Jane Addams

Jane Addams changed the world in ways you couldn’t imagine. She impacted the lives of many Americans, and we still thank her to this day for the effect she had on America. The life of Jane Addams was interesting, eventful, and very inspiring to many American citizens. Jane was a woman’s rights advocate, social worker, peace activist, and settlement house founder (History.com paragraph one). Jane truly made the world a better place. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville,…

Jane Addams wrote “If Men Were Seeking the Franchise” in 1913 before women had the right to vote. This is a great satire on the women’s suffrage movement. The author for turning the tables on her opponent, and this particular opponent happens to be men and the male dominated society. The purpose of this article is to imagine what would happen if women ran things rather than men. Through this she reveals all the vile and repulsive practices of the dominant male cultures. She touches on the male…

Jane Addams: I cannot trace the trail back to the day I wanted to start doing service-learning. I have always been involved in my community and doing different activities for organizations. I know that while I was growing up I was a part of many different service projects. One thing my family always did was bag up our old clothes and donate them every couple of months and I would always raid our cabinets for food drives. One of my favorite things to do as a child was to pick out a few different…

1a. Jane Addams and the Hull House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House served as a place where the working class immigrants could use as shelter and for social purposes. In Devil in the White City, when problems occurred about America's lower and middle class, the Hull House was used as a place to speak and issue these problems. B. Frederick Law Olmstead- He was an american landscape architect, born…

embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.” Jane Addams was known as a muckraker and the “mother” of American social worker. She was a settlement house reformer, pacifist (finds war and violence unjustifiable), women’s rights activist, and a peace activist. Addams was born into a well-off family which enabled her to be grateful for what she had. This is why she felt so strongly about what she supported, so Addams rejected the idea of marriage and motherhood to focus on all of…

qualitative research methods such as ethnographies, long interviews and content analysis. They also used stats, maps, and occupation studies. These methods were all used to study social problems, such as, crime, mortality, and sin. W.E.B. DuBois and Jane Addams were very influential individuals when it came to including more qualitative forms of research into studies. W.E.B. DuBois is best known for his major contribution to sociology of examining non-white individuals in a non-racist way for…

An Analysis of Historical Divides: Jane Addams and Mary Richmond As a founder of social work, Jane Addams embraced social and economic rights in addition to social change for everyone (Anders, & da Silveira Nunes Dinis, 2015). Her work through Hull-House revealed her collaboration of culture, social, and political functions (Anders, & da Silveira Nunes Dinis, 2015). As an example, she was an advocate for women issues, believed in the removal of racisms and sexism globally, assisted with the…

Jane Addams, born in Cedarville, Illinois in September of 1860, broke many borders as a woman of her time. She is best known for her efforts in creating peace as well as advocating equality for women. She is represented today and in American history by the many organizations she established: the International League for Peace, Woman’s Peace Party, Juvenile Protective Association, and American Civil Liberties Union. Addams had strong opinions about the idea of peace reaching the farthest corners…

Sumner and Jane Addams shared their views on contemporary democracy and society in America. William Graham Sumner shared his view in “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, and Jane Addams shared her views in “Democracy and Social Ethics.” Although each had very different perspectives on society through social reform in general as well as how it should move forward, there also is much commonality in their viewpoints on social reform in general. While Sumner chose a scientific perspective,…

In analyzing the written works of Jane Addams’ Democracy and Social Ethics and Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The German Ideology, they portray how their theories can impact change within a society. While the basic structure and framework of society of society has remained consistent throughout, there are certain elements of society that are consistently subject to change. These authors address these changes as they pertain their theories to the functions of society…