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Alfred Binet and the Age of Intelligence Testing "It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment". This excerpt from Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon's writings, sums up their experiments done in the early 20th century to test intelligence. With the help of Alfred Binet's colleagues, he set the stage for the world's earliest forms of IQ tests. Alfred Binet was bored in 1857 and was raised in Nice and Paris by his artistic mother. As a child he thought he was going to enter the world of medicine like his father; a well-known doctor in France. However, at a young age, to cure Binet's timidity, his father made him touch a cadaver. This treatment only added to his anxieties and the memory haunted him. Instead Binet went to school and received a law degree, however he lost interest, and decided not to practice. Binet also tried medical school, however his early encounter with a cadaver haunted him when operating, and so he quit. After much searching for an occupation, Binet found himself at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris's greatest library. While doing research, Binet came across some books on psychology, and became fascinated. Within days, he had found his new vocation. Binet became very intrigued with psychology, and interested when reading about all the famous psychologists and their experiments. The first study Binet read was on the...
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Today, Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry is widely known and appreciated, though this was not always the case. In his early years of writing his poems were criticized for content and style of writing. This strongly impacted Tennyson and caused him once to cease writing for nine years. Tennyson's childhood influenced his writing and this is often seen in many of his poems. He was regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. He become Poet Laureate in 1850 and was appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years. Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry was greatly influenced by his early childhood, best friend and religious beliefs; while his rhyme scheme was traditional; his morbid style was not popular for his time. This melancholy style of writing and use of topics of moral and intellectual beliefs of his time were especially vulnerable for later critic. Tennyson's life at home wasn't always a happy one. His father, George, began tutoring Tennyson after four unhappy years of schooling. George tutored his sons in classical and modern languages. However, George, along with some of Tennyson's brothers, suffered from bouts of epilepsy. One of Tennyson's brother's had violent quarrels with his father, one was confined to an insane asylum later in life and yet another became an opium addict. George often suffered from depression and his drinking led to him becoming violent, abusive and paranoid. "Tennyson's grandfather appointed his uncle his heir and his father was placed in the ministry." (The Victorian Web) This great difference in money between his own family and his aunt and uncle's led Tennyson to worry about money the length of his life. In 1827 Tennyson left his home in hope of a better life. He followed two of his older brothers to Trinity College, Cambridge. The Tennyson brothers published "Poems...
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and philanthropist. He was educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in the United States of America, where he studied mathematical reasoning. Alfred Nobel knew how to speak several languages. He traveled widely and wrote poetry. After his schooling, he returned to St. Petersburg to work in his father's factory. He developed mines, torpedoes, and other explosives there. After a factory explosion in his family-owned factory that killed his younger brother and four other people in 1864, he tried to find a safe way of handling nitroglycerin, a powerful explosive derived from glycerin, by treatment with a mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids. He made a nitroglycerin explosive, but so many accidents occurred when it was put on the market that Nobel was considered a public enemy for a number of years. After the accident that killed Nobel's brother and four others, officials banned all experiments with nitroglycerin within the city. Nobel was forced to carry out his work on a barge in the middle of a lake outside the city. Most people who ventured close enough to this floating fortress thought it was a factory of terror. In 1867, Alfred Nobel achieved his goal. He used organic packaging to reduce the volatility of the nitroglycerin. He made what he called dynamite. Dynamite is an explosive consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth. It was a very useful tool for industry, but it could also be used for death and destruction. Nobel, however, made a lot of money making and selling dynamite and soon was one of the richest men in the world. In 1889, he invented ballisite, which is one of the first smokeless gun powders. He owned factories for the...
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What North American Native tribe had the biggest impact on North America? The Algonquin, of course. They introduced the words "canoe" and "toboggan" to the English language, they were the first to befriend the French, and spread out along the entire northeast region of North America. They were also one the northern most tribes, therefore making the way that they lived special. They even caused some of the French to accept their customs. No other North American Native tribe had this big of an impact on North America. One reason why the Algonquin were so widespread was because they were divided into about 10 clans, or groups. Each clan had hundreds of people living in it. An Algonquin Indian is a person who lived in one of these clans, and spoke the language Algonquian. Every time some big event occurred, not all the Algonquin would have been affected. At one point, 9 of the groups would get in trouble, but 1 wouldn't. This was key to their survival. From when the Algonquin were created, to the mid-seventeenth century, the Algonquin thrived. This occurred until they ran into an aggressive tribe called the Iroquois. The 2 tribes fought a war, which the Algonquin lost, therefore forcing them to head south. Of course some of the clans did not participate in this war, therefore staying in the same place. The rest of Algonquin moved along the Atlantic Ocean, running into more peaceful settlements of the Sioux, and more Iroquois. Around 150 years ago, the Algonquin started returning to Canada, the place were they started. They have been there ever since, and are still there today. There is about 8,000 of them today, double that of 500 years ago. They are divided into 10 first nations, 9 in Quebec, and 1 in Ontario. Since the...
