Margaret Floy Washburn
By
Sara Kim
Margaret Floy Washburn was a role model and highly respected figure to many women. Washburn was born in 1871 in Harlem, New York City to Elizabeth Floy Washburn and Reverend Francis. Margaret Floy Washburn was an only child, and she explained the "blessed privilege of an only child to be undisturbed when at leisure". She started her academic learning at the age of seven, but knew how to read and write far before. At the age of eleven she attended public school for the first time, and by the age of fifteen, she graduated high school.
Washburn had a very intelligent mind and attended many college universities. She started at Vassar College where her main focus was French and Chemistry. Five years later
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she graduated, but her interests had changed to Science and Philosophy. Washburn had such strong determination and drive to study these two courses which, combined, were known as experimental psychology, a new science. She desired to study under Cattell at Columbia University in the psychological laboratory. Cattell thought she was brilliant and completely accepted her, though, Columbia University refused to accept a woman graduate student. She was later advised by Cattell to transfer to Sage School of Psychology at Cornell University where she received a degree and scholarship. Washburn was awarded a M.A.
Degree from Vassar a year after working under E.B. Titchener where she was his only first and only major graduate student. She also got her Ph.D. from Cornell which was the first Ph.D. that E.B. Titchener had ever recommended. She went onto Wells College and, being the first woman to get a doctorate in the field of psychology, was a professor of psychology, philosophy, and ethics. Washburn eventually went on to be the only woman staff member at the University of Cincinnati, but quit that job and moved back to where she started at Vassar College and became a professor of Psychology there. As a fairly distinguished and well known member of the field, she was appointed as an editor of the American Psychology Association and recognized as one of the most important "men of science".
Margaret Washburn is known for her studies on animal behavior and motor development theory. She argues that animal's mental states should be studied along with their behavior. She explained her studies in her book The Animal Mind which showed her studied of over 100 different species and their consciousness, psychology, and behavior. Washburn had a strong interest in studying how mental states could be shown through behavior which is where she developed her theory about motor development. She argued that all mental functions resulted in physical
reactions.
Nellie E. pooler Chapman made a significant impact in California, particularly on women. She served as a role model for younger women, and encouraged them to strive for their dreams, after becoming the first women to practice dentistry in California without any formal education. Chapman was born in 1847 in Norridgewock, Maine. As a young child she was very energetic, and had the desire to learn. However, at the age of 14 she got married with Allen Chapman, a 35 year old doctor. After getting married Chapman moved to Nevada City, California with her husband. Dr. Chapman worked as a local dentist in Nevada City. Furthermore, Dr. Chapman slowly started sharing his skills with his wife. He instructed her through the basic process of dealing with
After Anna graduated from the University of South Dakota she began graduate work at the University of Iowa. She then made a thesis The extension of Galois theory to linear differential equations, which earned her a masters degree in 1904. One year later she earned a second graduate degree from Radcliffe College. At Radcliffe College she took courses from Maxime Bocher and William Fogg Osgood.
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To be able to influence a positive or negative light in someone’s life is what means to be a role model. Both the author and convict were born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. The two controversially named Wes Moore, were like each other until role models were introduced into their lives. There were many people that influence the author and convict to make their life choices. People like Captain T.Y Hilton, as a influence for the author and Tony for the convict. Role models and their capabilities to influence others actions are the reason that both Wes’ lives are different. I'll be explaining how these people influence their situations, starting by talking about the author role models first.
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In this vignette, the client and social worker begin a new session at the point where the last left off. Kirsten, a college student, has come to this private practice setting to discuss her experiences, fears, and difficulties with coming out, particularly after her previous coming out experiences. In the previous sessions, the worker and Kirsten have explored many themes revolving around coming out, her experience coming out to her neighbor, and Kirsten’s anxieties about talking with her sister. The role of the social worker in this vignette is to discuss possible options with Kirsten as she moves toward talking with her sister, engaging in role play Kirsten has requested, and exploring Kirsten’s feelings about the upcoming meeting with her
I choose to do my biographical paper on Margaret Higgins Sanger, because I admire the work that she done and that is continuing to be done, because of her. She was one of eleven children born to Michael and Anne Higgins; a Roman Catholic working-class Irish American family; on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. Margaret’s father a man of the bottle and one who enjoyed talking politics, rather than earning the money needed to take care of such a large family, therefore she spent most of her life in poverty. While I think her father had an impact on the person Margaret grew up to be; it was her mother that really shaped her into the person she was. Along with the eleven children she birthed, Anne also had many miscarriages, Margaret believed that it was the many pregnancies that took a toll on her mother's health and contributed to her early death at the age of 40. (BIO, 2014)
Anne Hutchinson challenged the traditional role of women in the Puritan society through her opposing religious beliefs. Anne Hutchinson was most likely not the first woman to have her own thoughts. She was simply the first to act on them. Anne Hutchinson was born on or about July17, 1591 in Alford, Licolnshire, England. She was the daughter of Reverend Francis Marbury. Rev. Marbury spoke out that many of the ordained ministers in the Church of England were unfit to guide people's souls. For this act of defiance, he was put in jail for one year. Anne read many of her father's books on theology and religion. Much of Anne's independence and willingness to speak out was due to her father's example. Anne admired her father for his defiance of traditional church principles. Then in 1612 she married William Hutchinson. Together they had 15 children. In 1634 she and her husband moved to Boston. Here Anne began holding informal church meetings in her home discussing the pastor's services and also preaching her beliefs to her followers. Threatened by meetings she held in her Boston home, the clergy charged Hutchinson with hersey. An outspoken female in a male hierarchy, Hutchinson had little hope that many would speak in her defense, and she was being tried by the General Court. In 1636 she was charged with hersey and banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Several years later when she moved to New York she was killed in an Indian attack. Anne challenged the Puritan clergy.
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Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. She was the sixth of eleven children to her parents, Michael H. Higgins and Anne P. Higgins. Sanger attended public school through 8th grade, and when she grew older, attended Claverack College
degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1936 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1937. Since that time
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In 1942, Margaret Walker won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her poem For My People. This accomplishment heralded the beginning of Margaret Walker’s literary career which spanned from the brink of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s to the cusp of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s (Gates and McKay 1619). Through her fiction and poetry, Walker became a prominent voice in the African-American community. Her writing, especially her signature novel, Jubilee, exposes her readers to the plight of her race by accounting the struggles of African Americans from the pre-Civil War period to the present and ultimately keeps this awareness relevant to contemporary American society.
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