Clara first became interested in caring for others after listening to her Great-Aunt’s stories of her experiences as a midwife. Then when she was eleven years old, her brother David fell ill, and became her first patient. She loved what she was doing and wanted to make it her life‘s work. At age 16, Clara Barton became one of the first woman teachers and taught near her birthplace for 10 years.
Jane Addams was born from John Huy Addams and Sarah (Weber) Addams on September 6 in the year of 1860 in a town called Cedarville which is located in Illinois. She was the youngest of eight siblings. When Jane was at the young age of two, her mother had died during childbirth. Her father remarried to a woman named Mrs. William Haldeman, she was influential to Jane in a positive aspect, meaning that Jane was fond of her stepmother and took things, such as her reading Shakespeare and used that in the Hull House. In the summer of 1881 her father died without any warning.
In 1870, Harriet married Nelson Davis, who she had met at a South Carolina army base. They were happily married for 18 years until Davis' death. In 1896, Harriet bought property to build a home for sick and needy blacks. However, she was unable to raise enough money to build the house and had to give the land to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The church completed the home in 1908, and Harriet moved there several years later.
He was French catholic in background, as was Kate. He adored his wife, admired her independence and intelligence, and "allowed" her unheard of freedom. After their marriage they lived in New Orleans where she had five boys and two girls, all before she was twenty-eight. Oscar was not an able business man, and they were forced to move to his old home in a small Louisiana parish. Oscar died of swamp fever there in 1882 and Kate took over the running of his general store and plantation for over a year.
Galloway decided she needed to start fresh and turn a new page. She consulted her mother, and together, they came up with Galloway’s plan to go back to school to become a chiropractor. With a 28 month old baby girl it was tough but three years of hard work paid off and she graduated Valedictorian of her class. A few weeks later she started looking for a job and happened to walk in to her future husband’s office. They hit it off perfectly and later decided to get married.
Clara Barton, a True American Hero Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on Christmas day 1821. Clarissa, also known as Clara, had four siblings; Dorothy, Stephen, David, and Sally. When Clara was young, David acquired devastating injuries from falling off of a barn roof. She “gave up school and nursed him back to health.” Even at a young age, Clara showed how noble and kind-hearted she was by giving up her education to help bring her brother back to a healthy condition. It took two years for Clara to help her brother, David recover.
Gerontological Assessment and Plan of Care Sharnae Hill Georgia Southwestern State University Gerontological Nursing Joy Humphrey June 28, 2013 Gerontological Assessment and Plan of Care Introduction R.C. is a 71- year old African American female who was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and moved to Sumter County when she was 15-years old. I know R.C. through my grandmother whom was a very close friend of hers. She was very willing to take part in this assessment mostly because she always thought of me as one of her grandchildren and knowing that it was something that would contribute to my future as a nurse.
She was born on July 28th, 1929. She lived an amazing life as a child but after the marriage to JFK things went down hill. On August 23rd, 1956 she gave birth to a stillborn child. Not to long after that her father died making difficult times for the family. In 1957 she became pregnant again, but this time it was a success, Caroline Kennedy was born in November.
During her early childhood, Maya lived with her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas; a community at the time divided by racism, segregation and discrimination. Experiencing this first hand, Maya was comforted by her grandmother, who taught her to rely on God and the close knit family structure for sustenance. At church Maya, like the rest of the children were encouraged to read, memorize and recite in public selected pieces, an activity that stirred her desire for reading. Maya learned about the history of her people, and experienced the ‘power of the word’ (Gillespie, Butler & Long, 2008). Surrounded by caring, supportive adults, these experiences contributed to Maya’s cognitive development as she pleasurable explored literary works at a young
She and her mother were forced to escape to California leaving Abuelita behind by helping of their servants: Alfonso, Hortensia and Miguel, her friend. Second, she and her mother have to work as farm labors during Great Depression. She has to learn to live with all the difficult things of a poor working person. For example, she has to learn to do chores, take care of babies that she’s never done and doesn’t know how to do in her previous life. As life in California became more difficult by the strikers for better working conditions and Ramona get sick with Valley Fever, Esperanza becomes responsible for her mother’s bills by taking on a job of her own and saving money to bring her loved Abuelita.