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Photo Reading Practice
Look at each photograph. Write what you sense, feel, or know about this person before you reveal the facts. Trust the first impression. That is your intuition speaking.
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Practice Reading
Write Your Intuitive Reading
What impressions, feelings, or information are you receiving about this person? What do you sense about their life, their character, their work?
The Facts
Name
Henry Dunant (Jean-Henri Dunant)
Where He Lived
Geneva, Switzerland — later Paris, Stuttgart, and the small Swiss village of Heiden
His Work
Humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and writer
What He Is Known For
Co-founder of the International Red Cross and initiator of the First Geneva Convention
His Award
Winner of the very first Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 1901
Interesting Facts
- In 1859, traveling on business, he witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino — 40,000 wounded soldiers with no medical care. He spontaneously organized local civilians to help under the phrase "Tutti fratelli" — All are brothers.
- He wrote a book about the experience at his own expense and distributed it to European leaders, which directly led to the founding of the Red Cross in 1863.
- A business scandal led to bankruptcy and his expulsion from the very organization he founded. He spent years living in poverty and near total obscurity.
- He was rediscovered by a journalist in 1895. In 1901, at age 73, he received the first Nobel Peace Prize. He never spent the money, living simply until his death.
- His final words were: "Where has humanity gone?"
A soul who saw suffering and could not look away. His entire life was a demonstration that one person, moved by compassion, can change the architecture of how humanity cares for itself.
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Practice Reading
Write Your Intuitive Reading
What impressions, feelings, or information are you receiving about this person? What do you sense about their life, their character, their work?
The Facts
Name
Louisa May Alcott
Where She Lived
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania — raised in Concord, Massachusetts among the great transcendentalist thinkers of the age
Her Work
Novelist, short story writer, and poet
What She Is Known For
Author of Little Women (1868), one of the most beloved novels in American literature
Her World
She grew up among Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne — the intellectual heartbeat of 19th century America
Interesting Facts
- Her family lived in poverty for much of her childhood. From an early age she took jobs as a seamstress, teacher, and servant to help support them, writing whenever she could.
- She served as a nurse during the American Civil War. The experience shaped her deeply and she wrote about it in Hospital Sketches (1863).
- She was a committed abolitionist and feminist who never married, believing marriage would compromise her independence and her work.
- She sometimes wrote dark sensation novels under the pen name A. M. Barnard — very different from the warm domestic world of Little Women.
- She died at 55, just two days after her father's death. She spent her final years raising the daughter of her deceased sister.
A soul who understood that telling the truth about ordinary life — especially a woman's life — was a radical act. She wrote to survive, and in doing so gave generations of women permission to want more.