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Claude Steele Claude Steele is an African-American social psychologist who was born on January 1st, 1946 in Phoenix Illinois during the Civil Rights Movement. At that time, racial tension was high and he has memories of his dad taking him and his brothers to marches and rallies whenever possible. He interpreted achievement as success in education and went on to receive his B.A. in Psychology at Hiram College in 1967. While attending Hiram, he became interested in how individuals face the…

obstacle Ed Roberts had to face was being rejected from Berkeley University because of his disability. Once again Ed Roberts went against the board for his acceptance to the university and was granted admission. While attending Berkeley Ed Roberts realized how disable people were being denied civil rights and how people were making decision for them, Ed Roberts believed that was not a way to live life. So him and other students started the Berkeley Center for Independent Living. The Independent…

She graduated from nursing school in 1964 from Pasadena College, followed by earning her graduate degree in nursing from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982, Benner received her doctorate, was an associate professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and published her theory “From Novice to Expert” in the American Journal of Nursing (Curriculum, 1994, pp. 129-137). She has published nine…

rate of the procedure. In a study done by researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, an experimental gene-editing technique was used to modify a gene in human embryos that causes a fatal blood disorder. Tanya Lewis, the writer of the article Genetically Modified Humans? How Genome Editing Works, presents the success rate of this procedure: In the study, Junjiu Huang, a genetics researcher at Sun Yat-sen University, injected the CRISPR/Cas9 complex into human embryos in order to…

George Alvin Wiley (1931-1973) Background Information George Alvin Wiley is best known for creating the first national organization of welfare recipients. He was born on February 26, 1931, Bayonne, New Jersey. One of six children to William Daniel Wiley and Olive (Thomas) Wiley. Shortly the family moved to Warwick, Rhode Island, a white suburb of Providence. Wiley’s, father was working to support his family, but he was a political activist by running a newspaper for the black communities and…

Thompson designed and implemented the original version of Unix OS. In 2006 he started working at Google. In 1965 Thompson got his Bachelor of Science, and in 1966 a Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Ken Thompson has received many awards and these some of them. In 1980, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for designing the Unix OS. In 1983 Thompson received the Turing Award for the development of operating…

The 2010 Haiti Earthquake is also an excellent reminder of what kind of harm earthquakes can do if the community effect is ill prepared. This may be a very important reminder to many Americans in states typically not known for earthquakes. While California is widely known for earthquakes, a common occurrence there states like South Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri is not generally thought of when discussing earthquakes.…

In From Beyond Outrage the author, Robert Reich is Professor of the University of California, Berkeley. He as a Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and as an adviser to President Barack Obama. In this article is talk about in America the economy democracy are being manipulated however the average working interest was praised by the Americans for the rich and the elite. It is not enough for people to be elected president and expect them to solve the country's problems. People need to…

The cause of a leak that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara was of external corrosion in May.The spill occurred after pumps on the Plains All American Pipeline. This is were shut down and restarted, sending a larger volume of oil surging through the 2-foot-wide pipe at higher pressure. This company is known with a history of violations. After the leak, the alarm in the system was sent off and did not shut down for about 30 minutes.State and federal prosecutors are…

Tansavatdi’s Path to Becoming a Facial Plastic Surgeon Near Calabasas Dr. Tansavatdi is native to Southern California, raised in South Pasadena. Dr. Tansavatdi’s path to becoming a facial plastic surgeon began at the University of California, Berkeley, which is where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. Dr. Tansavatdi received her Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) from North Carolina’s Wake Forest University School of Medicine, which is considered one of the leading research and teaching…