Comparative Essay FINAL
By: Shannon Laughlin
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By: Shannon Laughlin
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Comparison Essay 1 FYS Final Copy
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The Entity Parasite
“I’m just not good at math!” I told my tutor after an exhausting session of trying to get through the standard homework assignment in my high school calc class. That statement is something I believed deeply, and it greatly a…
When I first started reading this chapter, the first thing that immediately got my attention is the approach that Dr.Dweck took that is different from that of previous authors. He brings up the idea of how “bright girls don’t cope well with confus…
by Lillie Mucha
Some research on Carol S. Dweck led me to confirm that she was the first researcher to coin and popularize the fixed mindset and growth mindset theories (Popova, 2014). It was very helpful for me to read about these theor…
Yes, we all have been affected by the cloud of confusion that accumulates over our heads and sometimes rains on our parade. It creeps in softly like a quick passerby, then BAM—stops you in your tracks more abruptly than actual rain in I-95 traffic….
It seems that society has committed an injustice against this generation of young girls; by teaching them that intellectual abilities are something you are born with and either have or don’t have, girls become downtrodden into the stereotype th…
After looking at the incremental theorist argument and the entity theorist argument, Carol S. Dweck takes a refreshing stance in her essay “Is Math a Gift? Beliefs that Put Females at Risk” that looks at both stances objectively to determin…