Attention Getter: According to The Red Cross Foundation, the American Red Cross responds to more than 70,000 disasters in America each year.
Significance: This is significant, because the Red Cross responds to house and apartment fires, spills and transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters, which all help to serve people in need of physical and emotional help after a traumatic experience.
Credibility: I choose to speak about the Red Cross, because they offer relief to people at times when they own almost nothing. I have never personally experienced any of their relief services, but according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 357 natural triggered disasters were registered in 2012. This shows that there is a great need for
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They are also trying to be proactive in preventing house and apartment fires by installing 195,000 smoke alarms and prepared 268,000 youth. Even still they helped 214,000 people after home fires.
Transition: Without Clara Barton, the disaster relief programs of the Red Cross would not exist.
Conclusion
Transition: If they did not exist, many people would be in need.
Reference to the Introduction: Hopefully, America will have less than 70,000 disasters this coming year, but I hope that everyone in this room is reassured that if something does happen, that there is an organized that is going to react quickly to help those suffering.
Review of Main Points: I hope that Clara Barton has inspired you to look around you and see the needs of others, but to also act to help meet these needs. Think about supporting the Red Cross finically or by volunteering so that they can continue supporting America’s Military Families, donating blood, offering health and safety services, working internationally with other country’s Red Cross, and offering disaster relief. Strong Final Statement: Clara Barton founded the Red Cross, what can you accomplish if you put your mind to
Born on December 25, 1921, Clara grew up in a family of four children, all at least 11 years older than her (Pryor, 3). Clara’s childhood was more of one that had several babysitters than siblings, each taking part of her education. Clara excelled at the academic part of life, but was very timid among strangers. School was not a particularly happy point in her life, being unable to fit in with her rambunctious classmates after having such a quiet childhood. The idea of being a burden to the family was in Clara’s head and felt that the way to win the affection of her family was to do extremely well in her classes to find the love that she felt was needed to be earned. She was extremely proud of the positive attention that her achievement of an academic scholarship (Pryor, 12). This praise for her accomplishment in the field of academics enriched her “taste for masculine accomplishments”. Her mother however, began to take notice of this and began to teach her to “be more feminine” by cooking dinners and building fires (Pryor, 15). The 1830’s was a time when the women of the United States really began to take a stand for the rights that they deserved (Duiker, 552). Growing up in the mist of this most likely helped Barton become the woman she turned out to be.
Lillian Wald: A Biography is the gripping and inspiring story of an American who left her mark on the history of the United States. Wald dedicated herself to bettering the lives of those around her. She was the founder of The Henry Street Settlement along with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. She worked with politics around the world and tried to bring healthcare and reform to people around the world. Using the lessons she learned in her childhood she worked closely with people from all backgrounds to fight for “universal brotherhood”. Wald was a progressive reformer, a social worker, a nurse, a teacher, and an author. Notably Lillian Wald, unlike many of the other women involved in the progressive movement such as Jane Adams, never received the same acknowledgement in the academic world.
Each year the RMHC of Chicagoland awards $4,000 per year, that is renewable scholarships to extraordinary area high school seniors who are committed to community service and academic excellence.
When the Civil War broke out, Barton chose to resign from her position in the US Patent Office. She started working on the battlefield as a volunteer. At first her basic job was to distribute bandages and war supplies to the wounded soldiers. Barton took her job to another extreme.
Stevenson, Augusta, and Frank Giacoia. Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross. New York: Aladdin, 1986. Print.
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross.
...early years of the organization. Not only does the American Red Cross help large communities after disasters, but individual families are helped as well. One of the many beautiful stories is when the Red Cross helped a Holocaust survivor named Saul Dreier find his family. Saul had been held at Schindler’s Camp during the Holocaust. After being freed, he thought that he was the only member of his family still alive. With the Red Cross’s help, he was able to find his family, a great gift for one who went through such a terrible tragedy. All of these stories, though, and all of the disaster relief given would not have been possible had Miss Clara Barton not went through grueling work to create the American Red Cross. Every life saved and every community rebuilt goes back to Clara Barton and shows just how important her life is to American history, and America today.
was made to help people in different difficult situations. Barton’s group also began helping people from disasters. She was the president from the association until 1904.
This article provided a brief biography of Clara Barton, to include, her experiences on the battlefield as a nurse during the Civil War and a brief outline of her accomplishments after the war.
Federal intervention in the aftermath of natural disasters began after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. This 8.3 magnitude earthquake killed 478, and left over 250,000 homeless. While the disaster itself was obviously unavoidable, the subsequent fires that burned throughout the city were a result of poor planning. (1, 17) In an effort to consolidate existing programs, and to improve the nation’s level of preparedness, President Carter created FEMA in 1979. Initially, FEMA was praised for improving communication between various levels of government, and multiple agencies during a crisis. (1,19)
Clara Barton made a very great impact on the war. Clara Barton, who originally was a recording clerk, jumped into action when federal troops came into her city. The troops were injured, hungry, and hardly clothed. Barton cared for the Union soldiers by bringing them food, clothes, and supplies for the sick. Besides helping supply the soldier’s needs, Barton also provided emotional support for the men. She was able to help the men keep up their spirits and hope. Ways she comforted them was reading, praying for them, listening to their problems, and writing letters for their loved ones. Barton was able to develop a volunteer group and gather supplies for the future when soldiers were in need. Barton not only wanted to help the soldiers in her town, but the soldiers on the battlefield. She approached the leaders in the government and asked for permission to supply the army with medical service and support. Permission to help Union soldiers on the battlefield was granted to her. Later after the battle of Cedar Mountain, Barton arrived. She arrived at the battlefield with a wagon full of supplies for the soldiers. The surgeons helping the soldiers were surprised and declared “she was an angel sent to them”.
..., an organization that provides emergency assistance and disaster relief inside the United States, and becomes its first president. At the age of 77, she worked at hospitals in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Finally, April 12, 1912 she died at the age of 90 in Glen Echo, Maryland. Clara Barton was a humanitarian, feminist, and nurse whose efforts in the Civil War and throughout her life saved countless lives. (Yancey, Diane)
Clara Lemlich is a Russian immigrant girl who fights for equal rights, her own education, and for her parents to believe in her. Clara changes extremely from the beginning to the end of the story. She is timid in the beginning when she is living back in Russia, then becomes shocked when she moves to New York City, then is triumphant as she becomes more independent when she stands up for herself. If Clara didn’t fight for women’s rights, would our country be the same as it is
So the Red Cross helps with natural disasters but is that all? No, it is not, the Red Cross will help anything that involves human suffering such as food shortages. One example are the southern countries in Africa such as Angola, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Malawi
Main Point: and what our community could look like if we all did our part.