...his way up to be known in different countries. He created the Wireless Telegraph and Signals Company, this being named “Entrepreneur and Businessman.” He also invented the first practical radio-signaling system in 1895. Because of these works on radio, he is often called the “Father of Radio.” In 1897, he travelled to London together with his mother to have his invention get patented because the Italian government was less interested in his work, and he succeeded. On March 3, 1898, Marconi set up a radio system in Ireland, so the government could send messages or important information to their ships. Marconi also set up 2 radio stations on both sides of English channels while French government also set up radio system for their troops. On December 12, 1901, Marconi successfully sent a message across the Atlantic Ocean, and everyone could not believe it. So by May 21, 1908, almost every country is using Marconi’s invention. In 1909, together with German physicist, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Marconi received a Nobel Prize Award for his work in Wireless Telegraphy. During World War I, he was able to use his invention by transmitting short wave as a means of transmitting secret messages. Early Childhood: Guglielmo Marchese Marconi was born from a wealthy family. He was born on April 25, 1874 in Bolonga, Italy. He was the second son of Giuseppe Marconi and Annie Jameson. His father...
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...Corrales 1 DC 14 June 2012 Instructor Ken Smith PS 1200 | Principles of Psychology | | | | | | | History of B.F Skinner "The consequences of behavior determine the probability That the behavior will occur again"- B.F. Skinner Burrhus Frederick Skinner is one of the most important person's in the history of psychology. He was very popular and well known by seeing humans as no different to animals. He was also well known by his unique and well expressed quotes and by operant conditioning and schedules of reinforcement theories. Burrhus was a young boy that was interested and attracted in observing and spotting the world. To begin with, Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in small town in the hills of Pennsylvania. At that time his father was prestigious lawyer and his mother was a housewife. Skinner grew up in a peaceful home with a warm and stable family. He had one younger brother that died when he was 16 years old from cerebral aneurism, and he had no sisters. During his childhood, he took pleasure of building and experimenting things, an ability and talent he would shortly use in his own psychological experiments in his career path. As a young boy, he build things like roller scooters and steerable wagons that worked backwards. Corrales 2 At later years, Burrhus decided to attend Hamilton College in New York, where he soon graduated with a BA degree in English. His passion was to become a writer, but later he noticed it wasn't...
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...Hum 111 Abstract Ancient Chinese Contributions. (1) Identify eight to ten of these useful inventions or contributions. (2) Nominate four that you believe are the most ingenious or innovative. (3) Explain why you believe these four inventions or contributions are the most useful inventions or contributions from the ancient Chinese. (4) Identify one invention or contribution that you cannot live without and explain why. The Ancient Chinese Contributions (1) Gunpowder One of the inventions created by Ancient China gunpowder as early first century and was used at that time to make medicine for perpetual rejuvenation. Black gunpowder was not invented till the end of the ninth century and was first used to make fireworks, and later the lighting of fireworks became a Chinese tradition to celebrate festivals. The gunpowder was used in weapons at the end of the 10th Century, when firearms such as exploding arrows heads, flintlock rifles and cannon became available on a large scale. During the 18th century when Western powers invaded China, the Chinese troops were still using flintlock rifles and cannons. At the end of the 14th century a Chinese named Wan Hu fitted a chair with 47 prototype self-made rockets and held a large kite in his hands. His plan was to fly into space and then float back down to the Earth using the kite. The rockets ended up exploding and killing Wan Hu but in his honor In the 1970s, the International Astronomical Union named a lunar crater after...
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...B. F. Skinner An Inspiration in Psychology Kimberly Whitmore PSY3421, Psychology of Learning and Motivation Abstract Burrhus Fredrick Skinner, a son, literary writer, husband, father and most important an inspiration in the psychology world. B.F. Skinner born March 20, 1904, in a small railroad town in Pennsylvania, was a creative child who liked to think out side the box. Skinner was a behaviorist, which means he seeks out the explanation to human behavior not in the mind but outside within the environment that collectively determines behavior. In the opinion of his professional peers, he was the most influential psychologist in the country. Over his career in Psychology, Skinner also faced criticisms, especially when it came to the Air Crib. Skinner was a revolution to the times in psychology, with his research, his workings with the military, experiments on dogs, pigeons and rodents to his observational findings. His philosophies of behaviorism still play a major part in the psychology world today. Skinner is the most important American psychologist of the twentieth century, and arguably the most important world psychologist. No issue seemed too large or too small for his observant eye and his analytic insights. 1. A Skinner Family Background. 2. How did Skinner make his way in to Psychology? 3. What is the cumulative recorder? 4. What is the operant conditioning chamber; also know as Skinner’s Box? 5. What is operant behavior? 6. The Air...
