...APA Paper Kara Piehl College of Menominee Nation TPN 110 Nursing Fundamentals Pearl Webster September 10 , 2014 APA Paper In this paper I will provide information about Margaret Sanger who was an influential person in nursing history. She grew up understand the perils of childbirth on a women and wanted to change the situation. While trying to change what she new was going to be her life, she continued and changed that for all women. In her life she created a movement that empowered women and gave women their autonomy. She gave women power over their own bodies and changed public’s views on contraceptives. She educated women on how contraceptives would change the lives of women and give them the freedom to choose. She had many obstacles during her campaign, but she created what we now know as Planned Parenthood and the International Planned Parenthood Federation that help women all over the world. Her accomplishments for a woman from the 19th century are radically huge and changed the world’s views on women’s autonomy. Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879, born in Corning, New York. She was one of 11 children and her parents struggled to provide for all of them. The author of this article, Todd E had made sure he mentioned that her mother died prematurely and Margaret was deeply affected by this. She blames the fact that her mother carried and gave birth to so many children attributed to her death along with being poverty stricken and not being...
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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 family. At a young age of 50 after eighteen pregnancies, 11 births and seven miscarriages Margaret's mother died from tuberculosis. After her mother's death Margaret decided she wanted to become a nurse and care for women that were pregnant. Wanting to do better for herself, Margaret attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896. In 1900, she was wanting to continue her education and transferred to a college in New York City, there she started the nursing program at the White Plains Hospital in 1900. In England in the 1800s, Florence Nightingale led to push the formalization of nursing education with regulations and standards. The United States quickly adopted similar regulations, and the first Nurses Associated Alumnae was established in 1897 to regulate nursing colleges. At this time in the United States nursing was just getting started. Nursing certification and professional training was just being introduced. Healthcare and nursing in the 1900 to 1919...
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...The Women Rebel Margaret Sanger, born 1876-1966, was an inspirational woman. Birth control, sex educator, writer, and nurse Margaret Sanger is a hero to women (Margaret Sanger Quotes). She started businesses to help women that are pregnant or are trying not to get pregnant. These businesses will help the woman decide whether or not to keep the baby, how to prevent getting pregnant, and much more. Events that happened in her life helped with Sanger’s passion for birth control. Her influences helped her a lot in her journey like anarchists, labor activist, and socialists (Margaret Sanger Quotes), all helped her make her dream come true. She did these things because of her personal experiences with childbirth (Margaret Sanger Quotes). Creator...
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...Margaret Sanger When I was in high school in Vietnam, I had been studying History class for four years. Vietnamese students study things in general, and the teachers always give us a lot of quizzes and tests without giving any specific study guides. However, learning history in America is totally different; it has given me more interesting, and truthful perspective about many event that have changed the world. Throughout this semester, I am interested in a lot of topic that my beautiful professor has been teaching me. Particularly, I have gained more insight about Margaret Sanger who is known as a birth control activist and sex educator. Personally, I am indeed impressive what Margaret Sanger had done. She is not only beautiful but also a warm hearted and strong woman. She went through struggles and sacrificed herself for women's rights. By having potential knowledge, she did all her best to show women that they have freedom of choosing whether or not they will be mothers an hoe many children they will have. Later, she opened a birth control clinic which led to arrested for scattering information about contraception. She also found American Birth Control League and became Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Besides that, she helped the women realized that they have more choices to protect themselves. She often gave speeches about contraception to prevent mortality in infants as well as their mothers. She also educated them how to prevent abortion. Sadly, she took herself...
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...Despite all the obstacles that she encountered, she believed that women needed to be informed about contraceptive methods and they should be the one to decide whether to get or not pregnant. Therefore, she figured that the only way to change the Comstock Law was to challenge them. In 1914, Sanger wrote another article for “The Woman Rebel,” a newspaper for women promoting women’s rights including the right to practice birth control. As a result, she again had problems with the law, but that didn’t stop her. In 1916, Margaret Sanger assisted by her sister opened her first birth control clinic in Brooklyn New York where she gave speeches and educated women about birth control and advocated women to prevent unwanted pregnancies. She worked secretly,...
