Dorothea Dix

America, the options began to expand into less aggressive forms of resolution. One activist, Dorothea Dix, began striving for the improvement of the treatment of prisoners when she saw how they were being treated in an East Cambridge prison. During this time period, mentally ill and violent criminals were habituating together, leading to criminals violently beating and violating the mentally ill patients. Dix documented all of her discoveries in great detail to then be presented to the legislature of

This is the story of a little boy named, Dibs. Dibs was a 5 year old boy who was an emotionally crippled child. He belonged to a wealthy and highly educated family [his mother was a surgeon, his father a scientist who could think of him only as a "mental defective" as he exhibited abnormal social behavior such as continuously isolating himself, rarely speaking, and physically lashing out at those around him. When the author first meets Dibs parents, they describe her as their Dib's last hope. The

Throughout therapy, Dibs appeared to be aware that his therapy was on the same schedule as his school calendar. With three sessions left to go, Miss Axline informed Dibs that “there won’t be many more times to come before we go away for the summer” (Axline, 1964, p. 183). Dibs responded in agreement with Miss Axline by confirming “yes. About three more times counting today” (p. 183). In the beginning of Dibs’s last session before summer vacation, he right away acknowledged that he was going to miss

Dorothea Lynde Dix was salient to the development of both the Reform and Civil War Eras that she lived during, and to the overall United States. Moreover, Dorothea Dix had minor, but crucial, contributions to the education of children during her early years, which would help her effort in creating different perspective and establishing institutions for the mentally ill. Her onerous efforts even required her to plead to the State Legislative body, which was essential in achieving her goals for the

history, many have contributed to psychology and have made an impact and developed innovative theories and ideas. Two contributors who have influenced the treatment of patients and even helped innovate a new school of thought are Abraham Maslow and Dorothea L Dix. Their contributions drew attention to some problems that were present at the time and helped society realize the importance of mental health and ethical ways of treating patients. The first contributor, Abraham Maslow was born on April 1st

Dorothea Puente was an American serial killer, she was born on January 9, 1929, in Redlands, California. She like the majority of serial killers had a very harsh childhood. She not only grew up poor during the depression period in Redlands. But, Her parents, Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray were both alcoholics before there scaring deaths. Dorothea’s father died of tuberculosis when Dorothea was at the young naive age of 8 and her mother passed away less than two years after her father's passing

the way he or she wants to see it or would want others to see it. For example, Otto Dix and James Gleeson are artists that are known for having and using metaphor and spirituality in their pieces of work. Otto Dix has

Jake Allex was a Serbian American soldier who served in World War 1. He was given the Medal of Honor and The Croix de guerre twice. Allex went into WW1 as a sergeant. During battle in 1918, Allex found that all of the offices were dead or were too hurt to command. The group was also under fire from the enemy. Allex led his group to a machine gun and they took it over. The group fought off the Germans and captured the machine gun. Allex killed 5 Germans by himself. Allex then used to butt of his rifle

The dust bowl was a devastating time in the United States history that occurred during the 1930s, caused by atypically high temperatures, perpetual drought and new farming methods. Vigorous winds disturbed the topsoil, resulting in overwhelming dust storms which destroyed an immense amount of farms, in upwards of 100,000. These storms devastated the source of income for the farmers affected. The dust bowl was located in the Great Plains region, which includes the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, and

Stanza One: Starts with 'I love a sunburnt country ', which is the exact wording of the second stanza in the original poem by Dorothea Mackellar. This particular stanza (from the original) is the most oem by Oscar Krahnvohl like environmental issues, humanity issues, cultural issues and politicwell-known, and by Oscar starting with this particular line, he exposes the brilliance of the previous poem, but the next few lines start as a parody from the influence of the previous poem. In this stanza