more educated then other young women of her time. Eventually‚ Nightingale decided that she should become more useful in her life and felt a calling to nursing practice. Nightingale spent years in nursing practice including her work during the Crimean war caring for British soldiers. During her care of these soldiers‚ Nightingale felt that she needed to improve the environment in which these soldiers were residing
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poets portray war in The Charge Of The Light Brigade and one other poem In The Charge of The Light Brigade and Mametz Wood‚ both Sheers and Tennyson present similar ideas about war. The reader is given the distinct impression from both poems that the authors think that war is a waste of time‚ unnecessary and pointless. In Mametz Wood Sheers talks about "the wasted young" suggesting that these soldiers that have been found in the farmers field died before their time because of war and that they
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born on the 6th of August 1809 in Lincolnshire England. Alfred died on the 6th of October 1892. The poem is talking about war that he read in the newspaper and he wrote a poem about them. The battle took place in the 1854. Alfred was not a soldier in the war he think war is a good thing. In the first verse it talks about the six hundred soldiers going to war in the valley of death. He talks about the soldier being ambushed in the valley by the Russian army. The commander told
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others‚ in particular she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were opposed - at that time‚ nursing was not seen as a respectable profession. Despite her parents disapproval‚ Florence went ahead and trained to be a nurse. In 1853‚ the Crimea war broke out.The war was too terrifying that many soldiers were wounded and dying without proper first aids. Later in 1855‚ Florence Nightingale was asked to travel to the Crimea and organise a group of nurses. Many of the initial applicants were unsuitable and
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The poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson. The poem talks about a Battle. It is filled with many literary devices and organized very well for a poem. The type of rhyme and meter that Alfred used in his poem was dactylic. The three most prominent poetic devices used to depict this battle are repetition‚ imagery and metaphors. In this play there was a lot of repetition used. It was used to help stress the emotion of what the author was trying to get across. For one example the
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in the valley of Death rode the six hundred’ (Tennyson). These words describe the necessity for the ’heroes’ of this poem to travel to their ultimate destiny. In general‚ the poem describes the threat and the fear of war‚ with various descriptions related to battle‚ and the march to war is one of the most striking depictions that the poem has to offer. Tennyson’s words also offer a unique depiction of honor and bravery in the poem‚ as the soldiers proceed with the march to battle with . . .
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Junli Wang Introduction to Literature‚ Josh Beach Date: 2012-7-18 An analysis of Fathers and Sons and Russian society in 19th century Russian society drastically changing in 19th century due to the “abolishment of the serfdom’’. In the middle of the 19th century Alexander II came to power and he thoroughly abolished serfdom in Russia which “ending the monopoly of landed aristocracy’’. The abolishment of the serfdom had a huge impact towards changing of the Russian society in
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Historical Figures of Nursing Whenever people mention or think of the history of nursing or nursing education many instantly think of Florence Nightingale or Clara Barton. Granted‚ Florence deserves credit for the advancements she made in nursing‚ but nursing goes back further than Florence Nightingale. One nurse‚ that little is known about is James Derham. James was born into slavery in approximately 1762‚ in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. James was known to be owned by three different individuals
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With so many incredible nursing theorists‚ it is impossible to resist discussing nursing’s first theorist-Florence Nightingale. Born in 1820‚ Florence became the founder of modern nursing. Her theories include the most well-known environmental theory. Some assumptions of her theory were: nursing is a calling‚ nursing requires a specific educational base‚ nursing is an art and a science‚ and natural laws just to name a few. Florence believed that the law of health was keeping the person and population
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How far do Sources 1 and 2 challenge the impression of the Charge of the Light Brigade given in Source 3? The Charge of the Light Brigade was started by an order given by Lord Raglan to charge. It last half an hour and 113 men were killed. Source 3 is a ‘recalling’ of the brutality of the Charge of the Light Brigade. It shows the perspective of someone watching the battle rather than taking part so is therefore limited. Although‚ it is still useful as is written by a witness who saw it happen at
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