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Some people viewed me as a hero. Some said that what I did was wrong. But
everything I did was according to my conscience. I wasn't trying to be a leader. I just
wanted to be free." Muhammad Ali made this statement at the conclusion of his lengthy
battle with the United States over his conviction of refusing to submit to his induction
into the Armed Forces. Ali's actual conflict with the United States began in 1964 with
his refusal to accept his induction into the Armed Forces, and ended in 1971 when the
Supreme Court of the United States overturned their previous refusal of granting Ali
conscientious objector status. However, to examine Ali's struggles with the United
States government, one must examine the factors that led Ali to making his decision to
refuse his induction into the Armed Forces. These factors include growing up in a
southern state, Ali's thrust into the national spotlight, the social changes that took place in
the 1950's and 1960's, Ali's conversion to the Nation of Islam, and the faith Ali
demonstrated in his beliefs. Each of these factors helped to create the atmosphere
necessary, not only for Ali to make his decision, but also for the nation's reaction to Ali's
decision, and the consequences that followed.
Born Cassius Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942, Muhammad
Ali grew up in a time where southern states were governed by an unwritten law of Jim
Crow and segregation. Even though, in Louisville, Jim Crow was not a pervasive as it
was in the deeper south, where lynching was commonplace, it was something that was
ever-present. "Kentuckians just served their racism with a gentler touch." (Bingham &
Wallace, 14) In Louisville, "colored [people] couldn't stay in the hotels until 1960. There
was only one movie theatre for colored [people]. Most big stores downtown wouldn't
serve [colored people] food or drink." (Ali, 34) Ali saw the segregation...
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Descriptive Essay My name is David, and I grew up in Highland, Michigan. I am blonde and stand at 5' 10". During my free-time I like to take my dirt-bike behind my house where I can ride it on over 100 acres of state property. I also like to use my laptop and play video games on it such as Counter-Strike. Other video games I enjoy are NCAA football and MVP baseball for Playstation 2. For exercise I enjoy working out up at the local Powerhouse Gym which helps me train for Baseball which I played all four years during high school. I was a pitcher for the Milford Mavericks and received an honorable-mention ALL-KVC selection during my senior year. I have tried out for Mott's baseball however; I do not know as of yet if I have made their team. Some sports figure I look up to are the Chicago Cub; Mark Prior, and Detroit Lion; Charles Rogers. For transportation I drive my 1999 Pontiac Grand Am, and when that is usually in the shop I drive my mom's Ford Expedition. I work at Forster Brothers auto wash in Highland where I work a very flexible schedule in which I come in whenever I feel like working, my biggest problem is I never feel like working so therefore I rarely work so I don't have a whole lot of money often. I usually like to spend my weekends watching college football in the fall and driving up to Central Michigan to hang out with my friends where most of them attend school. After my two-years at Mott I am hoping to attend Central if all my credits are going to transfer but if that doesn't work out I will transfer to Ferris State University which I hear is relatively close...
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Mission Tour In June my youth choir went on a mission tour to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. We stayed at Temple University in down town Pennsylvania. We arrived at Temple around midnight on a drizzle Saturday night. We unpacked the bus, went to our rooms, and went to bed. On Sunday, we went to a church called Mount Hope Baptist Church. The church was extremely small compared to our church. It didn't have air conditioning. It was hot and muggy inside. Our youth choir quadrupled their attendance that Sunday. Going to their church was awesome. We even got to sing three songs for them. After church, we went to a huge park in down town Philadelphia to play a weird kind of kickball. When we got to the park, there were hundreds of people there having picnics and cookouts surrounding an empty base ball field. So we went to the field and divided into two teams and started playing. A few minutes into the game a couple of kids came over and wanted to play. So we put them on teams and played with them. Soon we had about forty parents and children playing with us. Before we left we prayed with them and gave the salvation key changes that we had made before we left home. When we got back to Temple, we ate dinner there. The food there was awful, they served us moldy bread and food that wasn't even cooked all the way. Gross!!! Hardly anyone ate the food there. We just all waited until we got back to our rooms to eat. When we got back to our rooms we had about three hours to do whatever we wanted to do, staying inside Temple before we had to go to bed. Temple is a huge University. So a couple of my friends and I decided to walk around. While we were walking, we stopped in front of a window...
