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Teaching Kids How to Break Up Nicely - NYTimes.com - 23 views

  • Throughout the one-day meeting, organizers did their best to make the teenagers forget they were about to learn something.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      This is a good tactic for the instructors to use because more teenagers now days that are actively into facebook tend to not listen as clearly to someone if they know they are trying to be taught. One study said that teenagers tend to "drown out" the teachers voice over their friends because of the lack of intrest and that their peers are more interesting. So this tactic would help teachers teach students while having them listen and understand the information.
  • The girls outnumbered the boys, and they didn’t hesitate to gang up on a charming — and, until then, immensely well liked — 17-year-old named Roberto, who proclaimed with a bit too much gusto that
    • Skyler Kim
       
      This statement shows that girls are not afraid to discuss relationships between lovers and what their opinion is. Does this mean that most females are just very open with their opinion by nature or is it only the topic of lovers?
  • To help the youngsters envision what a healthy split might look like, pictures and videos of several celebrity couples who managed amicable breakups were projected onto a big screen.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      This may not work as a good example because some teenagers might not see them as "role models" or they might think that it was a fictional moment. Some people might not be as impressed just because they won't change their mind. However, this could be somewhat effective if the students are very active in the fandom of these people. These are the people that find the people to be their idols and they might follow their example. So this method actually could work if their are some people part of the fandom.
Skyler Kim

Obama remembers September 11 with message of tolerance - CNN - 40 views

  • Obama said America would hold strong to the values and virtues that have defined the nation.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      I think this believe is very important because if ones nation were to "give up" after the effects of this devastating event, that nation would most likely turn into an anarchy or an autocracy under the rule of the leader of the terrorists. So because of this, i am grateful that our country was strong and overcame this greatly devastating event
  • we define the character of our country
    • Skyler Kim
       
      I agree that the citizens of a nation represents the character of that nation because all the actions of the citizens make up the character of its country. For example, if a country's citizens have won numerous Nobel Prizes for their fields of study, this will either make other countries think that that one country is very successful in their special studies or other countries might get jealous. Another example would be if ones country committed many acts of terrorism, other countries may look down upon this country. So our country would look down on the terrorists that terrorized our country and killed many while other countries may grief for our country. Some countries may even feel that we deserved this treatment.
  • President Obama, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and Defense Secretary Robert Gates observe a moment of silence Saturday for 9/11 victims.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      The speech President Obama gave must have been well though out and planned. He must have took weeks, maybe even a month, to write this speech. He must have carefully though out when to have a moment of silence and when to address different people. This shows how people can motivate others by having a powerful voice and well written speech
Skyler Kim

The Power of Birth Order - TIME - 21 views

  • It can't be easy being Eli Manning, struggling to prove himself as an NFL quarterback while big brother Peyton polishes a Super Bowl trophy
    • Skyler Kim
       
      It must be difficult trying to prove yourself in your favorite sport if your older sibling is better and attracts the media. This means that Eli Manning won't get as much as a "Spotlight" as his older brother because he attracts all the attention. Eli Manning must also get very angry when people talk about how good his brother is. People must mention his brother to Eli Manning alot because of Eli Manning relationship with Peyton (sport information from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl)
    • Skyler Kim
       
      It must be difficult trying to prove yourself in your favorite sport if your older sibling is better and attracts the media. This means that Eli Manning won't get as much as a "Spotlight" as his older brother because he attracts all the attention. Eli Manning must also get very angry when people talk about how good his brother is. People must mention his brother to Eli Manning alot because of Eli Manning relationship with Peyton (sport information from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl)
  • The Power of Birth Order
  • 2.3 IQ points can correlate to a 15-point difference in sat scores, which makes an even bigger difference when you're an Ivy League applicant with a 690 verbal score going head to head against someone with a 705. "In many families," says psychologist Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and the man who has for decades been seen as the U.S.'s leading authority on birth order, "the firstborn is going to get into Harvard and the second-born isn't."
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      This must make the second born feel ashamed for failing to get accepted into the same college as their older sibling. This must make them think that first born children are the better ones and that second born children will never be better than the firstborn.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      This must make the second born feel ashamed for failing to get accepted into the same college as their older sibling. This must make them think that first born children are the better ones and that second born children will never be better than the first born.
Skyler Kim

Mark Moffett Ants | The 'Jane Goodall of ants' - Los Angeles Times - 45 views

  • The 'Jane Goodall of ants'
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      I can infer from the title alone that this article must be about a person who devotes their life to studying the social life of ants. I think this because I already know that Jane Goodall is a person who devoted her life to studying the social life of chimpanzees. So i inferred that the "Jane Goodall of ants" would be a person who likes studying about the social life of ants just like how Jane Goodall liked studying the social life of chimpanzees.
  • evolutionary biology
  • This level of effort tells us something about a topic we're just beginning to recognize as important, in terms of how we invest in dealing with waste.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      This shows how nature can teach us important lessons. If ants can teach us that we should take notice of how much we spend on disposing of our trash, maybe observing their social values could improve our society and economy.
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  • but after one of the scouts does find something — say a prey she wants to kill — she often has to go get help, which gives the prey lots of time to escape.
    • Skyler Kim
       
      This bit of information here shows that even though the scouting strategy helps the society spread about and it has a higher chance of finding something, this plan still has flaws in it. Maybe this strategy would be more effective if ants went our in groups of two or three.
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