...was exceedingly athletic and extremely motivated (“Harry Houdini Biography”). By the time Houdini was six, he had already developed a taste for magic and sleight of hand after seeing a traveling magician performed the Linking Rings trick. His first trick was making a dried pea appear in any one of three cups (“Harry Houdini” PBS). When Erich was nine some friends of his opened up a five-cent circus. He wore red woolen socks, and called himself "Erich, The Prince of the Air." Erich worked for a localized locksmith and able to pick almost any lock at age eleven. An autobiography by the famed French magician, Houdin, Erich was inspired and chose to follow in his footsteps business-wise. (“Timeline of Houdini's Life”). At the age of thirteen, Erich and his father moved to New York City, after a few of failures in the Midwest, and got jobs as newspaper seller. Then, when he was there he became very interested in trapeze arts and spent his time practicing (“Harry Houdini Biography” Bio.com). Erich and his father got casual jobs, while living in a boarding house, then later their family came to join them. Erich's family was often at odds with one another, having its share of conflicts, and to make matters worse his family was in poverty. He had five brothers and a sister: Nathan, Herman, Theodore “Theo” also known as “Dash”, Gottfried, Leopold, and Gladys (“Harry Houdini Biography”). Erich Weisz changed his name to Harry Houdini after his nickname “Ehrie” and the...
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...Harry Houdini was born Erich Weiss on March 24 , 1874 in Budapest , Hungary . Born of seven children to a rabbi, Mayer Samuel Weiss and his mother Cecilia Weiss. They lived a decent life. When he was 13 , Erich moved with his father to New York City, taking on odd jobs and they lived in a boarding house. Until later the whole the family arrived, it was then that he became interested in trapeze art , He began his magic career in 1891. He performed in Dime Museums and sideshows where he doubled as “The Wild Man” at a circus. Harry worked at New York's Coney Island amusement park performing 20 shows a day. Illinois Impressed by the handcuff act. Beck advised him to concentrate on escape acts, within months, he was performing at the top Vaudeville houses in the Country. From 1907 and throughout the 1910's, Houdini performed with great success in the United States. He became widely known as “The Handcuff King”. He freed himself from jails, handcuffs, chains, ropes, and straitjacket In 1894, He launched his career as a professional magician and renamed himself Harry Houdini. In 1899, Martin Beck, a manager, checked out Houdini in Woodstock, Its. People were amazed and some thought this was insane. In 1912, Houdini introduced his most famous act , The Chinese Water Torture Cell , after putting his Handcuff Act behind him due to Imitators.His escapes included Mirror Challenge, Milk Can Escape, Chinese Water Torture Cell, Suspended Straitjacket Escape, Overboard Box Escape, and...
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...Poopology! Sucker! ------------------------------------------------- Early life [edit] Blaine was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is of Puerto Rican descent on his father's side, and Russian Jewish on his mother's. Blaine's mother, Patrice Maureen White (1946–1995),[2] was a school teacher living in New York, and his father William Perez was a Vietnam veteran. When he was four years old, he saw a magician performing magic in the subway. This sparked a lifelong interest for Blaine.[3] He was raised by his single mother and attended many schools in Brooklyn. When he was ten years old, his mother married John Bukalo and they moved to Little Falls, New Jersey,[4] where he attended Passaic Valley Regional High School.[5] He has a half-brother named Michael James Bukalo. When he was 17 years old, Blaine moved toManhattan, New York.[6] ------------------------------------------------- Stunts and specials [edit] Street Magic and Magic Man [edit] On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic aired on the ABC network. According to the New York Daily News, “Blaine can lay claim to his own brand of wizardry. The magic he offers in tonight’s show operates on an uncommonly personal level.”[7] When asked about his performance style, David explained, “I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.”'[8] Time magazine commented, "his deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...
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...Magic trick reveals Gaze Direction and Attention aren’t always linked. Psychologist Gustav Khun focuses particularly on the attention and awareness of the human mind, especially how attention and eye movements are influenced by social factors. Kuhn and his colleagues created a laboratory style experiment, where they played a clip of a short magic trick to some university students, (who were gathered together through a volunteer sampling method request), in which the magician appears to make a cigarette and lighter disappear. The cigarette "disappears" when the magician drops it into his lap while directing the audience's attention to his other hand. Recordings that were taken of the students' eye movements showed that whether or not they spotted the cigarette drop, and therefore realised how the trick was done, had nothing to do with their eye position at the moment of the drop. In contrast to this, the students' eye position after the cigarette drop was associated with whether they saw it. Specifically, those students who, after the drop, moved their eyes more quickly to the now empty cigarette hand were more likely to report having seen the cigarette fall. The likely explanation is that those students who, post drop, made the faster glance to the cigarette hand had already shifted their attentional spotlight (The experience of ‘looking out of the corner of the eye’, but not yet focussing with their actual eyes) to the cigarette, in time to see it drop. This would be...