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...Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. Margaret was the sixth of eleven children in a Roman Catholic family. Her parents were both socialists and early activists in the women’s suffrage movement. She attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, but was forced to drop out due to her mother’s death. However in 1900 she went back to school at White Plains Hospital and Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. In 1902 she managed to obtain her nursing degree and soon after married an architect/socialist named William Sanger. They had three children together, Grant, and Stuart. However, their youngest child died at the age of four due to pneumonia. Her marriage to William fell through, however, and they divorced in...
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...Margaret Sanger had the qualifications to give this speech because of her work in providing birth control for poor women and families who desperately needed it. She also understood on a personal level the negative caused by a lack of birth control through her mother. Sanger’s mother did what was expected of her in the time period; she was pregnant 18 times with 11 children and seven miscarriages. She died at the early age of 40 that Sanger blamed on her mother’s body having to go through the struggles of pregnancy 18 times (Parenthood). Because of her experience with her mother’s pregnancies and death, Sanger knew at a deeply personal level just how deadly the consequences of lack of birth control could be. Sanger also knew the effects lack...
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...members is to kill it.” This shows that she did not approve of large families and later she found a way to prevent them. Margaret Sanger spent her whole life trying to find a cure for unwanted children. Her whole purpose in life was to promote birth control. Sanger founded Planned Parenthood on October 16, 1916 and gave women the option to be in control of their bodies. Margaret Sanger’s speech, “The Morality of Birth Control” was given at the Park Theater in New York on November 18, 1921 and pleaded with women to use birth...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of “The Morality of Birth Control” In the article “The Morality of Birth Control”, Margaret Sanger argued that birth control is a moral solution to unwanted pregnancies and everyone should be informed about it (559). She originally published these claims as a well-known speech. She had hoped to motivate people with positions of power to join her movement promoting birth control. This article was one of the first steps Sanger took to change society’s view about birth control. Although “The Morality of Birth Control” contains a lot of Margaret Sanger’s personal opinions, I agree with her claim and feel as though she made a persuasive argument. At the time that this speech was given, there was a lot of controversy over...
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...In her text, Margaret Sanger describes the early part of the twentieth century as a time when the United States was still recovering from war and struggling with an influx of immigrants, uncontrolled population growth, poverty, disease, and labor issues. In Woman and the New Race, Sanger explores the causes of overpopulation, including ignorance, immigration, and religious ideals, which have the effect of degrading the race, and details how birth control is the only logical and moral response to this crisis. Sanger insists that woman’s ignorance of her reproductive abilities causes her to bear more children than she can properly care for and her husband can support resulting in overpopulation. In fact, when her husband’s salary does not increase at the same rate as the size of the family, Sanger reports, the mother must join her husband in the work force, leaving her little time to attend to her children and household, causing harm to her health as well as to the children’s well-being. Additional strain on the mother’s health, Sanger informs, comes when she has too many children born one after another, preventing the mother from having sufficient time to recover her health. Therefore, a mother who bears children when she herself is not in good health passes along this legacy of ill-health and poor strength to her offspring, she states. Consequently, as the foregoing reasons demonstrate, the degradation of the race is the end result, asserts Sanger. She notes in the following...
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...Planned Motherhood: Margaret Sanger and Her Fight for Birth Control Morgan Ledford History 1200 Tamia Haygood November 13, 2014 During the Progressive Era, the United States was changing and developing but social issues were often neglected. With the rise of factories and big business, populations in small compact areas were exceeding holding capacity and the quality of life was decreasing. Margaret Sanger, born in New York in 1876, knew from an early age the change that she wanted to make in America. Sanger desperately wished to rise in class and her current education level so she attended Claverack College after which she enrolled in a nursing program at White Plains Hospital. She worked as a visiting nurse in New York City in the 1910s until she began to challenge the Comstock Law and write and mail contraceptive information to women. Through creation of different committees, leagues and publications, Sanger was able to slowly push the idea of birth control into the public. In 1914, Margaret Sanger coined the term birth control and then printed it in the Woman Rebel journal. Sanger also opened up her own birth control clinic and fought for contraceptives until her death in 1966.1 Throughout the Progressive Era, Margaret Sanger started the foundation for the Birth Control Movement and actively advocated for the passage and approval of birth control in the United States. Women in the Progressive Era had only two choices, “passive and usually pleasure less submission...
