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They did not give up

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:39:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work

An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation."

Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress, she was to"Try any other profes

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As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62.

Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him.

Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe.

Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive."

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded

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Multiple intelligences

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:37:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: People think in different ways, have different talents, learn differently,and understand things in different ways. The education system is biased towards linguistic, thinking, and logical thinking to a lesser degree. People with strengths in other fields, could be taught in a way more suited to their talents

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Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven distinct intelligences. This theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways," according to Gardner (1991)

Visual-Spatial - think in terms of physical space, as do architects and sailors.

Bodily-kinesthetic - use the body effectively, like a dancer or a surgeon.

Musical - show sensitivity to rhythm and sound. They love music, but they are also sensitive to sounds in their environments

Interpersonal - understanding, interacting with others. These students learn through interaction.

Intrapersonal - understanding one's own interests, goals. These learners tend to shy away from others.

Linguistic - using words effectively. These learners have highly developed auditory skills and often think in words.

Logical -Mathematical - reasoning, calculating. Think conceptually, abstractly

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No title sufficient

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:55:34 GMT

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Politican Cartoons

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:32:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The United States, some years back, found its new bogeyman "Islam" to replace its former imaginary enemy "Communism." And now the European press appears to have finally (?) found a replacement for the Jewish people that they used to malign and attack. Anti-Islam/Muslimism appears to now have officially replaced anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe.

The roots of these attacks are the same: an inability to acknowledge and respect a diversity of people that might result in a Europe that is non-White and/or non-Christian.

The anti-Muslim/Islam cartoons of today are little different than the anti-Jewish cartoons that were published by the Nazis during WW II."

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