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...| NA | | | | | TITLE: Houdini/ACE Packaging Inquiry Transfer | | TYPE: Product Inquiry Transfer | | PROJECT NAME: Houdini | | PROJECT LEADER: TBD | | Product Code: TBD Product Number: Batch Number: NA ORIGINATOR NAME: | TBD | EXTENSION: | TBD | TITLE: | Quality Engineer | SITE: | | APPROVAL STATUS: Review & Approval Status (Priority or Normal): | | | Status | Approval Due Date: | | | Due Date | APPROVAL LIST: FUNCTION | NAME (PRINT) | SIGNATURE | DATE | DISPOSITION (ACCEPT/REJECT) | Independencia QS Manager | | | | | Albuquerque QS Manager | | | | | Customer Complaint Manager | | | | | Energy BU Manager | | | | | Regulatory Reporting Specialist | | | | | Customer Quality Packaging Engineer | | | | | DISTRIBUTION LIST: (create as necessary) 1 Note: For Sedation Systems approvals, an electronic approval page will be generated in place of the hardcopy signature page (reference WE001186 and WE001187) 0 **Note 2 (Juarez Only): Planners must sign for notification only. REVISION | Change Description | A | Original Issue | | | 1.0 1.0 PURPOSE 2.1 The purpose of this protocol is to establish the elements required for the successful implementation of product complaint analysis and reporting for the following Houdini: 2.2 Packaging Codes...
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...Harry Battson is a 63 year old, Caucasian male. He is a soft spoken man with a genius IQ. I have known him for the entirety of my life, for he is my grandfather. He was born in 1951, a time when racial tensions were running high, in a poor rural town near Columbus Ohio. Both his father and his mother had multiple jobs to try and put food on the table, when he was 12 years old he got his own job to help pay the mortgage on the house. He later went to a seminary school to become a priest. It was during that time that he met my grandmother, Lisa, fell in love and eventually married her. They have been married for 40 years and have two daughters. Battson answered every question completely, his answers were concise and straight to the point. When asked about touchy or emotional subjects the answers became clipped and short. It was obvious that they did not want to be talked about and it was very clear that if pressed he would stop the interview all together. Other than the touchy moments the overall mood of the answers were satisfactory and the mood was positive....
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...are reliant on individuals at the beginning of life, “attachment to their mothers is not instantaneous” (Weiten, 2011, p. 341). They can easily be given to another individual without much difficulty. Around 8 months is when a child begins to show attachment to his mother. Separation can be difficult and stress in the infant can result as a consequence. If separation anxiety develops, it will begin to decline as the child grows older. Studies have been conducted to explain why children develop an attachment to their mothers. One study’s theory was that by a mother feeding her infant child, the child forms the attachment through the need to be fed and the mother is providing that need to the child. However, that theory was shot down when Harry Harlow decided to raise monkeys and see what happens when a frightening stimulus was introduced. Did they go to the “mother” that fed them and was made of wires or did they go to the one that held more comfort being made of cloth? They scattered to the mother made of cloth. Harlow’s explanation was that “infants are biologically programmed to emit behavior that triggers an affectionate, protective response from adults”(Weiten, 2011, p. 342). As for the quality of attachment between mother and infant, it varies and there are specifically three types of categories that attachment can be categorized under. Secure attachment is the better of the three. When a child is develops a secure attachment, he or she is comfortable with their mothers...
