...knew her as Clara Barton for short. Clarissa Barton was born December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. Clarissa was not an only child she had four siblings named Sarah B., Dorthea B., David B., and Stephen B. But because of her sibling David, who got in a farm accident Clarissa became David’s nurse and nursed him back to health, because of David’s accident this showed Clarissa her love of helping people and wanting to become a nurse. Clarissa Barton had a few jobs before becoming known as the president of the Red Cross Organization. Clarissa Barton became a teacher in 1838 and taught and lived in Georgia and Canada. Then in 1850 Clarissa went to Clinton Liberal Institute in New York to continue...
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...during the Second World War. Peter, Lucy, Susan and Edmund live in London in a middleclass family. During the war they were evacuated from the city because of air raids. They were sent to the countryside to a very large house with a lot of rooms. Mountains and woods surround the house and it lies ten miles from the nearest railway station. Even though it is here the story starts it is in the fantastic world of Narnia, which Lucy discovers thought a wardrobe, the main part of the story takes place. When Lucy enters Narnia it is winter and snow falls from the sky. Narnia is a very beautiful place with woods, mountains and an overwhelming nature. Narnia is a world with magical creatures as fauns, talking lions, centaurs and dwarfs. There does not live any humans in the land of Narnia however the land needs to be ruled by four humans. Narnia is ruled by Aslan, two kings and two queens but right now the land is subordinated by the White Witch, Jadis. She has cursed the land with eternal winter. And here the four siblings come into the picture. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy play a big role in the fight against Jadis and the evil in Narnia. Lucy is the youngest of the four children. She is very kind and friendly. She loves her siblings and almost everybody else. When she first met Mr Tumnuns, in Narnia, she could imminently see that he was good and not evil and they soon became very good friends. She was the first to explore Narnia. That shows that she is very curios and open...
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...Jeanette’s family is constantly moving from place to place and struggling to make enough money for foods. Jeanette’s father, Rex, makes it quite difficult to live as a well-financed family because of the money he spent on alcohol. Jeanette uses characterization to demonstrate that the selfishness of her father spending all the money for him rather than for the family. When Jeanette and her siblings are sitting around in their house with no food and no money to buy food one of her sibling said, ““dad needs to start carrying his weight.” Lori said as she started into the empty refrigerator. “He spends more money than he earns on booze” Brian said.”(78) Rex Walls could not provide for his family because what salary he earn, he goes out and spends it all on alcohol, leaving Jeanette and her siblings scavenging for food. Rex’s alcoholism had cause so much chaos in the family that one night Rex had a fight with Rose that it had gone out of control that the neighbors was about to step in to break them up. Jeanette describes that night as, "Moms and dads got into arguments all the time in Battle Mountain, so it didn't seem that big a deal, but this fight was raucous even by local standards, and some people thought they should step in and break it...
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...Bandit1). His birth name was “Doroteo Arango” (Birth of a Bandit 2). “His sharecropper parents who lived on this hacienda were, Agustin Arango and Micaela Arambula” (Pancho Villa Legends Before the Revolution 1). They “rented” a farm by paying with crops in return of the use of the tenant farm. He worked many hardworking hours in the tenant farm with his father. Unfortunately, his father passed away when he was in his teenage years. To be exact, he died when Doroteo Arango was only fifteen years old. This was a critical moment in the Arango family. This left his mother and his three siblings...
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...Henry was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on January 21, 1842 to Josiah G. Abbott and Caroline Abbott Livermore along with 10 other siblings. His father was a lawyer and a member of the United States House of Representatives and a loyal Republican. When he was just 14 he was admitted into Harvard, he struggled but in 1860 he graduated. He didn’t completely agree with Lincoln’s decision to invade southern states. He described himself as “Constitutionally Timid”. His brothers and others around him were eager to join the army, he wasn’t really wanting to join. Despite his hesitation he volunteered so he wasn’t left behind when they all went off to war. He served for a short while...
