Clara Barton

The W.C.A.R first task was a training program for nurses.12 Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to earn an M.D. in 1949, organized a meeting of three-thousand women at Copper Institute in New York on April 29th, 1861. Clara Barton was a spinster working as a clerk in the patent office when war broke out. She became a one-women soldiers’ aid society, gathering supplies and medicine, and showed up on several battlefields or in field hospitals caring for the wounded.13 Another…

Beginning with the first colonial settlers, the extraordinary conditions and environment of living in the New World began to change ideas about women’s roles and dramatically reshape their lives. Throughout American history, there is a significant amount of evidence that defines the different roles that men and women were expected live by. From Antebellum America’s philosophy of “the cult of true womanhood”1 to the remarkable parts women played in the Civil War, it is evident that the picture…

Becoming a nurse is a challenging task. However male nurses face other obstacles which make pursuing a nursing degree even more challenging. Men in nursing are often classified as “Murses” meaning male nurses and sometimes distinctively mentioned as the “male nurse” instead of a nurse. The idea that nurses are supposed to be women has established a significant gender gap and subsequently has extended the expected shortage of nurses that are expected by 2020. Several research findings support…

Is Nursing a Profession? The rich history of nursing encompasses hundreds of years, beginning way before Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, or Dorthea Dix and the evolution of a nurse’s role continues today. Preparing to become a nurse requires a unique body of knowledge, theory, ethics, and science along with the ability to safely apply that knowledge. All nurses belong to the medical profession but some members of that profession are in disagreement. The disagreement about whether nursing…

When the Civil War commenced on April 12th, 1861, more than 3 million Union and Confederate soldiers geared up for battle. Men from all over America were appointed to go support their side in the war. While their battles are often historically analyzed, well known, and greatly documented, there is one aspect that rarely gets attention: the role of women in the American Civil War. The lives of women were drastically affected by the Civil War. Several disguised themselves as men to be able to join…

In the years before the Civil War, the lives of American women were shaped by a set of ideals of something called True Womanhood. Women were perceived to be perfect and were forced to follow religion and be within the four characteristics of virtue that defined women (piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness) and not to step out of those boundaries. However, that all changed when their husbands, brothers, sons, and more were sent off to go to war. During the Civil War, American women…

When I turned the age of 12. My life started degraded. I moved from Haiti to reside in the United States. I found myself living with my father and stepmother, whom I had barely seen during the previous years. I, nonetheless, was full of glee at the thought od residing in the United States, with the idea of bettering myself and of being of help to my mother in Haiti. In addition, I thought I would receive emotional, financial and psychological support from my father and stepmother. Sadly, I…

My journey with literacy has been a part of my life and began before I even entered school. During my early days you would say I was a “repeater”. I repeated things that I would hear from my parents and people that were around me all the time. Some of them were good to say and some not so good to say. My parents always sat down and read to me. While growing up as well my parents worked a lot so my grandparents basically raised me by watching me in the morning and taking me to two by two,…

was expected. Healy initially accepted the role of being the President of Red Cross for personal reason. She took this positon after many qualified individuals. "She succeeded a lady named Elizabeth Dole, who was the first female president since Clara Barton (Page 1, Paragraph 2)." Her husband ran in the nineties and she took a year off in order to help him pursue his dreams. Later, she chose that she wanted to fulfill that role and started to prepare in…

Napoleon made his troop go from Northern Italy into Austria. John Adams is the first president to live in the White House. 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made. Tsar Paul I is assassinated. The Cumberland Road was made to improve western transportation. Johnny Appleseed start teaching pioneers how to plant apple trees. In 1800 Lewis and William Clark expedition began in 1804. Robert E. Lee attends the first West Point Academy with Ulysses S. Grant. Charles Willson Peale establishes…