Jane Addams

As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role…

the arduous journeys of triumph over circumstance. For example, Jane Addams and Barack Obama went through their own dilemmas before being able to achieve their dreams. Erik Schneiderhan wrote of their stories, saying, “It was a constant process of creation, perplexity, and blockage, leading to the need for ever more creation and experimentation” (Schneiderhan, 96). Using their journeys, Schneiderhan portrays the circumstances that Addams and Obama faced, and the resulting compromises that both…

I. Biography.com Editors. (2014). “Jane Addams Biography” A&E Television http://www.biography.com/people/jane-addams-9176298#other-roles Retrieved 10/7/16 This source gives the biography of Jane Addams. Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlement houses in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1989. The article states her early life and works as a social reformer, pacifist, and feminist during the late 19th century and early century. It also gives her other roles as…

House of Jane Addams In the late 1800s, Jane Addams traveled to Chicago in hopes to redevelop the city during the industrial revolution. Upon arrival, she was searching for a house, much like the Toynbee Hall, a charity house that helps change lives in London (Spartacus-educational). Miss Addams enter the country with great ambition in changing lives of others. With the help of Julia Lathrop and Florence Kelley, the women operated the Hull House with great success. However, Miss Addams did not…

English 1013-Ml6 27 January 2017 A Working Community " The advantage we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it has secured for all of us and incorporated into our everyday life" Jane Addams stated this. Many people work in a community all over the world to make it a better community for them and others. What a working community means to me it is coming together as one. There are three reasons a working community is the most…

Jane Addams, Daniel Burnham, and Richard J. Daley all had been affected by the city of Chicago. Jane Addams was more focused on individual neighborhoods, while Burnham and Daley were focused on the city as a whole. However, both Burnham and Daley seemed to compromise and favor certain areas of the city. For Burnham, the downtown area and lake front is where he focused his designs, and Daley always favored his home, Bridgeport. Jane Addams focused more on the individual neighborhoods,…

stare wondering where this conversation is going to go. “You gentleman are Slovak immigrants, Austria-Hungary born to be my guess.” Kracha and Mike were wide eyed. Their only response was to introduce themselves. The ladies response was “ I am Jane Addams.” Addams a very outspoken woman begins to talk about her work in the immigration field. She was a social worker in the pioneer days of American immigration. She told Kracha and Mike about how she took a trip to London where she saw British…

Progressive reformer Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860. She was raised in a prosperous family, although her mother passed away when she was young, her father was a very successful man, he worked as a banker, landowner, and an Illinois state senator from 1854 to 1870. Jane was very deeply inspired by her father, who believed in philanthropy. She contributed to the Progressive Era, when she became an activist for the poor, and founded the most famous settlement house, called the Hull House…

Lastly, taking a proactive approach to addressing and fixing improper social norms is necessary in order to foster a more just and equitable community. Jane Addams, an American social reformer, suffragist, and pioneer in the field of social work, co-founded Hull House in Chicago, which provided social, educational, and artistic opportunities to working-class and immigrant communities, and advocated for better…

social workers select this helping profession out of a humanitarian aspiration to help others. (DiNitto, 2008). Helping others improve their lives in a constant link to build stronger people for a happier nation. Humanitarian and social reformer Jane Addams is the most famous and decorated female social worker, who founded one of the world’s first settlement houses now recognized as the Hull House in Chicago. Although she was born into wealth and privilege she devoted herself to improving the…