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Vocabulary log:
1. Stitches: One of the small lines of thread that you can see on a piece of
cloth after it has been sewn.
-Try to keep the stitches small and straight.
2. Cube root: A number that, when multiplied by itself twice, produces a
particular number
-The cube root of 64 (∛64) is 4.
3. Savant: A person with great knowledge and ability.
-He knows a lot of science; he could be a savant.
4. Astonishing: very surprising; difficult to believe
-She ran 100m in an astonishing 10.6 seconds.
5. Adjudicator: A person who makes an official decision about who is right
when two groups or organizations disagree
-You may refer your complaint to an independent adjudicator.
6. Pebble: smooth, round stone that is found in or near water.
-When I was a child, I use to play with a pebble beach.
7. Targets: A result that you try to achieve
-The new sports complex is on target to open in June.
8. Set up: to provide somebody with the money that they need to do
something
-A bank loan helped to set him up in business.
9. Fringe: the front part of somebody’s hair that is cut so that it hangs over
their forehead
-She stared at us from beneath her fringe.
10. Frightened: afraid; feeling fear
-I got frightened when he lost his temper.
11. Delighted: very pleased
-I always put a delighted smile
12. Breastfed: when a woman breastfeeds, she feeds her baby with milk
from her breasts
-The lady is breastfeeding her baby
13. Squash: to press something so that it becomes soft, damaged, or flat,
or changes shape
-The tomatoes at the bottom of the bag had been squashed.
14. Snap   out: to say something in a sharp unpleasant way.
-The sergeant snapped out an order.
15. Sum: (of something) an amount of money
-You will be fined the sum of £200.
16. Fists: a hand when it is tightly closed with the fingers bent into
the palm
-He punched me with his fist.
17. Tease: to laugh at somebody and make jokes about them, either in a
friendly way or in order to annoy them or make them embarrassed
-Don't get upset—I was only teasing.
18. Shoo in: person or team that will win easily
-He’s a shoo-in for the nomination.
19. Broadcast: to send out programmes on television or radio.
-The concert will be broadcast live.
20. Hymns: a religious song of praise to God or a god, especially one sung
by Christians in church
-The service began with a rousing hymn.
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1. Which of Daniel’s abilities would be most useful to you? How would
having this ability change your life?
The most useful skill for me would be when he is able to interpret numbers with
certain shapes and figures and not try to 'calculate' but simply it is like a
reflection that his mind gives him, and he can think large amounts of numbers
and above all memorize them all to the right and the reverse. That seems
wonderful to me, and it would be very useful for anyone, because sometimes it is
very difficult for one to memorize things. In my case, that ability would be very
useful to me, for example, mathematics is very difficult for me and in university
math courses, I must make a lot of effort, try to memorize formulas, however, if I
had that ability, I would not suffer much in those courses and life would be much
easier for me.
2. William James, the American psychologist, and philosopher (1842–1910)
said, “Genius means nothing more than the faculty of perceiving in an
unhabitual way.” How does this quotation apply to Daniel Tammet?

This quote applies to Daniel Tammet in the sense that he has that faculty, that
ability to perceive things in a way that "ordinary" people, so to speak, cannot.
Daniel thinks involuntarily, in which always his brain quickly calculates many
things at once, and that in society, makes him look like a genius. and above all
that he has a disability, and that disability never prevented his brain from
continuing to develop more than normal and becoming today a savant. In that
case, I share the same opinion as the psychologist William James, because
everyone has a way of perceiving things, there are some people who perceive
things a little faster, other people step by step and in the case of geniuses they
perceive it in an unusual way to the other two.

