 |
 John
Broadus Watson argued
that psychologists should devote themselves
exclusively to studying the behavior, rather than
the mind or mental activity, of organisms, and
that the task of psychology was to predict and
control human behavior. |
 Hades
was the Greek lord of the dead and ruler of the
underworld. The kingdom of Hades
was a neutral region reserved for the souls of
people who deserved neither punishment nor reward
upon death. He was probably the least favored of
all the Greek gods. |
 Baal
Shem-Tov was the founder of what is
now known as Hasidism, which stresses the spirit
rather than the letter of the Jewish law. He
taught a type of Jewish mysticism in which God
was everywhere and should be served with a joyful
heart. |
 Siddhartha
Gautama, the Buddha spent six years
living the life of a wandering monk, and sought
enlightenment by practicing extreme forms of
self-denial and torture. He finally decided,
however, that this was not the way to achieve
enlightenment. One day, he wandered into a
village near Gaya and sat under a shady bodhi
tree to meditate. Several hours later,
enlightenment came. |
 John
Raleigh Mott was one of the world's
leading Protestant missionary statesmen, and
played a major role in creation of the World
Council of Churches. As general secretary of the
American YMCA, he put himself in charge of
running military canteens in the U.S. and France
during World War I. He was rewarded for all his
work with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. |
 Pope
Leo X Giovanni de Medici was
destined for the Church from a very early age,
and was made a Cardinal at the age of 14. As
Pope, he is best remembered for instituting a
number of practices that led Martin Luther to
criticize the Church, which in turn led to the
Protestant Reformation. |
