University of Hull

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…

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. Progressivism began when people wanted to change the brutal system to one that was more…

of Abraham Lincoln. “Jane would learn from her father about honesty, humility, and a concern for those less fortunate” (Deegan 1988). Jane Addams contribution were co-founding the hull house, helping with the movement of women, and improving working conditions. “She is remembered more for the establishment of the hull house settlements” (Daniels 2016). Addams contribution was also co-founding the “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” (Daniels 2016). Throughout history…

immigrants and other residents. Jane was a middle class American activist/reformer and leader in women's suffrage who improved the lives of many poor individuals. Although this was not the first Hull House, it was one of the most prominent settlement houses in the United States; which was known as Chicago's Hull House. Jane Addams is a notable women because she was well educated, and helped with the growth and development of the United States…

ASSIGNMENT #1 DEVAANSH SINGH WAHRA (W0679473) Major General Sir Isaac Brock was a British Army officer and director from Guernsey. He is considered as a Canada's hero in the war of 1812. After that war the official's gave him Professional name "The Hero of Upper Canada". Sir Isaac Brock was conceived on October 6, 1769 at St Peter Port on the Channel Island of Guernsey, the eighth child and eleventh offspring of John Brock and Elizabeth de Lisle. Five of his elder brothers would survive to…

while she did have family money, was one of the few people who was able to change a large number of lives without having a company or charity behind her supplying her with money. This is why Jane Addams’ achievements, specifically the opening of the Hull House, in the Progressive Era, demonstrated that one does not need to have a wide-spread well-funded…

Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams modeled a method in social work that existed in contrast to the Charitable Organization Societies (COS). Addams chose to live among the disadvantaged and immigrant populations, seeking a reciprocal relationship that would encourage a symbiotic existence between social classes (p. 59). Where Hull House did not attempt to decide the fate of the poor, COS existed solely to facilitate “friendly visitors” to enter the homes of the poor and use the data they…

Brock University is an open examination school arranged in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is the fundamental school in Canada that is arranged in an UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, arranged at the point of convergence of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment. The school bears the name of Maj.- General Sir Isaac Brock, who was accountable for protecting Upper Canada against the United States in the midst of the War of 1812. Brock offers a broad assortment of ventures at the…

two teachers. Soon after enrolling at the University of British Columbia he became interested in psychology. This interest that formed in psychology was actually an accident. He was working at night and commuting to school with a group of people, he soon found himself arriving at school much earlier than what his courses started. After graduating in three years he went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa. For other psychologists such as, Clark Hull, Kenneth Spence, and Kurt Lewin…

In a discussion about the paradigms of public education, Ken Burns addresses the controversial topic of cultural education. Public education is experiencing a time of confusion in helping children develop cultural identity so the new generation can continue to play an important role in globalization. This confusion causes an immediate reaction: continue to do what has been done in the past--instruct children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many…