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    During the 19th century‚ miners were exploited and exposed to inhumane working hours in their early teenage years. Florence Kelley delivered a speech focusing on the concerns of how child labor is portrayed as a type of abuse. Throughout her speech she used descriptive complex sentences‚ rhetorical devices and a passionate tone. “For Alabama limits the children’s work at night to eight hours‚ while New Jersey permits it all night long.” With this statement she compared how the states are permitting

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    In the Florence Cathedral‚ Florence‚ Italy‚ there is a cathedral church whose octagonal dome‚ built without the aid of scaffolding‚ was considered the greatest engineering feat of the early Renaissance. Dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore‚ Our Lady of the Flower‚ it is also known as the Duomo‚ after the Italian word for cathedral. Created by many great Early Modern artists‚ this piece of architecture is a perfect example the Renaissance style. We can come to a better understanding of why this is so

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    America. With the rise of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement‚ reformers such as Florence Kelley took the stage to improve the conditions for women and children in the workforce through labor reforms. Kelley‚ who was a worker and reformer‚ addressed this issue in her speech at the convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association in Philadelphia in the summer of 1905. She successfully used her persuasive and argumentative

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    Polar Area Diagrams of Florence Nightingale If you read the article on Florence Nightingale in “The Children’s Book of Famous Lives”1 you will not learn that she had to battle with her parents to be allowed to study Mathematics. If you read the Ladybird book “Florence Nightingale”2 you will not discover that she was the first woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. In looking around for an area of research I was intrigued to discover that Florence Nightingale‚ who I always

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    Church was a prominent figure for the community and leaders of Renaissance Florence in numerous ways. The Church was able to unify the community in times of prosperity as well as in times of need. The Church also respected by the people of Florence and therefore had their support. Using examples from The Chronicle of Giovanni Villani‚ I will prove how the Church was present in the life of the people of Renaissance Florence. The Church played a valuable component in bringing the community together

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    The family was very important in renaissance Florence as it constituted the primary unit of association. Within renaissance Italy there can be seen to be three distinct ideas as to what constituted a family‚ the nuclear or immediate family‚ the extended family including aunts‚ cousins‚ grandparent and the bloodline or linage which included all ancestors who shared the family name. The Florentine concept of the family or famigilia was‚ as theorized by Goldthwaite‚ the nuclear unit‚ not the extended

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    conditions‚ conditions often deemed difficult even for adults‚ and are forced to work ridiculous hours. Florence Kelley gave a speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22‚ 1905. In her speech‚ Kelley uses repetition‚ pathos‚ imagery‚ logos‚ and carefully placed diction to express how child labor is morally wrong and inhumane. In her opening paragraphs‚ Kelley uses an antistrophe to emphasize the increase of young girls in the work force. She said‚ “Men increase

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    Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic‚ almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child‚ Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman‚ admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage‚ but Florence had other concerns.

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    Florence Kelley’s Persuasion of Child Labor Laws A once hot topic became a now law-enforced face. Child labor has been a controversial issue and Florence Kelley was one of the many protestors that brought success to the child labor laws. She was an avid fighter and was not only against child labor laws but also woman’s suffrage. On July 22‚ 1905‚ Kelley gave and impeccable speech at the Convention of National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia about child labor laws. To successively

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    Florence Nightingale: The Founder of Modern Nursing Abstract Florence Nightingale believed that the nursing profession was “God’s calling” for her. Regardless‚ of the reputation that nurses had. Hospitals were dirty‚ smelly‚ overcrowded places that were full of diseases. Her focus was on the patients ’ health. She realized that once the patients were clean and genuinely cared for‚ their health improved. She made sure that the hospitals were clean. In which helped diseases from spreading

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