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Barry Schwartz is an American born August 15, 1946. He is a psychologist and a professor. He got his BA from the New York University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor at Swarthmore College. ‘The Debasing of Education' is from his book and it is from chapter nine.(page 72) This chapter focuses on education and how incentives ruin the process of learning and how they take away the excitement of learning. In this chapter education is made to seem like a job that does not pay that well, meaning that not everyone will be interested in it. As I was reading through the text I realized that I have seen these patterns happening around me and to me.  But the most important one is the incentive behind learning because it is the most common cause of change in motivation to learn at school.                 First, you are told to study hard and you will get good grades, which is the m...

        Allegory of the cave is a short story about the philosophy of reality. Before I go any further I should tell you more about Plato. Plato was a Greek philosopher born in Athens in 427 B.C.E and died in 347 B.C.E. Plato was Socrates prodigy, and he continued to represent and express his mentors beliefs and views about the world. Socrates was also a philosopher. Plato uses this text to expose how the government works, how it controls what people actually know, “how they know it, and how they determine what is true” (IS 101, page 26, Plato).        Allegory is defined as “a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.”[1]        The first time I read the story I was completely lost and confused. I did not understand what I was reading. But when I decided to read the text again I started to get an idea about what Plato was trying to tell me as the reader. To ...

I recently took a strength finder test for me, for my IS class. At first I was not too sure why I had to do this and how it would help me. Therefore I was reluctant to do it and it costs 10 dollars. Either way, I still took the test. The test is taken online and can take a bit of time to complete and it also requires concentration. It is a scalar test. It took me about 30 minutes or so to complete.  The questions were straight forward and I had to choose if they described me or if they were not related to me at all. At the end of the test I received my strengths and surprisingly they were correct. That took me by surprise, I was not expecting it to work, and I thought it was a joke at the beginning. But when I got my results and read through them, I discovered a bit more about myself and why I react to situations the way I do. The test is also a good way to find which career would best suit you and how to get there. My favorite strength, out of the top 5 I received...

"A Very Short Introduction" by Scott H. Hendrix This is a Biography of Martin Luther, it speaks about his past, accomplishments and struggles he faced at his time. Before I get into detail, let me tell you a bit more about Martin Luther and Scott H. Hendrix. Martin Luther was born in Germany in Eisleben in 1483.  He was a monk that had so many questions about Christianity and how it works. He challenged and debated Roman Catholicism. He was a theology professor, a priest and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. And the author Scott H. Hendrix was born in 1947 December 6. He is a professor of theology at Princeton. I recently read the biography and I was completely confused and I did not understand a single bit of the text. As someone that is not familiar with the culture and religion, the text somehow felt like gibberish to me. So I had to go on the internet and watch documentaries, short stories and also read other peoples' summaries and notes. Martin...