Michael Osei-Antwi

Prof. Sean Scanlan

English 1121: Composition 2

10//6/2022

     I never knew the proper approach to studying for an exam. When I have an upcoming test, I have to figure out a new way to unlock the things I have learned in my head. The article about Salvatore Scibona is an article I can relate to, as well as the article about Howard Gardner. To prove this, I will reveal more about my home and what my Intellectual Home is. Next, I will compare how Scibona’s seriousness in reading reflects on the way I think about Art and how Gardner’s five minds for the future will help me achieve creative breakthroughs. Lastly, Gardner’s Synthesizing mind will help me develop new ways to improve my intellectual home to become a better architect.

 I am always busy. Ever since I left my mom house to live independently, everything has been hitting me hard. I cannot even seem to remember the last time I had the freedom to just simply do nothing. One of my personal goals to improve myself was to go to college, even though I am not the best student, but I have to start somewhere. School, class, textbooks are all things I do not enjoy. When I hear the word “school”, my immediate thought is to the hundreds of pages teachers assign for readings and exams that do not seem to correlate with lectures. Studying for me has always been a difficult task, until this one person came into my life and changed my perspective on schoolwork. She is an intelligent person who makes sure I have my class assignments done correctly. She helps my life easier in life and with everything else. This what build intellectual home, with just having one person by my side while I feel like I have nothing, she makes it easier to accomplish my responsibilities.

I hate being busy, but I also like being busy just for fact that it always keeps me moving and motivated. I work a night shift job where I’m consistently moving around on a pallet jack. I make above minimum wage so it’s a job that expects a lot of us. I feel like I always have to be at the top of my game when it comes to my job. Picture a busy street that has consistent traffic flowing around. The noise of the loud machines, people walking through the traffic of moving electric pallet jacks. I mean how are you be able to think with all these things going on. In a way I can say I’m similar to Scibona in the way he was in the beginning of the article when he felt like his job is all he had. Jobs are just places you go to do things you don’t enjoy doing. He stated “I loved that job the way a dog loves a carcass in a ditch” when he said that I knew he didn’t like his job and was ready for something new. When he said, “he went home stinking of it”, you could think about how a really bad smell that’s just on your body throughout your ride back home. Most of the time I come back home being covered in nasty stuff from my job and it’s disgusting how I have to repeatedly wear the same clothes back to work.