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[] || This slide will introduce her,and describe what she commited her life to doing. || Dorothea Dix. She changed the lives of many, and yet, not many know about her. She was kind and caring, and commited her life to helping people. A hero can be anyone, if you think about it. It depends on your personality. I like people who care a great deal about helping people for the better, that's why she is my hero. || [] || brief out look on childhood || Dorothea Dix was born in 1802. She did not have an easy childhood, her father was an alchoholic and her mother was mentally ill. They were poor and her parents got into fights quite a bit. She would run away from home with her two brothers and hide out at her grandmother's house when they faught. This is how she started her life long career, by taking care of her grandmother and younger brothers. || || 3 talk about her first great act || As a fourteen year old girl, she knew that girls did not have the right to go to school, and she knew that she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up (at the time, that is what she thought). With some help from a friend she started a small school for girls in an old store. She continued teaching until she was seventeen. || || 4 Second greatest act || In 1841, Dorothea taught Sunday school for women prisoners East Cambridge, Massuchusetts. While walking through the halls to a class, she saw something in one of the cells that changed her life. Shivering, naked, dirty mentally ill men and women sat chained to the wall of an empty, unfurnished cell. She was told that the people of the jail felt there was no reason to keep the cells warm, they didn't think that the mentally ill could feel warm or cold. || || 5 what she did to improve the east cambridge jail || Dorothea knew it was not right to keep the mentally ill in such bad conditions, just because they thought there was no cure. She started to travel around Massuchusetts and examine jails and homes where the mentally ill were kept. She took careful notes, and handed them in to the Massuchusetts legislative. They agreed with her and set some money aside to help improve the states mentally ill homes. || || 6 talk about her travels || She continued to travel, and covered all of the states on the east side of the Mississippi River. She was able to convince all of them to build mental hospitals, schools for the mentaly ill, a school for the blind and libraries in prisons. || || 7 her other travels to different countries || Dorothea wanted to rest and take a vacation, so she planned a trip to Europe. She did not get much rest though, when she discovered that Europe's jails and mental homes were just as bad as back home. She traveled through England, Scotland, France, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium,and Germany. She convinced all of them to improve their jails and mental homes for the mentally ill. She did this in just a few years, that is an amazing thing to accomplish! || || 8 failed nurse || Dorothea became the Head of Nurses during the Civil War, to help people heal and to convince men that women were good at something! She did not turn out to be a very good nurse though. Many of the other nurses did not like her. She had a strict way of doing thing. She had dress codes and specific things she wanted the nurses to do without messing them up. She did not know much about sicknesses, how to clean a wound, and medicines either. She turned out to be a failed nurse, but she never quite trying. || || 9 the rest of her life || She continued to work with the mentally ill, but soon fell ill and stayed in one of the hospitals she helped create. after a period of six years in the hospital. She died on July 17th in 1887. || || 10 what she left behind || Dorothea left behind the knowledge that the mentally ill could be cured, and that they deserved what every day normal people had. Today, the mentally ill are treated well, with many mental hospitals, homes, and improved jails. Mentally ill kids are even allowed in public schools. She changed the lives of hundreds of people she is a hero.
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