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Essay / genie - 538
Genie, The Wild Child is a video of a child who has been isolated from the outside world for approximately 13 years. This video shows how she was discovered and how she was able to cope with the new environment presented to her. She was kept in her room because her father thought she was mentally retarded when she was born. PHYSICS Brain Growth - Genie never learned to speak. She was beaten if she made any noise. She explored by touch and used her lips to drop objects. His doctors wanted to check his brain growth; they monitored her brain waves and discovered that she had an elevated brain spindle count. An elevated brain spindle count refers to an abnormal brain wave pattern. Brain spindles are waves of brain activity during sleep. His difficulties with language production and comprehension could be due to the abnormal development of Broca's area and Wernicke's area. Body Growth - She had a strange gait and inhuman features. His feet and arms were not straight like those of normal children. She stares at objects or people and observes them without saying anything....