Stanley Schachter was born on April 15, 1922 in Flushing, New York. Anna Fruchter and Nathan Schachter, both Romanian Jews, were his parents. His father was from a little community in Bukovina called Vasilau and his mother was from the city of Radauti. After graduating from high school, he went to college at Yale University where he studied Art History. in 1942. he managed to his Bachelor's degree in Art History, and continued to further his education by obtaining his Master's degree in Psychology. He decided to stay at Yale to accomplish this goal. One of the reasons he was interested in Psychology was because of a man named Clark Hull, a psychologist whose main contribution to psychology dealt with motivation and learning in correlation with …show more content…
During this period in his career, he published some of his most influential writings including The Psychology of Affiliation and Theory and Experiment in Social Communication. Schachter continued to write many articles on topics like rumor transmission, group cohesion, and persuasion. His work at the University of Minnesota was very rewarding to Schachter as he received quite a few accolades and awards. Firstly, Schachter was given a Fulbright Fellowship. Secondly, Schachter received the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological Prize and the AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research in 1959. Schachter also received the General Electric Foundation Awards. Until 1962, Schachter consistently received this honor. After his success at the University of Minnesota, Schachter joined Columbia University. His work during his time at Colombia University dealt with attributin in the sense that emotions are processes influence people in various aspects of both social life and self-perception. In 1992, when Schachter turned 70, he retired from Columbia University. In 1997, five years later, he died on June 7th and was given the title, “Psychologist of the
Mrs. Schächter in the novel Night plays a vital role in foreshadowing the events to come and symbolizing the cruelty the Jewish people faced during the Holocaust. She eludes their deaths, hints at the harsh treatment they will face, and symbolizes the events which took place throughout the second world war. To begin, Mrs. Schächter’s most obvious role is to foreshadow the deaths many of the people face upon entrance to the camp. On the train ride to the camp, she continually shouts, “Fire! I can see a fire!”
For my biography I picked my second cousin because he has a really cool job. His name is Robert (Bob) Schroeder. He was born in Dubuque Iowa, November 26th, 1969. He has two younger brothers and he is also the oldest of seventeen cousins. Growing up he always had family everywhere. Ever since Bob was ten his influence was his grandparents on both sides because they were always there for him and they were very close.
1. What is J. M. Smucker Company’s corporate strategy? What common strategy elements are shared across its brands? Did it make sense for Smucker to expand its business lineup beyond jams, jellies, and preserves? Why or why not?
Cormier was born on January 17, 1925, in Leominster, Massachusetts (Hyde 12). Cormier's parents were a French-Canadian father and an Irish mother (Hyde 12). Cormier was born and raised during a tumultuous time in America. Cormier lived through the Great Depression and struggled through great poverty (Hyde 13). Early in life during school around the 7th grade, Cormier realized he wanted to be a writer (Hyde 16).
Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 In New York City. Went to James Monroe high school and finished in 3 years. He also graduated with a future social by the name of Philip Zimbado. He also attended Queens College and earned his Bachelors in Political Science Guessing since he growed up in an urban area he would be exposed to many different ways of people living. This made him study the art of psychology. As Milgram progressed he went on to attend Harvard University to study more about psychology where he also earned his Ph.D. Not only did he study in the city of New York but he also traveled to Norway and Paris to test different behaviors of other people to prove his studies are correct. When he came back from Paris he wanted to know more about
Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphics artist who specialized in many printmaking techniques, mainly lithographs as well as mezzotints. Like many famous artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, and Holbein, M.C. Escher was left-handed. His trade was not limited to printmaking / graphics artist, he was also known for his book illustrations, tapestries, postage stamps as well as murals. What makes Escher’s works so intriguing is the mathematical nature that leaves the viewers in awe, looking for reason and ways that the pieces “work”. His work can be described as “meticulous realism with enigmatic optical illusions” (Encyclopædia Britannica However, a lot of his works focus on physical impossibility,
Sydney Schanberg was a New York newspaper reporter. He was station in Phnom Penh,Cambodia. Cambodia was in middle of a civil war with Khmer Rouge. Sydney became very close with a Cambodian journalist named Dith Pran. Bomb attacks seemed to be a daily encounter for the people of Cambodia. Two Khmer Rouge officers drag prisoners in public and blindfold them. After the prisoners were blindfolded, the officers shot them in the head. Sydney and Dith were caught and arrested for trying to take a picture of the execution. Soon after they were released.
