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During the war nurses were needed at the front lines. At that time, there were neither trained nurses nor nursing school. The term nursing was referring to women who followed their husband or son to the war to take care of them or some volunteer. These women went to the war with their own basic knowledge caring of loved ones. The work performed by the women at the civil…

institutions, and form those institutions sprung an overwhelming urge to help others. These churches played vital roles “in providing education, care for the needy, and the maintenance of community records,” all roles similar to what philanthropic associations work towards today (McGarvie, 92). Philanthropy began in this country with the concept of charity, which developed from…

October 23, 2014 To Gap or Not to Gap? As you walk off the high school stage, diploma in hand, the dreams you have had regarding the four years at college become more vivid. Attending college classes, sporting events, partying with newly made friends and freedom away from parents are all things you have thought about and will now have an opportunity to experience. You think you have your career and all that will happen at college all planned out, don’t you? Parents and students think they are…

1. Name and discuss a major contributor to the development of private security in England. -Henry Fielding, is credited for establishing the framework for the principal advanced private investigative organization, his activities incited what we now consider official wrongdoing reports. 6. Name and discuss three technological innovations that improved the private security industry in the nineteenth century. - The first criminal caution frameworks that utilized a chime that rang if an entryway or…

of immigration in American change the way many structures grown and the United State begin to change to accommodate those measures. In the 1880s, the beginning of World War I, a new wave of immigrants from the peasant population of eastern and southern Europe settle in American cities (Stubblefield & Keane, 1994). This new movement allowed for whites and African Americans to begin to move to urban areas within the United States. The need to increase…

Compact: A Young Person’s Perspective- Historical, Present-day Societies, and Personal. Historical: The signers of the Mayflower Compact had a variety of motivations in the creation of their founding document. The pilgrims that had come seeking a new home in the new world found themselves outside of the jurisdiction of the Virginia charter, and there were mutterings of mutiny among the voyagers. One of the primary motivations in the writing of the compact was to establish the rule of law and to…

movement that changed the lives of women in America and around the world. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique began as a series of interviews the author did in the late 1950s and early 1960s with her fellow graduates of Smith College, one of the most prestigious colleges for women. She found that many were unhappy with the restrictions their roles as wives and mothers put on their lives. Friedan’s book documented the many ways in which the media, education, and psychologists dictated that…

Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821. She was born to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell. Elizabeth lived with her parents, her father’s four unmarried sisters and eight other siblings. She grew up in a religious and liberal home that pushed education. Her parents campaigned for women’s rights and supported the anti-slavery movement, which led to her father’s friendship with William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Weld. In 1832, Elizabeth, at the age of 11, moved to New York City with her…

complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” To this day we still hear that women are less than men. On account of Alice Paul, women are now able to vote. Alice Paul was born in New Jersey to a prominent Quaker family. She went to a training school in England and became involved in the country's radical suffragists. During this time, Alice Paul served as a leader for women's rights. Alice Paul is the most important women who left a legacy on women in our country…

Bristol, England. She was in a family of nine and her family moved to New York City in 1832. Her family was active in the abolishment movement but their efforts were not successful. In 1838, her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and her family assisted escaped slaves. Her dad died a few months later. Elizabeth wanted to be a doctor but all the medical schools she tried to get in would not admit her. So she studied with doctors in the south privately. Geneva Medical School of western New York…