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James C. Furman to Reverend Dr. Johnson
A two page letter from James C. Furman to Reverend Dr. Johnson
Interview with Dr. Dudley Johnson, heart surgeon
Dr. Dudley Johnson was a prominent surgeon in the field of heart surgery at Milwaukee's St. Luke Hospital. In this interview with Gary Gaper, assistant professor, Department of Urban Affairs at UW-Milwaukee and Dr. Helen Creighton, professor, Department of Nursing at UW-Milwaukee, Johnson makes remarks about the role of medicine and the relationship between disease and living habits.GrayscaleSoun
Janet Johnson with Dr. Leonid Rodin in Leningrad
Janet Johnson with Dr. Leonid Rodin and Ludmilla, Russian Academy of Science, Leningra
Carter and Janet Johnson With Dr. Ross and his Wife
Janet Johnson with Dr. Juhan Ross and his wife from Tartu, Estonia - We were not permitted to visit Tartu so Dr. Ross came to Tallinn where we could meet
Janet Johnson With Dr. Aliev in Forest Hideaway
Janet Johnson with Dr. Aliev in forest hideaway in Eastern Caucasus Mountains in deciduous forest in Azerbaija
Interview with Dr. Carla Adkinson-Johnson
This is an interview with WMU Professor Dr. Carla Adkinson-Johnson recorded in 2024. Dr. Adkinson-Johnson was interviewed by Dorcas Doku as a part of SHARE\u27s “Standing on Her Shoulders” oral history project. During the interview Dr. Adkinson-Johnson discusses the following topics: Her childhood and family life; Finding her place in Kalamazoo as a Black Woman academic; Learning from inspirational people in her family; Pursuing her PhD to research Black mental health; Being in academic leadership as a Black Woman; How her faith and family history has led her through her career; Identifying one’s purpose; Her strengths as a professor; The importance of maintaining sisterhood and relationships; Advice to young Black Women in academica; Her definition and measurement of success; Her hope for a racially and ethnically diverse Kalamazoo; The impact of watching her Black students succeed; Winning the YWCA’s Women of Achievement Award in 2024; The importance of oral history; Her passion for the preservation of the Black Family; Bible verses that guide her life, and; Balancing her personal and professional lives.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/standing-on-her-shoulders/1002/thumbnail.jp
Janet Johnson With Estonian Host
Janet Johnson with host, Dr. Yuri Martin of the Tallinn Botanical Garden
Carter Johnson at Biosphere Meeting
Carter Johnson at play at Man and Biosphere meeeting. Photograph taken by Dr. Leonid Rodi
Samuel Johnson: authority for an age
The following thesis is concerned with Samuel Johnson’s authority both as a personality and as a writer. It is almost impossible to think of Johnson in terms other than those of an authority. The use of Johnsonian aphorisms to clinch an argument, as though they were imbued with inherent legitimacy, is frequent, and throughout the pages of Boswell's Life, which is the organ through which Johnson is most often revealed, his role as an authority, and in particular, a moralist, is stressed. Johnson’s authority is viewed through various aspects of his life. There are chapters on: his life as a social agent, his Dictionary, his Literary Criticism, his troubled religious life and the Rambler Essays which did more to secure him authority in his own age than any other writings. There is a common thread working through all the chapters. It becomes quite clear that the authority which Johnson obtained was based upon his honest acceptance of his own humanity. Though this fact gave his views legitimacy, it often prevented the type of consistency of thought which we feel that we are entitled to from the pen of a serious moralist. It is this strange fact which provides the matter and the interest of this thesis
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