Successful individuals come in all packages. What makes one person different from another does not define their victory in life. Do blonds have more fun than brunettes? Are blue eyed girls prettier than brown eyed girls? Are right-handers smarter than left-handers? Each of these questions above deal with being different and having that difference affect the success of the individual. Being left-handed is a blessing not a curse. Does a left-handed person have an advantage or a disadvantage? Left-handed folks are special. They have the ability to live in a world geared mainly toward right-handed members of society and flourish to great heights. It is proven that, on average, there is no significant difference in IQ between righties and lefties (Wang, 2011). Does being born left-handed create difficulties for success or does it prove to be a unique trait that can promote notable achievements? Even though such a small percentage of human beings in the population today possess left-handedness, this paper will show that being left-handed can and does create intelligent and creative people.
This year a study from Milson showed extremely low numbers for left-handed births. The chances of having a left-handed child
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However, the frequency of left-handers does not exceed 30 percent in any traditional society, which suggests that the environment does not play that big of a part in the determination after all (Faurie, 2004). What was compelling to me was that various environments have such different outlooks on left-handers to this day. The environment may not cause left-handedness, but it tends to shape how left-handers are perceived nonetheless. In some Islamic countries there are laws against using the left hand in public (Mandel, 1999). Basically, it is said that the right hand is designated for eating purposes and the left hand was used for removal of
“If her right eye was blackened and she was beaten mostly on the right side of her face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it.” (Lee 238) “[Tom Robison’s] left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side.” (Lee 248)
The more a participant preferred their left hand, “the better they were at tests of divergent thoughts” (3). The study also found that “Left-handers were more adept… at combining two common objects” and finding a way “to form a third” (3). The article gives the example that they were better at creating a birdhouse by combining a tin can and a pole. The left-handed group also “excelled at grouping lists of words into as many alternative categories as possible” (3). According to the article, the study found “an increased cognitive flexibility among the ambidextrous and the left-handed,” which tends to lead to a rise in creative thinking (3). This flexibility explains why lefties are over-represented in more creative thinking jobs like music, architecture, and the arts, including famous artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. To help Konnikova prove her claim, she makes an underlying assumption that having these skills are beneficial and adds a unique ability to the left-handed
Hemispheric dominance is a popular theory that has become a hit outside of the scientific community. This theory encompasses the idea that only one of the two hemispheres of the brain will specialize in a certain area of thinking. The brain’s right hemisphere is theorized to be visually and creatively active, whilst the left hemisphere would actively engage in verbal and analytical processes. The concept of ‘left-brained’ thinkers and ‘right-brained’ thinkers is thus brought by this theory. As their naming suggests, left-brained individuals are thought to be more analytical or logical than their right-brained counterparts who instead would be further engaged in creative thinking. This has been proven to be an oversimplification of a far
Vered, M. (2013). Left Brain vs. Right: What's the Difference?. Brain Skills. Retrieved from http://www.brainskills.co.uk/DifferenceBetweenLeftRightBrain.html
The desolate and chaotic conditions of the society can have a significant amount of influence on the development on a certain character of a novel. For instance, at the time the novel, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky was written, the conditions of the setting, was very chaotic and was in turmoil. Crime and Punishment took place in Russia, where Russia during the time Crime and Punishment was written was suffering due to economical downfalls and failure of the poor reforms of Tsar Alexander II; ultimately transforming Russia into a poverty-stricken country. The failure of Alexander’s reforms affected much of setting in which Crime and Punishment was written in, which ultimately contributed in character development of Raskolinokov. This is evident through the use of metaphor, which Dostoevsky uses to compare the state of the country to Raskolinkov’s apartment.
“Right-brained” or “left-brained” is a concept that has been manipulated by the media, it’s not supported by solid science. The myth of a “right-brain” person is generally creative, intuitive, artsy, while a left-brain person is more of a problem-solver, more direct, logical. Somehow the real meaning was lost in translation, so I’ll explain. The brain is divided into two sides, called hemispheres. The left hemisphere
William Golding , the author of The Lord of the flies believes that evil resides in all human beings. The Lord of the Flies begins softly but nearing the end everything turns upside down. But would the world be the same way it is today without societal structure and rules? Only through societal structure, rules and order will humans be thought morality/principal and proper behaviour. The Lord of the Flies demonstrates what society would look like/resort to without any rules or guidance for man to follow. Others might believe this is true because of natural evil and actions done by individuals, a comparison through savagery and civilization, and certain truths in the world that are evil.
Americans are faced with health complications such as stroke each and every day. Stroke, also called “brain attack” is the third leading cause of deaths in the United States, killing more women each year than breast cancer. According to World Health Organization, fifteen million people suffer from stroke worldwide each year and about 700,000 in the United States. Among the people, it can be inferred that there is a poor public awareness of stroke. There are also many myths about stroke and one of them states that stroke is not preventable. It is also said that strokes cannot be treated, can only strike the elderly and its recovery happens for a few months post-stroke. When in reality, about 80% of strokes are preventable, it requires critical emergency treatment, can happen to anyone of any age, and occurs in the brain. It is also imperative to know that its recovery can continue throughout life.
Being left handed or right handed is a natural development every individual catches on to at a certain age and according pediatrician (Laura Jana), most children start to show a preference for either their left or right hand at about 2 or 3 years old but can develop a preference as early as 18 months old. Most people feel that being right handed is an automatic adjustment that being right handed is correct and being left handed is viewed as a negative factor, in a retrospective study on decedents; scientist have solved the reason being that left handedness can reflect in a negative outcome. In researchers’ study (Marcel E. Salive, MD, MPH, and Jack M. Gurlnik, MD,PhD) they found that the average death rate for left-handers was 9 years lower
In the following essay, we discuss different theoretical perspectives from Nomothetic and Idiographic approach. How they apply to both Personality (pattern of behavior and thinking) and Intelligence (thinking and behavior). Arguments for both sides are base on what psychologists generally use them as, because some might disagrees with the usage of the word nomothetic and idiographic, orientated by Kantian and Wilhelm Windelband.
The left-brain / right-brain theory believes that different people are either more dominant using the left hemisphere or the right hemisphere of the brain. According to this theory, analytical, detailed, and logical are all considered common traits of a left-brained learner. Deliberate, original, and creative, are all how right-brained learners may be described (Rodgers).
One in 10 people reading this is left-handed. There are nearly 34 million of us living in the United States, and about 500 million in the world. Throughout history, though, lefties have been looked down upon.
7)TI: Mental rotation and the right hemisphere, Abstract of research findings regarding enhanced development of the right cerebral hemisphere and its connection to extreme intellectual giftedness.
Furnham, A. 2001. Self-estimates of intelligence: culture and gender difference in self and other estimates of both general (g) and multiple intelligences. Personality and Individual Differences, 31, pp. 1381-1405.
Did you know that approximately 10% of humans are left-handed? If there are 7,000,000,000 people in this world, then about 700,000,000 people are left-handed: a difference of 6,993,000,000 people. I should mention that I contribute to that ten percent. Being a lefty is almost equivalent to a person with recessive eye colors such as blue, hazel, or green. Just like eye color, the rate of southpaws can vary according to culture, gender, country, etc… As an example, most left-handers tend to be males. Left-hand dominance has surprisingly been very consistent throughout 500,000 years, staying at a constant rate of ten percent. Researchers have found, for example, by examining tools and bone density, that Neanderthals also favored their right hand. If the world is mainly filled with right-handed people, why does left handedness exist? The history, benefits and disadvantages of