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I attempted on '' There is no great genious without a mixture of madness."
my outline was this :

1. defining Genious

few quotations.

2. defining madness

a. difference bw mad and madness

b. debate bw normal and abnormal.

c. social outcasts

Perspectives

3. sociological perspective

a. social confirmity. and social mirror images

b. cause of new civilizations: "curosity" a feature of madness

d. effect of being ostracized from society.

e. genious break free from social belief windows.

4. psychological perspectives

a. basis of madness in psychology
b. fruedian cocept of Id, ego, super-ego and conflict bew desires and neccessities
c. stimulus variation as a cause of withdrawal from society.
d. behaviorist scool of thought
6. biological aspects
a. intelligence is hereditary
b.basis of sczphophrenia
c. basis of manic depressives
d. few example of manic depressive who were genious.

5. religious aspects

a. were Prophets deluded ?[na oz billah]
b. religious fanatszim is madness.

6. Few notable genious with madness

a. socrates
a. khalil gibran [a lots of quotes from his books and hidden lessons]

b. albert einstein [autistic child?]

c. rene descartes his doctrines

d. Prophets and sages.

e. paulo coelho.

f. hitler's evil genious

7. How madman changed our world.. emergence of religions , scientic achievments, new civilizations.

8. conclusion

I had backed my essay with fifteen to twenty quotes. mostly from works of mahatma gandi on pacifism , khalil gibran, rene descartes , socrates.

There was so much to write but i ran short on time due to preparing outline. i cud write upto page number 13
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