Growth Mindset Have you heard of that some compliments might be bad for kids? Psychologist Carol Dweck and her colleagues practiced an experiment to figure out the effect of compliments. At first, kids are given easy problem set most kids are supposed to find its answer. Then, kids are randomly categorized into two groups; one is experiment group, and the other is control group. Each group receives different compliments about correct answer. Control group is praised on their smartness such as “You’re so smart to solve the problems”. On the contrary, experiment group is complimented on their effort such as “You tried hard to solve the problem.” After the compliment, two types of problem sets are given to each group. One of the problem sets are as easy as the former problem set. The other problem set is very difficult, and most kids are not supposed to solve this. Researchers let kids select a problem set they want to solve. Difference between two groups was remarkable. Most kids in control group(complimented on their smartness) chose the easy problem set. On the other hand, kids in experiment group(complimented on their effort) preferred the difficult problem set. Dweck interpreted that the way of compliment affected how kids perceived failure. To control group, failure shows their lack of smartness. As a result they were afraid of failure, and that’s why they preferred the easy problem set. On the contrary, to experiment group, failure is an opportunity to struggle with. Dweck developed a theory from this experiment called “growth mindset”. People with growth mindset are corresponded with experiment group. They believe their abilities grow by practicing, so failures or challenging situations are opportunities they can grow. On the contrary, people with fixed mindset believe human is born with limited abilities which don’t change for life and failures show insufficient abilities. Naturally, people with fixed mindset are away from challenges. She has proven her theory in various levels from in preschool classrooms to graduate classes and tried to find practical methods for education. In short, praising on their brain is bad for kids as well as adults. Praise on their effort that they may try challenging problems. Human brain is feasible and dynamically responds with stimulations. Our intellectual abilities can grow no matter how old we are. Failure means we tried and are growing now. That’s what science says.

Understand ideas and concepts is important. It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. Learning ideas means students understand the rationale based in the subjects so he or she can study and research by themselves. This is crucial in advanced stage for most advanced classes require its alumni to figure out why questions such as why this is important or why this happens. In addition, we live in the information society. Most up to date knowledge are codified and uploaded on the web. In the past, the time people couldn’t search information in short time, good memories might be a key for success, now we can find most information by just typing and clicking. As a result, knowing facts itself doesn’t mean success anymore. Imagine you’re learning human body organs. Memorizing its names and functions will be challenging but if you take enough time you will accomplish it one day. But this sort of knowledge evaporates in no time since quantity of information to remember is too much. On the other hand, let us assume that you start studying body organs from clarifying big concepts such as organs for digestion or breathing. You can forget or be confused with single body part, but, it’s hard to forget human needs to breathe. If you can’t remember the name or its function, you can just search “organs for breathing” on the web and not in a long time you can find what you want.

How would the Brown decision affect the Supreme Court’s position? The Brown decision was inadequate for abolishing segregation, but it definitely triggered the movement for desegregation. The reason black activists tried to fight in courts during 40’s-50’s, was that they couldn’t find any politician who’s willing to deliver their words. The serious confrontation by the state legislators after the brown decision shows how this decision was politically unacceptable that time. It means that the Supreme Court tried to make a change which was not socially agreed. The The power of Congress or the president is strongly justified by the election. Judicial power , in contrast, is not elected so it has inherent limitation in terms of democracy. After all, the court was right but the Supreme Court would carry heavy political burden after the Brown decision.

Exercise a new structure. The concept of suburban adjusted this reality to the expectations remarkably in two ways: One is that suburban was epitomized the postwar dream where everyone could own house filled with stunning gadgets, and the other is that suburban life-style suggested “models of everything”, so that Americans could relax tensions from organizational complexities.

Essay on the popular culture during cold war. is almost killing me.,.,.,.

What does it mean "to brush one's hand and take it"? Full sentence is like this: "In the end he sat with the windbreaker pulled up, brushed with his hands and took it, almost crying in frustration and agony." This is about a boy in a wild forest alone, since his plane crashed. He is being attacked by mosquitoes, so quoted sentence above describes how he try to protect himself from insects. I figured out what "the windbreaker pulled up" and guessed that "to brush with his hands" means "to shake his hands lIke wipders", but "to take it" is totally alien to me. Somebody helps me ;ㅅ;

Cherry blossom is starting to bloom! I'm living in California, and as you know the weather here is warm, dry and steady. It's 19°C at noon these days. Last week, on my way back home I saw cheery blossom and it fool bloomed. I knew that California is warmer than Korea, but I didn't expect that I could see cheery blossom in Feb. Christmas in Australia is in summer, since it is in the southern hemisphere. I learned them in the geography class. But knowl edge and experience are really different. I'm happy that I'm living in the 21st century. I can enjoy more than the king in the 19th. 0Songyi1

How much we changed since 19th. These days, I'm reading books about American history. I'm in 1865 now, the time the Civil War just ended, and Lincoln was assassinated by a young southern guy. I was really surprised that US was so different from today's. I've always thought that Korean's each generation can't understand each other, because they 've lived different Korea. My grandparents generation was born when we were a Japan's colony, experienced the Korean War, and stop schooling after elementary school graduation. My parents generation starved and experienced dictators' ruling. Now, my generation suffers from obesity, travels abroad, and 90% of us go to the university. I thought we're special, because we made these in very short time. But, I realized that all we human changed very much since 19th century. We adopted democracy, capitalism,technology and abolished political and partly economical inequality. I'm happy that I'm living this era, and expecting future. It will be awesome.

Life is unpredictable Koreans study Englsih so hard. It was too much, many parents let their 2-3 old kids go to a English pre-school. I thought it was crazy and I didnt to need to be good at English as long as I lived in Korea. Thus, I just trained reading skill to get information written in English. Yet, I got a buyer job in an international company. I had to call with foreign partner everyday. It was a hell. And, now I live in US. I'm familiar with written or business English, day to day conversation is a challenge, and I'm trying to enjoy this new situation. How unpredictable the life is, haha.