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Daniel is considered one of the most famous savants in the history. He has the
syndrome of the savant, a variant of autism, that variant became known with the
movie rain man. That it was found and revealed that the main character could
memorize large amounts of data and do mental calculations incredibly fast. What
makes him exceptional is that despite having autism, he has managed to express
himself very well and even so much so that he is now a writer, and, in his books,
he tells how he has been able to learn 22,000 decimal places of the number pi.
For Tamet, pi is a poem, which has its moments of beauty, color, and emotions.
Daniel also has Asperger syndrome and synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon
that causes interference with the senses. An example is given to Daniel with the
number 4, and he responds that when he sees a number, he sees a shape, which
means shyness. And he tells an anecdote about when he was a child and he was
like number 4, he felt like number 4. And if he was sad, he was number 6.
Number 5 he sees it noisy and when you put one number after another, it forms
poetry.
Moving on to the topic of high Tammet autism, he can communicate. And that is
why scientists and readers ask Daniel, what is the mind? What is the human
mind? What is it capable of doing? Daniel replied that it took him many years of
learning, like computers, they are big and can do many things, and that is
something that our brain can do easily. Daniel has a wonderful mind but the
things he cannot do are, for example, it was difficult for him to have friends, to
socialize and he cannot drive either.
Finally, Tammet gives us some advice and tells us that everyone can be happy,
and the key is to offer good and honest friendship, and it is not necessary to be
the best or a genius.

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Name of genius: Albert Einstein
What he did? He had great contributions to science, such as "the 11 branches of
physics", "spatial relativity theory", "quantum theory", In 1921 he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contributions to theoretical physics and,
especially, for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Where and when he lived? He was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm (Germany).
Why is he considered a genius? He was considered a genius for his great abilities.
He had too many abilities, for example, an amazing imagination, which is known
for his phrase "imagination is more important than knowledge", he couldn't stop
imagining amazing things, his mind led him to overthink. Another of his abilities
that we can consider is that he always had to question everything, another great
ability was that he felt that he had to innovate in his theories in addition to the
fact that he always had a positive attitude, and one of the most important was that
he could dominate the technology of its time.
What was the result of his genius? Its result was that Albert Einstein is perhaps
the world's best-known scientist for the development of the Theory of Relativity
that revolutionized known science until the 20th century.
How had he achieved success? In most of his contributions he was successful,
and he always said that to be successful in the future, you must imagine your
success. Your current situation will change depending on how the person
develops, but to overcome it, you must imagine your future self
How long it took him to achieve genius? All his life he was achieving success.

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Leslie Lemke:
Leslie Lemke was an American musician with autism. She had a retinal problem
due to premature birth and had her eyeball removed at the age of 1 month. Brain
injuries also occurred. His birth mother stopped raising him and he was taken in
by a nurse, May Remke, at the age of six months. Due to her weak ability to
swallow food, Mei had to constantly push food down Leslie's throat, and it took a
year before she was able to chew and swallow it on her own. During that time,
Leslie had no words, actions, or emotions. I started standing at 12 years old and
was finally able to walk at 15 years old. When Leslie was 16 years old, he did not
hesitate to listen to the Piano Concerto No. Tchaikovsky's #1 for the first time on
television. Playing perfectly, Mei was amazed. Surprisingly, Leslie had never
taken a piano lesson before. May continued to support Leslie's musical activities,
and in 1980 she had regular concerts at the Fond du Lac in Wisconsin.
Henriette S.F:
Henriette was considered a savant who suffered from many diseases such as
childhood autism, mitral valve prolapses, myopia, astigmatism, strabismus, three
autoimmune disorders, bone disease, and other physical disorders. Henriette
began writing as a child, between the ages of 9 to 13. He painted portraits of
autistic patients for the House of Arts, and the Stadion Hotel in Budapest. at the
Eastern European Autism Conference, 2004.Despite some of his disabilities, he
won the Géza Gárdonyi Prize at age 18 for his art and literature. According to
studies, she has a Raven IQ greater than 140 and a Magyar Wechsler IQ test
greater than 120 with a lower than 90 IQ, which is why she was considered
autistic. He gave up his music career at the age of 13, creative writing at 25, and
painting before the age of 27. She came to suffer from three autoimmune diseases
and, in 2009, was diagnosed with cancer.