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...Ada Lovelace was born in 1815, and died in 1852 from cancer. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of a famous poet Lord Byron and Anabella Millbank, who also enjoyed math. Ada’s parents were divorced right after she was born and was never able to meet her estrange father. However, her father corresponded with her mother on her upbringing. Anabella Millbank, Ada’s mother, did not want her daughter to be a poet like her father and did everything possible, pushed Ada night and day, to learn mathematics. Even though Ada’s fond interests were elsewhere, her mother diminished those interests until Ada grew a fondness of math, by no choice of her own. At an early age Ada met with Charles Babbage in London, and with that Ada first learned of the Difference Engine. This is when Ada Lovelace’s eyes grew with enormous content, interest, and enthusiasm of the invention, which was later known as the Analytical Engine. In her twenties, Ada married her husband (several years her age) Earl William King and soon after, she bore three children. After having her children she became engrossed and focused on the formulation of the Analytical Engine, which took several years of extensive work, which she loved. Ada composed a “plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan is now regarded as the first “computer program” (Larry Riddle, p. 1). Ada became ill and was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus and died at an early age, like her father, right after her accomplishments. Ada’s achievement...
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... Bell had encountered a different meeting that had threatened to disrupt his life as he currently knew it: Bell was facing a new challenge that would delay his work, threaten his health, and shake his partnerships. In sessions with on particular student he would sometimes lose his train of thought and lapse into political discussions. He would comment on the sweetness of her voice, which she herself could not hear. After class, he would escort her to her streetcar. In late June, Alexander Graham Bell announced to everyone that he was in love with Mabel Hubbard, his seventeen-and-a-half-year-old student, the daughter of his business partner – to everyone, that is, but Mabel herself. (Grosvenor 58) This quote shows how Bell’s personality has dramatically changed because, as stated in the summary, Bell was a very active minded individual who cared highly about his inventions and his achievements. So,...
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...Psychology Paper One of the most influential, yet controversial psychologists in the 20th Century was B.F. Skinner. Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. As a young boy, he spent his time inventing. A well-known invention from his childhood was used for a door to door business selling elderberries; he built a flotation system which could separate ripe from green berries. His inventions continued on to his high school years when he made a contraption used to spread “green dust” that helped the broom to pick up dirt. Skinner went on to further his education at Hamilton College. There, Skinner decided he would pursue a career in writing. After college, he lacked inspiration for writing and his only works consisted of a few newspaper articles. Instead of writing, he worked as a bookstore clerk where he became enthralled when reading about Pavlov and Watson. Skinner then enrolled in the Psychology Department of Harvard University. Thus began Skinner’s journey into the world of Psychology. While in college, Skinner experimented and uncovered new findings that Pavlov and Watson had missed. Skinner designed an operant chamber, known as a Skinner box. The box has a bar that an animal presses to release a reward of food or water. Inside the box is a device that records these responses. Skinner used the process of shaping during his experiments. Shaping is a procedure in which rewards, such as food, gradually guide the subject’s action towards a certain behavior...
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...[pic][pic]Table of contents Table of Contents Introduction to Benjamin Franklin, Inventions & Successes Inventions & Successes Inventions & Successes, Birth of Franklin History of Growing up as a child Family and Marriage Life Death of Franklin and his Family Sayings from Franklin Sayings from Franklin Personal overview of Franklin as a Leader Work Cited Page An Amazing Leader: Benjamin Franklin I chose to do a report on a very well known and appreciated leader, Benjamin Franklin. This man inspires me so much, exspecially to know that he came from an eror that did not have near the wonderful tools or drive of pure pressure stemming from a horrible economy as we have today.He was still determined and able to accomplish new and exciting experiments and inventions. Not only was Benjamin an amazing leader but he also achieved many other accomplishments in several different categories from religion to public safety, you name it this amazing leader did it. It almost seems as though there was nothing he could not do. Some of many of Franklins successful areas were: SCIENCE - Noted 18th Century Scientist (Archbold, n.d.) INVENTOR - Stove, lightning rod, bifocals and many others... MEDICINE - Founded 1st U.S. Hospital BANKING - Well known for maxims on thrift AGRICULTURE - Introduced several crops to U.S. PRINTING - Noted Colonial printer - "Patron Saint of Printing" ...
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...Brigham Young Says, “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Women are the inherent part of our society and cannot be neglected due to their less power and authority. They are created as a companion for men and men have to make her walk with them in the course of life. As Pakistan is an Islamic state so Pakistani female’s role and behaviors are defined by Islamic laws and as such are given divine sanction. She plays roles as a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife. They play their roles with great responsibilities in upbringing of a healthy solid society, but she is in our so called modern world, still living in chains. aThe basic unit of society is a woman. As woman makes a family, family makes a home and homes make a society. So we should never think that a society would come into existence without the contribution of women. We all know that without education, no development is possible. Here we have forgotten that the very first and best school of a child is its mother’s lap. A good healthy society doesn’t automatically emerge on its own and stands firm but it needs to be emerged and for its emergence women play a pivotal role. From behavioral to health education women have their hands in. it’s a woman who teaches how to behave, how to speak and how to deal with different classes of people. These all are the basic fundamentals of a good society and women are the main contributors in building up a strong society. aArabia, the origin...
