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William James: The Later Years
1193 Words - 5 Pages

.... from another and very different source: introspection, of a kind quite unlike that practiced by Wundt and his students. In James's opinion, any effort to seize and isolate individual elements of a thought process by means of Wundtian introspection would fail. But he felt that a naturalistic kind of introspection, to observe our own thoughts and feelings as they actually seem to us, could tell us alot about our mental life. This was for him, the most important of the investigative methods. Introspection required both concentration and practice, because inner states follow each other rapidly and often are blended and difficult to distinguish from one another. Just as wit ....


Donald Trump
1276 Words - 5 Pages

.... John Trump was the fourth of five children of Frederick and Mary MacLeod Trump. Donald’s father Fred was a builder and real estate developer who specialized in building middle class homes in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn for GI’s returning from World War II. The Trump family was very wealthy but despite their money, Fred Trump demanded his children’s success in school. Donald’s parents were always teaching them the value of money. Even though they did not have to, all of the children worked. The girls worked in banks and the boys worked with their father on various construction sites. Donald was not the best student and was a handful for teachers. At ....


John Adams
1598 Words - 6 Pages

.... seasoned patriot, and experienced diplomat. He was the runner-up in the election in which George Washington was selected the first United States President. According to the electoral-college system of that time, the second candidate with the most electoral votes became the Vice President (Smelser & Gundersen, 1975). As president, Washington appointed, among others, two influential political leaders to his original cabinet; Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson, a veteran politician became the Secretary of State and Hamiliton, a young, outspoken New Yorker lawyer, became the Secretary of the Treasury (Ferling, 1992). Jefferson, like Adams, had also signed the ....


The Life Of Elizabeth Blackwell
432 Words - 2 Pages

.... had ever done before... attend medical school. She applied to many schools. Twenty-nine of them denied her acceptance. But Geneva Medical School of New York accepted her. Unfortunately, it turned out that they only voted her in as a joke because they did not believe a woman was capable of being a doctor. After two years of hard studying, she beat the odd and received her medical degree in front of 20,000 people. Although Elizabeth was a fully trained physician, no one would hire her because they did not take her seriously. She then decided to open her own hospital. Elizabeth had to buy a house as her office because no one would rent space to her. This house later became ....


Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
954 Words - 4 Pages

.... he went to school. Well, he didn't attend school for very long. After three months of school he just left. He had an oversized head that doctors believe was some sort of brain trouble and his teachers just thought that he was just stupid because he questioned every answer given to him. But, the only person that saw his gift was his mother (Feldman and Ford 206). His mother help taught him how to read. By the age of 12 he was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231). Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's d ....


Eleanor Holmes Norton
323 Words - 2 Pages

.... D.C. to chair the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. As a tenured professor at Georgetown she still teaches a course there. Even before she began her career as an elected official, was named one of the 100 most important women in America and one of the most powerful women in Washington, D.C. She has received sixty honorary degrees. Norton has been recognized nationally as a writer. A few of her published works include, “Justice and Efficiency in Dispute Systems” in 1990, “Bargaining and the Ethic Process” 1989, and “Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds” in 1988. Some of her numerous leadership positions in ....


Louis XIV
971 Words - 4 Pages

.... his authority, from the Pope or anyone else” Louis got into many wars while he was ruler of France, he was quick to the draw and did not hesitate to start a war. To show the Catholics that he was still a catholic king ,Louis kept mounting pressure on the French Protestants, until 1685 when he revoked Edict of Nantes. Then he forbid anyone to practice Calvinism. To the people of France this showed great strength on the part of Louis, the fact that he could keep he kept everyone in France inline at the same time. everyone in France obeyed him because he was such a grand, rich, fair king. Louis got into many wars with other countries over the stupidest things, when ....


Langston Hughes
912 Words - 4 Pages

.... while he was working as a busboy in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., when he accidentally left three of his poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet. She helped him ge! t publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing(Encarta). In an article about in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about all the places in the world that Hughes has traveled. He probably used much of the information of the cultures of other countries to write. Hughes traveled all over the world as a seaman. He went to the Soviet Union, Haiti, Japan, Spain, Genoa, France, and other parts of Europe. Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettis ....



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