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Improve The Quality Florence Nightingale
1,123 wordsFlorence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman, admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage, but Florence had other concerns. In 183...
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Leaves Of Grass Part Of The Country
1,529 words... were him was Emerson. The themes of the poems were education, temperance, slavery, prostitution, immigration and democratic representation. He would use a type of experimental verse cast in lines without rhyme and long lines with no identifiable meter. In this and the other editions until the "Authors Edition" he didn't put his name on the title, but in the opposite the title page was a portrait of Whitman. This become the most famous frontispiece in literary history. A few months later (195...
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World War Ii Sleep Deprivation
1,026 wordsDuring the 1991 Gulf War, pictures of American pilots beaten and bleeding were shown to the world. Civilized nations were outraged. As Major Rhonda Corner told of being molested, Colonel Jeff Tice told of being electrocuted, and other American and British pilots read scripted statements on television (PBS), civilized nations were appalled. Throughout the years, prisoners have been interrogated and mistreated by their captors. Vietnamese soldiers housed prisoners in substandard shelter or even pi...
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American Red Cross Clara Barton
1,893 wordsMedical Care and Nursing in the US Civil War Introduction -The Civil War was horrific and bloodiest warfare. During the Civil War, medicinal knowledge was tremendously primordial. Doctors were not aware of seriousness of infection, and did not put much effort to prevent it. These issues created interest to know about cure of soldiers in battlefield. Thus the main objective of this paper is to focus on the treatment of wounded soldiers, their nursing and medicines used during civil war. Medical c...
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American Red Cross Clara Barton
1,093 wordsBook Report Leni Hamilton, Clara Barton Founder, American Red Cross, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1988. Clara Barton attacked many social problems of the 1800? s. From creating a free school, to being on the front lines helping soldiers in the Civil War, to creating the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian. She fought for what she believed in and because of her never-ending fight for people, the world is a different place. Clara Barton was born during 1821 in Massachusetts....
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American Red Cross Clara Barton
994 wordsClara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross By: Susan State 1. Timeline: See attached 2. The event from the timeline that I believe changed Clara Barton s life would be in 1833, when Clara s brother, David, fell of the roof while he and some friends were constructing a barn. Since he was very ill and Clara was not the type of person to sit back and watch, we volunteered to nurse him back to health. I think this event changed her life completely because it was her first actual nursing experien...
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Low Self Esteem Clara Barton
768 wordsCritique of Clara Barton s Finest Hour By Stephen B. Oates Clara Barton is best known for establishing the American Red Cross. However, as Stephen Oates points out, her greatest achievement came during the Civil War, as an independent wartime nurse. He tells of her struggle to be accepted in a field that was exclusively male. He describes her as having emotional problems that derived from low self-esteem. He tells how the Civil War turned that struggle into a self-awareness, which gave her confi...
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Mary Todd Todd Lincoln
768 wordsMary Todd, Abraham Lincoln s wife, was a multi-faceted woman, whose personality seemingly contains many contradictory aspects. During the Civil War, she spent a good deal of her time refurbishing the White House and shopping for herself. At the same time, she also made many trips to hospitals to take food, flowers and other things to the wounded soldiers. She was a fearful, nervous and unpredictable person. She was said to have had a sharp tongue, which made her disliked by many people. She was ...
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