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Lutheran Settlement House is really the only social service agency within the community. It has been providing services to Fishtown and the Philadelphia area since 1902. The services since then may have changed but it’s core mission of “empowering individuals, families, and communities to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through an integrated program of social, educational, and advocacy services” has not ("History | Lutheran Settlement House | Empowering Children, Adults, Families, and…

Before and during the settlement house movement, conditions in the city slums were horrific. Sanitation was deplorable, most waste, human and otherwise, was thrown into the street and people lived in tenement houses where if one was lucky, their family got an entire room. People’s working conditions were not much better, they worked with heavy machinery in factories from dawn till dusk, averaging 14 hour days throughout the year and still didn’t make enough to properly support their family.…

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…

Why don’t emails or text messages have the same sympathetic emotions as a letter? Ellen Goodman explains that today's society doesn’t pay “full attention” to the sympathetic emails and text messages due to their daily distractions like downloading music or just being caught up in social media. In her essay, Goodman argues that, “ We are learning that paying attention briefly is as impossible as painting a landscape from a speeding car.” She uses plenty of figurative languages such as personal…

Rutgers University is busy trying to get the attention of day time TV show host Ellen DeGeneres as their commencement speaker for next year’s graduating class. While that is happening, the students from Ramapo College are trying to get actor and comedian Danny Devito to come to their school as their guest celebrity commencement address speaker. Danny DeVito himself hails from New Jersey and the students from Ramapo has their hearts set on getting him to attend, as reported by New Jersey. To…

Ellen C. Carillo’s “Reading & Writing are Not Connected” challenges and disproves the fallacy claimed in her title. Carillo, a professor of English, speaks from her experience as an educator to articulate the importance of a comprehensive reading-writing education. Drawing from the historical and modern scapegoats for student illiteracy, Carillo debunks these theories and concludes that reading and writing are best learned when taught in conjunction. This point is effectively communicated…

Ellen Hopkins wrote the novel Crank from her experiences around her own daughters crystal meth addiction. Hopkins is a novelist, most of her published work has been New York Times best selling novels. Crank is part of a trilogy that consists of Crank, Glass, and Fallout. Among other books that Hopkins has written that share the same tone and style are Impulse, Burned, Identical, Tricks, Traffick, Perfect, Tilt, and Smoke. Hopkins is a very accomplished author who has won many awards for her work…

“It’s not what you have it’s what you don’t have that counts” Page 43. The westing game by Ellen Raskin is a book and a movie. These two might have the same idea but very different details. All of sixth grade in gull lake is reading the very confusing westing game. The westing game book and movie have many similarities and differences worth noting down. The westing game is a very confusing book/story. In the westing game book 16 heirs get in groups of two to find out who killed Sam Westing. The…

Art is said to be the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. The various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance all produce work to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. The arts have the ability to supply so much more than just beauty and emotional power. They have the capacity to create community and special memories all throughout their process of becoming a final product. Sara Ashley Davies grew up…

In this case of a woman in her 60s who met Dr. Ellen Wiebe in Vancouver to receive her dying wish. “Hanne Schafer had been ravaged by neurological disease since 2013 and was sick of being sick. She and Wiebe had consulted for months about the prospect of dying and how Wiebe could help. Wiebe had researched available drugs, and discussed with lawyers and pharmacists. Now, in a matter of minutes, Schafer was gone.“It felt very good to be able to offer this woman what she wanted,” says Wiebe, “a…