The greater part a century after the death of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, scientists from numerous nations and from different controls started to express another enthusiasm for her, concentrating individually on her artworks, furniture and stage outline, and her educating in Theresienstadt, a ghetto set up by the Germans in Czechoslovakia.Friedl Dicker was born in Vienna on July 30, 1898, into a poor Jewish family. Absence of a mother and of parenthood turned into a focal injury of Friedl's life; she in the long run adjusted for it by turning into a mother for many youthful understudies in the Terezin ghetto.In 1915, after a course of photography and early encounters in a road manikin theater, Friedl joined the material bureau of the School of Art and Crafts.At Itten's school, Friedl met Franz Singer and Anny Wottitz, who both turned out to be long-term companions and colleagues.In a similar period, Friedl wound up noticeably dazzled by music and even took an amicability course in Arnold
Josef Muller Brockmann was born in Rapperswil, a city in Switzerland, on May 9th, 1914. After the completion of his secondary education in Rapperswil, he started working in Zurich as a designer in 1930. Being one of the leading pioneers, he was considered one of the most talented and very influential design artists. In 1936, Muller established his own design practice in Zurich where he specialized in design, graphics and photography. His first poster was designed in 1950. He succeeded Ernst Keller in 1957 as a teacher of graphics design at kunstgewerbeschule of Zurich. He later founded the Muller-Brockmann in 1967. He lectured the international design conference, the world design conference and the University of Osaka.
Born in Svitavy, Moravia on April 28, 1908. Schindler was born to an ethnic Catholic German family. He and his family remained in Svitavy during the interwar period. He gained Czech citizenship after the Morvania joined the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. In 1928 he married Emilie Pelzel. He also had many jobs like working at his father's farm machinery business in Svitavy, opening a driving school, selling government property in Brno. He also served in the Czech army in 1938 he became the rank of lance corporal in the reserve. Also in 1938 Schindler joined the Nazi party after Germany annexed the Sudetenland. He worked with the office of the military Foreign Intelligence. However, in the film, Schindler’s list, Schindler is depicted as a dynamic character who is all about himself and no one else.
M.C. Escher occupies a unique spot among the most popular artists of the past century. While his contemporaries focused on breaking from traditional art and its emphasis on realism and beauty, Escher found his muse in symmetry and infinity. His attachment to geometric forms made him one of modernism’s most recognizable artists and his work remains as relevant as ever.
You’ve heard that on December 25th a miracle did occur. It just so happens, that on July
Psychologist, born in Susquhanna, Pa. He studied at Harvard, teaching there (1931-6, 1947-74). A leading behaviorist, he is a proponent of operant conditioning, and the inventor of the Skinner box for facilitating experimental observations.
Germany is rare sight worthy of awe. Their gaze follows me to my seat under the window next to an elderly man who looks friendly to me. The undulating nature of boat-travel makes me sick so with imperial, inebriated focus I turn my body off and go to sleep. Against such focus the rocking boat stands no chance of deterring my slumber.
Stanley Milgram was born and raised in New York city in 1933. In 1950 he graduated from high school at James Monroe along with Phil Zimbardo who would later not only be a fellow classmate but a social psychologist. After graduating high school he went on to receive his bachelor degree in 1954 from Queens College. In 1961 he made an advertisement in the New Haven Register telling people that he would pay the four dollars for only one hour of their time. The paper listed that it needed five hundred participants so that they could conduct a memory and learning study.