Lewis Carroll

  Greetings world. Before I get into this week's biography, let me tell you one thing. I can finally accesss my blog at school! I'm so happy now! Now I can show my friends what my blog is like (yet, I must change my picture, so what I must, I must....)

He's just like me, so back off!

  Now today's biography will be Lewis Carroll. Do you know who Lewis Carroll is? Well, Lewis Carroll was the writer for the "Alice in Wonderland" books.(His real name was- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). Yet, he was a stutter as well. Lewis Carroll aquitted his stuttering problem when he was a child and he had it for the rest of his life. It has been said that he only stuttered with aduilts, and yet was fluent and free with children. Most aduilts actually didn't notice it at all. Lewis said that he was something simular to the dodo in "Alice in Wonderland." since he had some difficulty saying his last name. Although, this speaking disorder bothered him that didn't stop him from being with society and having a good future(Something simular to me.)  Another thing about him is a mystery- at least 7 volumes and 13 pages from his 13 journals are missing and his family is not saying a thing.

What causes Stuttering?

     Greetings everyone. Did you all enjoy your Thanksgiving break? Now, today I will talk to you about a question that we stutters always have on our minds- What causes Stuttering?  No one knows what really causes it, but the most popular theory is that is a gene that skips a generation. Yet, I found some weird and disturbing facts on this question. My quest on this question started back to the Ancient Romans. During the Roman period, a scientist by the name of Galen said that stuttering was caused by four fluids in the body (yellow bile, blood, black vile and phlegm) being inbalenced. During the 1500's, Hieronymus Mercurilalis suggested that in order to reduce this inbalence that people would have to have changes in diet, less lovemaking (for men only), and vomiting. (Ew! Thank Heavens I was not eating.)
      Around the 1700&1800's in Europe, doctors suggested that in order to reduce stuttering that people would have to take their tongue out with scissors, removing the posterior tongue, cutting nerves, neck and lip muscles. They even took out your tonsils and uvula. (I'm glad that they don't do that today.) Italian pantholigist Giovanni Morgagni suggested that stuttering was attributred to your hyroid bone.  Cures were to be said from drinking water from a snail's shell to hitting a stutter in the face. Today most people agree that stuttering can't be gone from your lives, but you can have stuttering therapy to reduce it. So, the quest for what causes stuttering contunies to this day.... 

Thanksgiving

Unfortunately, due to the Thanksgiving holiday. I won't be able to update the blog but once and that maybe either Monday or Tuesday... Any who, today's topic will be over the upcoming holiday of Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621.Thanksgiving was a time to give thanks to Indians who helped them survive, and be thankful for the season's crops. The chief of the Indians that helped the pilgrims brought 90 Indians with him to the feast. The feast also included games, hunting rounds, and relaxation. The feast was made up of deer, turkey, fish, salmon, eel, lobster, wild fruits, berries, etc.

 Thanksgiving was not made an actually holiday until a woman by the name of Sarah Josepha Hale wrote to President Lincoln in 1863 asking for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday. Lincoln had the holiday set up on the fourth Thursday in November. That's how Thanksgiving was born. So you can thank a woman for making Thanksgiving a holiday.

Moses

  Today, I start the weekly biography series. The first one is that of Moses. Scholars now think, that Moses whenether he spoke, he stuttered. Evidence suggest that Moses, when he spoke to God, he had a stuttering problem and that he was afriad to talk. So, when Moses went to Egypt to free the Hebrews, God made Moses' brother- Aaron his spokesperson. The book of Exodus also points out that Moses did in fact have a stuttering problem.  This problem was solved when God put a burning coal into his mouth, so that way his speech could be slow and heistant.

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Make You Feel My Love- Adele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzmTFBPMhk8

 Today, I will start on my biography series. But, before I do that post, let me make a quick detour about an intestring video I saw this mourning as I was working on the blog.  I will tell you about the video that I saw. It's the lyrics to- "Make You Feel My Love." it's by Adele. It shows the song lyrics while it shows scenes of the Earth. it's my favorte Adele song lyric type video. for those who can't access Youtube, I have the lyrics below-

My favorte Artist of all time....

"When the rain is blowing in your face,
and the whole world is on your case,
I could offer you a warm embrace
to make you feel my love.

When the evening shadows and the stars appear,
and there is no one there to dry your tears,
I could hold you for a million years
to make you feel my love.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet,
but I would never do you wrong.
I've known it from the moment that we met,
no doubt in my mind where you belong.

I'd go hungry; I'd go black and blue,
I'd go crawling down the avenue.
No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
to make you feel my love.

The storms are raging on the rolling sea
and on the highway of regret.
Though winds of change are blowing wild and free,
you ain't seen nothing like me yet.

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true.
Nothing that I wouldn't do.
Go to the ends of the Earth for you,
to make you feel my love,

to make you feel my love."

Enjoy! See another post on later today or early tommrow!

Biography Time

   I have decided to start next week, a hopefully weekly biography of a famous stutter. If I can, I may even do two per week. I'm just so busy with a Joan of Arc paper that I often don't have time to update my blog, so I must wait and wait until I have a free day. hopefully, in the near feature I can have more time to this blog. See you in a week!

Furstration!

Urg! What a day that I'm having right now. First, my blog is taking forever to load. Why must I have days like these, (When I feel like I'm going to hit someone on the head with a Candlestick!) Second, I'm worried about my research paper. For, I am typing an paper over Joan of Arc, and yet the title page doesn't want to work with me. So I just want to throw this forbidden computer out of the window. So wish me luck!