Friday, September 13, 2013

Without the Left Or Right You Are Not Right









I bet you're wondering what the title means right now.  I'm actually talking about the brain.  The brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right.  The right controls all of creativity and context.  The left controls language and generally is the part with the smarts.  Without one side of the brain you would be speechless.  Literally.  Without the right you can't comprehend anything, or almost anything.  Of course the left would control reading, but without the right you can't comprehend the text.  Here is an example. It said in the text the left is for text the right is for context.  This is very true because you can hardly do anything if you don't have both hemispheres active in your brain.
  
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I know we watched this video in class but it proves my point very well.  Since she lost the left side of her brain to a stroke, temporarily, But when she tried talking on the phone she just made mumbling sounds because she didn't have the left side of her brain.  If she didn't have the right she wouldn't be able to talk either.  Therefore if you lost one side permanently she would not live a normal life.  So my point is you can't live a good life without both sides of your brain.  Therefore without the left or right you are nnot right.
       There is many activities you can use to determine if you are left or right hemisphered.  I'll put a few below this.
Heres some games-GAME GAME










Sunday, September 1, 2013

Books Vs. Life

A few days ago in school, we read an article by the name of ,"Habits Of The Mind".  They weren't exactly what most people think of habits as. The were like thinking flexibly and being persistent. So I connected those "habits" to life.  When I say Books Vs. Life I mean books as in the paper we have recently read and other books that are non-fiction or historical fiction.  The book I'm comparing I haven't actually read I've just read summaries. I can infer what the book Is like and how I can compare the book to life.  "Good problem solvers stick to a problem until its completed".  Louis Zamperini will demonstrate that text which is from the "Habits Of The Mind" report.  The main character of this book demonstrates persistence, and if you think about other habits of the mind including: Thinking flexibly and striving for accuracy and precision.  He survived his horrible experience using the habits of the mind.  Without them he would of drowned in about 1 minute.  Therefore these habits are very important in all states of life.



The book we will talk about is": Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption


This book Is about a young lieutenant named Louis Zamperini.  As  a child Louis was a pretty juvenile kid.  He broke into houses, got into brawls, and was just generally bad kid. Before he joined the the armed forces he was an athlete in the olympics. His experience of crashing from a plane into the ocean changed his life forever.  I connected this book to my life because I see some kids that persist(one of the habits of the mind) through a lot in school.  They persist through homework and... school PERIOD.