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    Throughout the years, the medical field has evolved in so many ways and the world of radiography has been part of that evolution. Radiography has allowed professionals to enhanced diagnose by visualizing further than just with the naked eye. Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen had a massive breakthrough on November 8, 1895 discovering x-rays. Approximately a month after his discovery, he took the first radiograph of his wife’s left hand. Unclear at first about the discover he had made, he called this new

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    vision will take away the harmless effects of an MRI but also have it for every day needs in a doctor’s office. X-Ray Vision goggles would allow a doctor to see a patient’s broken bone or ligaments without effects of X-rays.   Present Technology Wilhelm Rontgen, a German physicist, had multiple experiments in 1895 he and found a type of radiation which he labelled as the letter X, because he did not know what it was. His X-rays were soon discovered by Doctors which primarily used them to look inside

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    with time constraints I will get started. Lecture The historical underpinnings of American psychology came by way of Francis Bacon and John Stuart Mill philosophy, Charles Darwin evolutionary biology, Chauncey Wright evolutionary psychology, and Wilhelm Wundt volunteer psychology generally (Green, 2009; Wright, 1873). From these philosophical and biological contributors came two major schools of American psychology, namely structuralism and functionalism (Green, 2009; Caldwell, 1899; biological terms;

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    re-disputed over this topic within the 1600s, allowing more ideas that contributed to the foundations of Psychology. Important milestones within psychology’s early development was when the first psychological laboratory in 1879 in Germany by a man named Wilhelm Wundt. Soon after, psychology was organized into different categories of structuralism, functionalism, and behaviorism. Although, the first two schools were only about structuralism and functionalism. One of Wundt’s students, named Edward Bradford

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    year spent at Columbia, Washburn took Cattell 's advice and applied to work with Edward B. Titchener at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, where she would be able to attain her degree (Rodkey, 2010). Titchener, a former student of Wilhelm Wundt, wished to expand on Wundt’s ideas into what is known as structuralism, the focus of study being on the structure of the mind. Titchener believed that the method of introspection could be used on thoughts alone, not just physical sensations

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    In Wolfgang Staudte’s (1951) film, Der Untertan, the main character named Diederich Hessling develops from being a meek and cowardly boy to become a manipulative and self-involved man. The film uses many instances of imagery and subtle moments of foreshadowing to convey the ideals of the people of that time which lead up to the World Wars. Diederich is a typical Prussian citizen who blindly follows, supports the true “German values”, and bows to his superiors while stepping on his subordinates

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    In Amy Tans “Rules of the Game” a first generation adolescent becomes fascinated with the game of chess and uses its rules as a strategy for life while growing up and away from her Chinese culture. This short story illustrates the struggle of growing up is especially difficult when in a culture different from ones parents. When Narrator Waverly Jong first introduces herself at the young age of seven. Waverly lives in China Town, San Francisco with her immigrant parents and two older brothers. She

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    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, physician, philosopher, and professor. He was born on August 16th in 1882, in Mannheim, Germany. Wundt had become known as “the father of experimental psychology”. Wilhelm Wundt is linked to many “firsts” in the world of psychology. He was the first person to be given the title of “psychologist”, the first to separate psychology from philosophy, the first Physiological Psychology instructor at Heidelberg University, the first to introduce scientific

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    second year at Rugby, James Cattell entered the faculty and influenced Witmer to transfer to the field of psychology. Witmer assisted Cattell on gathering data reaction times on individual with differences. Witmer traveled to Leipzig and studied under Wilhelm Wundt, where the two often disagreed on issues regarding

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    In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Little Snow-White, justice is represented through the development of Snow-White's character, and can be portrayed by the pronounced attributes that contribute to her transition, such as purity, gullibility, and beauty. The Grimm brothers explore how the bounds of justice are empowered by the specific characteristics of an individual. Throughout the short story, it becomes evident that Snow-White is portrayed as pure. She beholds the innocence of youth, which can be

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