I would like to introduce today well-known behaviorists, B.F. Skinner. B.F. Skinner believed that we could teach or “shape” human behavior. Please enjoy the interview. JJP “Where were you born?” BFS “I was born on March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna in the hills of Pennsylvania.” JJP “What was your childhood like?” BFS “I have one younger brother and we were raised in a warm and stable.” JJP “Where did you receive your education?” BFS “I first attended Hamilton College to become a writer. At age 24 I entered Harvard University for graduate school.” JJP “What influenced you into psychology?” BFS “I was working in a book store and came upon books written by Pavlov and Watson.” JJP “Who was your mentor?” BFS “I was mentored by William Crozier the new chair for the psychology department.” JJP “What area of study interested you?” BFS “While I was at Harvard, both the Psychology and Physiology departments were encouraged to experiment.
She then travelled to Africa as an exchange student in her junior year. She was awarded a bachelor of act degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. This great woman has lived in New York for a short time, Tougaloo, Mississippi where she had her daughter. As a civil right activist, she has spoken for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement and against female genital mutilation. As a writer, she started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press in 1984.
In 1893, Edith graduated with honors from Brownell Hall with plans to continue her studies. Due to a severe drought and the resulting financial crisis that impacted her family as well, Abbott was unable to go to college and instead became a high school teacher in Grand Island. It took her a combination of summer sessions, correspondence courses and full-time work to obtain her degree from the University of Nebraska in 1901. One year later, she met Thorstein Veblen and James L. Laughlin during a summer class at the University of Chicago, two economists whose influence guided her toward the subject of political economy. She completed her
Later, she studied at the Sister’s School, a private catholic high school. She graduated with a degree in 1985 with a degree economics from the University of Khartoum, majoring in statistics. She then travelled to Britain where she was awarded a M. Sc. and an MPhil in Statistics from the London School of Economics. In 1990 Leila moved to Scotland with her husband and children.
Her father, Robert Church was the south’s first African American millionaire and her mother, Louisa Church was a hair salon operator. As a child, she lived in a predominantly white neighborhood where she was a victim of acts of racism and where she saw her father get shot during a race riot. These events led her to become curious about the history of African Americans. She attended a “model school” in Yellow Springs, OH and then transferred to a public high school in which she was an outstanding student. She then went on to further her education at Oberlin College where
After receiving her schooling in Alabama, her junior year of high school Davis decided to apply for integrated northern schools; and got accepted to the Elizabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village, New York City. As a student there, she became fascinated by the Communist Party; an organization she would later hold strong ties with. Davis went on to study at Brandeis University, the University of Frankfurt and the University of California. At the University of California, Davis was fired from her position because of her association with the Communist Party. She fought them back in court and eventually got her job back.
In 1959, she graduated from Wesley College with a B.A. with honors in political science on a scholarship. Joseph Medill Paterson, a member of the Medill newspaper-publishing family, married her the same year, together they raised three daughters; twins Anne and Alice, and Katie. Even with the difficult job of upbringing her children, she managed to earn a degree of M.A. in Public Law and Government from School of Advanced International Studies and a certificate from the Russian Institute, both at Columbia
She was phenomenal. Wilma Rudolph retired and became a teacher and track coach, helping others work towards their dreams. For her outstanding work in life, Wilma received recognition in the Black Athletes Hall of Fame, the National Track Hall of Fame and received the Associated Press Women Athlete of the year twice. Unfortunately, she died of brain cancer at the of 54. After her death, the Women’s Sports Foundation began to give
Her life and many deeds tell us about her strategic skills, intelligence, determination, passion and devotion that she inspired us all to find within ourselves. When she was diagnosed with progressive dementia and died the next year, all city buses in Montgomery and Detroit, reserved the front three rows with black ribbon to honor her and they were left there until Rosa was laid to her final resting place. Four days after she died she was flown back to Montgomery where she was lead out of the church by a horse drawn hearse. Later that same day her body was taken to Washington D.C. where, a bus similar to the one that helped her make her stand, took her to the capital. On November 2, 2005, her funeral was held in a church in Detroit and she was taken to the cemetery by a horse drawn hearse.
Gibson blazed a new trail in the sport of tennis, winning some of the sport's biggest titles in the 1950s, and broke racial barriers in professional golf as well. At a young age, Gibson moved with her family to the Harlem borough of New York City. Gibson's life at this time had its hardships. Her family struggled to make ends meet, living on public assistance for a time, and Gibson struggled in the classroom, often skipping school all together. However, Gibson loved to play sports—especially table tennis—and she soon made a name for herself as a local table tennis champion.