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...People are consistently aware of changes made throughout the time they were born to the time they die. Yet to obtain those changes, people must fight hard and intelligently. Many types of people are held back so these changes cannot occur and one prime example is the early 1920’s woman’s fight for birth control. The Children’s Era speech by Margaret Sanger addresses the many issues that were caused by the unwanted pregnancies and speaks to the audience that is only understandable if you were there or if the background of this speech is present. Many types of literary devices are present as Sanger addresses the public as a whole yet the group that is the true receivers of Sanger's message are the men who say no and oppose what Sanger stands...
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...namely Hybrid electric vehicle (HEVs), Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). However consumer response to these electric vehicles has been sluggish and it is widely believed by market analyst that as the market awareness grows there will be an increased rise in demand for electric cars. Opinion among industry analyst suggest that incentives will simulate the growth which falls on different assumptions such as gasoline prices, government purchase incentives, fuel economy standards and availability of electric cars. 2. Company Background Sanger Automotive Companies, Inc., was founded in 1950 in Fort Myers, Florida as a Cadillac dealership and has consistently grown over the year acquiring 8 lines of luxury car franchise therefore becoming one of the most successful auto dealership in the United States posting an annual sale of $700 million in 2011. Today, Sanger Automobile Company is a major player in luxury-car dealership in Florida regardless of the brand which they represent. The company value preposition is delivering exceptional customer service and has developed a good reputation with...
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...Sanger Questions 1. How would you describe the U.S. electric passenger car industry in 2011? The U.S. electric passenger car industry in 2011 was described as being in its infancy, because it is still a new concept to buyers. However there are signs of growth from 2011-2015. Buyers do not consider the car because of price, travel range and vehicle size, along with other secondary concerns. 2. Based on HEV sales to date, how would you describe U.S. buyers of electric passenger cars? Based on sales to date, the segmentation of U.S buyers is seemingly a very “niche” market as it is segmented to middle aged, large income, warm urban or suburban climates. U.S consumers are /unaware of the new technology, which makes them apprehensive to purchase them, especially at the high prices they are being sold for. 3. What might be a customer value proposition for BEVs and PHEVs expressed in fewer than 25 words? Driving electric; a luxury way to drive economically. Environmental friendliness, combined with the luxury comfort and power, all while using friendly energy. 4. How should the Fisker Karma Sedan be positioned in the marketplace? It should be positioned to the slightly more wealthy individuals that have families. The sedan being priced over 100k makes it a luxury item that is at least attainable to this demographic of wealthier consumers. The targeting shouldn’t be marketed as “the one car your family needs,” however, it should be marketed as the next addition to your...
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...In the beginning of this term I was told that I would have to be playing a simulation game called Mogul. From other students who had previously took the class told me that this game was one of the most difficult games to understand. This began to worry me because I thought that if they had hard time it was going to be impossible for me. Mogul allows students to maintain the operations for a small manufacturing company that produces two different products. There are various decisions that have to such as operations, marketing and financial. In time Professor Mullen had given us a excel spreadsheet to follow when trying to make decisions for Mogul. However, it was confusing to me because the game was not at all like the spreadsheet so I went into the game a little blind because I had no clue on how to apply the spreadsheet to the actual game. So to make up for the confusion I just made notes from class on what could possibly be beneficial to me for the game. My main goal for this game was to just stay a float and keep a steady cash flow to keep up with my other competitors. However, the major mistake that I had made was that I did not establish a specific strategy to play the game. The first time that I enter into the game I was unable to play. At first I was a little concerned but I spoke with my professor and he told me that if you did not input any decisions it would just carry the same information into the next round. So after that miss fortune I though that it would...
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