John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January 9, 1878 to Emma and Pickens Watson (Watson, 1999). He had a childhood that was torn between a very religious Christian mother and a drunk father, who often got into trouble with law enforcement. His mother pushed him to be a proper Christian, but growing up John was closer to his father (Weiland, n.d.). Unfortunately John’s father had cheated on his mother multiple times and eventually left the family in 1891, which had a huge negative impact on John. (Watson, 1999) His academic motivation declined, and he turned to violence finding himself in trouble with the law much like his father. However, his life turned around when he was accepted Furman University at the age of 16. His academic motivation improved along with his general attitude. While at …show more content…
He trained at J Walter Thompson Agency under a man named Stanley B. Resor. Shortly after he was able to become an ambassador and later even the vice president of the company in 1924. While working in the advertising business he never stopped publishing books about controlling human emotion. Eventually he moved on to work for a different agency, the William Esty Agency, until he retired in 1945. (Watson, 1999). However, before retiring in 1945 he was faced with his wife’s unexpected death in 1935, which had a great impact on his life. He was devastated and consequently turned to alcohol and spent all of his time focused on his work. His already rocky relationship with his family deteriorated completely, and he became isolated. Even so when his son, William, commited suicide in 1954 he was again hurt. He burned all of his unpublished works in 1958, not long before his death, in an attempt to work out his frustrations. John Watson died on September 25th, 1958 in New York City at the age of
John Cartwright was born on the 9th of August 1965 in Penrith New South Wales to Merv Cartwright and Carole Cartwright. Cartwright is best known for playing rugby league for the Penrith Panthers, NSW Blues and the Australian Kangaroos.
In this excerpt, Dr. Watson marvels over Holmes’ discovery of Stapleton’s disguised face in a Baskerville portrait. He was truly a Baskerville, which explained his motivation for everything that he did. Stapleton had lied about his ancestry, to turn questioning eyes away from him and unto other… more vulnerable… suspects such as Selden the convict. A few manuscripted or vocalized words and BAM! Someone can deceive a whole population, just as Stapleton did. Doyle also explores this concept when he writes “‘...in the character of his sister’” (225). Holmes talks in retrospection once more, this time about how Stapleton forced his wife to acquire the title of his sister, so that he could perhaps use her (just as he did) to gain trust with Sir Henry. Moreover, he once again lied and successfully deceived a population about (in this instance) his marital
William Clark was ½ of the genius team that made their way through miles of unknown land, unknown nature, unknown natives, and came home with all but one voyager, who was killed of natural causes. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis were the first Americans to try and map the Louisiana Purchase area, and not only did they map it, they discovered allies, new plants and animals, and discovered new land and water routes that could be useful for future travelers.
It was a cold morning in Newark, NJ, on the 16th of February 1756 when my good friend Aaron Burr, Jr. was born. My family lived next door to the Burr residence and became very friendly with the Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr and his wife Esther. Aaron and I attended Princeton University where we originally studied theology, but later gave up it began the study of law in Litchfield, Connecticut. Our studies were put on hold while we served during the Revolutionary War, under Generals Benedict Arnold, George Washington, and Israel Putnam.
When John was a young boy he was taught how to read and write by his father. He was accepted into Harvard in 1751. Adams graduated in 1755 with Bachelor of Arts degree. Right after graduating, Adams decided he would pursue a career practicing law. Yet his first job following graduation he was a schoolmaster in Worcester, Massachusetts. He learned to adjust to becoming the schoolmaster in the town; he socialized at night, and met with old school friends and returned home during the breaks from school. During his career as a schoolmaster he was worried that he was ruining his chances of getting a better career. It was said that Adams often felt as a dictator and his students as generals and politicians. As a teacher John developed the ...
