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William Ellsworth Hoy was born on the 23rd of May, 1862. He was born in Houcktown, Ohio. When he was about 3 years old, he became ill with meningitis. The illness caused him to become deaf. For the first part of his life, Hoy stayed home with his family and learned to help on the farm. Hoy had pretty much only his siblings to keep him company in his small town. While at home, he communicated with gestures that only his family understood. It was like their own little form of sign language.…

et al. 2015; Hudson et al. 2007; Schutte and Spencer 2007). Where the target is not initially specified, the initial planning state represents the information available concerning all potential targets (Cisek and Kalaska 2002; Favilla et al. 1990; Findlay 1982; Gallivan et al. 2015; Ghez et al. 1997; Haith et al. 2015; He and Kowler 1989; Hudson et al. 2007;…

While reading the article, “Relax, It’s Only A Test,” I found the point that students often get so anxious about the test or exam that it actually interferes with their working memory, and intern making them struggle on the test very interesting. Although I don’t consider myself an anxious test taker I do relate with the part of the article describing the wrong study method. I do often study by reviewing my notes and textbooks, which helps me become familiar on the topic, but that is not…

A famed Irish poet by the name of W.B. Yeats once said that, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire.” Deciding my life’s course at such a young age is a daunting expectation, but the first step is choosing where I will be taught how to work through my new life. Choosing this place, like W.B. Yeats said, shouldn’t be finding a place to goof off and just memorizing information, but it should be a place where I will gain a spark of knowledge that will cause me to…

for effective learning to take place since being a teacher, our aim is to reach all of our learners. Being in a mixed ability class, the students can help each other and provide encouragement and support for their less able peers by their example (Findlay & Bryan, 1975; Reid et al., 1982; Eilam & Finegold,…

According to figures founded by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, between 1993 and 2011, defendants heard in the Supreme Court were acquitted of all charges in 55.4% of judge-alone trials compared with 29% of jury trials. Professor Mark Findlay of criminal justice at Sydney University accredits these exonerations to judges being less likely to be guided by emotion whilst jury members could approach the case subjectively thus hindering the presumption of innocence. Furthermore,…

Throughout the duration of one 's life, a person will face thousands of decisions. These decisions could be minor or major but nevertheless, could play a significant role in the outcome of their life. Recently, myself alongside my peers, were forced to make a multitude of choices that will dictate and guide the rest of our lives. These choices included: what college to attend, major, payment plans, housing, and rather to attend a higher level of learning at all. The idea of these decisions…

The leaves started to change and I finally felt like new again. It was my junior year and all I wanted to do at this point was get the heck out of high school. I had maybe two or three good friends that I could actually count on at the time. I didn’t really have any of those good friends during my lunch period and was forced to have pointless conversations with irrelevant girls who only cared about their image and how popular they are in high school. My viewpoint of high school now was…

God is Real Famous scientist Isaac Newton once said “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.” It is safe to say that some people need more convincing than Isaac Newton to believe in God. There have been countless movies made to convince the existence of the existence of God. An example is Heaven is For Real; unfortunately, there was controversy as to whether it was made up in order to become wealthy. There always seems to be a reason as to why the…

because I did not like her as a person; she ranks right up there as one of the worst teachers ever. As simple as the curriculum should have been, she could not explain anything to save her soul. I ended up having to get a tutor from the University of Findlay to pass the class. During my sessions at Panera with my tutor, she would repeatedly find errors in Mrs. B’s teaching. So, I was stuck for a whole year with three terrible, horrible, no good, very bad…