Although born Catholic Clara didn’t exercise her religious practices. The youngest of five children Clara learned horseback riding, mathematics, reading and writing from her siblings at an early age. At the age of eight she was sent away to Colonel Richard School where she did not last long. At the young age of 11, a shy Clara Barton displayed her nursing potential in the way she tended to convalescent brother, David, for two years after a fall from a barn. To overcome her shyness Clara’s parents were advised to put her in teaching school by a visiting…
Clara Hughes; gold medal olympian, mental health spokesperson, global citizen and many more outstanding achievements. Most importantly she is a leader to Canadians and around the world to anyone who she comes across. She leads as a positive example in many ways as a democratic leader, she values others opinions as proven by her position as an Honourary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is part of a national, comprehensive response to the Indian Residential School legacy. She works with many boards and councils, such as the former, valuing everyone's opinion on the topic they are discussing. Her biggest success has been with Bell let’s talk initiative but there’s multiple other companies she has had success in working…
Aunt Clara is a very important figure in Of Mice and Men, representing the idea of women as a motherly figure, a stereotype which was commonly viewed as acceptable by the Ranchworkers at the time. Although she isn’t present in the novel, she is one of the mentioned characters through both George and Lennie’s references to her as well as within Lennie’s daydreams, where she chastises him for the problems he imposes upon George.…
I do have a similar experience like you. My aunt was a nurse and I used to visit her very often to deliver her lunch. The hospital was run by catholic missionaries and was a beautiful place with lot of trees and flowers. During my visits, I used to get lot of toffies from nurses and nuns. I have been fascinated with their white uniform and decided to be a nurse when I grew up. I choose nursing as I like to care for the sick and needy. Watson’s caring theory influence me a lot and I have done a lot of research on her theory. Her theory has a special place in nursing as nursing is caring. The felling of caring is not thoughtless, it is thoughtful. The expression of caring can be vary but it is the feeling, that shapes the course of…
Born on December 25, 1921, Clara experienced childhood in a group of four kids, all no less than 11 years more established than her. Clara's youth was a greater amount of one that had a few sitters than kin, every partaking of her instruction. Clara exceeded expectations at the scholastic piece of life, however was exceptionally bashful among outsiders. School was not an especially cheerful point in her life, being not able fit in with her raucous schoolmates in the wake of having such a peaceful youth. The thought of being a weight to the family was in Clara's mind and felt that the best approach to win the warmth of her family was to do to a great degree well in her classes to discover the adoration that she felt was should have been earned.…
The social theories explain how certain people age well. There are three main theories that explain successful ages in older life which are as follows: Activity theory, the social clock theory, and the disengagement.…
This essay will compare and contrast two characters from stories we have been reading, Great-Grandma from The Three-Century Woman by Richard Peck and Laurie from Charles by Shirley Jackson.…
Administration on Aging & Administration for Community Living. (2012). A profile of older Americans: 2012. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved from http://www.aoa.gov/Aging_Statistics/Profile/2012/docs/2012profile.pdf…
When I was young, I remember asking my Mom what it was like being an adult. She kneeled down to my height and she said, "Mikaela, stay young as you possibly can. It's no fun being an adult." I questioned her meaning because I wanted to be an adult.…
Aging is the length of time during which a being or thing has existed length of life (Webster dictionary). Growing old and becoming an elderly person can be challenging but, yet it can be very rewarding, it can bring a lot of good and bad. Aging has its rewards, but it presents the challenges of all stages of life. Growing old consist of gradual, ongoing changes in the body, changes such as shrinking in height in which the elderly tends to get shorter as he or she age. Elderly people tends to have less appetite which causes them to lose weight, and a decline in strength and vitality, which can sometimes make them feels very weak at times and needs either a cane or a walker or even someone to help assist them in walking.…
Human bodies are technically set up for failure. Aging comes naturally. Aging is experienced by most humanity in their lifetime. Everyone ages at their own time and rate but not everyone has same experience. In my paper one will be informed that aging is a major risk factor. Aging often results in changes and lower functioning in the brain, higher rates of diseases, and decrease mobility.…
4. Discuss the physical and psychological changes associated with normal ageing. How can one minimise pathological ageing?…
A substantial increase in the aging population in recent years has made the term “successful aging” familiar among gerontologists. As a result, a considerable amount of research has been done by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. Aging is the foreseeable faith of all humans and with it comes a progressive decline in physical, psychosocial and cognitive functioning of the body. However, successful aging slow the process of aging and results in less, not more years of disability (Vaillant & Mukamal, 2000, p. 840). Successful aging reduces the risk factors for diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Diabetes to name a few. Yet, in order to understand what contributes to successful aging, we must look at four main components: staying physically active, maintaining a healthy diet, staying socially engaged, and constantly challenging yourself cognitively.…
The text is about a girl who overcomes her fear of being herself, by taking her clothes off at a school assembly. The text started with she was at school, to a school assembly. Suddenly in the middle of the Head speech, Clara began to take all of her clothes off. After she had taking all of her clothes off, she walked past the Head and out through the doors to the entrance lobby. She walked up to her classroom and waited for a teacher to come. The teacher came with Clara’s clothes. After Clara’s first period a prefects came and told Clara that the Head wanted to see her in the Head’s office. Clara talked for a long time with the Head. The Head was trying to figure out what the reason for Clara’s action was. The head came with a lot of opportunities to why Clara did it. But Clara didn’t want to tell it. The Head ends the conversation by saying that she would write a letter for Clara’s partners. After school, Clara goes home. When she comes home, her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, Stan are already home. Clara’s mother is the in kitchen reading an article, when Clara comes home. Clara goes into the kitchen and talks with her mother. Her mother opens the letter from the Head and she begins to laugh. The mother can’t believe it. She had never thought that Clara could do such a thing. The mother shows the letter to Stan and he laughs to. The mother has no actually comment on why Clara did it, she’s only laughing at it. The mother and Stan lives and Clara sits back in the kitchen, and she starts to cry.…
This short story "Clara's day" by Penelope Lively is about a girl, Clara, who suddenly took off all of her clothes and started walking naked around at her school. After this sensational episode she was told that she had to meet "the Head" after school. They talked about Clara's reasons for doing what she did, because as the Head said on page 53 line 1-2, "..you aren't really like that, are you?", and Clara agreed that she wasn't. Naturally Clara's parents, or in this case, mother was informed about this episode, but she just laughed when she read the letter about Clara's deeds.…