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The often explicit and always vivid writings of Allen Ginsberg seemed to stem from his own life. Allen's childhood in the city, political issues of the times, and the trials of understanding the vast psychology of human beings often emerged. His mother, Naomi Ginsberg, frequently tended to appear as topic or subject matter in Allen's work as well. His writing would describe her life, her beliefs, and her mental misfortune, how they affected him, and how his own experiences compared. The course vocabulary and graphic descriptions Allen used would emulate the harsh reality of the time in which he lived. Ginsberg recreated his life, his family, his urban upbringing, and the way his world unfolded in his poetry. Son to Communist Russian immigrants, Allen Ginsberg grew up in urban Newark and Manhattan, and his writings reflected such an up bringing. In his poem "America" Allen expressed his thoughts and retrospectively looked at his life, "America I used to be communist when I was a kid I am not sorry." Ginsberg often used his urban environment as settings in his work, "Who coughed on the sixth floor of Harlem crowned with flame under the tubercular sky," he depicted in his poem "Howl." "Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities," he continued. With picturesque narrations and metropolitan situations in "Mugging," Ginsberg wrote, "Along E. 10th's glass splattered pavement, kid blacks & Spanish oiled hair adolescents crowded house fronts." Ginsberg used these urban settings in his writings, introspective to the life he led and the times he grew up during. "Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb," Ginsberg exploded in "America" at the actions of the government of his time. Allen wrote, in dissatisfaction, of politicals during the 1940s and 1950s. "Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of...
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Situated in Staffordshire, England on a 500-acre site, Alton Towers is regarded as the United Kingdom's number one theme park. It is one of the most successful tourist attractions in Britain with more than 3 million visitors coming to the park every year. It offers all age groups the chance of a great day out with facilities and attractions for all the family. Well known rides such as Oblivion, Nemesis and Air all provide fun for all tourists. The history of Alton Towers is quite substantial. The main events in recent years include that in 1980, John Broome decided to turn a 500-acre site in Staffordshire, into a Leisure park for all the family. He constructed the UK's first double corkscrew roller coaster and eventually visitors began to come from all over the country. In 1990 Alton Towers was bought by the Tussauds Group, which in turn was bought by the Charterhouse group in 1998. The park is open for 8 months in a year from March through to October. It is divided into several themed areas for all age groups. Socially tourists are offered a wide range of events besides the rides in the park. Special events are held throughout the year, for example Halloween parties and Firework displays. However, to keep tourists coming back time after time, new attractions need to be introduced. This year was no exception, with the colossus Air and the new Webmaster being introduced. The building doesn't stop there with the new Calypso Springs Hotel being built in 2003. Economically Alton Towers is a huge benefit. Having millions of visitors a year does help, but this is needed to fund further development. Close links with local charities also give Alton Towers a good social relationship with local people. Environmentally Alton Towers could be seen as a bit of a...
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Angie Bingaman 4/24/03 Honors American History F/B 20th Century Woman Amelia Earhart: Charting the Skies for Women Amelia Earhart is know today for her vast accomplishments in the world of aviation as the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and beyond. Amelia was a self-determined and ambitious young woman with a deep passion for aeronautics and adventure. Her drive for going farther and farther into the record books, set her apart from the typical woman of the early 20th century. By the time she was in her 30's, she had already flown across the Atlantic ocean, breaking the stereotype of a common woman across the universe. Amelia's spirit and love for her calling resulted in her mark in today's history books, and her ever enchanting story of adventure across the skies of the cosmos. Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 on her grandparents' farm in Atchison Kansas. She was the oldest of two girls born to Amy and Edwin Earhart. She and her sister Muriel were given a life of great wealth and prosperity by attending elite private schools and supplied with many gifts by their wealthy grandparents. Edwin and Amy moved to Des Moines Iowa in 1905 to start a life for their own in the railroad business, and left the girls on the farm until 1908. Edwin was promoted in 1909, and greatly improved the financial situation of the Earhart family, but at this time, Edwin also became a heavy drinker. This prompted Amy to take the girls away from their father's destructive behavior in 1914 and move in with friends in Chicago, where the girls finished out their upper level education at Hyde Park High School. As a young girl, Amelia was a tomboy. She climbed trees, hunted rats with a rifle, and kept...
