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    were due to the effort of Dorothy Dix and her efforts to investigate the prisons. When prisons first formed, people weren’t exactly sure how they should go…

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    mentally insane gained a champion, Dorothea Dix. The analysis of Dorothea Dix as a leader of asylum reform shows how women gained rhetorical experience, and how they effectively implemented it into their campaigns for reform.…

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    Dorothea Dix (DT 1 & 2) Dorothea Lynde Dix was a reformer and advocate in the early 1800s. She was born in Hampden, Maine, in the year 1802. Her advocacy mainly centered around mental health reforms and civil, humane treatment for the inmates of mental hospitals and prisons. Dix was raised in a neglectful home, and then moved to live with her wealthy grandmother. It is also thought that she may have suffered from depression or another mental ailment, which is why she may have chosen to take…

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    chained, and beaten. Urbanization allowed for more institutions for the mentally ill but the conditions in which they live did not improve. They were still being treated as criminals and most did not have access to light or heat. In the early 1800’s, Dorothea Dix watched this mistreatment occur in Massachusetts and began to establish over 30 hospitals that focused on the treatment of the mentally ill. She launched the change that allowed people to see the mentally ill as patients rather than…

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    This has created new problems that have never happened before. In the late nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight had a campaign that got a lot of the mentally ill out of prison. Because of this campaign, there were mentally ill hospitals everywhere, and the numbers of confined people with mental illness sharply declined. However…

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    The consequences of this were the mentally ill were brutally abused by their violent jailmates. Dix then studied various prison facilities across the country and came up with the same conclusion as the one she came up with the prison at which she worked. The mentally ill living alongside violent criminals were often abused. Dorothea Dix presented her findings to a legislature in Massachusetts. Everyone there was shocked by her description of the physical and sexual…

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    the poetry bruce dawe reflects on the ideas and values regarding Australian identity. the attention he has is to make the reader aware of the lifestyle, values and beliefs of the normal suburban Australian, with luckly the help of two of his poems life cycles and the homecoming along with the assistance of Rob Sitch’s movie the castle. All three of them refer to the Australian identity also in diffrent ways.with numerous diffrent lines in the ballad Life cycles Bruce Dawe has presents…

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    Dorothea Lange Case Study

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    Dorothea Lange and the Farm Security Agency: From 1935 - 1944, the photographic program of the Farm Security Administration, embarked on a nationwide quest to document, collect and create a pictorial record of American life during the 1930s and 1940s. Spanning all fifty states, the photographers produced more than 175,000 black and white negatives, crafting one of the most immense and important photographic compositions in American history. Created by the federal government, the photography…

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    Migrant Mother” photograph is an eminent portion by Dorothea Lange that was captured during the notorious Great Depression in the United States in 1936. Dorothea Lange is well known for her pictures taken all through the great depression. Dorothea photograph “Migrant Mother” was documented the most popular photograph during great depression in the 1930’s. At first sight, inside the picture you can see a woman who looks worn-out and very tired. Nearby her, there are two younger…

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    In the attempt to bring light to the widespread death from starvation in Ethiopia in 1985, Stan Grossfield captured this photo of a starving mother and her child and he called this”Famine in Ethiopia”. After visiting the Ethiopians he was feeling extreme sadness over the struggles he saw.While this image may seem visually simple, this image has a powerful emotional effect on others, winning the Pulitzer Prize of 1985. Stan Grossfield photographed the "Ethiopian" which references madonna and…

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