After Roosevelt read the graphic novel, he pushed for passage of the Meat Inspection Act. The Act was passed and set strict cleanliness requirements and created the program of federal meat inspection, but it required the government to pay for the inspections and companies were not required to label their canned goods. Sinclair was considerably successful as the results of his efforts to bring about change are still evident today. Susan B. Anthony is one of the most well known woman suffragists in American history. In the late 1890s, women were not allowed to vote while African American men were (as per the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.)
They set off to France where they start up a canteen for the wounded soldiers. Midge also becomes an ambulance driver as well as a nurse and is exposed to the horrors and devastating effects. The three girls realize that the war really is not the big adventure they thought it would be. Midge Macpherson experiences loss throughout the novel in a number of forms, personal loss, loss of home and loss of life. Midge makes her way through war, forcing a smile whilst serving at the canteen and working as an ambulance driver.
Dorothea Dix, when she became superintendent of Union nurses, set a minimum age of thirty for her volunteers and demanded that they be "plain looking women" As the war went on and theneed for medical assistance became more desperate, Dix ignored her own regulations. Clara Barton organised supplies to be sent to the men at the
On her trips she complemented her knowledge of traditional medicine with European medical ideas. 3-She was refused 4-To purchase stores and provisions for the Crimean troops. She established the British Hotel close to the front line outside Balaclava to provided food and provisions for the troops.She also visited the battlefield, sometimes under fire ministered to the wounded and dying. 5-Mary seacole also curred wounded soldiers right in the battle field but Florence Nightingale no. 6-Both of them (Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Herbert) didnt accept her aid so both interviews ended by refusing her.
She began to develop an interest in nursing, but her parents considered it to be a profession inappropriate to a woman of her class and background, and would not allow her to train as a nurse. Nightingale's parents eventually relented and in 1851, she went to Kaiserswerth in Germany for three months nursing training.The Crimean War began and soon reports in the newspapers were describing the desperate lack of proper medical facilities for wounded British soldiers at the front. Sidney Herbert, the war minister, already knew Nightingale, and asked her to oversee a team of nurses in the military hospitals in Turkey. In 1854 she led an expedition of 38 women to take over the management of the barrack hospital at Scutari where she observed the disastrous sanitary conditions. in 1856 she returned to England, then in 1860, she established the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
Here, again, she recognized a pressing human need and did something practical to address it. In the month before his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln wrote: "To the Friends of Missing Persons: Miss Clara Barton has kindly offered to search for the missing prisoners of war. Please address her . . .
Aura L. Guir College Prep. June 16, 2010 The biography of Rosa Louise Parks Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama, she was the oldest of the two children her parents had. Rosa was brought up by her parents James and Leonna McCauely, her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. At the age of two Rosa, her younger brother Sylvester and her mother moved to her grandparent’s farm in Pine Level, Alabama. At the age of 11 she was enrolled at the Montgomery Industrial School for girls once graduated, she went on to Alabama State Teacher's College High School.
Chanel was born to an unwed mother, Jeanne Devolle, a laundrywoman, in a facility for the indigent in Saumur, France. This was Devolle's second daughter. The father, Albert Chanel was an itinerant street peddler who with horse and cart lived a nomadic life, traveling to and from market towns, the family residing in rundown lodgings. He married Jeanne Devolle several years after Chanel was born. At birth Chanel’s name was entered into the official registry as “Chasnel.” It is speculated that this spelling was a clerical error or an ancient spelling of the family name.
Being the oldest of five, she felt responsible for her siblings and took care of them often during her younger years. They lived on a farm in Neilsville, Wisconsin until Satir was old enough to attend school (Suarez, 1999). Satir's taught herself to read when she was only three years old but she was still formally taught in a small one-room school with seventeen other students while living on the farm. Her mother expressed a strong desire for the family to move to the city so that Satir could attend a larger high school, South Division High School in Milwaukee, where she could take advantage of a better education. When she graduated from South Division High School 1932 she was not quite sixteen years old (Suarez, 1999).
She became the first American concert pianist to succeed with local training. Following her marriage in 1885 to Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach—a Boston surgeon 24 years older than she—she agreed to limit performances to one public recital a year, with proceeds donated to charity. Following her husband’s wishes, she devoted herself to composition. Two obstacles for her career as a pianist: Her parents and marriage. Her marriage put an end to her career as a local recitalist, but had the effect of focusing her energies on composition.