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When asked what America means to me, I think about the positive aspects of this great nation. The thing that makes America distinct from all other countries is the rights that an American citizen has in America. American citizens probably have more rights than the citizens from any other country in the world . The most important right an American citizen has is freedom, a freedom that a citizen from no other country on the globe has. The second and probably the most important thought that comes to my head when I think about America is how America is definitely the greatest country of our time. Another positive aspect of this great country is how beautiful it is, and how well preserved it is. Although these three things are wonderful things for a nation to be proud of, the people of America have to keep these things up or our great nation will disintegrate. What I mean when I say that the people of America are free I mean that there is a very detailed bill of rights in our constitution listing all of our rights and it is by far the largest list of rights any country has. Americans have freedom of speech, which lets anyone say anything as long as long as it does not offend anyone. Americans also have freedom of the press, which allows journalists to write whatever they want in newspapers. One of the most important rights that American citizens have, and has been the factor that has attracted most of America's immigrants over the ages, is separation between church and state. This means that people in America can chose which religion to believe in, or to just not believe in any religion. Additionally Americans can choose what level of affiliation they want to observe of...
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Although it's the twenty-first century, as a nation we are still recreating the past in the present. In films such as "Birth of a Nation" African Americans are seen as insignificant figures. The white culture tends to look at African Americans as inferior. Their traditional roles in films were that of slaves and nothing more. Now they are still portrayed as inferior just in more present terms such as drug dealers, gang bangers, or savage beast like characters. In "Hollywood Shuffle" it demonstrates how African Americans were inferior to their white counterparts. In the film the white woman that is the director demeans all African Americans by saying she needed a black actor that could act "more black" or be an "Eddie Murphy type", saying all African Americans are all the same. Once Mr. Taylor gets his acting job against his grandmother's wishes the woman directs Mr.Taylor to "stick his ass out more" just another "black" characteristic. Mr.Taylor's grandmother is so against his demeaning acting jobs, because she has seen the past carry into the future. The grandmother knows that her grandson is just being portrayed inferior to whites in another form. Mr. Taylor argues that it is work, and the grandmother replies there is work at the post office. Meaning he would be more respected if he held a typical job like a postman rather than belittling himself to a pimp, drug dealer, or gang banger. In addition the post office always will accept him where as the industry will only accept him if they need someone to play the demeaning bad guy role. In the film "The Cheat", the Japanese American represented the savage beast character that uses his power and money to take advantage of naïve women. Tori, "The Cheat's villain was originally calculated to represent the height of...
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History can often seem to be a sordid image of disgraceful acts and squalid schemes. Certain horrendous deeds of our past can serve to enlighten however, when considered from the right perspective. The institution of slavery for example was wrong in every way, yet it produced incomparable figures of importance such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs.
Frederick Douglass was undoubtedly an instrumental part of the development of the United States. His life was an intense episode of struggle, innovation, apprehension, knowledge and nobility. Douglass was directly responsible for a great deal of societal progress in his nation. He should thus be recognized as an exemplary American.
Harriet Jacobs was also very important to the growth of the nation. She personifies the undying spirit of steadfastness, from which everyone can relate and even derive solace, in knowing that it is possible to sustain hope amongst the basest of conditions. Jacobs embodies womanhood as a daughter, sister and mother, and maintains that image even under unfair, immoral and unjust circumstances.
Frederick Douglass came from a pitiable position in society and rose to a level of greatness with numerous priceless contributions. He started out in Tuckahoe with his grandparents, Betsy and Isaac Bailey in a meager log cabin that they did not own. Douglass had a very vague recollection of his mother aside from her appearance. He did not even know who his father was:
"Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families. Slavery has no use for either fathers or families, and its laws do not recognize their existence in the social arrangements of the plantation" (Douglass, 51). Douglass was unfortunately born into the deprived conditions of slavery, where he could not even learn to read or write legally. He witnessed horrible atrocities during his life as a slave. He watched his...
