data, knowledge, already acquired, is suggestions, inferences, conjectured meanings, suppositions, tentative explanations:--ideas, in short.” --John Dewey Out of the authors that I have read this year, Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey are the two that I have found the greatest commonality with in the subject of obtaining and gaining information. Whitehead speaks on education relating back to Life. It seems to be the only way to become a person that can understand the world around him/her is to
monkey-eating eagle because of a popular myth that it only fed on monkeys. Its name, Pithecophaga jefferyi, was particularly prearranged to highlight such legend: “Pithecophaga” translates to “monkey-eating” and “jefferyi” serves to acknowledge Jeffery Whitehead, John Whitehead’s father (Ullrich, 2008). Just as its exciting discovery in the 1900s, research today continues to provide substantial growth on the knowledge of the eagle’s origins. In a recent molecular study, the Philippine Eagle was discovered to
In Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, we see a piece of history being slightly rewritten. Whitehead was able to give the reader a visual of how mentally and physically the slaves were affected. We are given a glimpse of what they call freedom and the reality of freedom in the 1800s through eyes of the protagonist Cora. Cora escapes her plantation with Lovey and Caesar and by the looks of it they are free. As they navigate them self they get their first look of what they feel is freedom
The Foundations of Whitehead's Philosophy of Education The inspiration for this paper comes from the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of Alfred North Whitehead and the theme of this Congress. In Aims of Education, Whitehead describes the role of freedom and limitation in the educational process. The foundations of these concepts, and important clues to their application, can be found in his general metaphysical framework outlined in Process and Reality. Positive and negative prehensions seem
the world by eliminating all grounds for the argument. Although debated to the “ends of the Earth”, Whitehead points out that these two subjects are actually based upon events that are unrelated. He states “Science is concerned with the general conditions which are observed to regulate phenomenon; whereas religion is wholly wrapped up in the contemplation of moral and aesthetic values”(Whitehead, Religion and Science). Through his definition of both viewpoints, he is able to explain one will never
that the city’s crowding, along with poor sanitation and hygiene, created a foul smell in the air which, when inhaled, caused the epidemic disease. However, John Snow would be the one to discover that it was not the foul air that caused cholera, though the filthy environment was a strong
outbreak in London in 1854, the largest city that has been built in the world. The book shows a path towards a scientific solution. This book focuses on a doctor, John Snow, and his search for a way to stop the epidemic that was occurring. Even though Dr. Snow had discovered some theories on his own, he also had the help of a Reverend, Henry Whitehead. They are searching for a new theory on how disease spreads, but their community did not want to accept their findings. Johnson’s central argument is that
In stanza's one and two, the husband gives his wife a gift. At first she was happy to receive the gift that her husband made for her. In stanza's three, four, and five she finds out that the gift was made out of wood from the coffin of a man named John Wayward. When she learned of this information, her initial reaction towards the gift changed. Why is that? Her husband wondered the same thing. The wife became pale and turned her face aside. What part of the husband's information made her react this
a proponent of this theory. In contrast, John Snow, was the first doctor to suggest that cholera was spread through contaminated water (contagion theory) after studying samples taken from the Broad Street (origin of the outbreak) water pump and conducting interviews with the local population. Snow’s identification of the pump as the source of the epidemic most likely prevented a second outbreak. Additionally this action is significant as the work of John Snow and the local municipal group laid the
Steven Johnson is an accomplished author who tells a compelling, well written and informative book, The Ghost Map, which tells an intriguing story of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London while at the same time provides a wide array of information surrounding the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the current society. This book follows an esteemed doctor and a local clergyman who, together, are the heart of an investigation to solve the mystery of the cholera epidemic. In 1854 London was ravaged
literature that was used to explain the V. cholera epidemic in London. The book, written by Steven Johnson, tells about how the water and the lack of proper sewage systems lead to a disease that killed many citizens and lead to panic for Londoners. Dr. John Snow, an anesthesiologist, began to research what played a role in the deaths and how it could be cured and stopped. He discovered that the disease was a waterborne disease after a series of interviews with London people in specific regions of London
Have you ever considered what would have become of this country if J. Edgar Hoover never became FBI director during the 30s? All those American flags you see could have been the flag of the Soviet Union, or the mob and other criminal organizations would have threatened the public to this day if President Coolidge had never appointed Hoover as FBI director. Hoover also helped in the fight against Hitler and the Nazis during WWII. He used spies, double-agents, and techniques such as wire tapping to
The Ghost Map isn’t just a story about some aspect of public health; I would argue that it is a recounting one of the defining moments of public health. The book describes the history of one man, Dr. John Snow, as he defiantly set about to investigate the cause of London’s cholera outbreaks in the mid-nineteenth century. His contributions to medicine would ultimately lend to the field that would evolve into public health. It isn’t correct to suggest that London had no regards towards public
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a true story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera and how Dr. John Snow and reverend Henry Whitehead used their knowledge of the disease to find out how prevalent it was over the whole city of London. The disease was common to the millions of poor people around the country, whose living conditions and sanitation processes were not as good and advanced as wealthy people. The story reflects the world through a wide variety of disciplines, including history, science
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a true story of terrifying outbreak of cholera and how Dr. John Snow and reverend Henry Whitehead uses their knowledge of disease to find out how prevalent over the whole country, London. The disease may be unfamiliar to them but not common to the millions of people around the country, whose living conditions and sanitation processes are not as good or advanced as ours. The story reflects the world through the wide varieties of disciplines, including history, science
Constructivism, Educational Research, and John Dewey ABSTRACT: Schools are expected to transmit knowledge to younger generations. They are, however, also increasingly criticized for distributing so-called inert knowledge, i.e., knowledge that is accessed only in a restricted set of contexts even though it is applicable to a wide variety of domains. The causes of limited knowledge transfer are mostly attributed to the dis-embeddedness of learning situations in schools. Instructional procedures
ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power #822 What is the relationship of truth to beauty, learning to art, political education to human flourishing? Philosophers from Confucius and Aristotle to John Dewey and Paulo Freire have investigated, as the axial human problem, how education is to help us in accomplishing our own humanization. The contemporary search for a genuinely critical theory and an authentically democratic society continues that
Herbert Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism THE THEORY Symbolic Interactionism as thought of by Herbert Blumer, is the process of interaction in the formation of meanings for individuals. Blumer was a devotee of George H. Mead, and was influenced by John Dewey. Dewey insisted that human beings are best understood in relation to their environment (Society for More Creative Speech, 1996). With this as his inspiration, Herbert Blumer outlined Symbolic Interactionism, a study of human group life and conduct
all involved Native Americans. However, another answer is not so obvious, because it needs deeper knowlege: There was one small Indian, who was a participant in all three events. His name was Black Elk, and nobody would have known about him unless John Neihardt had not published Black Elk Speaks which tells about his life as a medicine man. Therefore, Black Elk is famous as the typical Indian who grew up in the traditional Plains life, had trouble with the Whites, and ended up in the reservation
John Dillinger On June 22, 1903 a man named John Dillinger was born. He grew up in the Oak Hill Section of Indianapolis. When John was three years old his mother died, and when his father remarried six years later, John resented his stepmother. When John was a teenager he was frequently in trouble. He finally quit school and got a job in a machine shop in Indianapolis. He was very intelligent and a good worker, but he soon got bored and often stayed out all night. His father began to think