My healthcare hero that I’m researching is Clara Barton. She is the person who found the American Red cross. During the civil war she served as a volunteer to provide aid to wounded soldiers. She also requested supplies from the public and then after she got the supplies she personally delivered them to the soldiers on the north and the south. Treaty of Geneva In 1869 she went to Geneva‚ Switzerland to rest and improve her health. There she learned about the treaty of Geneva which provided relief
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The Golden Ratio The theory of the Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano is extremely present today. While he was trying to sort out the number of rabbits that mated in a year‚ he discovered a series of numbers‚ that are profoundly consistent in man‚ nature & animals. This discovery was extraordinary‚ but he also found that the ratio always resulted in 1.618. Although it is called differently‚ this ratio is often called „the golden ratio“
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Clara Barton Clara Harlow Barton was born on December 25‚ 1821 in Oxford‚ Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children. Clara was taught at home and started teaching school when she was only fifteen years old. Her only nursing background was having the experience of nursing her injured brother back to health. Clara Barton is known for founding the American Red Cross. She is also known for establishing the free pubic school in Bordentown‚ New Jersey. Clara started her career by enrolling
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Clara Barton Surgeon James L. Dunn referred to Clara Barton as the “Angel on the Battlefield” during the Civil War. He called her this after she had brought supplies for the wounded soldiers. She was an American hero‚ she had started the American red cross‚ even though most people don’t know who she is ‚ she changed medical history. Born on December 25‚ 1821 in North Oxford‚ Massachusetts. Her parents Stephan Barton and Stone Barton had five children together the oldest Dorothy 17‚ Stephan
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Margaret (Higgins) Sanger was born on September 14‚ 1879‚ in Corning‚ New York. She was the sixth of 11 children born into a Roman Catholic working-class class Irish American family. Margaret was taught since a young age to stand up for what she believed in and to make sure she always spoke her mind‚ she got this from her outspoken radical father. Margaret’s family lived in poverty as her father was a stonemason‚ who preferred to drink and talk politics rather than earn a steady wage for the
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The Lion in the White House Book Report “The Lion in the White House”‚ written by Aida D. Donald‚ is a book about the life of Theodore Roosevelt. She descriptively tells about Roosevelt’s life‚ beliefs‚ accomplishments‚ and leadership. The biography starts off from his first word to his last breath. Roosevelt was a writer‚ cowboy‚ politician‚ environmentalist‚ and president. In shorter words he was his own limelight. At the age of 42 he became the youngest president of the United States of America
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The Golden Bird A certain king had a beautiful garden‚ and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted‚ and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this‚ and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep‚ and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second
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think we’ll have a reasonable chance on appeal‚ though. I really can’t tell at this stage‚ Jack. You know‚ I’d hoped to get through life without a case of this kind‚ but John Taylor pointed at me and said‚ ’You’re It.’" "Let this cup pass from you‚ eh?" "Right. But do you think I could face my children otherwise? You know what’s going to happen as well as I do‚ Jack‚ and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness‚ and most of all‚ without catching Maycomb’s usual
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The Golden Lotus Tarnishes Only one unrelenting force lies behind the saga of mankind: Time. It treads wearily along while all the events of history unfold around it; lands are formed and reformed‚ great empires rise and fall‚ countless nations unify and splinter‚ trends come and go‚ and people climb to glory one minute and are overthrown the next the Golden Lotus and its most exalted possessors are no exception. Feng Jicai’s novel‚ The Three Inch Golden Lotus‚ describes a peasant woman’s rise
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former has rarely occurred for continuous decades. Jerusalem is constantly a city in dispute‚ where even the age of the city is an example of this concept. Jews consider Jerusalem’s history to start 3000 years ago when David established the city as capital of the United Kingdom of Israel. Palestinians‚ believing they are the descendants of the Canaanites‚ say the city is 5‚000 years old. The great disputes seem unjustified when pictures of Jerusalem are viewed. The city is a desert between the Mediterranean
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