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I believe that challenges and changes in life are the defining moments for a person. In the past decade I have faced several ones, which now seem as a blur but at the time were the harshest I had ever experienced. I first set foot on Canadian soil on June of 2008 after spending 14 years in my homeland Pakistan. I had moved into an environment surpassingly different than the one I came from and it was my first time something so drastic had happened.
It was my mother's decision, a decision my father did not entirely approve of. Due to this reason, barriers arose between them, which only got worse over time. In addition to coping with an array of challenges and learning to accustom myself to the language, culture and customs of a strange land, I now had to confront to the rising tension in my family. In that time I had realized a few things. Despite the fact that I had no control over the changes happening in my life, I had full control over the changes happening inside of me. I could either allow myself to be completely taken over, or face the challenges and let them nourish my mind instead.
Through these ordeals, I learned that whatever tension my parents had between them should just stay between them and not affect my relation with them or myself. I learned that despite the fact that I am now living in a place completely alien to me, it is rather an adventure not a suffering, in which I could explore endless opportunities, in which I could find myself, and what I am meant to be.
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Intelligence is a term that is difficult to define, and it can mean different things to different people. The difficulty in defining what intelligence is has created disagreement among those studying it. Today the definition of intelligence seems to be characterized by who is studying it at that moment. The origins of intelligence can be traced as far back as the 1800’s. During the 1800’s Charles Darwin and George Romanes, in the midst of comparative studies with animals, began to notice behavior that seemed to demonstrate some level of intelligence (Richards, 1987). Romanes application of study concentrated, for the most part, on animal intelligence. Romanes worked diligently to prove that there was continuity between animal and human intelligence (Richards, 1987). Romanes proposed that intelligence was the capability to understand the difference between “unperceived qualities” from “perceived qualities” (Richards, 1987). Lloyd Morgan, in 1892, criticized Romanes work and proposed that humans and animals did not have commonalities with regard to intelligence but that they in fact they were quite different (Richards, 1987). Morgan defined human intelligence as a behavioral and neurological function that allowed humans to reason through “rational inference” (Richards, 1987). Despite how we choose to define it, attempts to develop tests to measure intelligence began in 1904
John McKeen Cattell was the first, in the study of understanding intelligence, to introduce the idea of the “mental test” (Goodwin, 2008). During the early 1900’s the French education system required all children to attend school. This condition gave rise to the importance of finding a way to distinguish those students who required added assistance from those who did not. To resolve this issue, the French government employed Alfred Binet to develop a test to help identify who these student’s, were (Goodwin, 2008). Binet, with the help of his assistant Theodore Simon, developed the first IQ tests in 1905. The first intelligence tests were called “the Binet-Simon Scale”. Binet did not trust that his method could be used to calculate an inherited level of intelligence (Isham & Kamin, 1993). Binet struggled with reducing intelligence to a single unit, suggesting that intelligence is far too broad a concept to quantify with a number. Binet believed that intelligence is influenced by several things and it changes over time. In addition Binet believed that validity was obtained only when test scores are compared among children with similar backgrounds (Siegler, 2003). The Binet – Simon scale was brought to the United States by Henry Goddard in 1908. Goddard attempted to use the test as a way to prove intelligence was an inherited trait and proceeded to prove this point with his case study of the Kallikak family (Goodwin, 2008). Goddard used these tests to support his belief that those he identified as “feebleminded” should not procreate and that this so called “gene” needed to be eliminated (Goodwin, 2008). While studying at Clark University, Lewis Terman became interested in the study of intelligence testing and conducted a study with 14 adolescent boys. Terman, like Goddard, used the results of this study to support his belief that heredity was the prime indicator of intelligence. Terman, while employed a Stanford University, revised and standardized the Binet test, renamed it the Stanford- Binet Scale and had it published in 1916