...For my research paper I chose to write about Clara Barton. She was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford Massachusetts and died on April 12, 1912. She was a pioneering nurse, supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and an educator. Many of her childhood friends were members of the “old 6th Regiment.” Even though Clara was a part of multiple things, Clara is best known for organizing the American Red Cross. She worked as a hospital nurse during the Civil War. When the Civil War began she was determined to help the Federal troops. Clara’s first pet was a dog that she named “Button.” In her book she wrote “The story of my childhood” she talks about how happy she was that she had a pet to call her own. She said she had complete ownership of Button and she was very happy about that. Clara's full name is Clarissa...
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...Clara Barton Women have played one of the most important roles we have to offer in the play of life. One of these most honored women in American history is Clarissa Harlowe Barton (Red Cross). Born on December 25, 1821, as the youngest of 5 children, she began her life in the service of others until her death on April 12, 1912 (Biography). Clarissa Barton is an incredibly important person that worked as an American nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian. As an American nurse, Clara Barton, as she preferred to be called, traveled with the International Red Cross. In 1881, at age 60, she founded the American Red Cross and even served as its first president for the next 23 years (Biography, Civil War). Through her presidency, she oversaw assistance...
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...CLARA BARTON: Leading the Way Clara Barton: Leading the Way for Disaster Relief Raelene Bagge Bristol Community College 2 CLARA BARTON Early Life Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford Massachusetts. At a young age, she knew her niche in life was to help people. She tended to her brother David after an accident and went on to become a teacher, work in the US patent office, work as a nurse and found the Red Cross. As a teacher, she recognized the need for education and even when the funds were not available, she opened a free public school in New Jersey. Tensions were high as slavery became a hotbed issue and as a teacher she was fired for publicly displaying her stance on antislavery. After this, she moved to...
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...“Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business” is something that Clara Barton said. When she said this she meant that nobody can be in somebody else’s business. But at the same time Clara is saying that she also is not going to be in other people’s business. Which means no one should be nosy0l and she also isn’t going to be nosy. Clara barton said and did many good things that impacted society she did this by serving as a nurse in World War 1, she and also she aided families of which their husbands had died in war, and then she founded the American Red Cross along with many other great things. Clara was born on Christmas day 1821. She was born in Oxford, Massachusetts. She had 4 other siblings and...
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...Women’s way of thinking began to change significantly as the Civil War began. As Clara Barton, a pioneer nurse in the Civil War said, “The conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young -- young enough to go to the front. If I cannot be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.” Prior to the war, woman held submissive jobs such as a humble, loving, obedient wife, a farmer, or a factory worker. Even though women began to reform their rights in the beginning of 1800s, it was not until 1860s, when the Civil War broke out, women’s roles began to make an impact in the society and they were viewed as an important part of the society. Women were seen as the invisible army during the American Civil War. Women such as Clara Barton,...
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...Clara Barton Clara Barton was a self-taught nurse, teacher, humanitarian, writer, philanthropist, lobbyist, and the founder of the American Red Cross. Barton’s nick-name was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” for her volunteering efforts during the Civil War. Barton was a strong, tough, and compassionate woman, and if not for those characteristics, she may have not had set such a huge impact to those who were fighting in battle (Anderson 4). Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, on Christmas day of 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts, and was the youngest of five children. Her parents’ names were Sarah Stone Barton and Stephen Barton. Barton was educated in public schools and began teaching at the age of fifteen. In 1850, she attended...
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...Clara Barton was a complex person; learner, teacher, soldier. Her life may sound like an ideal patriot but she also suffered from anxiety and coughing fits. Now onto the story. The first section in Clara’s life was one of a learner. (1)Her brother fell of a roof and the doctors quickly decided that he would not live. (6)Soon, she taught herself to heal him. (2)With her help he did make it. (3)Shortly after that she was sent to school to help her shyness, but she soon became depressed and couldn’t eat. (4)Returning home, she started playing with her cousins, mostly male. Her mother didn’t mind, until Clara got hurt. Clara was then commanded to hang out with a female cousin to learn more feminine skills. (2)At 15 she started her next phase...
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...Clara Barton “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them”.- Clara Barton As the Founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton forever left her footprint on American History and supported females around the world in her role within The Women’s Rights Movement. Understanding the risk and danger one may face when going against societal norms of her time, Barton rose above the average female role and pursued a career in helping soldiers wounded within the war, becoming known as “The Angel on the Battlefield” (“Who is”). Clara Barton was an inspirational humanitarian who dedicated her life to assisting others, as she grew up taking care of her younger...
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...Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross, is seen as an “angel of the battlefield”. But does she truly fit the title that was bestowed upon her? When you look deeper into her story, and all the things she has done to help soldiers in fighting times, she is one hundred percent worthy of her given title. Her upbringing was mainly taught by her father, Captain David Barton, while her mother was the type to not strongly get involved in strict around the clock discipline. Clara claimed, "My mother, like the sensible women that she was, seemed to conclude that there were plenty of instructors without her. She attempted very little, but rather regarded the whole thing as a sort of mental conglomeration, and looked on with a kind of amused curiosity to see what they would make of...