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...Everyone has heard of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, which have outshined their triumph transition all over the world. The books, which have achieved a total sale of more than 35 million copies, in over 35 languages, are very thick but are being swallowed by children and teenagers who can’t get enough. Everyone knows the story about the little wizard who must go through much evil in the human world in order to find happiness at Hogwarts school for wizards. Hogwarts is set in a parallel world, which is inhabited with strange creatures and offers many exciting adventures. In this world Harry leads the battle against the evil Lord Voldemort and his followers with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasly, which are the names of his best friends. Lord Voldemort, who wants to fight to get the power in the wizard world, exposes Harry to the most terrible dangers in all of the books. JK Rowling has planned out seven books about Harry, which are expected with great excitement every time a new book in the series releases. People are queuing outside bookshops to get the first copies when the release time is near. The story about the author of the books is an adventure, which is similar to the transformation Harry is exposed to in the switch from the Muggle worlds, the name for the boring human world and the wizard world. Joanne Kathleen Rowling had to go through a lot of wicked painful things before she became famous. She was born in 1965 as the daughter of a Scottish French mother...
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...I want to start 2012 reading Harry Potter because it’s the first year without it. I admit, I’m a Potterhead or whatever you call it. I got this book last December 2010 and being a bookworm, I’m finished with it in a short period of time. I still remember, I was patiently waiting for my Hogwarts Acceptance letter even though my 11th birthday has passed by. It was silly but who’ll refuse to entertain the thought of attending a school for witches and wizards? This book is a spectacular little romp with funny, courageous, and endearing characters that you can’t help but love. Hermione, the young scholar who starts out prim and up-tight but soon becomes a true friend; Ron, the boy who has little money but who has an abundance of family and loyalty to his friends to make up for it; and then there’s Harry, the boy who starts out sleeping in a closet and ends up being a hero. Harry is kind to those that deserve it, fearless when it counts the most, and wonderfully intelligent. So what’s not to love? I don’t get it why some people say Harry Potter is evil. I mean, it does encourage me to become a witch. But we all know it’s not going to happen. In my imagination… maybe. But trust me, there is nothing wrong with Harry Potter. None at all. All in all, J.K. Rowling has the talent. I don’t want to give away too much. Read it for yourself, it’s one of my favorite books ever. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to start Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. PS: Those who...
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...Fantasy is a broad concept discussed for over many years. Many writers have tried to define fantasy according to different perspectives. Fantasy is something which takes you into imaginative and supernatural world and allows anything to happen (JoAnn 2005). Fantasy is a field involving and practiced in different media. It is greatly related to imagination and mythology ( Laetz & Johnston 2008). The genre of fantasy is most widely used in arts and entertainment world where writers and art related persons us this concept to gather public interest. The Harry potter series is a good example where writer has use fantasy genre and gained huge success. Fantasy is a process which shows the thinking capability of person that how far he/she can think beyond the actual world. Fantasies lead to creative idea generations. As successful in other walks of life, fantasy is widely used in business. Marketers usually use this concept of fantasy in their product promotions. The main motive is to seek maximum attention. The promotional campaigns and ads are designed in such a way that they take customer into an imaginative world. The customers impressed with promotional campaign tend to think that the product will give them ultimate comfort and is the best available solution to their needs. The fantasy campaigns go a step further and create artificial need by making a customer realize that his personality or surrounding will remain incomplete without this product. This particular ad is...
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...Introduction The movie “The devil wears Prada” had a variety of characters with distinct personalities and perspectives to different situations. The characters that I will analyze in this paper include Andy Sachs, Miranda Priestly, Emily and Nigel. However I will also talk about Christian Thompson, Irv the owner of Runway and Andy’s boyfriend Nate. Reflective Portion The first situation that I think is worth mentioning is when Miranda is stuck in Miami due to a hurricane. It was crucial for Miranda to get back to New York because the “twins” had a recital. As a result of this situation, Miranda contacted Andy to look for another alternative to travel. Miranda looks at this stimulus in a way that I suppose no one else would, as she kept true to her dominant, dramatic and contentious communicating style. She remains dramatic by under-exaggerating the weather condition, dominant and contentious by not giving Andy any other option but to look for a flight on that vary same night. Andy on the other hand tried to get control over the situation by remaining calm at first however, when she realized that she was in a tough situation, she started to panic. As a neutral observer I was able to see a drift in Andy’s perspective and personality in this scene. In a way I believe that Miranda put her employees in a tough situation specifically because she likes to see work get done the way she want it and not how the other wants. I do not think the behavior that Miranda posses in this...
