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    young 15 year old boy in the year of 1909, had attended an airshow that would change his goals and dreams forever. Lawrence Sperry was very adventurous and intelligent, he was fascinated by the aviation work and craft. In Mineola, New York, Lawrence and his brother were discovering new fancies about aircrafts that they never knew at an airshow. Full of curiosity and hope, the Sperry brothers built their own version of the Voisin in their basement, but realized after the final touches that they could

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    was invented by Lawrence Sperry. You should know that he was a pilot himself. Lawrence Sperry was also the last performer in the Concours de la Securité en Aéroplane (Airplane Safety Competition). Lawrence Sperry was born on December 21, 1892, in Chicago, IL. He died on December 13, 1923, in the English Channel, after crashing his plane while flying. Sperry was only raised by one parent, his father, Elmer Ambrose Sperry. His assistant 's name was Emil Cachin, who was French, Sperry did not understand

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    – Salem State University professor, Aviva Chomsky, spoke at the House of the Seven Gables, on Thursday Sept. 14, about the 1933 Pequot Mills Strike, and its connection to modern labor issues facing the U.S. today. The House of the Seven Gables welcomed back Chomsky, as a guest speaker, for the final presentation of their ongoing speaker series, “Life and Labor over Four Centuries at the House of the Seven Gables.” Ana Nuncio, Settlement Programs Manager at the House of Seven Gables said, “The

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    sentimental feeling towards the document of rules that would have made innumerable amounts of KU fans disappointed if the rules were not placed safely back in Lawrence, Kansas. Correspondingly, the affectionate feelings KU had towards the rules and basketball tied together the reasoning to bring the rules back to their rightful home in Lawrence,

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    company spread all around the world. Which cover around 160 countries and 3000 dealers in the whole world. But main operating assembly is situated in Italy. In starting of 1947 company decided to change its named into Sperry New Holland. Because whole manufacturing assembly take over by Sperry Rand corporation. In whole world there are 22 plants some of them are : 1 Asia Pakistan Harbin, China Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia Greater Noida , India Shanghai, china Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2 Europe Ankara, Turkey

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    to try and understand learning capability’s that can help with such things as epilepsy, dyslexia and other seizure and learning problems. The right brain-left brain theory came from the work of Roger W. Sperry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981. While studying the effects of epilepsy, Sperry discovered that

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    lot to do with our learning. In terms of how we learn and what hemisphere we use the most. The concept of the right and left brain think developed from research in the late 1960's by an American psychologist Roger W Sperry. The correct term for the halves would be hemispheres. Mr. Sperry had discovered that the human brain has two different ways of thinking. The right hemisphere being more visual and the left hemisphere being more verbal. The left hemisphere is known as the digital brain. The left

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    Left versus Right Brain and Learning

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    Left versus Right Brain and Learning Each person has a governing hemisphere and once learning becomes a technical process, the idyllic portion of the brain takes charge of solving the issue at hand. There are two sides of the brain, which directly influence learning and produce different ways of receiving, storing and responding to information which ultimately affects our whole learning process. The cerebral cortex is broken down into two hemispheres, left and right, with it being home to the functions

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    Left and Right Brain Dominance and the Impact on Learning The idea of left-brain and right-brain dominance derived from a study performed by a neuropsychologist by the name of Roger Sperry (1954). Based on this study it was gathered that each person learns and thinks by using mainly one hemisphere of their brain. Some people are right-brain dominant and some are left-brain dominant. There are also some that think with part of each side. These people are referred to as middle-brained or whole-brained

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    teaching only based off of their natural learning styles (Oflaz, 2011). In addition to brain dominance, theories and studies have been done to find out what each side of the brain controls what certain functions. Nobel prize winner Dr. Roger W Sperry has provided a lot of knowledge and information covering the different sides of the brain and how they differ from each other. He was known for conducting split-brain research, which means cutting the corpus callosum that connects the left side to

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