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    Francis Cecil Sumner: The Father of Black Psychology Francis Cecil Sumner helped to pave the way for me to be able to major in child psychology. I chose to write about Francis Cecil Sumner because of the renowned work he did and the social and cultural contributions he made to psychology. He worked tremendously hard to succeed in the field of psychology, and it is even more admiring that he did this in a time when the United States was overall callous, uncaring, and hostile towards minorities.…

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    a loss of a piece of them a portion of their personality. Although this loss may have been hard real loss, the real heartbreak when her father grew too ill to hide it anymore and died towards the end of the novel. This loss is a whole different Plainfield. Heartbreak one experience with the loss of a loved one but especially the loss of one's feels with the death of a parent. That's something that changes a person an entirely different way. She of course feels the loss of a parent, a huge figure…

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    background of his family. John, fourth son of Ruth Mills and Owen Brown, was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut but was raised in Hudson. His family was of Puritan heritage and had deeply engraved evangelic teachings. He even moved to Plainfield, California in 1816 to pursue his ministerial training, which didn’t work out due to low…

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    CT Anti slavery societies “Those who deny freedom to other deserve it not for themselves”.These were the famous lines are spoken by Abraham Lincoln, who believed that slavery was cruel and unfair, as well as many anti-slavery societies. Many anti-slavery societies favored this quote because they all believed that equality is the most important thing no matter what skin tone a person is. There were many abolitionists in Farmington, but there were also many anti-abolitionist and because of the…

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    at her hands. Ed was the second of two sons born to Augusta and George Gein in Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. George and Augusta owned a small grocery store in La Crosse County but Augusta decided to pack up and move to a large farm property in Plainfield, Wisconsin to deliberately isolate the boys from city life. Augusta was an evangelical Lutheran that despised her alcoholic husband for his inability to keep a job. She preached to her family the fire and brimstone verses of the Old…

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    American Killer Evolution

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    Evolution of an American Serial Killer Cruelty towards animals, arson, and enuresis. These three factors contribute to what is known as the MacDonald Triad. A method that was used to determine a serial killer in the making (Beck). Though this theory had been disproved, others have taken its place and evolved alongside the serial killer themselves. The first documented American serial killer dates back to the eighteen hundreds, or more specifically eighteen ninety-three, in Chicago, Illinois.…

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