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Planned Parenthood, known internationally as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping women stay safe, informed and have access to necessary opportunities. The organization officially formed in 1923, after a long battle, which was still not over. Margaret Sanger, is the first named woman for creating and publicly voicing her opinion on birth control and sex education for women. Margaret Sanger was an influential women rights activist famous for starting Planned Parenthood, the idea and…

conditioned to respond emotionally to certain stimuli in the environment. In other words, we learn our emotional reactions. Watson believed that all human behavior was a product of learning and conditioning, as he proclaimed in his famous statement of 1913: Give me a dozen healthy infants,…

when his father enrolled him in the Wynyard School in Watford, England. Two years later, Lewis began attending Campbell College, Belfast, but had to drop out three months into the school year due to respiratory issues. Between the years of 1911 and 1913, Lewis went to school at the…

Cherie O’Boyle’s book, History of Psychology: A Cultural Perspective, has offered many interesting insights in to the field of psychology. The subfield of the discipline that sparks my curiosity the most has been Behaviorism. We were tasked as a class to interview Psychologist that worked in a field we may be interested in, and I chose to interview Dr. Robert Herdegen. Dr. Herdegen is a professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Farmville, Va. He specializes in general experimental psychology, with…

The ramifications of Leopold’s crimes in the Congo could be felt long after his death in 1913. Although he sold the Congo to the Belgium government after the truth regarding his atrocities could not long be denied there was much work that needed to be done to change the fate of the Congolese people. Business remained to be practiced in the same manner as under Leopold’s direction, and because of this many of the Congolese people remained enslaved, only in a different form. Because there wild…

My report is going to be over Harriet Tubman she was born into slavery and because of her race, she was told she was not going to do anything good in life and was sold into slavery. She was born in 1822 and died in March, 1913. Born a slave in Dorchester County , Maryland. Tubman was beaten and whipped endlessly. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on the Harpers Ferry and during the post war time was a active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage. Early…

The radio was invented in 1913, Edwin Armstrong is an american engineer that invented a special circuit that transmitted voices from one place to another. The radio was important because it spread information across the nation to let people know what was going on with the current day world. The radio also played jazz music and children would dance and sometimes parents would too, some old people did like the radio because of it “killing the children”. The radio brought cultural and social…

For many years racial ideologies have been instilled in varied nations all over the world. The issue of racism could go back to thousands and thousands of years back. The South African Apartheid is a well known genocide that occurred in which human rights were greatly violated. The word “apartheid” derives from the Afrikaans word which means “apartness” or in other words “the state of being apart”. For the most part it is common knowledge to many people that around the 1960s was an era in which…

The ford car company is the most valuable car brand worldwide. The company generated under just 150 billion in revenue in 2015 and, in 2014 up from 144 billion dollars. (“The statistic Portal”) .Henry Ford is a Native Michigan who created the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford is the designer of the Model T car back in 1908 and went to develop the assembly line mode of production (“Biography”) . Henry ford is one of the most influential figures in American history because he single handedly…

Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, its mission to increase banking stability through preventive and reactionary policy while promoting economic growth in the American economy has been largely successful. However, after analyzing evidence from both papers, “Did the Founding of the Federal Reserve Affect the Vulnerability of the Interbank System to Systemic Risk?” and “The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009,”…