Early life; Angela Lee Duckworth, a Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. when she was 27 years old, she worked as a management consultant and left that job and went on becoming a teacher.
Became a teacher; she taught 7th grade math and realized that smartest students and who have high IQ scores weren’t doing so well in class and that made her question why.
she believed that every one of her students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough.
Duckworth went to graduate school to become a psychologist and started studying kids and adults from different circumstances and challenging settings. she sought for who is successful and why
after studying many cases she came to conclusion that it wasn't social intelligence,
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
The athlete I chose is Natasha Watley. She is a professional softball player and the first African-American female to play on the USA softball team in the Olympics. She’s a former collegiate 4-time First Team All-American who played for the UCLA Bruins, the USA Softball Women’s National Team, and for the USSSA Pride. She helped the Bruins will multiple championships and also holds numerous records and one of the few players to bat at least .400 with 300 hits, 200 runs, and 100 stolen bases. She’s also the career hits leader in the National Pro Fast pitch. She won the gold medal in the 2004 summer Olympics and a silver in the Beijing Olympics. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
Faye Carey is a 16 year old girl that has managed to re-home more than 60 dogs. News Hub says that ¨She wants to have a career in animal control.¨ ¨She has made a Facebook page called Animal Re-Home Waikato.¨ Says News Hub. Her Facebook page has nearly 300 likes and a loyal following of new parents. (Of animals). News Hub also said that ¨With Faye being there, when an animal comes into the shelter or animal control, the animal goes right into a new loving home. ¨
Lana Lanetta was born and grew up in the quaint town of Ogre, Latvia. Coming from a blue-collar family, she marches to the beat of her own drum and has achieved the American dream and beyond. Don’t let her certification in gardening fool you, she is anything but a girly girl and She had no time to try to conform to anyone’s standards, early on she began to shape her own future, working her way up from a street janitor to becoming an adept artist. In her youth she was incredibly active, contributing to her amazing figure that she still maintains today, getting great aerobic workouts from soccer and gymnastics. Extracurricular activities aside, sewing has always been an enduring passion that has stayed near and dear to her heart. Despite her
Kathy Harrison starts her personal story happily married to her childhood sweet heart Bruce. Kathy was living a simple life in her rural Massachusetts community home as the loving mother of three smart, kind, well-adjusted boys Bruce Jr., Nathan, and Ben. With the natural transitions of family life and the changes that come with career and moving, she went back to work as a Head Start teacher. Her life up until the acceptance of that job had been sheltered an idyllic. Interacting in a world of potluck suppers, cocktail parties, and traditional families had nothing in common with the life she would choose after she became a Head Start teacher.
Civil rights activist, Daisy Bates was at the core of the school desegregation catastrophe in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 1957. Bates used her position as president of a local Arkansas branch of the NAACP to strategically destroy the segregated school system. Her civil rights work involved changing the policies of the Arkansas Public School System that promoted segregation of school students, which in turn denied equality of educational resources and qualitative instruction to Arkansas’ Negro students. This fight for civil rights for students of color caused a fundamental shift in how the state educated its students both Black and White. Her plan halted the nation to expose the segregation in the Arkansas school district. Bates advocated for Black children to attend public schools that had been segregated arguing that the school system needed to be desegregated. As a result of argument, Bates became the mentor to nine African-American students, who enrolled in
She began to call her teacher "one of the most central figures in my life."
If someone decided to make a list of ordinary teenage girls in the world, Hannah Jones would have to be in there. Just like every average teenagers, Hannah had a family, friends, and she was happy (Well, most of the time). Hannah was living in California when her family decided to move to New York for some personal reasons.
Mr. Prescott said that he received his degree in psychology with a minor in education from Columbia College in 1973. He then worked at Louis D. Brandeis High School as a history teacher for two years. Though he said he enjoyed his first job, nonetheless; he was interested in
Her childhood left her feeling lonely and hostile but she channeled it into something positive, which in turn became legendary. Despite the odds that were against her for simple being a woman, she made major contributions to psychology. She did not accept the norms of Sigmund Freud and challenged many of his notions. She paved the way for many psychologists, especially females or those who wanted to work in feminine psychology. Our reasoning for choosing Karen Horney was due to the fact that we are young women trying to break into the field of psychology as well. We were inspired by her bold effort to oppose Sigmund Freud despite his prestige position in the psychology community and the possible public ridicule that would surface against her. She is one of the very few women psychologists still mentioned today, which gained our respect immediately. However, we believed that she does not get the recognition she deserves, which is why we wanted to introduce her to the class. As we go through our psychology books, she is mentioned in very pages and the authors usually sum up her contributions in a paragraph or two. If we were able to write about Karen Horney and her legacy in psychology in over ten pages, why can’t they? It was a pleasure to research her contributions to psychology and we hope to have covered them in their
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough attempts to unravel what he identifies to be, “some of the most pervasive mysteries of life: Who succeeds and who fails? Why do some children thrive while others lose their way? And what can any of us do to steer an individual child – or a whole generation of children – away from failure and toward success?” (Tough, 2012). Children are born into environments of varying circumstances, good and bad, influencing their development. Through direct encounters with researchers, educators and children of different environments, Paul Tough approaches his questions by ex...
Her family constantly moving around caused difficulty in meeting new people and excelling of school. In 1919, she had joined Columbia University, and was in the Medical field. Her parents were brought back together in California, so she had dropped out of
Groneberg describes many instances where she evaluates herself through internal reflection. These instances can be both positive and negative based on her psychological processing and her social setting. Mrs. Groneberg shares how she is adjusting to being a mother to three boys, “The piles of laundry, the stacks of dishes, the shopping, the feedings, the changings are never-ending. I need a maid, a wet nurse, a nanny, a tutor” (2008, p. 82). Mrs. Groneberg exhibits feelings of overload, which leads to being overwhelmed. She manages the feelings by reaching out to her friends, which provides a supportive community (2008). Mrs. Groneberg also has excellent support from her in-laws (2008).
She began college in Pennsylvania but dropped out to become a nurse's aide assisting in taking care of wounded soldiers during World War I. Amelia thought she would like to become a mechanic so she began to take classes but she soon realized she wanted to go into the medical profession with the emphasis in medical research.
Her path to success all began with her pursuing her education and going to a school called Miss Porter's School in a small town in Connecticut. After completing her long elementary, middle school, and high school journey she attended and soon graduated from University of California in Berkeley. Later on in her life she traveled all across the world to the French Alps and soon became dedicated to study with Lama Chime Rinpoche for a while. After reaching