Genius

Word count: 511 By Harlan Hofmann-Miller Age: 12 Khofmann@telus.net 1024 Hall Street, Nelson BC, VIL 1Z9 250 352 3209 A Urinal, a Job Interview, and a Genius The large wooden doors of “Plonko’s Plumbing and Design Industries” opened to admit a small, bespectacled young man with wispy grey-brown hair. His name was Alfred Tince. He was carrying a briefcase and pulling a cart with a black cloth covered object riding on it. Alfred nervously cleared his throat, looking around the room for his

Burro Genius is story about the life of Victor Villasenor showing how he overcame racism at school and his difficulties in reading to become a famous writer. Victor had many advantages to be a successful student. He was born in a rich family. His parents, Salvador and Lupe, were wealthy landowners and their rancho, where they had built a beautiful home, was very large. The rancho gave a healthy lifestyle for all his family members. Before starting kindergarten, Victor could ride horses like an adult

In chapter three Gladwell describes the incredible genius of Christopher Langan, who is currently known as the smartest man in America. Langan with an IQ that of 195. His overall genius composes him an outlier because he is poised out so much in compared to the rest of the world. However, has that brilliance helped Langan be successful in his life? Besides the fact other than the celebrity status it has reaped, has he truly done well? The amusing element about Langan is that in common terms, he is

John Van Den Anker Thoughts and Memories “Here is a drawing of a Stapler” (xlv). In A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius, Eggers fabricates an unique narrative of intertwined thought and dialogue. The presence of the stapler drawing at the end of the acknowledgements has a bifold meaning: it serves as a representation of both his and the reader’s relationships with the text. Eggers weaves together a narrative that includes his genuine thoughts that oppose the “almost entirely reconstructed

and remember how he wanted to commit suicide? Well by age of eighty-eight he was the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, KFC.” One thing that Colonel Sanders and the novel, Football Genius, have in common is that perseverance had a huge part to do with both of them. In the realistic fiction novel, Football Genius, written by Tim Green, the protagonist Troy White struggles to show people he has a true talent. Although he has the ability to read the offense and/or defense and know what they are going

out ways to increase the intrinsic motivation of their employees. Thus, this search has revealed a way to boost this motivation, “genius grants.” Burkus says that a “genius grant” is time off from work in order for them to develop intrinsically motivated side-projects, and rewarding them whenever these projects provide value to the company (83). The power of these genius grants is evident; for it has brought us revolutionary, yet simple innovations, such as masking tape. In the early 20th century,

After reading Brian Hare’s The Genius of Dogs, a misconception I previously had was that humans domesticated dogs. I believed that thousands of years ago wolves were brought into the houses of humans and taken on hunting trips and over time they became less aggressive. In fact dogs domesticated themselves. Hare discusses many topics that went against my previous thoughts including dogs understanding of connections, the aspect of fetch, and the play bow, but I have chosen to focus on how dogs domesticated

competitor and greatest prize – gaining control of important trade routes that crossed Iran and Anatolia. Unlike previous major empires in the Middle East, Persians had a different political and cultural value system from Greeks. Cyrus was a political genius. He had an inclusive concept of rule (pg. 52). After his victories of various

secrecy, and death were common. However, this war had no weapons. It was a dual between two geniuses. These two men are the fathers of modern technology. The War of Currents was a battle between the famous inventor Thomas Edison, and the mysterious genius Nikola Tesla. Tesla and Edison engaged in an epic competition to create the most efficient, cheap, usable form of electricity. Everyone knows who Thomas Edison was, but not many people know of Nikola Tesla. Tesla was an unappreciated mastermind who

One of the first avengers, in the comics, is a superhero with a scientific improbable suit named Iron Man. With his genius, he built a tool to use for the forces of good and saves the day with the weapon he has built. The man behind and inside the suit is billionaire, playboy, boy/man genius Tony Stark. He is constantly being praised for his intelligence and young genius. This all culminates with him being built up so high that nothing, seemingly, can take him down or out. The only problem is that