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Chapter 13 Notes Mike Kuritzky P.1 11-01-02 1. During this time a major shift about the idea of democracy took place. Democracy began to become respectable and the idea of aristocracy was becoming despicable. This new democracy was based on the idea of universal white manhood suffrage, and did not include the property requirements of the past. The common man was moving to the center stage and all decisions made would be made by the average person. During this time there were some major political issues going on. The issues were the resounding growth of the market economy, the panic of 1819 and moreover the Missouri compromise of 1820. The people of the country were becoming more involved in politics by this increase in the market economy, which led people to understand how banks, tariffs, and internal improvements affected their lives, and they began to act. 2. The four candidates in the election of 1824 were Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford and Henry Clay. The campaigning was interesting. Jackson had the strongest personal appeal, especially in the west mostly because he appealed to the idea of the salvation of republicanism from the clutches of the caucus. The accusation of the corrupt bargain was because under the special conditions of this election the house of representatives was to choose the president. Clay, than the speaker of the house supposedly made a deal with Adams. Shortly after Adams was elected president and quickly gave the prize of Secretary of State to Clay. These were only accusations though because no official documentation could prove the validity of the accusations. 3. John Quincy Adams was frigidly austere. He despised people, he was a closeted thinker rather than a politician (in fact, he hated politicians). He was also irritable, sarcastic, and tactless. Adams antagonized certain groups and people...
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In James Baldwin's essay, "The American Dream and the American Negro," as he reflects on the experience of black Americans, he states that the so-called "American Dream" does not apply to the "American Negro." Baldwin says that the American white man does not take notice or appreciate the hard and free labor the American Negro did which helped to build the United States. He uses many examples to show the reader difficult plight of black men and women in America. The South is used as an example. He states that it "could not conceivably be what [it is] if it had not been (and this is still so) for the cheap labor" (Baldwin p380). The statement is bold, but effective in illustrating his point. The examples he uses throughout the essay make the essay convincing.
Baldwin states that his culture, his history, is rendered meaningless in the white society around him. The American Negro, being completely subjugated, has had his own opportunity for a unique sense of reality destroyed.
The American Negro built America, according to Baldwin. The black man picked cotton, built railroads, worked and helped to make America the nation it is today. According to Baldwin, the South would not be a powerful influence in the government if it had not been for the American Negro. Further since the United States is the major world power and the South is a major element in that power structure, the black man's contribution is therefore even more significant. The average white man does not take notice, appreciate, or respect the hard work the black men did for the South. Their hard work was for America, and black men and women have the realization that the country they have put their sweat into has done nothing for them. The country they identify themselves...
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Why do we have to 'prepare' foreigners to visit our country? By providing a book about American ways, alone, we are setting ourselves up for destruction. It is admitting to the fact that our way of living and our take on things are very different from any other country and that to survive or be accepted, one had better learn about and/or change to accommodate for 'our ways.' Of course we are different; no country is alike. Is a book detailing the differences really necessary though? I remember wishing there was a book titled British Ways before I left the states to study abroad in London, and maybe there is something similar out there, but thank God I did not find and/or read it. I would have been so intimidated and would have thought that I needed to change myself in order to be accepted or to fit into another culture. That is what American Ways is doing; the book seems to be a manual that all visitors to our country should read in order to operate efficiently. Going to London with an open mind and not knowing much about British lifestyle made my experience amazing. The only thing I heard was that the British are known to be 'not so friendly,' and this was mentioned in American Ways as well. Thank goodness that I was pleasantly surprised by not finding that true at all. I was completely set up for and worried and stressed about something that I did not need to fret about. Had I read all about the generalizations, communicative styles, male-female relationships, and family life of the British, I may have been unpleasantly surprised, disappointed, etc. Reading about London and actually going to and experiencing London is like thinking about pizza and actually eating pizza. There is...
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Discrimination against African Americans is and has always been a major problem with society. Many lives have been ruined and lost. It is horrible to think that someone could kill another person based on the color of one's skin, but that is what happened almost every day after the Civil War ended in 1865 and slaves were freed. Lynching became a common practice among white people. Lynching means any type of illegal torture or murder, usually by a mob, against an accused person or persons (Zangrando 1). It became very popular for white people to take the law into their own hands and execute an African American. There were a great deal of lynching acts in the past that show the horrifying times that African Americans had to live through. African Americans today are still affected by lynching and other acts of discrimination. Lynching was and still is very disturbing and horrifies most African Americans today. In a short poem "Lesson," Forrest Hamer, tells of a trip taken with his mother and father as a child during the mid 1900s. Hamer recalls that they had "been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew Mississippi to be more dangerous that usual" (Hamer 641). The Ku Klux Klan was the largest supremacy group which consisted of whites. The Klan would terrorize many racial groups, including African Americans. They would commit acts of lynching all the time (Ku Klux Klan 1-2). In another stanza of the poem Hamer talks about pulling off to the side of the road to sleep and being scared of the noises (641). In my opinion, Hamer was afraid of being on the side of a Mississippi road at night when he knew that this was a place that many Klan attacks had occurred. Hamer wrote this poem in 1996....