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...Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Her parents, Captain Stephen Barton and Sarah Stone Barton, inspired her tremendously. She had four older siblings, two brothers and two sisters. Her siblings would teach her a variety of different subjects such as math and reading. One of her sisters, Dolly, passed away when Clara was young because she had a nervous breakdown. Back in those days, people did not understand mental illnesses and just locked up those who had mental illnesses. Since she lived on a farm, she learned how to do chores to be useful. At three years old, she went to school and excelled in literature. Due to her timidity as a child, her only known friend is Nancy Fitts. Her brother,...
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...gave much of her life to helping others.Her name was Clara Barton and the year was 1821.She was named after an aunt who in turn had been named after the heroine of a very popular novel named Clarissa Harlowe.She was the “baby” or the last one of their family. Her parents names were Captain Steven Barton and Sara Barton who was an extremely energetic woman who never slept past 3 o’clock in the morning.She sometimes frightened the whole house with her temper.Like her husband she was well known outside her home.As for her father he had built the house she was born in. He was a farmer and a miller who provided food and clothing for...
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...Historical Development of Nursing Timeline Lou Pardo NUR/513 July 18, 2014 Jeanine Maine Historical Development of Nursing Timeline History can be defined as a study of events that link the past to the present. It also examines how those events have continued to impact and influence events throughout time. The nursing profession is intricately tied to historical influences throughout the ages. Exploring and understanding the history of nursing allows one to achieve an appreciation the role nursing has played in the advancement of the healthcare system. Ninetieth Century Florence Nightingale, conceivably the most famous nurse in history; was well known for making nursing a reputable profession for women, and bringing it to the forefront of the professional world. Wars were increasing during the ninetieth century, and as a result, the demand for nurses had grown exponentially (Nursing Theory, 2013). In 1854, the Crimean War erupted. Nightingale had learned the British troops had no nurses to care for their injured troops while the French had nursing nuns caring for their injured. Nightingale, with a group of nurses, served in the Crimean War by organizing hospitals to help improve the general conditions of the facilities. “In fact, most British soldiers were dying from disease rather than from injuries incurred on the battlefield” (Egenes, n.d.). Nightingale set out on a crusade to methodically scrub the soldiers’ barracks and hospital ward, and allow fresh air in. The...
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...Foundations of Practice Historical Development of Nursing Timeline The purpose of this paper is to explain the historical development of nursing science by presenting different theorists and their theories with explicit events and years in the history of nursing, and inform on the affinity between the profession and nursing science. This paper also includes the importance of nursing science of other disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, education, philosophy, religion and the social science. The history of professional nursing starts with Florence Nightingale, who is considered the mother of nursing science. Nightingale placed emphasis on good nutrition and hygiene, efficiency of this practice had a positive impact when this method reduced the spread of infections and made a huge difference in the survival rate of soldiers in the Crimean war in the mid -1850s. In 1859, she published her famous nursing notes “What is and what is not” Although Nightingale wrote this book with the intention to give clues to those taking care of the health of others; ("Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War," 2008) it turned out to be a great educational and role model method which is clinically used to present. And it is a great example of evidence- based practice. In 1860 in London the school of Nightingale was opened, and the American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1881 ("Nursing Theory Definition”) Abraham Maslow proposed the theory of the “Hierarchy...
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...Community Development Vol. 41, No. 3, July–September 2010, 298–322 Incorporating social justice in tourism planning: racial reconciliation and sustainable community development in the Deep South Alan W. Bartona* and Sarah J. Leonardb a b Downloaded By: [University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)] At: 06:29 3 November 2010 Social Sciences, Delta State University, DSU Box 3264, Cleveland MS 38733, USA; The College Board, Chicago, USA Tourism can serve as a vehicle for sustainable community development by contributing to equity and social justice. This happens as tourists learn about marginal groups through educational tourism, engage in development projects with host-area residents, undertake pilgrimages that bring greater meaning and cohesiveness to an ethnic identity, or encounter stories that transform their view of social injustice and spur further action to reduce inequities. Tourism planning can produce a sense of reconciliation when it brings historically divided groups together. An example is found in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, where a group of white and African American residents are collaborating to develop tourism projects designed around a narrative of reconciliation, while they use the process of tourism planning to work towards racial reconciliation within their community. This case illustrates strategies tourism planners employ and challenges they face when they envision tourism as more than merely a means of economic growth...
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...Satyan Basnet History 1302 Book Journal I Johnstown Flood Date: February 18th 2014 Chapter 1: The Sky Was Red After reading the first chapter, I view Johnstown in 1889 as a growing industrial city. Like any other town and cities, the Industrial Revolution had huge effect in its rapid growth. People seemed to be rushing to this town from everywhere. Though the Germans and the Welsh were the first settlers, many others like the Scotch-Irish, Jews and Negroes came along in droves to toil at the town's steel and barbed wire factories. Before the arrival of the canal, Johnstown seemed to be sparsely populated with a rather slow life and the town remained no more than a backwoods trading center. However, with the arrival of the Pennsylvania Mainline canal in 1834 , it became one of the booming town at the heart of Allegheny Mountain Range. After 1834, as the chapter depicts, life in Johnstown seems to start gaining a rapid pace. The nearly doubling of population from 15,000 to 30,000 within ten years time shows how people from all parts of the country were moving into this valley in search of opportunity and prosperity. The image of the town also shows a difference in class. There were wealthy people who lived on the high ground, while the poor workers were crowded in the lowlands. Johnstown then had five-story buildings on Main, up-to-date stores, opera house, a night school, a library, a remarkable number of churches, and several large, handsome houses, most of...
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