Category Archives: Non-Portfolio Tasks

Stone Money—gobirds115

How does the economy work and what even is currency? Growing up in the United States, I learned that a rectangular piece of paper with numbers in each corner represents a unit called dollars and whatever number is in the … Continue reading

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Stone Money—Senpai Pio

Is Money Real? When thinking about money, many people imagine green one hundred dollar bills or rooms filled with riches and gold. But what we often overlook is that money could also be a piece of monopoly paper, a big … Continue reading

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Summaries-FatJoe

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/05/toms-shoes-buy-one-give-one/ It seems counterintuitive that Toms “buy one-give one” program, which provides a pair of shoes to someone in a progressing world when a pair is bought, does not actually work. But it seems that it can only really work … Continue reading

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Stone Money – Rowanluver29

Money: A Figment of Our Imagination Money is an item we are all familiar with. It is a piece of paper with green lettering and a number on it that determines its value. Or it is an electronic number that … Continue reading

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Stone Money – Sunflower

Ridiculous Money Money is something all of us are familiar with, we use it in our daily lives to buy everything, both things we cannot live without and things that simply make us happy. Money is the very reason we … Continue reading

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Purposeful Summary – Cleveland Brown

Smaller class sizes do not necessarily create an environment more conducive to learning.  This statement from 5 More Incredibly Counterintuitive Statements from Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath – B&N Reads (barnesandnoble.com) talks about how smaller classrooms don’t mean that the … Continue reading

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Purposeful Summaries- PitAndThePendulum

Avoiding the Curse of the Oil-Rich Nations https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/avoiding-the-curse-of-the-oil-rich-nations/ It seems counterintuitive to assume that oil-rich countries would find themselves facing conflict after striking it rich, however, that seems to be a common theme among many of them. Stanford professor Terry … Continue reading

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Purposeful Summaries- Doglover846

“Was That Jump A 6? Subjectivity In Olympic Judging” It seems counterintuitive that during an event that is solely based on judging, the judging seems to be very biased towards one’s country. For an example, two countries would make an … Continue reading

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My Hypothesis—Jasrielle2

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Purposeful Summary – Water

How to Change the World It seems counterintuitive that the concept of who are the people that make such a life-saving contribution to the world are those who don’t make a dime for their actions. The names mentioned in the … Continue reading

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