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Like a lot of the contributers to this article, I was also very intimidated by math all through school. Unlike most people who just THOUGHT they were bad math students, however, I actually was. It did help when I had a teacher who was more empathetic towards students like us, who genuinely couldn't get math. I'm optimistic that this class will be a more enjoyable way to learn math, though.
I've attempted to open the link for the reading for this week however, each time I click on the link my internet server says that there is a problem loading the page. I checked around for further readings that could be the correct link but all that seemed appropriate as the link http://www.ithaca .edu/dani/inspirations/lovemath/mathblocks.htm
--- Therefore, I'm not sure if this is the proper response, but I figure I ought to respond to the other article provided in this week's syllabus.
In response to the prior reading "Perfectionalizm", the reading was a very personal segment from someone who has been troubled with a variety of clinically-define issues regarding her physical and emotional displays. However, rather than just stick to a therapeutic release of emotions and attitudes, the author connects her body dysmorphic issues and emotional malaise to the greater economic goals of big business corporations who use media to perpetuate virtually unattainable images of "perfection" in order to promote sales of a particular item. The author wrote, "[It is] all these multi-national, million-dollar corporations love to see us as neurotic, obsessive-compulsive perfectionists. That is when they are most happy. It is when they know they have succeeded. It is proof that their advertising dollars have paid off." ---
Again, I apologize if this was the incorrect response topic, but I couldn't get the other page to load on a variety of computers.
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Like a lot of the contributers to this article, I was also very intimidated by math all through school. Unlike most people who just THOUGHT they were bad math students, however, I actually was. It did help when I had a teacher who was more empathetic towards students like us, who genuinely couldn't get math. I'm optimistic that this class will be a more enjoyable way to learn math, though.
I've attempted to open the link for the reading for this week however, each time I click on the link my internet server says that there is a problem loading the page.
I checked around for further readings that could be the correct link but all that seemed appropriate as the link http://www.ithaca .edu/dani/inspirations/lovemath/mathblocks.htm
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Therefore, I'm not sure if this is the proper response, but I figure I ought to respond to the other article provided in this week's syllabus.
In response to the prior reading "Perfectionalizm", the reading was a very personal segment from someone who has been troubled with a variety of clinically-define issues regarding her physical and emotional displays.
However, rather than just stick to a therapeutic release of emotions and attitudes, the author connects her body dysmorphic issues and emotional malaise to the greater economic goals of big business corporations who use media to perpetuate virtually unattainable images of "perfection" in order to promote sales of a particular item.
The author wrote, "[It is] all these multi-national, million-dollar corporations love to see us as neurotic, obsessive-compulsive perfectionists. That is when they are most happy. It is when they know they have succeeded. It is proof that their advertising dollars have paid off."
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Again, I apologize if this was the incorrect response topic, but I couldn't get the other page to load on a variety of computers.
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