Jane Addams

In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting Jane Addams “Democracy and Social Ethics” and William Graham Sumner’s “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other.” Do social classes owe anything to each other? Should the working class help the poor? Although both of these works are fascinating, they hold more differences and some similarities than you think. Jane Addams was a truly inspiring and driven woman who set out to work with the poor. Addams was a social worker and a remarkable reformist.…

impunity. Addams helped to found several organizations such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Many other women were attracted to advocate for progressive reforms as a result of Addams’s work, the American labor and civil rights landscape might be very different today without her influence. To cap off a lifetime of achievement the first Nobel Peace Prize ever to be granted to a women was awarded to Jane…

during the early 1900s. Social reformers and progressives wanted to fix these issues and purify society. However others did not believe in getting involved. Different authors during the day wrote their points of views and what should be done. Jane Addams wrote Twenty Years at Hull House (1910) to discuss her own opinions. The Report of the Vice Commission, Louisville, Kentucky, Louis Brandeis’s Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use it, and William Graham Sumner’s What the Social…

I attended Jane Addams Elementary School for my field experience hours. As I was attending this school, I started to think about when I was a student teacher at my elementary school. My experiences with both schools were different because each school had a different setup for how they wanted to teach the class. My freshman and sophomore year of high school, I had volunteered to do student teaching at my elementary school, and it was really tough for me because that was my first time ever…

Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams were both born during slavery, one born enslaved and the latter born free and they both have a view of history based on their experiences. Both were civil rights fighters, both women had historical…

“[It is] tempting to suggest, in [recollection], that our family was a sham. That our house was not a real home at all but the simulacrum of one, a museum. Yet we really were a family, and we really did live in those period rooms.” (Bechdel 17) These words of Alison Bechdel perfectly describe her family. Bechdel may not be widely recognized, however she did introduce the uniqueness of her book to the world as a tragicomic. As the writer and artist of this tragicomic, she only shows what she…

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax: A Legend Reborn On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts with the following investigation of their murder placing Lizzie Borden as the prime suspect. “There have been more than a dozen retellings in popular culture of the Lizzie Borden trial” (Borden). What makes the biopic Lizzie Borden Took an Axe stand out from the rest? For starters, the story itself is appealing in the mystery surrounding the murders of…

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a lady made crazy by post pregnancy anxiety and an unsafe treatment. Be that as it may, an examination of the hero 's portrayal uncovers that the story is in a general sense about personality. The hero 's projection of a nonexistent lady — which at first is just her shadow — against the bars of the wallpaper 's example sections her personality, disguising the contention she encounters and in the long run prompting the complete breakdown of the limits of her…

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy.…

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”(Jane Addams) Jane Addams is a famous women’s rights activists, and she believes that one may have done well for themselves, however it is not certain until it is accepted by their society. This is shown in many of William Shakespeare’s plays, including Romeo and Juliet. Lives of individuals vary from the society's rules until they…