Reflection on Adversity

Tanner Lebo Based on the reading of my book, I have determine that adversity are troubles that people face in their lives. These troubles and trials may inhibit some abilities, or be hard to deal with, but they can be overcome. Everyone will face adversity in their lives, but these can be overcome through persistence […]

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3) American Attitudes about Poverty and the Poor.

3) This author in the article discusses if the poor are in poverty because of their lack of motivation/not doing enough or if they are in poverty because of circumstances beyond their control. The author supports the question by offering a survey taken by people, showing their feelings about the question, and lots of statistics […]

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2) How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare.

2) This author didn’t really have a thesis, but its purpose was to determine how Americans view poverty and antipoverty efforts. It was a big survey that asked many different types of people questions dealing with poverty. There are graphs showing information and data taken from the questions, such as if poor people would rather […]

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6) Feelings toward the Poor and Beliefs about the Causes of Poverty: The Role of Affective-Cognitive Consistency in Help-Giving.

6)The author’s thesis in this study was to determine where a person’s attitude toward the poor was dependent on the consistency of the belief about the cause of poverty. He wanted to test the person’s ACC, Affective-Cognitive Consistency, to measure the consistency between feeling and beliefs. They test this through an experiment with many participants, […]

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Reaction to Hotel Rwanda and Disposable Culture

I really liked Hotel Rwanda. It was really entertaining and a great story of heroism and bravery. It really showcases the disposability that goes on within one society. It exposes the hate that was shown onto the Tutsi’s, by the Hutus. The Hutus have overtaken Rwanda, and see the Tutsi’s as disposable. They see them […]

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Final Reading Reaction and Recommendation

I got basically halfway through the book Moneyball. I think the story is now picking up, because now it is actually talking about how the A’s got to where they are, instead of just background. I thought it was cool because I got to see kind of what goes on in a MLB Draft, and […]

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Reading Response to Moneyball, part 2

This is my second response to the book Moneyball. Right now in the story, it is talking about a man named Bill James, who essentially invented sabermetrics, a new style of selected and drafting players in the MLB, based upon on base percentage. He first started by creating a book called the 1977 Baseball Abstract. […]

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Reading Response to “Moneyball”

I am reading the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. It is 3rd person limited, because the readers can see what some characters are thinking. It is about the story behind the Oakland A’s, and how they put together 90 and 100 wins seasons despite not having any MVP caliber players, top […]

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