DeVita Tate Fisher Ten Things You Should Know About Migrant Labor in the 1930s 1. http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/327750?terms=migrant+workers+1930s Migrant workers are an important and inexpensive source of labor. They migrate from place to place in search of work. 2. John Steinbeck wrote a book‚ Grapes of Wrath‚ about migrant workers and the Dust Bowl. http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/327750?terms=migrant+workers+1930s 3. The agricultural‚ mining‚ and
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"If I am cold‚ they are cold; if I am weary‚ they are distressed; if I am alone‚ they are abandoned." - Dorothea Dix Dorothea L. Dix and the Establishment of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum Prior to the Industrial Revolution‚ traditional institutions like the family‚ church‚ and local communities were charged with the care of orphaned children‚ the elderly‚ the indigent‚ and the mentally ill. As the Revolution flourished it greatly evolved the economy‚ social structure‚ and political
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Dorothea Puente Dorothea Puente‚ born Dorothea Helen Gray was born on January 9‚ 1929 in San Bernardino County‚ California. As most serial killers‚ Dorothea had a rough childhood. When she was eight her father died of tuberculosis. A year later her mother died in a motorcycle accident. After her mother passing Dorothea and her 18 siblings (Dorothea being the sixth) went into foster care in separate locations. Throughout her life‚ Dorothea Puente was known to be a compulsive liar‚ claiming
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Disregarding her three-week tenure as a student at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art; Dorothea Tanning was a completely self-taught artist. Her early works have been considered some of her most notable‚ including‚ Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943)‚ which was painted while on her first trip to Sedona‚ Arizona. In spite of Mozart’s upbeat composition‚ for which the piece was named after‚ this unsettling oil-on-linen depicts two female figures who appear to be recovering from a brawl with a gargantuan sunflower
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a good idea to be insane in New Jersey 150 years ago. The state had no mental hospitals. People who went mad were just locked up in poor houses and jails‚ or farmed out to who ever would care for them cheapest. But in 1844 the Yankee reformer Dorothea Dix came to New Jersey to agitate for the construction of a modern state asylum. To prove her point‚ she traveled around the state to document the horrible conditions facing the mentally ill. She found people living in filth‚ chained up‚ and
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Dorothea Dix made life for the mentally ill grand compared to how it was before she took interest in their health and well being. Dorothea Dix was the first American to take interest in how the mentally ill were treated and spoke out about it. Dorothea Dix was a woman making a change in a time where woman were still not equal to men. She was one of the few women who spoke out against something during her time period. Dorothea Dix was the start of the interest in the human brain and its defects. If
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Dorothea Orem Dorothea Elizabeth Orem was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland on 1914. She received her diploma certificate at the Providence School of Nursing‚ Washington DC on the early 1930’s. She pursued further studies and received both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree on 1939‚ and her Master of Science in Nursing Education degree on 1945 from the Catholic University of America‚ Washington DC. During her professional career‚ she worked as a staff nurse ‚ private duty nurse ‚nurse educator
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Thousands of jobless migrants took a treacherous exodus to California looking for a livelihood‚ but instead they found prejudice for being poor. A select group of wealthy natives saw them as less than human‚ destitute homeless attempting to scrounge for work at each and every corner of the state. For the prejudice instilled on them by the natives‚ migrants were treated like the dirt they slept on. Something had to be done. The California Government hired photographers like Dorothea Lange to document the
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Dorothea Lynde Dix was quoted as saying‚ "In a world where there is so much to be done‚ I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." Dix began at the age of 39‚ and spent the next 20 years as a social reformer for the treatment of the mentally ill. When asked to teach a Sunday School class at a women’s correctional facility‚ Dix was appalled at the conditions‚ as well as the fact that many of the women weren’t criminals‚ but were instead mentally ill. This is where her
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Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Theory | Dorothea Orem (1914-2007) | | | INTRODUCTION * One of foremost nursing theorists. * Born 1914 in Baltimore. * Earned her diploma at Providence Hospital – Washington‚ DC * 1939 – BSN Ed.‚ Catholic University of America * 1945 – MSN Ed.‚ Catholic University of America * Involved in nursing practice‚ nursing service‚ and nursing education * During her professional career‚ she worked as a staff nurse‚ private duty nurse‚ nurse educator and administrator
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