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    American Red Cross: Mission, Vision, and Values The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization that helps those going through a crisis. This organization also provides services and relief during emergencies to alleviate suffering. This non-profit is well known throughout the world and has existed for a very long time, over 130 years (Red Cross). Services offered through the American Red Cross include but are not limited to disaster relief, blood drives, CPR classes, and services

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    As discussed in my first essay, the virtue of hope is “crucial for attaining any other virtue” as well as “the inseparable part of human nature.” However, sometimes a burden of harsh and unpredictable circumstances causes the unfortunate to doubt hope. In that case, according to Mary Wollstonecraft, others should disregard their “ignorance and mistaken self-interest” to help the unfortunate regain the essential virtue of hope (Wollstonecraft, 211). Furthermore, as Niccolo Machiavelli emphasizes,

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    Clara Barton Civil War

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    Writing Assignment #4 Question #1 I chose Clara Barton because of the work that she did. I knew that women were involved in the Civil War but did not know to what extent. When the war broke out she volunteered at the Washington Infirmary. The text book stated that she was one of the first to volunteer. She won permission to nurse the wounded on the battle fields (“Clara Barton”, 2). She brought supplies on three wagons to the Battle of Antietam (2). She travelled with her wagons throughout the war

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    than 12 hours, I was at the airport awaiting my flight. They took care of everything that I needed in order to make it home without a single bit of chaos. The American Red Cross Organization was founded in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881 by Clara Barton. The traditional purpose of the organization included giving relief to and serving as a medium of communication between members of the American armed forces and their families and providing nation and international disaster relief and mitigation

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    is not a bad thing because if she was not diagnosed with cancer the ALSF would have not existed. She impacted the community to save children who are diagnosed with cancer makes her a huge inspiration to others in the community and businesses. Clara Barton was a pioneer nurse who founded the Red Cross in Washington D.C., on May 21, 1881 with a few pf her acquaintances. She campaigned for an American Red Cross and for ratification of the Geneva Convention protecting the war-injured, which the United

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    Helping Those In Need Lost in a Tornado On May 3rd,1999, the weather forecasts in a city located in Oklahoma showed an F5 tornado. Meteorologists had said that the tornado had the strongest winds to ever be recorded. One family that was affected by this had their house ripped to pieces, and they had to take shelter in their neighbor’s basement. Debris rained on top of them from every direction. They struggled to get out of a pit that was covered in pieces of their destroyed home, wood, nails

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    natural disasters it is not long until the American Red Cross gets involved. The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization that aids people after major disasters and collects blood donations regularly. The founder of American Red Cross was Clara Barton who was extremely persistent when providing the government her requests for the American Red Cross (Price, 1991). Her vision came from the international Red Cross which helped people in other countries around the globe (Ferrell, Fraedrick, & Ferrell

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    With that bullet hitting her, she didn't stop, she was still determined to help this wounded man. When the Civil War was over Clara continued to help others. She had realized that when emergencies occur, there should be people to help the injured. After that was addressed in 1881, Congress and President Chester A. Arthur, Clara Burton and fourteen volunteers founded the American Red Cross. As of today the Red cross organization has over one-thousand volunteers giving their time

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    compared to now. When you got injured back then it was almost common for you to get a disease and die. But if you didn’t kick the bucket you’d be one of the lucky ones. Also keep in mind that this was before they cleaned it up a bit. This was before Clara Barton came and suggested to clean up the horrific mess. But we will talk more about her later in this essay. So imagine this, people fighting each other but they’re from the same country. This is what the Civil War was, but it was a really long, rule

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    What the Red Cross Does for Others Alexis Moloney was just another person in this world. But one day, something horrible happened. She was just enjoying another day of life, doing what she does every other day, but then it happened. She came home and was devastated. An fire had broken out in her house and most everything was burned. She didn’t have many people to turn to, and those she could have, didn’t have enough money to support her. So she went from place to place and finally she found a place

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