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the call of the wild essay #4

2 paragraphs, 7-8 sentences per paragraph, make it sound like a seventh grader please Question: Buck keeps alternating between being an individual to being a member of a group throughout the novel, sometimes both at the same time. Buck receives a great deal of help from the pack when he first arrives in the North. […]

a radical alternative model of intelligence

Howard Gardner proposed a radical alternative model of intelligence – quite different from the hierarchical models generally accepted by psychometricians. Known as the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, it posits the existence of 7 – 9 separate abilities, each designated an “intelligence.” The theory originally (1983) included the following abilities: linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual, musical, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, […]

You just don’t understand: Women and men in conversation

1. Using one specific personality perspective that we studied in the course, write an analysis based on Deborah Tannen’s book, You just don’t understand: Women and men in conversation (Ballantine Books). That is, use one personality perspective to explain why males and females have the specific linguistic characteristics that Tannen describes. 2. Describe three situations […]