David Blaine's Article 'Feats Of Will'

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In the article named. “Feats of Will.” David Blaine is a magician, but he is mostly recognized as an enduring artist who has done divergent types of treacherous acts, but mostly of those acts are in public. In 2006 David was shackled to a spinning gyroscope suspended five stories above the ground of New York City. Nonetheless, he spends forty-four days without food causing him lost fifty-four pounds. Nevertheless, of how treacherous David acts were, he wanted to do something further. He wanted to break the world record by holding his breath under water the majority time possible. However, by that he’d spend more than a year learning about, how to fill his lungs with pure oxygen and to be able to remain immobile under water. As a result, he

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