Essays on Hull House

1- Historical span

Hull House was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams, and her partner Ellen Gates Starr, as the first settlement house in the United States. The building was a run-down mansion constructed by Charles Hull in 1856, and Adams and Starr turned it into a place where poor immigrants could come to be fed, sheltered, educated and overall taken care of. Hull House made social services and cultural events available for the residents of the house, and overall provided a means by which Addams and Starr could take care of these disenfranchised immigrants who were hoping to start over again in the new ...

Introduction

The life of prominent personalities remains one of the most comprehensive topics focussed on in the field of sociology. This can be accredited to the fact that various prominent personalities played a comprehensive role in bringing about social change in the society. Worth noting is the fact that the traditional society was filled with various societal matter that hundred societal progress. As an example, the traditional society had a less regard for women in the society as evident by the fact that women were discriminated highly. Nonetheless, the emergence of prominent personalities led to mutual change of the society in terms ...

Both Jane Addams and Booker T. Washington are incredibly important figures in the realm of providing positive social change in America, offering individual and institution solutions to the problems of economic destitution and social discrimination, respectively. Addams, with her Hull House, sought to provide a center for women and immigrants to have a place to stay, learn languages and trade, and have a place to stay when no one else would have them. Washington, with his Tuskegee Institute, was much more focused on vocational training and providing a newly freed black population with a better chance to enter proper American life during the Reconstruction. ...

Jane Addams is one of the influential philosophers in the history. She is regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the history of the modern America. Her thought and influence in the western thought cannot be measured. She is considered as the starting point of the inspiration of the idealism in America during the late 19th and early 20th century. Her contributions to the metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, as well as aesthetics have had an effect on almost all the philosophical movements after him (Addams 4). Her masterworks include the critique of critical thinking as well as the ...

Introduction

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was an American sociologist, social worker, author, public philosopher, and women’s rights activist. Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois. She was born in well up family as the youngest of nine children. Her father was a prominent businessperson and served as the Illinois State senator from 1855 to 1870. She received her education from the Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford University) in Rockford, Illinois (Addams & Elshtain, 2002). In her early life, Jane Addams loved reading and that is how she came to learn about the plight of poor people in Cedarville. She wanted to become a doctor ...

Jane Addams, born September 6, 1860- May 21, 1935, was a pioneer settlement employee, inventor of Hull House in Chicago, philosopher, sociologist, a woman suffrage activist and an author (Addams 4). She was the most noticeable reformer during her Era besides the like of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. In her Era, she helped turn the issues of the nation to favor the concern of the women, the plight of children, and the health of the public and world peace. Jane also fought for the inclusion of women in politics. She once said that if women are to be responsible ...

Jane Addams and Hull House:A Personal Reflection

Visiting the Hull House museum provided a revealing view of the great effort it took at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century for social change to happen, not only in Chicago, but also nationally. It was very interesting to learn that when, in 1889, Hull House opened, Jane Addams and her colleague Ellen Gates Starr viewed it simply as a place “to offer art and literary education to their less fortunate neighbors” and that it developed over the years into so much more (“About Hull” n.d.). Although I am not an expert in American history, I ...

Introduction

The American people from the 1877s found themselves living in an era characterized by instability and transition. The society experienced changes in lifestyle and traditional values and views were being challenged. The response to this period of transition and instability resulted into a movement towards reforms and an ever-increasing need for control and order amongst people. During this period, American journalists, politicians, professionals, and volunteers mobilized on behalf of reforms aimed at dealing with a variety of social problems associated with industrialization. The major focus of this paper is on women’s participation in the progressive movement, starting from 1901 towards ...

In the first half of the course, we covered the "woman's sphere" and women's work voluntary reform. How is the work of women during the Progressive Era a continuation of this theme in American history? Describe the work of Hull House and the Women"??s Christian Temperance Union. Women in the progressive era worked extremely hard to influence changes in legislation to allow them the vote and other basic human rights. In America the movement in favour of women was quite strong and worked on several fronts which were not just focused on women’s rights. These included the issue ...

Jane Addams entered public life in an era not all that different from our own time: the Oval Office was inhabited by a succession of men who were, it seemed, much smaller than the times, too often treating the position as a way to confer privileges on cronies for four (or, quite infrequently, eight) years, sucking all of the possible prestige (and income) out of this position but doing very little in the way of inspiring or even leading the nation. This procession began with the Republican Party’s deal to effectively end Reconstruction if Rutherford B. Hayes could take office, ...