I got to know my saint, Clarissa Harlow Barton through a variety of mediums. These included books from the Regis College library as well as online articles, poems, biography videos and documentaries. Along with these various sources I found through my research images of Clara. These images ranged from self portraits at different ages in her life to her working in the field as well as teaching students in a classroom. Clarissa Harlow Barton was born on December 25th of 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts which was located 50 miles West of Boston. Her parents were Stephen and Sarah Barton and her four siblings were Dorothea,Stephen, David, and Sally. Her and her siblings grew up in a middle-class household and earned enough money that her …show more content…
She was described as short, plump, and homely, she had yet to gain the character that would render her face so interesting according to her parents and siblings. Clara’s mother also neglected the child’s thick lustrous dark brown hair which was noted to be her one good feature. Her hair was close cropped which only served to emphasize her broad forehead and sallow complexion. Along with this, Clara had a speech impediment which caused her to lisp and this lead to increasing her bashfulness. Due to all of these difficult things Clara had to deal with on a daily basis, her timidness grew to be excessive. Clara’s mother regarded her daughter as shy and troublesome as well as “difficult to manage” this attitude only reinforced Clara’s own sense of being a burden. As she began to grow older, Clara gained a particular interest in helping others that could not help themselves and directly alleviating sickness or trouble. Her brother David grew extremely ill and sought to his sister for help. She spent large amounts of time trying to nurse her brother back to health. Clara refused to leave his side for nearly two years and acquiescing to his demands that she alone administer his medicine. Despite all of her relief Clara sensed a
Clarissa, Clara, Harlowe Barton, was born in Massachusetts in 1821, on Christmas day, and was the youngest of six children, two of which did not make it to the age of twelve. Her father, Stephen Barton raised her as a boy, her brothers having no particular interests in their “soldier father”. He taught her to shoot and man a gun, to ride a horse, to track, and how to be an all about ethical and religious person, making sure to have her study the Christian Bible from time to time..
“The surest test of discipline is it’s absence.” Clara Barton said this meaning that you only know your discipline when you aren’t using it. You only know your manners when you see how different it is when you don’t use them or see someone not using them, that is what Clara meant when she said this. Clara came in contact with many people when she was a nurse so she must have met people who weren’t as disciplined as her, she saw her discipline when she saw how little others were. Clara Barton impacted society by organizing supply depots for soldiers, serving as a nurse in World War 1 and organizing the American Red Cross Clara Barton was born as Clarissa Harlowe on December 25, 1821 in Oxford Massachusetts.
During the early years of her life, Clara showed signs of wanting to help people
On December 25, 1821 in Oxford Massachusetts Clara Barton was born into a middle class family with four older siblings. After being homeschooled she decided
Clara was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, on Christmas day. She was raised in North Oxford. She had a mother, father, and four other siblings. She was the youngest child. Her mother's name was Sarah Barton and her fathers was Stephen Barton. Her siblings consisted of two brothers and
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born in Massachusetts on December 25, 1821. Barton was the youngest of 5 siblings born to Sarah Stone and Stephen Barton. Barton was raised on a small
Clara Barton once said " I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them", Barton is trying to say that you should never be afraid to take risks and even the smallest things can be the most important. Clara Barton was a strong woman not only that but a hero. After researching Clara Barton it is evident that she is a hero because she faced adversities, impacted others, and demonstrated heroic traits.
On April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine, Dorothea Lynde Dix was born to Joseph and Mary Dix. Due to her mother's poor health, Dix assumed the household duties of tending to the house and caring for her two younger brothers from a very young age. Meanwhile, her father traveled as a preacher who sold religious books that Dix and her family
There are many heroes during time of war, whether they are soldiers or simply volunteers helping their country. Clarissa “Clara” Barton, a shy timid girl as a child, turned out to be one of the most important health care workers during the Civil War. Between raising money for supplies, caring for the wounded, finding missing soldiers, and ultimately creating the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was among one of those heroes on the battlefield, earning the name, Angel of the Battlefield.
To begin with, Clara Barton was not only the founder of the American Red Cross, a relief to those hurt in war or natural disasters, but someone who was admired as a hero to many people in the past and
attitude toward Clara is shown in the passage when the doctor knocks at the door
After the events of Kristallnacht, Jews were sent to concentration camps and ghettos and conditions for them worsened which was the turning point of the genocide of the Jews. About 3 years after the Nuremberg Laws were introduced, Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of the Broken Glass”, happened in November 9 and 10, 1938. The name “Night of Broken Glass” comes from all the shattered glass from all the smashed windows of Jewish buildings during Kristallnacht. On November 7, 1938, a 17 year old Polish Jew shot a German official, Ernst Vom Rath, who died 2 days later because of his injuries he received of being shot.
Poe uses suspense through the finding black cat 2 night when the narrator was at home half drunk, the narrator was overwhelmed and began to think about Pluto, and how the black cat 2 resembled him. However, he found out that black cat 2 had some features that Pluto didn’t. Poe writes, “It was a black cat 2 – a very large one—fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him every respect but one’ (3). The reader feels as if that it was a supernatural event because they think it was the ghost of Pluto. Eventually Poe began to dislike the cat, and kept trying to find ways to avoid it because it started to become more like Pluto.
Appearance is the first thing people notice about one another, but in the narrators case he’s obsessed with the way Clara looks: actually his first sentence of the story is, “She had big breasts, slim legs, and blue eyes” (Bolano 1). He might as well have picked apart a chicken, taken the most desirable pieces, sewed them together, and named it
With a track athlete they may be performing in various events throughout the day that require them to cover various distances or the procession of various skill sets. Events such as sprints may be 400 meters and require incredible speeds that may only be maintained for short periods of time. They may be involved with relays where they require coordination and pace matching for the baton to be passed. Or they could be a hurdler and require wait-high leaps on a repeated basis. No matter the task at hand it will require the combined use of speed, agility and strength in order for them to be competitive.