Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

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There is a scientific difference between people who are talented at math and read diagnostics and people who are inventive and artistic. The left brain is focused on analytics and reasoning, while the right brain bursts with creativity and ingenuity. Though I would hardly consider myself the next Picasso, I know for a fact I would rather sit down with a long book or write than work through the logistics of the quadratic equation. However, taking advanced levels of science and math has placed me in many situations where gifted ‘left brain’ students let us lowly right brained kids know our worth. Personally, I feel as if the world and our society could not go on as it does without both types of people; who will be the accountant for the scatterbrained artist? Who will draw a smile from the stiff audience of number crunchers? Obviously, each side will feel somewhat bigoted towards their own, but I would not have expected a full blown argument to erupt due to someone making a comment about the socioeconomic differences between the two in a pre-ap physics class. …show more content…

As a ‘right brained’ person, I was doubtful my stance on the necessity of both types of skills will ever change, but there were quite a few kids that were determined to convince us that our talents had no home in today’s black and white world. Combatting these defenders of logic with the ingenious works of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and even J.K. Rowling, we justified our worth and value to society and protected the great legacy of right

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