The Awakening of the Negro Response

Booker T. Washington was born on April 5th, 1856 to a slave named Jane. He didn’t know much about his white father, but knew that he was classified as one of the mixed- black children. Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery was focused on the commercial, agricultural, educational and industrial advancement of the African American society. In one of his entries “The Awakening of the Negro”, Washington focuses on helping the negroes from slavery to make something of themselves in their lives and not waste their time doing labor the hard way.


As a child Washington was inspired to success by this young girl who was poor. She wanted to play the piano and convinced her parents to rent a piano for some money each month. As a teenage black man, he was inspired to go to Hampton Institute to study and realize the real meaning of labor. I slept under a sidewalk, and by working on a vessel next day I earned money to continue my way to the institute, where I arrived with a surplus of fifty cents (Washington, 1896). By this quote, it explains to us that money back then did not stop people from achieving their dream. As a society today, we have to realize the sacrifices that the past has suffered just to give us what we have today. Washington was an intelligent individual who realized that Christian influence was apart of his spirit self-help. With aid from the State and generosity from the North, has enabled to develop an institution of eight hundred students gathered from nineteen states (Washington, 1896). After realizing what it took to be a man, Washington built Tuskegee Institute which became a great success in training young black men and women to become something of themselves from slavery. Students do the brick-masonry, plastering, painting, carpentry work, tinning, slating, and make most of the furniture (Washington, 1896). The purpose of the students to build the chapel is to give them a real idea of how you can build something successful and use it. They wanted to expose them to the real world and see if they could handle what they think they might possibly do for the rest of their life


Washington talks about this one negro who went to Tuskegee and graduated. In these meetings he taught the people in a plain, simple manner how to save their money, how to farm in a better way, how to sacrifice,--to live on bread and potatoes, if need be, till they could get out of debt, and begin the buying of lands (Washington, 1896). By a young black male graduate coming back to his home teaching the adults on how to save their money from only a three month program is remarkable; talk about inspiration!!!!!!!!! I think what Washington was trying to do was with his students is make them feel like they are wanted and needed for the education that they have chose to know. This leader, this guide and object-lesson, to show them how to take the money and effort that had hitherto been scattered to the wind in mortgages and high rents (Washington, 1896). Since this particular boy went to school, he was able to save his family and the others around him form making those bad decisions. This quote talks about how one person can steer others in the right direction. I believe that because this by was able to host meetings about their financial situations, Washington must have been proud to know that his work is paying off on somebody’s life.


The negro, it is to be borne in mind, worked under constant protest, because he felt that his labor was being unjustly required, and he spent almost as much effort in planning how to escape work as in learning how to work (Washington, 1896). Another system of Tuskegee was to get the negroes to understand the easier concepts of their work. They wanted them to actually learn the proper way of labor and not think about how they are going to escape it and quit. As the slave became free, he thought that the real world’s labor was going to be the same as the slave labor, so he always put the work to the side. There was no need to repair the wooden chimney that was exposed to the fire, because the water could be thrown on it when it was on fire (Washington, 1896). This is a perfect example of the slave’s mindset; they became lazy at doing the job when they knew they had a choice if they wanted to do the task that day or later.



Booker T. Washington wrote his autobiography to inspire the African American society. “The Awakening of the Negro” talked about educational and industrial training that put a mark on the economics of that time and how to make it better. The flaws about this entry was I felt at times the same thing was repeated over again, but in a different way or example. Washington kept talking about what Tuskegee had to offer for two pages front to back and it got kind of boring. I liked this entry because it taught me that a black man went to school and taught others to look out for themselves and told them how to labor their time wisely.

