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the many psychologists and philosophers who contributed to the making of functionalism. There is no one person who come up with functionalism but more so it was development over time, there are many that contributed and we will touch on some of the key psychologists and people that contributed in the making of functionalism we know as today . The thought of functionalism was founded in the U.S as alternative for structuralism. Functionalism never become a formal school, but it did build on other…

Many of the ideas and values in the Declaration of Independence were originally from enlightenment thinkers. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness came from John Locke who said that all people deserve life liberty and property. Baron de Montesquieu was the person who said that there needs to be a balance of power between government (William Bristow). These two philosophers played a major role in shaping American…

#3 Ms. Lin English Honors 10A November 5, 2015 Reverend Hale and Justice If a distorted justice seeks to exist and to disappear in a society, then there must be those who support and oppose it. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Reverend Hale played a key role in both the affirmative and the dissenting sides of the trials by promoting the existing theocratic justice, doubting it later on, and opposing it in the end, which sends a signal to everyone that the theocratic justice is not absolute and…

accomplished by few. To climb a pyramid to success simply keeps one at the peak, to create a pyramid of success is to build and learn fundamentals along the journey. The famed Pyramid of Success was created by the now deceased, former UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden, quite famously known as the person who successfully led his team to win ten NCAA championships in a twelve year span. As part of Wooden’s teaching style, he created the pyramid, not simply for coaching his team, but to build a…

The Slate Is Not Empty: Descartes and Locke on Innate Ideas René Rene Descartes and John Locke, two of the fundamental businesslike people who framed improvement, the contrast on two or three subjects; one of them concerns whether the human thought contains intrinsic thoughts. In this article, I will shield Descartes' debate that two or three contemplations, definitely, are engraved in the psyche at parturition, and show how Locke claim against normal examinations is lacking. As showed by the…

Patience is key for a judge because most times, people do not want to confess their crimes right away. However, Danforth showed that he did not hold this quality. Often times, he would try and force a confession of witchcraft out of people. He never gave people time to open up and either tell the truth, or lie. For example, Danforth makes Reverend Hale try to make Rebecca Nurse confess that she is a witch. Once Hale says that he needs more time to make her open up, Danforth gets mad because he…

why he joined the war, his role in the war, and his life after the war show why. Samuel Adams was an important person in the Revolutionary War and was also apart of other groups. According to the text, “Key Figures of the American Revolution,” Boston- born Samuel Adams, the second cousin of John Adams, came to politics and the cause of American liberty after leading unsuccessful careers as a beer brewer and a printer. By the 1760s, he couldn’t keep himself from joining the American…

An Infernal Predicament Many people are intimidated by hell, yet Dante uncovers the after life, as he perceives it to be. Dante’s Inferno is an interpretation in guiding one through the importance of fulfilling a morally virtuous, Christian-belief enduring lifespan. Circle I, Limbo, is a valley filled with souls who allegedly never did anything morally wrong, but were not baptized and therefore not allowed into heaven. Dante’s beliefs in Inferno upon salvation, the afterlife and sinful nature…

“If the British went out by water, we would shew two lanthorns in the North Church Steeple; and if by Land, one, as a signal” (Paul Revere). These are the famous words from a very famous Revolutionary War hero. Many people believe that they know all there is to know about Paul Revere and his life’s accomplishments. However, people do not know about his upbringing from adolescent to a grown up, how he joined the Sons of Liberty, and his attributions to the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere’s…

Thomas Paine 's Common Sense Contribution To American Revolution Thomas Paine (1737-1809), famous for his political radicalism ideologies, published Common Sense in 1776. Common Sense was a hugely influential pamphlet urging the end of the British rule on America. Paine can be said to have played the greatest role of convincing the American people to engage in a spirit of revolution rather than rebellion. Rebellion differs from the revolution in that its agenda is resistance to the government…