Holmes was born in New Hampshire, 1861. His mother was cold and heartless, and his father was an alcoholic. Both parents were very abusive towards Holmes. His parents would isolate and starve him for extended periods of time. At an early age, he was fascinated with the human body which quickly led to him being fascinated by death. Holmes’s captivation of the human body led him to study medicine. After graduating, Holmes was accepted into the University of Michigan Medical
Around the age of sixteen, John created a Utilitarian Society, which had the goal of bringing happiness to the greatest number of people, where he was one of a “small knot of young men” who practiced his father’s political and philosophical views. (http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/milljs.htm) At the age of twenty-one he suffered a mental breakdown, which resulted from severe strain from his earlier years. In his own autobiography, which was later published after his death, he wrote, that he was in a “dull state of nerves”; and that he had lost his charm. He said he had “no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else.” After several months he realized that his emotions where not dried up and “the cloud gradually drew off.” In 1823 John took a clerkship position in the Examiner’s Office at the East India Company. Later he eventually headed that department. Harriet Taylor who was a close friend with John co-wrote several pieces of work with him. They met in 1830 and she was the mother of t...
The criminal profiler Thomas Cronin identifies Holmes as a very unique criminal as he states that criminals are smart, but they are not discipline enough to finish college and the fact that he finished medical school, makes him even more unique. Holmes was able to hide his dark nature as he had an important facilitator which was his career and charm that brought him plenty of victims.
Later on, In the Red Headed League, Watson presents himself to the reader by he is very entertained by what he works for. Such as investigating and solving crimes. He loves his job. He likes to find out new things as well. In the beginning of The Most Dangerous Game Rainsford,
Watson was an American psychologist that helped path the way for other researchers in psychology. He was born on January 9th, 1878, in South Carolina. His mother was devoted to religion and she pushed her ideals and morals onto him. She prohibited smoking, drinking, adultery, and other sinful acts. This led to Watson growing up hating religion and eventually, opposing it. Also, Watson was a delinquent when he was young, he was arrested twice and did poorly academically; but, with the help of his mother and her connections, it gave him an opportunity to attend Furman University of South Carolina. This gave him a second chance and he didn’t take it for granted. Watson graduated with a master’s when he was 21. After he finished his years in Furman University, he was presented with an offer from University of Chicago, for his graduates study in psychology. Once he finished his graduate degree, he stayed there as a research
The words Watson uses to describe Holmes such as “sharp and piercing” eyes, “hawk-like nose” and “mark the man of determination”. By having Watson describe such characteristics, it saves Holmes of looking like a show off with an ego. These haracteristics are true and surely the detective knows of his abilities but by having Watson aknowledge them brings more to the story because the comments were made based on observations and not by the individual trying to boost his ego.
On the ninth day of June, in 1885, in Rochester Kent, England , Edward Thornton Littlewood and his wife, Sylvia Maud Ackland, welcomed their first child, a little boy. Whom they named John Edensor Littlewood. John was the oldest of three children. Their second child, Martin, was successful in his studies of medicine. Tragically, he lost his youngest brother when he was only eight years old, in a drowning accident. John was professionally known as John, or J.E. Littlewood. Those closed to him addressed him simply as “Littlewood.“ Although, In his elderly years, he became known as “Jack.”
John Broadus Watson (1878-1958) has become well known for being the founder of behaviorism as a school of thought throughout American psychology. His view on psychology consisted of seeing it as a science of observation on behaviors. He believed that one must first observe a behavior in a certain environment or situation, then predict and determine the connection between the two. Much of his theory was based on the work of Ivan Pavlov’s observations through classical conditioning. Watson claimed that the process of classical conditioning could be used to explain any behavioral factor in human psychology. Classical conditioning involves the pairing of two different stimuli in producing a learning response from the participant. His belief on the topic was that single differences in behavior were caused by different experiences of learning.
Considering Joe’s Smith family, social circle and educational background, crimes committed by Joe did not seem to be accidental events as he had described them. Certainly he had led unusual life with so many troublesome social
In the Sherlock episode “A Study in Pink” the first time John joins Sherlock on a case Detective Lestrade’s partner, Sally Donovan warns him to stay away from Sherlock. She has a theory that one day Sherlock will start committing crimes because, “One day just showing up [to a crime scene] won’t be enough. One day we’ll be standing around a body and Sherlock Holmes will be the one who put it there.” She believes he is a psychopath and lacks trust in him, yet John choses to continue to spend time with him anyway. Not long after this conversation, a strange call and a private car usher John to meet Sherlock’s “archenemy” who is Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older, very powerful brother. He asks John to spy on Sherlock and share information in exchange for a large sum of money but John refuses, even though he has only known Sherlock for 2 days. To further prove that John stands up for Sherlock,