Left-handedness

between the types of learners and the handedness of my study participants. As the independent variable for all the experiments is handedness, and the dependent variable is the number of keywords for the reading test, number of activities going on in the picture for the visual test, number of keywords in the audio listening test, and number of movements for the kinesthetic test that the participants will get. The hypothesis for the reading test is that because the left side of the brain is known…

read.” I therefore create this to explain the plight of being a member of ten percent of the world’s population, the left-handed. Handwriting alone is not the only thing that plagues the left-handed; it is the righty-controlled society that is forced upon them. From scissors, to spiral notebooks and whiteboards, lefties have been left out. I was born into a family with 2 other left-handed brothers, an unusual turnout. When anyone asks me what it is like to be lefty I tell them one thing; I…

actually are the origin of common sayings today. One example of this would be the saying “getting up on the wrong side of the bed” when someone appears to wake up irritated. The Romans first proposed this idea because they deemed the left to be evil, so getting up on the left side meant your…

controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.” -Author Unknown Lefties often get a bad rap, and it is time to clear up the misconceptions and make being left-handed a new desirable trait. In the Latin dictionary, the word “left” was often defined as sinister or evil, a matching definition if you were to look into the American education system. In schools, children were often forced to switch hand preference if they favored the left hand,…

under the cranium of any human being exists a brain with two plainly visible parts, each about the size of a fist, known as the right and the left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. Even though these two hemispheres appear identical in terms of structure, they perform distinct functions. Split-brain studies and cognitive research has indicated that the left hemisphere is associated with functions such as language, conceptualization, analysis and classification. The right hemisphere is…

Dissociative identity disorder, previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is the most severe, chronic manifestation of dissociation. It is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that will recurrently take control of an individual’s behavior. Personality states, or “alters”, can be imaginary people or even animals. It is important to remember that DID is characterized by identity fragmentation rather than the proliferation of separate…

felt left out when the teacher would stop teaching to answer the phone everyday and tell me that it was time to goto the school…

After spending sixteen-years observing the trends of families with respect to their individual triumphs and setbacks, I cannot say that nature or nurture is strong enough of a singular foundation to determine the whole of our lives. Instead, I would argue that it is a combination of both nature and nurture that shapes human outcome. I tend to look at it like this: we cannot escape our genetic predispositions, but we can change the psychology surrounding them. Thus, it is possible to raise a…

As an 18 month old I suffered from a head trauma, which resulted in loss of oxygen and left me in a coma for three weeks. The left-sided brain injury caused me to have paralysis, and weakness on my right side. I have a slight limp when I walk and favor my left side, including handedness. As a result of the injury my parents were told that I had been diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury. Since my Trauma I have been demonstrating ongoing academic struggle. It has affected my learning environments…

Power doesn’t corrupt people. People corrupt power. This saying is relevant in the novel, The Chrysalids, because when power is given to an individual, it only takes one step for the person to take advantage of it and corrupt it, but the concept of power never corrupts anything. In The Chrysalids, the theme of power is strongly seen through religion, discrimination, and mutants. In The Chrysalids, the theme of power is demonstrated through religion because of the Strorms’ history and religious…