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...GCSE English Study of spoken language essay In this essay I am going to study the similarities and differences of two different interviews that JK Rowling is in. One of them is JK Rowling being interviewed by an American woman about her childhood, the other is being interviewed on Blue Peter by the presenters and children. In the childhood interview JK Rowling is wearing very dark clothing, her make-up is quite dark as it doesn’t brighten her face up and her hair is looking very dull. She looks rather tired and fed up in this interview. I don’t think JK Rowling feels comfortable in this interview as it makes her reflect on her childhood and this would be very uncomfortable for someone who’s been bullied and someone who hasn’t had an overly happy childhood. She’s not sat up straight and she is looking down for most of the interview and only makes eye contact when she wants to make a point. For example, the interviewer is questioning about her childhood and says “and how cruel the other kids can be.” JK Rowling looks up immediately when she says “They can be vicious...” she makes eye contact when she says this with her eyes wide open and she also puts emphasis on the word vicious. Another time she makes eye contact when she wants to prove a point is when the interviewer assumes that from what JK’s been saying that she was an unhappy child and says “You were an unhappy child.” JK replies very strongly and quiet snappy, with eye contact “Not re- no I don’t think I was an unhappy...
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...”Back to school event” In Barack Obama’s speech “Back to school event” his main topic is how important it is to focus on your studies. He is not only encouraging the students that are present in the room, but also every person in America that are currently in school to keep strong, even though the odds are against you, so you can finish your education. To get out the importance of the speech, Barack Obama is taking a heavy use in the rhetoric forms. For an instance, one of the rhetoric methods Obama is using is ethos. It is important that you trust, believe and feel with the person who is trying to get his words through to the listener. Here Obama is being highly successful with his connection to the people in the room, due to the fact that he is using himself as an example in his speech, which makes it more trustworthy. He makes an example of himself as an example as to why it may seem hard to study at the moment, but how it will be worth it in the end. He uses himself to get the message out that if you are heading towards a bad road, focusing on completing your studies will take you back to a more even and safe path. He is refers to education as your safety net, your only safety net. He simply let down all other options to succeed in life. Education led him to where he is today, so he wants to encourage the young society to continue pursuing their studies. Another rhetoric method Obama takes into use is pathos. The tone in his voice, his body language, and his passion for...
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...later motivates his female counterpart, Lady MacBeth) is introduced first and foremost in Act I, scene i with the three weird sisters. The witches declare they will meet again when the “hurlyburly” (I.i.l.3), or storm, is done upon a “heath” (I.i.l.7), or open land covered in small shrubs, to meet with Macbeth. In Act I, scene iii, the three weird sisters meet with Macbeth as they predicted in scene i. “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!” (I.iii.l.50) cries the third witch, announcing the prophecy of Macbeth to Macbeth himself. This prophecy proposed is similar to the prophecy in the Harry Potter series that motivates the infamous antagonist, Lord Voldemort, to kill the protagonist Harry Potter in order to fulfill the prophecy that stated a boy was born (Harry) with the power to vanquish Lord Voldemort and his power. Like Macbeth, Voldemort had to eliminate (or attempt to) Harry so he could get what he wanted: to be an unstoppable evil force. Macbeth had to eliminate King Duncan to get what he wanted: to be king. The three weird sisters telling Macbeth that he is destined to be king is what plants the seed of motivation in Macbeth’s mind but what waters that seed is not yet revealed until Act I, scene iv when King Duncan, the current king, declares his son Malcolm to be heir to his throne. When Macbeth witnesses this, he says to himself, “The Prince...
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...Religious symbolism is prevalent throughout the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban plot had a very similar to certain passages in the Bible. The betrayal and the trial of Jesus Christ mirror many characters’ own trials and unfairness that is their justice system during the course of the book. The tale of betrayal never gets old, but where do we draw the line on when history repeats itself? If we had the ability to go back in time and change it, would we want to have that ability, that life-altering decision? The Ministry of Magic seems to have ever-changing policies about the laws and regulations of the wizarding world. Harry Potter becomes agitated with Aunt Marge because she insulted his deceased parents. He inflates her to the size of a sumo wrestler; she is shot into the sky, and eventually found in a field. The Ministry gives Harry Potter no punishment and laughs it off because he is young. Corruption of the Ministry of Magic could be used as a metaphor of the High Priests during Jesus’s time. The High Priests are supposed to be men of God and are set to a higher moral code. They chose to act against Jesus because it endangered their way of life. The High Priests will do what it takes to get what/whom they want. The Ministry is motivated to protect and preserve their investors and aristocrats’ interests. That is shown in action when Lucius Malfoy throws a fit about a beast “attacking” his son. There are many falsely accused persons...
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