Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing‚ a statistician‚ and a social reformer. She was mostly famous for caring for soldiers during the Crimean War. She is now still known as the most famous nurse in the world because of her hard work in establishing nursing education. Nightingale was born on the 12th of May 1820 in Florence‚ Italy. She grew up in a wealthy family with her father‚ William‚ her mother‚ Frances‚ and her older sister Frances Parthenope. William was a big influence in
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respectful lawyer earning his license in 1837 and becoming a renowned public figure in Springfield‚ Illinois. He had an outstanding impact in the 1850’s when the Republican Party was fighting against slavery also known as the ‘’ Free-Soilers‚ and Anti-slavery Democrats’’. Lincoln got recognized during several slavery debates in a senate run in 1858 against S. Douglas claiming that: ‘’Slavery violated the natural rights of Black people.’’ He entered the presidential election in 1860 during the midst of
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Moses Mendelssohn. Moses was a model for Jews in Germany during the late 1770’s‚ and a dominant figure in the emergence of the Haskalah. The Haskalah borrowed many forms and categories from the already existing European Enlightenment‚ but its contents were largely derived from medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical exegesis. Within the novel‚ Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment‚ David Sorkin conveys how Moses made the German Enlightenment compatible with Judaism‚ and shows Moses to
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describes the American Dream as “The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction.” (Meacham 1). Americans have a preconceived notion that working hard and having sound morals enables a chance of success in every aspect. In view of the fact that working hard led to success‚ Americans were intent on securing jobs and being industrious. This notion
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thing to be decoded were the Mayan numbers in 1832‚ allowing Mayan years to be matched with writings and carvings. Later‚ in 1880‚ Ernst Förstemann decoded the Mayan Calendar and discovered the Mayan way of measuring time (“Time Line”). In the 1930’s‚ Eric Thompson‚ a popular Mayanist‚ convinced most other researchers that each
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in the study of history because it represents a notable example of the territorial and economic rivalry between nations in Latin America during the 1800’s‚ in addition‚ the conflict reflected the struggle for control of natural resources and territorial expansion. characteristics of imperialism of that time. Although some might argue that Chile did not benefit significantly from the Pacific War due to the economic costs associated with the conflict. While it is true that the Pacific War imposed significant
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He also experimented with x-rays and short range radio communication before Guglielmo Marconi did. In other words‚ Marconi just picked up where Tesla left off. And as an extra‚ he discovered the rotating magnetic field; which was the basis for AC machines. Tesla invented many things and contributed to life immensely. I’m quickly going to go to the
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chemistry. However‚ Goffman became interested in sociology when he met American Sociologist‚ Dennis Wrong. This prompted him to leave the university and to enroll in the University of Toronto. There he received a MA and PhD in sociology. The research he did in 1956 at Unst became his first major work‚ "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life". After graduating
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The Great Depression of the 1930’s was devasting. It deprived many people jobs‚ land and their livelihoods. It began in the United States and quickly spread to other parts of the world. Many people lost everything and were living on the edge with nothing but scrapes of food from dumpsters and occasional soup kitchens to keep them alive. People blamed themselves for their loss of jobs‚ so it became an epidemic. The reactions leading to the Great Depression caused many uprisings. One reaction to the
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those tasks as anybody on either side. When it came to screening his own army‚ gathering information about the opposing army‚ and controlling the middle ground between the two armies‚ Stuart was unexcelled”.(Gallagher 4). This exemplifies that Stuart did have flaws and do to the lack of skills in gathering information and taking charge which caused poor decision making. In order to mask the army’s movement up the Shenandoah Valley into western Maryland and central Pennsylvania‚ Lee depended upon his
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