Word: developed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, indulging Mike's passion for cars may have helped him develop the habit of pursuing all his interests with imagination and depth. The progressive school Mike attends doesn't use conventional grades or report cards, but his performance stands out just the same. "Some students run through their work as if they're on a racetrack. But Mike has the introspection and reflectiveness of a scholar," observes his Latin teacher, Elisa Denja. "His interest in a topic doesn't end in the classroom or with what's in the book...
...good student and things like time management and organization," notes Dan Walls, dean of admissions of Emory University in Atlanta. Kids blessed with these qualities may have a natural advantage over kids who have to struggle to keep order--although those who keep up the struggle will ultimately develop persistence, the most valuable trait a student can have...
...technologies are helping scientists understand more about how children's brains suffer because of insufficient stimulation or stimuli of the wrong kind. Dr. Bruce Perry of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine found that kids who hardly play--or who aren't touched very much--develop brains 20% to 50% smaller than normal. Infants in the care of mothers with severe depression show reduced brain activity as well as prominent effects in the parts of the brain associated with the expression of feelings. "This may result from such mothers' inability to relate affectionately and responsively to their infants," writes...
...prison English teacher and poet herself, Laruen hears Ray perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love at first sight, plays a pivotal role in the developing of Ray into a man of responsibility...
...initially I was terrified because I had read the book twice and I still had no clear idea of who Beloved was. I talked to Toni Morrison about it and she told me to do whatever I wanted with the character. I realized then that it was okay to develop my own interpretation as long as I was doing justice to the book. In terms of preparation, I mostly researched case studies of abused children. I knew Beloved had to be a painful figure, never cute, and at times she would be grotesque because that is the only...