APA Bibliography on Pediatric Nursing

Feeg, Veronica D.(2008,July&August). Mentoring for leadership tomorrow: Planning for
succession today. Pediatric Nursing, 34, 277-278.
Feeg writes about pediatric nurses enrolling in a mentoring program of
shadowing the nurse who are entering “the golden years”. She feels that
PN Leadership Fellows, mentoring program, for future pediatric nursing should be guided by the ones who have the most experience to answer
questions and concerns. The argument of this article is that this program
will provide support, direction, and personal career counseling
assistance. Most likely every future nurse will go through something
similar to this whether it is shadowing or mentoring, I will be ready to
listen to the advice of the nurses who have gone through what I have yet
to expect and be aware of the pros and cons of pediatric nursing.
Griffin, Ruth A; Polit, Denise F; Byrne, Mary W.(2008,July&August). Nursing
characteristics and inferences about children’s pain. Pediatric Nursing, 34,
297-305.
The purpose of this article is to describe pediatric nurses’ responses toward children’s pain. Nurses were mailed surveys about three hospitalized students who have experienced pain and their task is to check the level of pain in the patients to know how much analgesia is to be given to them. The flaw about this idea for the article was that if a nurse makes a mistake on how much medicine should be given to the patient, they get documented for it and the patient has to suffer whether the medicine works or not. I guess it was to test the nurses’ knowledge about medicine, but the doctor should have been the one tested, not the nurse. This shows that anyone can be penalized in he medical fields based on the schooling that you have approached. Learning something new can make someone else either better or worse is what I have realized.
Gorman, Mary; Borovies, Dianne L.(1985,May-June). Comparative nursing hours
in tertiary pediatric facilities. Nursing Economics,3,146-151.
In this article, it talks about pediatric facilities having nurses work long
hours because of the intensive care their patients need. The National
Association of Children’s Hospitals operates the cost of pay for hours
the nurses put in. The argument in this article is to recognize the
dedicated nurses who put in time to do their jobs faithfully. As someone
who has to stay very long hours at work to take care of disabled children,
they have a lot of patience. I guess when money comes into play, anybody
do extra for a little more cash. I am not sure if I could be that kind of nurse
to work in the hospital; I would prefer a physicians’ office, there it is
quieter and a little less stressful.
Halfer, Diana; Graf, Elaine; Sullivan, Christine.(2008,July&August). The organizational
impact of a new graduate pediatric nurse mentoring program. Nursing Economics,
26, 243-249.
In this article, studies were taken under a pediatric medical center to compare job satisfaction and retention of new graduate nurses. It tells how successful mentoring programs are to the new graduate nurses and how it designs professional support toward the nurses advancing in their jobs. The argument was actually was whether the mentoring programs for the new graduate students worked or not. I think they did considering the fact that everyone who enrolled in the program considered the job and only a few changed their minds to do something else in the medical field. A mentoring program is what I will get myself into soon because I want to really make sure that this is the job of my choice.
Hong, Susan S.; Murphy, Susan O., Connolly, Phyllis M.(2008,July-August).Parental
satisfaction with nurses’ communication and pain management in a pediatric
unit. Pediatric Nursing, 34,289-293.
A study was performed on the pediatric unit of a tertiary care teaching
hospital. Some surveys were given to parents of each patient to evaluate
the staff. The parents responses were good according to the people who
read over them who work as the head of the hospital. Communication
between the nurses’, doctors’, and patient’s is the most important when
you visit a hospital. This article made me realize that a survey can say a lot
of things about your personality, the kind of service you provide, whether
or not you get to keep your job. It has taught me even when I have had a
day, someone is always watching your every move. Pediatric nursing is
what I would like to do with my life and I am ready for the ups and
downs.
Hurd, Jeanne Lemal.(1972,August-September). A new perspective on head start health
care. Health Services Reports, 87, 575-582.
Hurd writes in this article that all children should get the same amount of
health care form this Head Start Facility. She believes that even low-
income families should receive the same amount of health care. Food,
clothing, and housing are given to the families of children, but their
health should be the first thing on the list of things to take care of. By
organizing Project Head Start, she hopes the dilemma faced by public
health programs will be solved. I would be delighted to be a part of a
program like this ti help the less wealthier families. Making sure that
others are happy and feeling well is my number one priority.
Jennings, Pamela D.(2005,May-June).Providing pediatric palliative care through a
pediatric supportive care team. Pediatric Nursing, 31,195-200.
This article is about how the committee of Pediatric Pallative Care needs
to establish care for the children with life threatening illnesses. They
are looking for an outcome of more patient and family satisfaction; along
with a decrease of patients dying. What I particularly didn’t like about this
article was that it kept repeating on the diseases and deaths of children in
the area and how they were going to make a change. It kind of depressed
me a little to keep reading about how unsatisfied families were with the
kind of service they received. About nursing, there are a lot of emotional
struggles you have to get through. Life has a lot of emotional struggles and
because of that I will keep my head up when I walk in on my first day and
realize that it is a great opportunity to help others in need.