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...Realism, in the context of art is the precise, full, straightforward depiction of nature and the natural world or of contemporary life. Realism rejects the idea of creative Romanticism in favor of a close observation of appearances. As such, realism looking at it from a bigger perspective has comprised many artistic values in different cultures and nations. In the relation to realistic art, for example, Realism can be found in Germany with the painting of Three Women in a Village church was displayed. This work of art simply depicted three peasant women holding prayer book while sitting on a pew in church. Also, in Italy there is a painting called The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; the gist of the painting is the Boit sisters placed about...
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...heart rate has to be monitored as well as signs of infections and changes in breathing (WebMD). Due to a third trimester bleed, baby girl Scott was delivered to Mr. and Mrs. Scott via c-section and immediately taken to another location where she was placed in NICU and place on a ventilator to help her breath. Her parents and the hospital staff are desperate for her survival so they try every method possible to keep her alive. The Scott's sign off her medical responsibilities to the doctors of the hospital, but soon face financial issues due to the highly expensive experiments that the doctors continually conducting on their daughter. Though these tests are attempts to their daughter’s life her life, they soon appear to turn their helpless daughter into a guinea pig for a variety of test. The Scott's take action, they want the right to free their daughter...
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...By using a passage, idea, thought, inventions, etc. from any form of text without a proper citation is considered plagiarism, regardless of whether it is paraphrased. This is evident in your essay when you stated “Lear's madness is an anger which has reached its extreme limits because of his old age, the loss of his physical energy, the banishment of Cordelia and finally, the way in which he is mistreated by his other daughters. All of this creates an internal wasteland which coincides with the grey landscape of the heath. Here, Lear experiences a complete collapse while screaming angrily into the air”. This passage is an act of plagiarism due to that fact that it is paraphrased from a book without any credit given to the author. The original passage is “Lear's madness can be called an anger that has reached its most extreme limits. His old age, the loss of his physical energy, the banishment of Cordelia, and finally, the way he suffers after he is mistreated by his other daughters - all of this results in an internal wasteland that coincides with the bleak landscape of the heath. Here, he experiences a complete breakdown while angrily screaming imprecations into the air.” As you can see, the original passage and the passage used in your essay share an nearly identical format with a few words changed. Although you may have not thought it was plagiarism because you paraphrased, the idea and format of this text is taken from the author. Your actions failed to take any consideration...
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...018 The Invention of Wings Analysis Sue Monk’s novel The Invention of Wings describes both the life of a slave, Handful, and her master’s daughter, Sarah, and their relationships with each other, family, and outsiders. They relentlessly fight for their freedom in hope to alter the American society’s ideas of slavery. Monk uses narrative voice and characterization to bring her story to life. Monk uses two narrators throughout the course of the book. The first narrator is Handful, the slave, and the second narrator is Sarah, her master. The novel is written in first person point of view. The use of these literary techniques allows the reader to see this story from the perspective of a slave master and from the perspective of a slave. The audience...
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...“ The love between a mother and daughter relationship is forever.” This is true for someone, but for others not so much. In The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, Handful mom has a huge impact on Handful in a good way. Handfuls mom cares for your daughter. Sarahs mom on the other hand, is not a good inspiration to Sarah. Handful and Sarah’s relationships with their mothers influence their characters as an adult woman. As a child, children learn skills from there parents. They watch and listen to how their parents are handling things, and what they are teaching them. In the nineteenth century learning and following rules made by your mother was crucial. One things that was taught was not to read book for fun. Sarah was that little girl...
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...Although, it was not only these economic developments being impacted that made the time of the Industrial Revolution significant; changes in family life also occurred, particularly speaking the decline of family size and increase of life expectancy. Therefore, there was a greater role for women in the labor force, allowing them to compete in contemporary politics and reform activities. Dependent on beginning of the transatlantic movement of British immigrants and their technology, the Industrial Revolution in the United States moved forward allowing the textile industry to expand. Long after the American Revolution showed signs of advantage in the marketplace, a flood of British exports took over, replicating inventions from English manufacturers. One of the first inventions reconstructed would be the first permanent cotton spinning mill and an Arkwright water frame restored by Samuel Slater under sponsorship of former merchants William Almy and Moses Brown. With the leadership of Slater, Almy and Brown they expanded a firm in machine production of cotton yarn, giving it a rise to other firms and establishing the basic necessities of business practices. With the New England textile firms introduced through British practices, more families were employed allowing children to illegally work in the mills. However more focused on spinning, the mills relied much on the urban handweavers to finish the cloths made in the...
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