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    My person is Leonhard Euler. He was born in Basel, Switzerland, on April 15, 1707. His parents were Paul Euler and Marguerite Brucker. Euler had 2 sisters. Later in his life, he had 13 children, with his first wife Katharina Gsell, though only 5 survived to adulthood. He had 2 spouses. Salome Abigail Gsell from 1776-1783, and Katharina Gsell from 1734-1773. Leonhard was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, which helped in him being one of the founders in pure mathematics. Euler contributed to…

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    Daniel Bernoulli was born on February 8th, 1700 in Groningen, Netherlands, and was known as the “Archimedes of his age”. His parents were Johann Bernoulli and Dorothea Falkner. His father was a medical doctor and a well known mathematician, and his mother was born from a wealthy family in Basel, Switzerland. Daniel had two brothers, Nicolaus and Johann (II), and also had an uncle, named Jacob Bernoulli, who was also a leading mathematician. When his uncle died, leaving the chair of mathematics…

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    I woulds have to say my greatest talent would be that i can run really fast. On many occasions i have ran faster than even star athletes in track i may not be able to run for long at full speed but at the speed i go it's amazing i don't wobble and fall down. I really like running it makes me feel unstoppable. One time when i was in 8th grade we were doing relay races and my team always one not just because of me of course but i had a huge hand in our wins. I haven't raced anyone in quite some…

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    Physics Of Pitching

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    force behind the actual pitch. In pitching you will need to know about the physics the human body even just pitching in general and speed and velocity. Physics play a very important role in baseball especially in the pitching aspect of the game. Albert Einstein created physics way back in the like 1700’s,…

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    Albert Einstein, considered one of the sharpest minds in history, died unfulfilled. All of his life since he was a kid, he had been in awe from the natural phenomena of the world. Taken over by passion, Einstein put his whole focus on science. Even as a brilliant child, teachers thought he would never amount to anything, because of his lack of interest in anything other than sciences and math. Einstein and I share the same hyperfocus towards our passions that blindly leads us away from other…

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    LSD was first made by Albert Hoffman, a Swiss scientist, in 1938. LSD (short form) actually comes from its early name LSD-25 which is an abbreviation for the German "Lysergsaure-diethylamid" followed by a sequential number. Hoffman was not only the first to make LSD, he was also the firwst to ingest and learn the psychedelic effects of this drug. Hoffman died April 29, 2008, at the age of 102. LSD is a semi-synthetic drug, this means that it occurs both in nature and is part man-made. Lysergic…

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    Rett Syndrome Analysis

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    The Role of Neurophysiology in the Treatment of Rett Syndrome Rett syndrome, named after Dr. Andreas Rett (Briggs,2014) who first identified the condition, is a severe neurodevelopment disorder characterized by compromised brain functions, severe mental retardation, language and learning disabilities, repetitive stereotyped hand movements, and developmental regression (Liyanage & Rastegar, 2014). The high prevalence of Rett syndrome in small children and the associated developmental regression…

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    Lastly, let’s examine Eric and Dylan as it relates to the social learning theory. According to Bandura, we learn through reinforcement and social/ observational learning. However, unlike BF Skinner, John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov, Bandura believed there was some type of a cognitive narrative taking place as we learn through others. Unlike the prior theorist we have discussed up to this point, Bandura did not differentiate between adults and children. We know that Eric and Dylan had extreme…

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    Van Gogh's Starry Night

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    The image I analyzed was one of Van Gogh’s most famous, “Starry Night” This painting was created in 1889. The image itself is an oil painting, and is currently located at the Museum of Modern art in New York City. This is image is the view from Van Gogh’s room at an asylum he put himself into and was painted from memory afterwards. At first glance this image automatically creates a sense of calmness. With its dark warm colors and the seemingly flowing lines that create the image itself. This…

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    LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, is an extremely potent hallucinogen and goes by many other names, such as, acid, blotters, trips, and many other nicknames. It was first created in the year 1938 and has been a well known drug since. The main effects of this drug cause hallucinations and trips. The drug LSD is manufactured from an ergot called lysergic acid. It was discovered in 1938 in a fungus that on rye and other grains. It is produced in crystalline form and then is mixed with excipients…

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