Wolfgang Köhler

Kohler Co. began as a manufacturer of plumbing fixtures in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1883. John Michael Kohler, an Austrian immigrant, who for ten years prior to that, produced farm implements and yard ornaments, started the company. John Michael’s son, Walter J. Kohler Sr. became president and CEO in 1905 after his father’s death. Walter headed the company for 35 years. Under his control, Kohler became one of the leading plumbing fixtures manufacturers in the country after introducing numerous innovations

History and Systems of Psychology is a course requirement offered to Psychology majors and minors. This course is used to provide majors and minors with the foundation and the evolution of the field of psychology. Within this class, many scholars of discussed. Two scholars that stood out to me in this course would be John Watson and Max Wertheimer. These two particular scholars are responsible for two of the most influential and famous schools of thought, behaviorism and Gestalt psychology. These

“It is through literature that we learn about life. Through literature we profit from the experiences of others, comparing them with our own.” - Bob Cameron The essay question: Using reader-response theory and the quote by Bob Cameron, discuss how effectively Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie, uses plot and story, character development, point of view, theme, and symbols to convey his mesage. Include your personal thoughts and views, as well as textual references, to support your opinions

Langston Hughes' "On the Road" In Langston Hughes, "On the Road" the Sargeant is a homeless Black man that is desperate for food and shelter. In his desperation, Sargeant goes to the church to refuge, but there is no one at the Church to help him get refuge. Although Sargent is living in a time where the depression is in existence amongst all people, Black and White, he finds no one to help him. Sargent goes to the Church because the Church helps people. However, because Sargeant is Black and

With exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is one of the Nation’s largest facilities devoted to the art of our time (“About the MCA”) . The mission of the MCA is to offer a direct experience to the public of modern day art and living artists. German architect Joseph Paul Kleihues designed the new building with seven times the square feet of its previous facility (“The Building”) . October of 1967 the museum opened its doors to the public for the

These lines extracted from N Sott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” aptly depict his conception of the reader’s role within this multi-genre text. “Literary Texts”, as famously articulated by Terry Eagleton, “are code-productive, code-transgressive as well as code-confirming…they may teach us new ways of reading , not just reinforce the ones with which we come equipped”. ( Eagleton, 116). Reaffirming this analogy, Momaday’s “The Way to the Rainy Mountain” empirically proposes to transgress

Overview: People have always felt the urge to classify characters as heroes or villains, however today more writers and readers recognize that the morality of characters is not as clear-cut as pure good and evil, allowing characters to step out of the traditional label of hero and villain. Despite this fact, fans still feel the need to restrain a character’s morality into a defined box, whether it be anti-heroes (protagonists who have flaws), anti-villains (villains with heroic goals or virtues)

“A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story written by Susan Glaspell in 1917, is an example of early feminist literature. The female characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, are able to solve the mystery of who murdered John Wright while their male counterparts could not. This short story had been adapted from Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles written the previous year. The play consists of the same characters and plot line as the story. In both works, Glaspell depicts how the men, Sheriff Peters, Mr. Hale

Reader Response to Joyce's The Dead     James Joyce's story "The Dead" has a tremendous impact on the readers, especially those who are familiar with the political situation in Ireland at the time about which the Joyce wrote the final story in Dubliners.  In exploring the meaning of James Joyce's long short-story, "The Dead", there are many critical approaches to take.  Each approach gives readers a lens, a set of guidelines through which to examine and express ideas

According to Gerrig, participatory response is a process where readers encode the types of mental contents as they would encode them if they were the participants in the narrative world. Gerrig divides participatory response in the following seven categories, such as the emotional response, outcome preference, problem solving instructions, problem-solving assertions, self-projection, re-plotting and character evaluation. Immersion is a phase called by Victor Nell as “lost in a book” where reader’s