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    In this essay, it will talk about a topic about how to develop and improve their study skills in university of Hull. In the next part, it will introduce three resources provided by university of Hull to aid students to develop and improve student’s study skills. For the three different facilities, they have different way to improve their study skills, such as study by themselves, use more information to study, evaluate their study skills and so on. This essay can collect more useful information to help students easier to know how to improve their study skills. The language learning center also called LLC, located on the first floor of the Ferens Building in Hull campus. The language learning centre allows students to use many kinds of Equipment…

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    In Twenty Years at Hull-House, Jane Addams described her mission for the Hull-House in Chicago to offer a center for educational learning and to improve the city 's conditions. The Hull-House was successful in achieving her mission by offering classes to gain domestic and educational skills and opened opportunities for young women. Although, the lack of immediate response to social problems by the government and the ethnic divide between the neighborhood and the residents of the house limited…

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    model. The factors that contributed to how she became such an important woman in history include her early life, the Hull House, and her winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Jane Addams was born in the sleepy town of Cedarville Illinois. The was the Eighth of the nine children in her family. Bonnie Carman Harvey writes in the book Jane Addams Nobel Prize Winner and Founder of the Hull House “Jane’s happy childhood influenced her entire life” (13). This quote from Harvey shows how her bringing up…

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    the world famous social settlement “Hull House”. She then lived and worked from the home in 1889 until her death in 1935. Adams was an encouraging women famous for writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 fours before her death. Addams father was a legit man most likely influenced by his daughter and was Illinois state senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. Jane Addams graduated in 1881…

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    of Chicago and found a ramshackle two-story mansion, built by Charles Hull in 1856 (“Jane, Addams”; Fradin 60). At first, neighbors were unfriendly and skeptical, but eventually noticed the good in both ladies. A kindergarten and day nursery were established at Hull House, by the end of the year twenty volunteers lived at Hull House. University professors, business executives, wealthy people and students subsidized time and money to Hull House. Most of the people who worked with Jane in Hull…

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    educated and were often employed during this time, improving their life chances and offering them more social status to make these declarations. Most women were part of volunteer organizations such as knitting clubs, church groups, or a book club. These events gave the women a place to announce their ideas and beliefs; as well as allowing them a place to organize. One of the most important female figures during progressivism was Jane Addams, the founder of the Hull House in Chicago’s 19th…

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    deinstitutionalization began a need to provide services to those affected became apparent; therefore, the field of Human Services was developed. Clients had multiple needs, limited knowledge, and limited resources. The human services professional assisted clients in coordination of available services and became a liaison between the client and multiple helping organization. Early pioneers in the field consisted of Jane Addams and Ellen Starr. The two females founded the Hull House in Chicago…

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    Jane Addams took her talents and desire to help on a greater scale after a trip to Toynbee Hall in London with a friend, Ellen Gates Starr, the future co-founder of the Hull House. The inspiration they felt at this home for the poor was enough to be carried back with them and put to use. Her personal hardships were overcome, and for the greater good of the people, she pushed through and made their idea a reality, knowing that a large portion of the population would greatly benefit from their…

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    industrialization and some of the goals was to promote moral improvement and protect social welfare. Leaders who took part in the movement felt that the dishonesty and corruption going on threatened the reforms and changes that were needed. To solve the problems faced by mainly the lower class, Jane Addams’ “Twenty Years at Hull House” and Lincoln Steffens’ “Tweed Days in St. Louis” wrote two articles that tried to bring about poverty and change what little rights the working class had.…

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    States, by the end of the Nineteenth century American economic wealth dwarfed that of its former colonial overseers. With this growth came challenges, the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor led to deplorable and unsafe working conditions as the demand for production and more wealth for business owners became a more powerful motivator than human life and safety. This increase in economic success had another effect, “immigrants were drawn into the booming economy and the growing…

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