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    Influential Nurses

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    INFLUENTIAL NURSES OF THE AMERICAN NATION Throughout American history‚ many registered nurses have contributed in the foundation towards successful nursing. These women were acting well before their time‚ and could be classified as activists. However‚ if it were not for the brave young women that shaped medical nursing‚ many of the factors that are practiced today would not receive credit. Merely focusing on just handful of women are Florence Nightingale‚ Clara Barton‚ Dorothea Dix‚ Mary Mahoney

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    First Aid

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    villagers were trained and they formed a new group that we now call the Red Cross to help others during illness or injury but also through losing their homes in a hurricane‚ like the one in New Jersey with the hurricane Sandy. So there is where we are using the first aid‚ many developments in the first aid have been used by the wars in worldwarI‚ worldwarII‚ and American Civil War. Clara Barton was prompted to organize the American Red Cross during Civil War. Today‚ there are many groups that use the Johnson

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    Lifeguarding

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    Guillermo 4/26/12 3-page paper Swimming is a fun thing to do but it can turn out to be very deadly. That is why lifeguarding or some type of saving group was organized. In 1708 the first known organized lifesaving group was created call the China Chinkiang Association for the purpose of saving lives. The first thing I found out that was interesting was in early 1700’s even people in the United States did a bit of lifeguarding or something like it called the USLA lifeguards. The USLA would

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    informative

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    Rewarding Job Help! Those are the words a lifeguard is always alert for. The purpose of lifeguarding is to save lives around water. There always on the lookout for troubled swimmers in the water. Lifeguards have to go through a specific amount of training to become a lifeguard. They have to make sure they know exactly what to do if an emergency happens in the water. Lifeguards must make sure there always in the best shape so they can react properly if an incident had to happen. I remember

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    English Devry

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    the war. Toni Frissell remembered today as principally for high-fashion photography for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar‚ She volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross‚ Women Army Corps‚ and Eighth Army Air Force during World War 2. She took thousands of pictures of nurses‚ front-line soldiers‚ WACs‚ African-American airmen‚ and orphaned children. Therese Bonney a photographer who took picture of images of homeless children and adults on the back roads of Europe touched millions

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    to tend to them. After the war she went to Switzerland to regain her health. Her primary contribution was learning of the Red Cross organization in Geneva‚ and then bringing those ideas to America. She wrote pamphlets to spread the information. In May of 1881‚ her wish came true; the American Association of the Red Cross was established. To this day the American Red Cross is active‚ responding to emergencies everywhere. They bring food‚ water‚ and emergency supplies to places affected by natural

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    Brook Girma

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    it promotes prosperity by encouraging people to help the less fortunate. One of many advertisers who promote prosperity by encouraging people to help the less fortunate is the American Red Cross. In the American Red Cross advertisement‚ the band aid symbolizes how simple and easy it is to donate blood pain free (Red Cross). This promotes prosperity in that it makes it easier for people to take part in saving people’s lives in need of blood. Being this simple and easy‚ people all around the world

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    Celeste's Speeches

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    How life guarding started The use of lifeguards on beaches in California began in the late 1930’s. The beach was inexpensive recreation in the post-Depression era. Communities grew around seasonal beach attendance. Transportation improvements made the beach accessible to the inland communities. The influx of swimmers into the surf-zone in Southern California leads to drowning on a sometimes massive scale: • Early 1900’s Newport Beach - 18 drowned in one weekend early 1900’s • 1918 - San Diego

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    Jessica Blair 18

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    08/2012 Assisted customers with clothing selections (matching‚ sizing coordination). Worked with many diverse customers. Completed many group tasks. INTERESTS Delta Sigma Theta Inc member‚ Criminal Justice Club Community Service: Facilitator; American Red Cross Blood Drive (Sumter‚ SC/2013) PERSONAL INFORMATION (2014) Highlights of Qualifications: Hardworking‚ creative‚ leader‚

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    of the American Red Cross to care for American citizens in their time of need whenever disaster strikes. This would be no different if a zombie apocalypse were to occur. The Red Cross would carry out all of these duties as if they were dealing with a tsunami‚ wildfire‚ or even an act of terrorism. This includes finding a shelter in-place‚ maintaining proper communication with all citizens‚ having the appropriate supplies‚ and providing any medical attention that may be needed. The Red Cross would

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