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- 961: Alfred Binet
- ... abnormal psychology. During the following seven years, he continuously demonstrated his loyalty in defending Charcot's doctrines on hypnotic transfer and polarization until he was forced to accept the counterattacks of Delboeuf and the Nancy School, which eventually caused a split between student and teacher. Having been married in 1884 to Laure Balbiani, whose father was E.G. Balbiani, an embryologist at the College de France, Binet was given the opportunity ... unable to remain away from Paris. The 'Society Libre pour l'Etude Psychologique de l'Enfant', was established in 1900 by Binet and Ferdinand Buisson. This organization's concerns dealt with practical problems in the school setting. Binet, after having proven himself through his work here, was appointed to a commission which was to adorn Binet with his most famous contribution in Psychology...the 'Methodes Nouvelles pour le Diagnostic du Niveau Intellectuel des Anormaux', a series of tests developed by he and his partner, Theodore Simone, allowing the differentiaion of normal from retarded children in the school system, thus allowing the slower children to be separated for remedial help. Although never used extensively in France, this of course, was the precursor (although used for different and opposable reasons than were initially ...
- 962: ADOLF HITLER
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 963: History of Adolf Hitler
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 964: Adolf Hitler
- ... which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative ...
- 965: Information Warfare
- ... access constitutionally protected speech. Another problem is how do we define what is in fact harmful to minors? There has to be a set standard that we can follow in order to enact laws. The school system can also keep the children in their school, from accessing undesirable cites on the world wide web. The Queensland school system has been connected to the Internet, providing the children with a whole new world of opportunities. The parents however are worried about the children being able to visit such cites that would have ...
- 966: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- ... was silly but nevertheless he had a fear that if he did not do this, something bad could happen to his mom or dad. He seemed unable to stop doing this. He did poorly in school because he was distracted by his secret compulsion to count letters when he should be paying attention to the teacherˇ¦s lessons. He was later bothered as a teenager by upsetting sacrilegious mental images when ... distressing but are extremely difficult to overcome. OCD occurs on a continuum from mild to severe. At the severe continuum, if left untreated, it can destroy a personˇ¦s capacity to function at work, at school or even at home. What is OCD ? The key features of OCD are obsessions and compulsions as stated in DSMIV. Obsessions are persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced as inappropriate and intrusive ... with OCD struggle to ˇĄget rid ofˇ¦ their unwanted obsessive thoughts and to prevent themselves from engaging in compulsive behaviors. Many are able to keep their obsessive-compulsive symptoms under control at work and at school. But over months and years, their resistance may weaken and when that happens, OCD may have become so severe that time consuming rituals take over the individualˇ¦s life, making it almost impossible to ...
- 967: The Has Been And The Never Was
- ... An awe-inspiring Hollywood star of the late 70 s and early 80 s, Travolta was the youngest of six children born to tire salesman and former semi-pro football player Salvatore Travolta and high school drama teacher Helen Travolta on February 18, 1954 in Englewood, NJ. Being the baby of the family, Travolta grew up pampered. The Travolta children were encouraged to be creative, and would stage shows in the ... tap lessons from Gene Kelly s brother Fred. Travolta admits he picked up a lot of moves from TV s Soul Train, and he ascribes his love for dance to the fact that his high school was fifty percent black. Travolta dropped out of high school at age sixteen to pursue acting full-time. He first gained famed as Vinny Barbarino on the ABC show Welcome Back, Kotter. Travolta s character was a boorish, mean tempered bully who eventually evolved ...
- 968: Prophet Muhammad
- ... in daily prayers by Muslims. Jibril taught the order and arrangement of verses, and the Prophet instructed his several scribes to record verses in that order. Jibril taught Muhammad (s) how to do ablution before prayer and how to pray. Muhammad then taught others. The name Quran appears in the revealed verses. The Quran does not contain even a word from the Prophet. The Quran speaks in the first person, i ... in a very short time in the latest part of the night. Here, Prophet Muhammad (s) met with previous prophets (Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and more, peace be upon them) and he led them in prayer in worship of the One God, Allah (swt). After this, in al-Miraaj, the Prophet (s) was taken up to the heavens to be shown the signs of God. It was on this journey where ... On the early morning of twelfth of Rabi al-Awwal, the prophet s fever abated and he went to the mosque, assisted by Fadl and Thawban, when Abu Bakr r.a. was already leading the prayer. Realizing that the prophet was approaching, Abu Bakr r.a. stepped back without turning his head, but the prophet pressed his hand on his shoulder to let him know to continue. The Prophet sat ...
- 969: Orson Welles
- ... remaing to pursue her music ambitions in Chicago. Welles live most of his time with his mother and Dadda Bernstein, but regularly traveled with his father on holidays. His health effectively kept him out of school until he was eleven, so he had acquired a lot of cultural groundings at home with his mother and the doctor. Fears that he might prove ungovernable like his brother Richard, who had been expelled from school by the age of ten and subsequently banished from home, brought him in 1926 to enrollment in the Todd School for Boys at Woodstock, Illinois, a few months after his mothers death from a liver condition at the age of forty-three. The school was ideally equipped for the nurturing of a young wayward ...
- 970: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... and started his little community. Ferrar was given help and support with his semi-religious community by John Collet, as well as Collet’s wife and fourteen children. They devoted themselves to a life of prayer, fasting and almsgiving (Matthew 6:2,5,16). The community was founded in 1626, when Nicholas was 34 years old. Banning together, they restored an abandoned church that was being used as a barn. Being ... Mary Ferrar (Ferrars’ mother) moved into the manor house. Nicholas became spiritual leader of the community. The community was very strict under the supervision of Nicholas. They read daily offices of the Book of Common Prayer, including the recital of the complete Psalter. every day. Day and night there was at least one member of the community kneeling in prayer at the alter, that they were keeping the word, "Pray without ceasing". They taught the neighborhood children, and looked after the health and well being of the community. They fasted and in many ways ...
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