Dorothea Dix

what they did. Few of those individuals were recognized for the difference they made. Dorothea Dix, Gandhi, and Irena Sendler were in that small percent of people who made a huge difference but got recognized for it. Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine on April 4, 1802. She ran the household and raised her brothers from a young age. Her father taught her to read, write, and helped with her schooling. Dorothea ,as a child, led a very lonely life. Then, at age 12 she moved to Boston with her…

Communications 111 Kendra Hietpas Informative Speech General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To tell my audience how Dorothea Lynde Dix’s prison reform impacted the world. Central Idea: Dorothea viewed this issue as a major problem with our society and took matters into her own hands to change it. INTRODUCTION Attention Getting Material I want everybody to close their eyes. Dark, cold, chains, starvation. Open your eyes. What you just imagined were the daily issues that mentally ill…

Dorothea Dix was at a young age relatively in charge of keeping house and taking care of her younger siblings due to her mother’s crippling depression and likely other mental illnesses and her father’s abusive achollisim. While her mother likely being her first and most formative experience with mental illness, she was in no way her last. Having always had a fascination with the mentally ill Dorothea took a teaching position at the East Cambridge Women’s prison where she was shocked to see the…

From the timeline, you can tell that Dorothea Dix was responsible from a very young age. Her parents both sufferend and were therefore unable to be good parents due to depression and alcohol. This led Dix to have to care for herself. She became a school teacher at 14 and ended up publishing a textbook few years after that. A quote from it reads, “Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful…

Dorothea Lynde Dix once said, “In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do”. Dix was a school teacher, a writer, a superintendent of nurses during the Civil War, and among all those accomplishments; her biggest one was being a reformer for improved treatment of the mentally ill. She started her work in 1843 in which there were only thirteen mental institutions and by 1880 there were a total of one hundred and twenty-three of…

Originally named Dorothea Lynde Dix, she was born in Hampden, Maine during the year 1802. While growing up, however, Dix did not experience a normal childhood, instead she grew up in an unhappy home with neglectful parents. As a result, she suffered from depression at several times and by age thirty three, Dix had a complete physical and psychological breakdown. In order to restore her health, Dix embarked on a trip to Europe in 1836 where she resided in the home of William Rathbone and his…

health. Dorothea Dix was an author, teacher, and reformer renowned for her strides in the improvement of treatment for the mentally insane. In her early years, she indulged her passion for learning through a career in teaching and encouraged women to pursue an education. In her later years, the hints of rebellious activism from her youth manifested into the tenacious, headstrong social reformer she is known as today. Whether it be as a teacher, reformer, or nurse, the exemplary work of Dorothea…

Dr. Resnick’s own conclusion was that Yates was severely mentally ill because she reported having delusions and hallucinations. The first explanation of this was that Yates didn’t want her children to burn in hell so she drowned them because she couldn’t bear to do nothing about it. The second explanation was that Yates kept her psychosis to herself because she was under the delusion that Satan could hear what she said and force her own children. The third reason was that Yates believed it would…

There are various reasons as to why I’m deserving of the Etna-Dixmont School Scholarship. The most prevalent reason is my family history and connection with the town of Dixmont. My father and my grandparents moved to from Massachusetts to Dixmont, Maine when he was in second grade. My grandfather bought a house on Route 9 in Dixmont, and some other land in addition to that. The Dixmont Corner Church was built in 1835, and had an active one room school house next to it that was built in 1808. The…

There has not yet been a point in time where every person agrees on something. There is people like Dorothea Dix didn't agree on the way that most prisons were being managed and how the people were being treated in those prisons. Instead of just saying she didn't agree she actually did try to do something about what was going on in the prisons. That's when the reforms come, the reform that Dorothea Dix was part of was the Prison and Asylum Reform. This is a very significant reform movement…