Stephen Wiltshire:
Stephen Wiltshire was considered a savant of paint. He was born in 1974 in
Barbados-Saint Lucia, England, and was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3
and entered a special school at the age of 5. There he painted landscapes of nature
and self-portraits of his teachers, and Wiltshire's talent became known when a
teacher recognized his skills and submitted his work to an art competition.
Wiltshire, who began drawing cityscapes at the age of 8, began speaking at the
age of 9 and became a world-famous celebrity when she was introduced to the
BBC in 1987. In fact, the genius British artist Stephen Wiltshire has a very
special ability, he has an amazing memory that he can reproduce 100% of the city
landscape with only his memory after taking a helicopter ride over big cities like
Rome, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Kong. In addition to the honor of receiving the
Order of the British Empire from Prince Charles in July 2014, Singapore Press
Holdings selected Stephen Wiltshire as artist to paint the panorama of the city. It
was a 50th anniversary gift.
Kim Peek:
Kim Peek was a famous savant who had special abilities began at a young age,
around the age of one and a half years. he was able to read both pages of an open
book at once, one page with one eye and the other with the other eye. with this
style of reading, he continued reading until his death in 2009. His reading
comprehension was impressive. He would retain 98 percent of the information he
read. Unlike many people with Sage Syndrome, Kim Peek did not have autism
spectrum disorder. Although he was very introverted, he had no difficulties with
social understanding and communication. The main cause of his remarkable
abilities appears to have been the lack of connections between the two
hemispheres of his brain. In a sense, Kim was a split-brained person. He died
December 19, 2009, at age 58 in Murray, Utah, United States.

Alonzo Clemens:
Alonzo Clemens is considered a genius. He lives in the small town of Boulder,
Colorado, together with several assistants, works in a workshop, often visits
schools, where he organizes something like master classes. As a child, Alonzo
suffered a serious head injury. After that, its development took a different path.
Alonzo thinks, processes information and communicates in his own way. He
doesn't know how to eat by himself, he can't tie his shoelaces. But he is an artist.
After the misfortune, the boy began to sculpt, images of future sculptures were
constantly being born in his head, most often figures of animals. The desire to
sculpt something was so obsessive that if he did not have the clay, he built a
sculpture with other improvised material. For 20 years he worked in complete
darkness, but after the premiere of the movie “Rain Man”, the phenomenon of
Savantism attracted public attention. Clemons began to be invited on television;
the audience showed interest in his work. Sell sculptures online.

Gregory Blackstock:
Gregory Blackstock was considered a savant artist. He was born in Seattle,
Washington (USA) in 1946, long before the term autism became widely known.
His family doctor misdiagnosed him as paranoid schizophrenia. Since then, he
has not only been diagnosed with autism, but at the rarer end of that spectrum,
autistic wise. Gregory is a 63-year-old autistic artist who resides in Seattle. His
work of cataloging is very recognizable by the characteristic black strokes, the
use of color and the almost encyclopedic explanations in several of his works.
With the use of cheap or ready-made materials. The true breadth of Gregory's
talent did not come to light until 2003, when he showed art gallery owners, whom
his cousin Dorothy had contacted, hundreds of randomly stored drawings in his
closet.

JEDEDIAH BUXTON:
Jedediah was an English arithmetician, born on March 20, 1707, at Elmton, near
Chesterfield, in Derbyshire. His memory was so great that, on solving a question,
he could put it down and resume the operation again at the same point after the
lapse a week, or even several months. His perpetual application to figures
prevented the smallest acquisition of any other knowledge.
His marvelous faculty was tested in 1754 by the Royal Society of London. He
died at the age of 65 in 1772.

Ellen Bordeaux:
She is a musical woman blind from birth. If usually those people have only one
or two "islands of genius", then she has three of them. Firstly, Ellen remembers
and can play all the tunes she has heard, secondly, she is able to navigate the
facility and not bump into objects, even though she can't see anything, and
thirdly, with an accuracy of even a minute determines the time, although she has
never seen a clock.

It was very difficult for Ellen Bordeaux to communicate with people, especially
strangers, but she learned this, nonetheless.