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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Jane Addams Twentieth Century
1,409 words... the urban poor. His brutal documentation of sweatshops, disease-ridden tenements, and overcrowded schools stirred up public indignation and helped effect significant reform in housing, education, and child-labor laws. Riis lived in poverty in New York City for some time before he found a job with a news bureau in 1873. He became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and the Associated Press in 1877. Horrified by immigrant life, he began a series of exposes on slum conditions on New York...
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Jane Addams City Chicago
367 wordsChicago has been the fastest growing city of the world. The city of the Century is the name given to this historic city. It is a great city of the greatest people who devoted almost their whole life to this city. Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Clarence Darrow, Mary McDowell, Thorstein Veblen, Albert Parsons, Ida B. Wells, George Pullman, Louis Sullivan and Danker Adler are few of the people among them. No large city even Peter the Great s St. Petersburg had ever grown as fast as Chicago. Right fr...
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Schools Of Thought Race And Ethnicity
2,835 wordsThe &# 338; ghetto&sup 1; and the &# 338; urban village&sup 1; are two very distinct phenomena. They differ fundamentally both in their structure and in their function. In this essay I hope to outline the difficulties in distinguishing between them and then arrive at a functional definition of the two phenomena. Furthermore there have been a number of differing theoretical and methodological approaches to their analysis. Of these, I shall outline and contrast the humanist, marxist and quantitati...
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Jane Addams Ch 1
435 words&# 9; Even Jane Adams &# 9; &# 9; &# 9; Jane Addams &# 9; Even as a little girl in the serene community of Cedarville, in northern Illinois, Jane Addams was busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot. (Pg. 47 Ch. 1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the newcomers...
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19 Th Century Hull House
541 wordsWomen and the Fight for Reform Women in the late 19 th century, except in the few western states where they could vote, were denied much of a role in the governing process. Nonetheless, educated the middle-class women saw themselves as a morally uplifting force and went on to be reformers. Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in 1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with slum housing, disease, crowding, jobless, infant mortality, and environmental hazards....
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Rules And Laws Jane Addams
1,650 wordsThe Dual Nature of the Progressive Era One common misconception is to view the Progressive movement as a unified core of reform-minded crusaders dedicated to improving the social welfare of American society. While this viewpoint is not entirely incorrect, it is only a partial and thereby misleading assessment of the movement that categorized the early part of the nineteenth-century. What some may fail to appreciate is the duality of the period-the cry for social welfare reforms juxtaposed agains...
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Jane Addams Hull House
469 wordsCritical Essay Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House The argument Addams makes that educational matters are more democratic in their political than in their social aspect (197), I believe she is referring to the long struggle between the teachers and the Chicago School Board. The Chicago School Board was politically corrupt. Many of the teachers and custodial engineers were friends of politicians who secured their positions in exchange for certain kickbacks. The school board maintained control...
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Middle Class Women Social And Political
1,379 wordsJane Addams is recognized as a social and political pioneer for women in America. In her biography, which later revealed her experiences in Hull House, she demonstrates her altruistic personality, which nurtured the poor and pushed for social reforms. Although many of Addams ideas were considered radical for her time, she provided women with a socially acceptable way to participate in both political and social change. She defied the prototypical middle class women by integrating the line that se...
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Jane Addams Hull House
331 wordsFounder of Hull-House in Chicago, first president of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Jane Addams was a dedicated crusader for social justice. Her lifes work was to fight for the under privileged and oppressed, also for the rights of workers, women and children. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois. As a child, Jane often felt like an outcast. She was an ugly, pigeon-toed little girl...
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Jane Addams Young Ladies
710 wordsJane Jane Addams Jane Addam Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Janes mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact...
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