Dorothy Patent's How Smart Is Smart?

Courage is a cardinal virtue every human being needs. Courage is doing something frightening you are for the right being even if you are alone in your belief. Many regular humans have used courage also. For example Dr. Martin Luther King jr. stood up for all African Americans, even though almost everyone did not agree with him. He eventually helped end segregation by raising awareness. Sadly, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. was killed just for his beliefs. Today we celebrate a holiday for his great bravery. Bravery is a synonym of courage.

I believe that as technology improves the human brain improves to create more things. In “Smarter than You Think” the author Clive Thompson believes that technology and humans have equal intelligence. Humans are so reliant on technology to the fact that we are constantly improving on them. Since the development of technology information has been easier to obtain and hold inside our brains. While technology is getting more complex, the human brain is also getting more complex in order to continually create new and better gear.

Grant Penrod, a former student of Arizona State University, writes a piece about how the smart kids get ostracized called Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids. There are smart kids on every school across the nation. These kids are usually not athletic or popular, but some are. Penrod wrote about the non-athletic and non-popular smart kids. These “nerds” are being looked at negatively. They are getting unpopular stereotypes. It isn’t cool to be smart anymore. It’s looked at as if you don’t need to be smart to be successful. People are more worried about the money then the philosophies you learn and develop while you are in school. Penrod says, “The image of intellectualism is disliked as anti-social, and the harms of even a fallacious

Dorothy Height had given leadership to the skirmish for fairness and human rights for all people. Dorothy was born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in the public schools in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small town where her and her family moved to when she was four years old. Her mother worked as a nurse for cancer patients, her father was a building contractor. Height was a straight-A student at Rankin High School, she also played center on a basketball team. She had graduated from Rankin High School at age 14, in 1926, she was younger than her classmates since the school had to advance her to grade levels. She went to college and she did further postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. While she is working as a case worker for the welfare department in New York in 1937. Height participated in virtually all over the major civil and human rights events throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Heights childhood was really upright and once

Pathos: “Cowell had been raised in poverty and chaos. Because he did not get along with other children, he had been unschooled since the age of seven.” (pg. 73)

Dorothy L. Sayers was a very distinguished British Christian scholarly of the twentieth era. She was a revolutionary gumshoe writer and clandestine logician, a path-breaking author, a zesty interpreter of and commentator on Dante, an insightful defender, an under appreciated poet, and a derisive mythical and societal critic, she Sayers mysticism lies inside the lucid custom of catholic sacramental mysticism and usual law morals.

In a general public of hero superheroes inside books and TVs all over the world, what makes a genuine legend? Is it initiative, leadership, determination, courage, dedication?To all, Dorothy Day is the greater part of the above. To many she is a holy person. A lady of genuine magnanimity, who sympathetically put the lives of the broken before her own. She is the symbol of the sort of person that everyone can be, not by changing other individuals but rather by evolving themselves. For the duration of her life, Dorothy Day was a pioneer to the state, and a promoter for poor people.

Dorothy Gibson was born in 1889 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John A. Brown and Pauline Boesen. Unfortunately however, right after Dorothy’s birth her father passed away. It wasn’t long after when her mother remarried to a man by the name of John Leonard Gibson. This was the man that essentially was the father figure for Dorothy encouraging her to pursue her career. Dorothy was very versatile when it came to the arts. Between the years of 1907 and 1911 she became a singer and dancer in many musicals on Broadway. She worked with the top producers of the time including Charles Frohman and the Shubert Brothers. In 1909 she began her career as a model, most famously known as the inspiration for illustrator Harrison Fisher. This gave her extraordinary fame in many newspaper articles and magazines. People started referring to her as the Original Harrison Fisher Girl. In 1910, Dorothy fell in love with a man by the name of George Battier and married him. However,

Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn in November 8th, 1897. Her entire family all took the writing field besides one of her three children. Day describes her young childhood at home as not very loving, especially coming from her father. Anytime she was standing in the presence of her father while she was at home, she remarks, “There was never a close embrace.” (Forest 4). However, it seemed that Day’s mother shared great affection and love for her children unlike her husband. Forest explains, “John, referring to Day’s father, seems to have found it easier to be with horses than with children.” In many books that discuss the life of Dorthy Day, Day’s father seemed to quote at times sayings from the Bible because he seemed to carry the book around

The book The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way written by Amanda Ripley, tells about the various types of education systems from several of the countries that are in the lead for the most educated countries in the world. In Ripley’s book she does not just explain the importance of education but also how it affects the countries and how the students that are getting the education experience it. What led to the finding out of which country was the smartest country in the world was the Program for International Student Assessment or the PISA test. The PISA test is a test that was made to test a person 's ability to think critically, their communication skills, the ability to solve problems in math, reading and science, along with the students’ preparedness to do well in and be able to cooperate in society. Education is something that every country needs to move forward and gain powers in more ways than one so obviously in every country education should come first above all else for the young minds of the future. Author of The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley, explains the issues concerning education and how the world is making huge leaps in education through many unbelievable factors that can affect a student 's education. She follows several completely different students that are from America and go off to other countries to go to school through a study abroad program. The American education system needs to follow what the

The theorist that I chose is Dorothy Smith. She is a well-known Marxist feminist scholar and activist (Carroll, 2010, p. 1). The reason I chose to write about Dorothy Smith is because her unique approach to feminism and women’s movements interested me, making me want to learn more about her.

Intelligence has a limit, geniuses have a threshold, and divergent thinkers are our future. Malcolm Gladwell addresses these issues in the chapter “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1” and I have to agree with his reasoning. In the chapter, the Termites are a group of highly intelligent kids that Lewis Terman (hence the name Termites) keeps tabs on as they go through life. He believes that because these students have such high IQs that they will be boundlessly successful. However, it turns out that some are successful and some are not, and I believe the success of the Termites was partially based on personality.

Intelligent- Connotative- Smart, Planner, A’s Denotative- Having or showing the quality of being smart. This is important because Lisa had always said that you need to be smart and think in order to earn something.

For my genius hour, the first problem I want to solve is that orphans living in foreign countries don't have people to care or provide for them physically or mentally. This affects people (themselves or others)more than they may realize. People waste money and food and don't realize how much this will affect the kids globally. Another way this affects people is that if people don't have someone to care for them, the health will drop and diseases will spread very easily.

To be influenced by a person is greater than making decisions solely alone. Dr. Dorothy Height strikes an important role in the social work field, lives of Americans, and especially areas in need of a balance of equal social standing with the rest of the nation. Dr. Height has worked with many influential persons throughout her life. She has bettered and progressed the lives of hundreds of thousands. Dr. Height was an African-American woman, born in Virginia in 1912, who help end much of the nation’s chaos with her love for a better social setting.