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...King, a widow, before her marriage to Benedict Arnold’s father. Arnold had two brothers and three sisters as well. The family lived well for a while, so they lived in peace. However, after some time, the family ran into some money problems due to some poor business deals. Arnold’s father then became a regular at the tavern and unstable, so Arnold attended school at Canterbury. While he was there, some of his sibling died had because of the Yellow Fever. Because his family no longer had money left to pay for Arnold’s school fees, his mother had found some help from her cousins, they took Arnold in as an apprentice to their successful apothecary business. He left the his apothecary’s apprenticeship for a couple of times in the French and Indian War to join the army, but has always remained in the apothecary in his younger years. During the war Even though Benedict Arnold was a traitor, he still played a huge role in the war for the rebel’s army before he started working for the British. One of the feats he did is when he took down Fort Ticonderoga with the Green Mountain Boys and their leader, Ethan Allen. This has been an an amazing feat, since the two managed to take down Fort Ticonderoga without a single shot or casualties. Instead, they managed to sneak into the fort at night, and then infiltrated where the leader of the fort was sleeping Benedict Arnold might be smart, but even he had to cut his losses. When Washington decided he trusted Arnold enough so he would be able...
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...The year of 1763 was a big year for everyone. The long seven year battle between the French and Indians and the British had ended. For James, it was the year that he turned thirteen, and was finally considered an adult. During the French and Indian War, he was left in the dark. James found out information through the whispered gossip in school. He grew up with the French and Indian war, being only six years old when the long war started. His older siblings informed him afterwards that it was the British against the French and the Indians. In the past, the Indians and the French had been allies, so they allied again in this war. James’ older siblings learned a lot about the war in school as it was happening, and they kept the information from...
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...childhood and how her Mom and Dad's choices affected her. The story then transitions to a three-year-old Jeannette and her story of catching her dress on fire while cooking her dinner. After a few days in the hospital, Jeannette's father shows up, lifts Jeannette out of bed, and leaves the hospital without paying the bill. The memoir continues with the family moving town to town in the American Southwest. Only staying in one place until Jeannette's father could no longer hold a job, or her mother demanding they spontaneously uproot and start again. Jeannette's father's paranoia about the state and organized society, coupled with his alcoholism, leads them to move more and more frequently. Finally, they settle down in a small mining town, Battle Mountain, Nevada, for a few months; where Jeannette enjoys adventuring in the desert to escape her current world. Jeannette's mother even takes a break from her art projects to hold down a job as a teacher to extend their stay. This stay only lasted till an altercation with the law forces the family to move yet again. Moving to Phoenix, Arizona to live in a house Jeannette's mother inherited. One Jeannette's tenth birthday she asked her father to...
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...An infamous traitor by the name Benedict Arnold was born on January 14, 1741, in one of the first families in Norwich, Connecticut. Arnold was born into a successful family, where he was educated in private schools. Three of his siblings passed away from his family due to yellow fever, while Benedict Sr. became a drunk and fell into deep financial debt. Benedict Jr. then left school due to the financial issues to then help with the sales of medicine and drugs. In 1757, he signed for a group of unprofessional soldiers and traveled upstate New York for the fight against the French. Following two years his mother passed of yellow fever, creating his father to grieve so much that he arrested many times because of his drunken self until his death in 1761....
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...Louisa Lawson When you think of inspirational women, who comes to mind? Eleanor Roosevelt? Queen Victoria? Michelle Obama? Well, remember this name. Louisa Lawson. Louisa Lawson was born in 1848 and died in 1920, was born on 17 February 1848 near Mudgee, New South Wales. She was the second of twelve children of Henry Albury, and his wife Harriet. She was baptized an Anglican. Louisa went to school at Mudgee National School where she was asked to become student-teacher. Instead, she was kept home to help to care for her younger siblings, a common thing in Victorian times. On 7 July 1866, Louisa married a Norwegian man, Niels Hertzberg Larsen who called himself Peter. He had skills in many languages and jobs. They joined the Weddin Mountain gold rush and...
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...The Glass Castle is a extremely detailed memoir of the upbringing of Jeannette Walls. Her life was an incredible journey with hardship meshed into each day she spent alive. But the hardship in Jeannette and her sibling’s lives did not discourage them, instead it drove them to become stronger people. Additionally, the events told of in The Glass Castle largely revolve on the idea of family, what it really means, and the roles of each family member. Jeanette’s family life involved harsh realities that she would understand as she matured. The life of Jeannette Walls was as adventurous and captivating as a work of realistic fiction, in the execution and the substance, but it is all true by the word of the author. The story of the Glass Castle...