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My book is a biography about Harry Houdini. He was a famous magician. The book begins in Appleton, New York where he grew up. A boy named Enrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) was watching a magician's act. The magician did a trick with a bucket and coins. Enrich asked him how he did it, and the magician showed him. That day, Enrich learned what an illusion was. Suddenly his father came and took Enrich home. His father asked where he got the dime to get into the show. Enrich said he didn't pay, he just crawled under the ropes. So Enrich had to go and pay the man back. From this, he learned discipline and honesty from his father. As Enrich got older, he did a lot of magic shows. He had 3 goals: (1) to amaze the crowds, (2) to take care of his mother, and (3) to get into the big acts. This is how Enrich Weiss achieved his goals. He amazed the crowds by escaping from handcuffs and escaping from ropes that his brother, Dash, tied around him. Enrich promised his father that he would take care of his mother when his father died. And he did. But, his main goal was go get into the big shows. Enrich Weiss got into every show that passed through Appleton. He eventually did shows in other states like Florida, Georgia, California, etc. There was a famous magician in Europe named Houdin who was very good at it. So, Enrich decided that his show name would be Harry Houdini. Enrich was married to a woman named Bess. She died suddenly of a illness. After she died, he worked harder than ever before. One day while he was studying magic in Milwaukee, he got a telephone call to perform in the big shows....
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The weekend of October 28 my whole family went to Detroit. We visited a friend who had a new baby and then went to the wedding of a friend. For starters Ekta came to Michigan tech as a student, we met her because she agreed give Rachna dance lessons. Through her personality and demeanor she played a very impressionable role in our young daughter=s life and has a very special place in our hearts as well. Ekta and her groom Rajan both hail from the India so the crowd was predominantly Indian but there were people from many backgrounds. Many people had flown from all over the world for this occasion. Amit (Ekta=s older brother) told us that there were people from 4 continents at the wedding. We were welcomed and respected by our hosts, warmly and honestly. It was a traditional Hindu wedding, A rich and unbelievable occasion to which I could never do justice. It was overwhelming to see a wedding of this caliber and detail taking place in America. The whole weekend triggered a number of thoughts, several of which seemed worth sharing. First was the energy and exuberance of the celebration. There was a sense of joy in every aspect of the weekend. The night before the wedding. The Mehndi and sangeet function: a well organized social with delicious Indian food ( I have to list it) Pav Bhaji, Pulao, Raita, Bhel and all the toppings to go with it, The pedas and the Gajar Halwa. There were two ladies putting Mehndi for anyone who wanted. The singing and the dancing went on for over five hours. The highlight of the singing was Ekta=s great uncle who had flown in for the occasion. A gentleman in his 80's. When he stareted singing his voice electrified the whole place. It was amazing!....
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I took a filling breath and transcended deeper into my sleep. With my small head lying gently on her chest, my apprehensions faded away and the warmth and comfort of my mother's arms wrapped themselves around my body. She rocked me to sleep every night when I was a child and woke me with her warm, tender touch and eyes filled with awe and repletion. With my hand immersed in hers we strolled through the zoo, made adventures out of our trips to the grocery store and wandered down the strips of sand at the Jersey Shore. It is memories like those that make me realize the immense influence my mother has on my life. My mom knows just the way to steer me in the right direction, yet still giving me the feeling that I am the one solely in charge of my own decisions. Although I hate to admit it, her instincts have never been wrong and she always knows what's best for me. The most significant aspects of my life have been molded by her example and her belaboring of crucial lessons I need to know to be a genuine person. My faith is profound through her persistence to my attendance at church, weekly religion classes and being thankful for all I have in my life. I've watched my mom treat others with compassion and kindness and seeing the light that shines from their eyes motivates me to do the same. I've learned first hand that my words or smile can make the difference in someone's day. She has taught me that the most valuable thing a person can do with their life is be sincere, unselfish and respectful. Through her guidance, my mom has bestowed on me the importance of self esteem, morals and to never settle...
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