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    scattered throughout Michigan’s southern region. The subject variables included the child’s technology usage habits, gender, age, race/ethnicity, and household income. Two separate activities were formulated to measure creativity following the “Torrance Test of Creativity” model

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    Creativity can be a difficult trait to quantify and agree on, due to varying opinions on what makes a creative person. Psychologists, scientists, and educators have spent their careers studying, developing tests, and defining creativity in an effort to give us quality information on creative giftedness. There has been a growing and evolving definition of creativity, where intelligent (convergent) and creative (divergent) thinking are considered to work together, since J.P. Guilford began his work

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    In the biography Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, a troubled adolescent boy named Louis Zamperini revolves his life around his running career. Starting at such a young age, running had many impacts on Louie’s life. The high demand of training kept Louie distracted from making unintelligent choices he had previously been making. Running changed the young teenager he was and the man he was going to become. Louie Zamperini was always compared to his older brother Pete. With Pete always being the well

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    In the biography, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, a young boy named Louis Zamperini’s life revolved around running and training for the Olympics. Running had a huge impact on his life and ended up changing how he would act. In his early days, Louis was an irresponsible and rebellious kid. Running would later force him to buckle down and focus on running and training. Many people influenced Louis, but only one made the biggest impact on his life. That person is Pete Zamperini, Louis’ older brother

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    Louis In Unbroken

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    The movie Unbroken was about an Olympic athlete who participated in the war against Japan. His name was Louis Zamperini. Louis is from Italy and he started off being a trouble making rascal in the town that he lived in Torrance, California.  Louis's brother Pete one day saw him run and decided that Louis should get into track. Pete made Louis start practicing even though Louis did not want to cause he thought that he wasn't anything and wanted to keep being nothing. Pete told Louis a very important

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    are still skills that are not tested upon. These include creativity, verbal skills, or various other needs that reflect our personalities. In fact, College of William & Mary did a study in two thousand ten and found that Americans' scores on the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking have been decreasing for twenty years. This could change if we simply changed the tactics of this test and gave it a more charismatic testing system. If we could get it to track creativity and other personal skills, the

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    Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino was “born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old” (Biography). Quentin Tarantino is now known for his unique style, extreme violence, and Tarantino often makes up brands for his films such as “Big Kahuna Burger” in his film “Pulp Fiction,” and Tarantino has

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    We All Shine On Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, released in theaters in 1980, originally received more negative criticism than positive. Stephen King, as well as many of his adoring readers, were disappointed by how little it followed the novel, also disappointing many filmgoers who expected a conventional horror film. There was a lot of hype and media attention surrounding it’s premier, causing a great stir with filmgoers. Replying to the disappointment from fans of the novel, Kubrick replied, “The

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    Physically we live on planet Earth, a constantly accelerating body in the solar system and the only body in this body system that contains complex living organisms. Whenever, I am asked what my world consists, two things come to mind. First is the denotation of the word world. The denotation of the word world is the place of the human civilization, specifically any place that pertains to the planet Earth. Second the connotation of the word world comes to mind. The connotation is anything that defines

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    Stephen King Who is Stephen king? Does he write horror books? Stephen king writes horror books. He has had movie made from his books. Stephen king has been a writer since he was a child. He is a famous writer and a family man. Stephen king was born in Portland Maine September 21, 1947. Stephen is of Scotch-Irish ancestry; his height is 6’4 and weighs 200 pounds. He has blue eyes and fair skin. He is scared of insects; he doesn’t like rats, snakes or closed in places. Stephen is the son

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