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...In 1852 she established the first free school in Bordentown, New Jersey. At about thirty-nine years of age, she stopped having a career in teaching. After moving to Washington D.C. to work in a patent office, which brought her closer to where the action of the Civil War took place. In April of 1861, after a war battle, many wounded soldiers arrived in Washington D.C. Clara found them and used her own supplies to tend to them. When some generals wouldn't let her go onto the actual battlefield. Clara went to Major Rucker’s office and convinced him to let her go and help the wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Next, she rode a wagonload of supplies into Virginia, two days after the battle of Cedar Mountain. She arrived at the army hospital just as the doctors were running out of bandages. Barton traveled to the front,where she found soldiers lying on blood and filth. Many suffered from sunstroke and lack of water. She fed them food and water, bathed them, and bandaged their wounds as well as she could. One time, when she was holding a soldier's head and fed him food and water, she almost died. A stray bullet had passed through her sleeve,and right into the soldier’s chest, killing him instantly. To the wounded and sick soldiers on the battlefield...
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...Theresa Gbekia World history Reimers Williams 10 January 2014 ALIVE Although a plan of 45 people crashed in the Andes, sixteen of them made it alive. Those sixteen faced extremely harsh weathers, loneliness and hunger. On the Andes tops there was no Singh of a living thing, so how did the sixteen men stay alive? The men used the torn up plan as shelter. They accompany each other to wear of loneliness. And yes for food they eat those who did not stay alive! I believe that the overall question of this book is; what will one do to stay Alive when driven from civilization? The sixteen men did an outrageous thing eating their friends. They came to many explanations to make the act righteous. That action of man tells a great fear for live! The men feared for their life and did what they had to do to stay alive. A technological cause that helped answered the question was science .To science; the eating of human flesh simply provides protein just like any other animal meat. The human body does not hold any kind of poison, therefor is edible. A political cause in this book was that the leader/the men that took charge reasoned that God had the bodies there for them to stay alive. The leaders, who were the strongest and healthiest felt responsible to care for the weaker friends and made sure that they were fed. At the end of recuse, none of the sixteen survivors were held in poison for the cannibal act they committed. In fact, some of the victim’s families had no angry words. They...
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...It seems as that Rex and Rose Mary will never grow up; they will stay unreliable and immature forever. Jeannette needs to find her own food throughout her childhood because her parents do not supply enough for her or her siblings’ growing bodies and minds. At school, Jeannette is bullied by people because they think she is too skinny. At lunch she hides in a bathroom stalls and waits for people to be done their lunch. “When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the garbage pails, [Jeannette] would go retrieve them” (173). Even though the leftover food is not good enough for the people who threw it out, Jeannette always eats it. She has to constantly find ways to scrounge food to survive. “None of us kids got allowances. When we wanted money, we walked along the roadside picking up beer cans and bottles that we redeemed for two cents each” (62). When a child needs something, a parent tries their very best to obtain it for them. Rex and Rose Mary...
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...old sister, Mary Kate. She is my inspiration. Some would find it odd that my younger sister is my inspiration when I should be hers, but I feel as though I am not half as strong as she. She has taught me much more than any lesson in school or book could. I have learned so much about persistence, appreciation, patience, and determination from such a small girl. Mary Kate has autism and this is a real challenge for her. Even though she faces daily challenges she never gives up trying to learn simple things that you and I take for granted. Each time I look at her adorable smiling face I know that, no matter how difficult things can be for me, I need to remember Mary Kate’s struggles and push to achieve my goals and concur whatever mountains come my way. Discovering Mary Kate was autistic had a profound effect on the entire family. We all had to adjust to her because of her condition. It requires a large portion of family time, attention, money and psychological support. At first I got aggravated when my mom would not pay enough attention to me. I was just four years old and always wanted all moms’ attention. Whenever my mom would be handling Mary Kate I would get jealous and try to do something cute to catch her attention. I constantly asked my mom questions like “Why can’t she just be normal?” and “Tell her to stop crying!” We are not a typical family, we are unique in the way in which we view and act upon things. I feel that I have matured faster than most of...
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