I may have even enjoyed some of it. Okay, a little more than some. It really was interesting! Reading the title, I thought okay that doesn’t even make sense. You cannot lie with statistics.
I’ve always been a person with a growth mindset, I can thank my dad for that, and this book just seemed to be a great fit for the type of reading that I do for fun outside of school ,so I felt it would be the best fit for me. As I began reading this book, I had already learned about the immense power of effort and where the right amount of concentrated and well preformed effort could take anyone. However, I had no idea of this “fixed mindset” which caused people to believe that effort was not as powerful, as I know it to be, but actually bad. I learned so much about the extent that the fixed mindset can take you. It can take someone who as all the talent in the world, such as one of my personal heroes Billy Beane, and force them to fail at their true dream and passion.
I could relate to Maya as in how he’s really nice and caring, and likes to have fun. This book wasn’t predictable you could never really guess what was coming next and that’s one of the best things about the author. I think Maya wrote the book to entertain people, while showing people that theirs always more in life, and that people should really make the best out of their lives. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy books and voice like the author has. It’s an amazing book and filled with funny enjoyable moments that will leave you reading wondering what’s next.
Additionally, due to the popularity of the book it was evident that I would not have a difficult time finding a significant amount of literary criticism on both the author and the novel. Along with all the reasons above I felt that the issues and themes discussed and portrayed in the novel would be very easy for the average grade 12 english student to comprehend during the remaining parts of my independent study assignment. Conclusively, I chose to read this book because of its relevance in today’s society, the themes, popularity and mainly the recommendation by my teacher. He is aware that my
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People This paper reviews Stephen R. Covey’s # 1 national bestseller book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” I decided to read the book because, although I see myself as a very effective person, I wanted to learn more about the subject and see what I was missing out that I could improve. I am very pleased about my choice as I found the tools that I needed to reinforce some of the things that I was unconsciously doing. As the author says, this book should not be read just once like other books and put on a shelf; it is rather a companion book to have handy for continual learning process of change and growth. My main takeaway from the book is that we cannot succeed without principles because that’s what guides our lives. The book is subdivided in 4 parts: Part one describes paradigms, the way we perceive, understand, and interpret the world, and principles, natural laws that are woven into the fabric of every civilized society throughout history and comprise the roots of every family and institution that has endured and prospered (Covey, 1989, P. 33 Para 14).
I think the writer provided the facts of both reading and gaming to make a realistic approach towards the reader. When I read “Why Games Are Good for You,” I looked for the argument and the information that was provided to support that thesis. Because I am a little impatience, I tend to read things and miss important information, so I had to read the article a couple of times to understand it. For example, while I was reading the article for the first time, I missed the line “video games were invented and popularized before the book.” Although, it’s just a small part of the article, but the statement supported the thesis. I feel pretty confidence towards writing the essay.
The feeling that I have when writing is a very joyous one because it is my nonverbal communication to express my emotions and thoughts without the critism of the outside world. Writing is truly an art that takes practice and concentration, and once you have accomplished this skill, you will succeed in the process of writing. To begin with, the experience that I have had as a writer were both good and bad. They were good because I was able to earn good grades on my essays in school, I made excellent pen pal friends because of my ability to write and I was able to survive my teenage years with the writings that took place in my diary. Writing was my safe haven and it always cheered me up because of the fact that I could transfer my thoughts from my mind and unto a sheet of paper that would hold memories of a lifetime!
Ann Powell- Brown solicited a straightforward but provocative question: “(2004, p284–288) The answer that was instantly retorted was ‘certainly not’, but after a moment, the magnitude of this question echoed within my mind and led me to stop and examine my own views and feelings regarding this, and furthermore, led to the professional questioning of how could teachers enable literacy if there wasn’t a love of reading? As a teacher of Early Years, with more than a particular interest in literacy, I psychologically recognise that some people, perhaps even some teachers, might not enjoy the activity of reading. However, it is hard to imagine that there are any teachers who dismiss the enticement of fingering a freshly printed page within a new book, or do not become excited by the most recent publication of a favourite author. Likewise, it is questionable that there are some teachers whom may not enjoy finding refuge in well resourced school libraries or high street bookstores to peruse the numerous texts available at their fingertips. As a teacher, and life-long reader, I believe both professionally and personally, that positive literary backgrounds, gained from a love and interest of books from childhood, enables a teacher to have an enthusiastic confidence in supporting the children in their care within the classroom, and to embrace, support and nurture a growing enjoyment of reading.
A conversation can be so simple to anyone, but to write is not easy to anyone. Although I see writing as something so difficult and to even attempt to write something amazing may as well be impossible, it can actually be just as simple as a conversation. I may be wrong, and you can argue that no one is communicating back with me in writing, but all writing is, is a way of communicating with their readers or even the writer themselves. Understanding writing in this way, is really interesting to me and makes writing more enjoyable because talking with someone is the only thing that gets me through the day, so if I can do that with writing then I will not have to dread it when the time comes to attempt writing something amazing. In order for me to get to this conversation with writing started I need to set aside all of my intimidation with writing and need for perfections aside just to get something even written down.
In my essay I tried to compare one of my favorite screen adaptation of great novel and Scott Fitzgerald's original text. When attempting to write this into the film, screen Francis Ford Coppola failed to create the same feeling, even though most of the dialogue in the movie is taken from the original literary classic. The movie had grateful review and recommendations from the audience . I enjoyed watching it and think the director made a good job. As I think, sets, costumes and camera work are perfect.