomes “a creature of two minds” (110). One of which is his mind, is what he attempts to rationalize with, but the other is collections of all the strong influences he receives that drive his negative actions. He must balance both of the minds, the evil and unknown, so he lets Wealtheow live. He does not allow her to live because he develops connections with her, but because he feels that her death would not serve him purpose. Grendel’s selfish decision, grant it saves Wealtheow...
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