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JANE ADDAMS & THE HULL HOUSE
Jane lost her mother at less than 3 years of age.
She was also physically disabled hence had empathy over the less privileged.
She joined school when education was considered manageable for the girl child.
Rockford Seminary offered courses to suit girls.
Jane benefitted from a new system that offered mathematics, philosophy, Latin and Greek for all students.
Jane Addams & the Hull House
Tribulations that Jane suffered when she was like the death of her mother when she was hardly three years old and the congenital spinal injury endeared her to the course of helping others (Linn, 1935). Growing up motherless and physically disabled made her responsive to the plight of the disadvantaged. Jane followed in the trail of her other three sisters in 1877 when she joined the Rockford Seminary. By the time she was joining the school the notion that college education was too strenuous for...
In fact, it was by then believed that women could benefit by going to college. Initially, Rockford Seminary offered disciplines that equipped women with religious norms and how they could become graceful and efficient homemakers. However, the curriculum changed when Addams was there. She is one of the pioneer students who studied mathematics, philosophy, Latin, and Greek. She finally graduated in 1881 (Linn, 1935).
Unfortunately Jane entered a male dominated world.
She enrolled in a medical college to pursue her career but dropped out due to the pain on her spine.
She was bed ridden for 6 months after an operation to correct her spine.
She later travelled to Europe.
She visited Toynbee Hall in London that offered recreational programs and education to poorest neighborhoods.
Unfortunately, there were no positions in the society that she could fill because…
The center also had a kindergarten and boy's center.
Later on a coffee shop was opened.
experience at Toynbee compelled her to form a similar community center in the United States. Back in the United States, Addams and Ellen Gates Starr rented a run-down mansion that once belonged to one Charles Hull in 1899. The house was situated in Chicago's industrial areas. European immigrants who had come to the United States in search of better life
Jane Addams should be based on her position as a leading light of her times. She was born in 1860 at Cedarville, in Illinois on 6th of September. She became a graduate from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 and became a graduate only the year after when the institution was recognized as a College. Her father passed away in 1881, and she was not successful at Women's Medical College of
Hull House, Chicago: An Effort Toward Social Democracy" Jane Addams; 2) "The Bitter Cry Children" John Spargo; 3) "The 1908 Methodist Social Creed. Early American Progressives' Goals and Rhetoric The early American Progressives, whose ideology is represented by these documents, the "1908 Methodist Social Creed," John Spargo's "From the Bitter Cry of Children" and Jane Addams' "Hull House, Chicago: An Effort Toward Social Democracy," wanted to achieve better working and living
Jane Addams v. John Dewey Theorists Jane Addams and John Dewey are American pragmatists since they are among the formative thinkers in the early 20th Century. These two theorists made significant contributions to the field of public administration and democracy based on the perspective of feminism. Jane Addams not only contributed to the political sphere where she was legally prohibited from involvement but also expressed and assisted in creating social
Jane Addams was a pacifist, becoming involved with peace movements as early as 1898, according to Cimbala and Miller in Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society. She opposed the involvement of the United States in World War I and was deeply involved in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Writings Jane Addams was a prolific writer. Elshtain, in Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life,
Jane Addams: Honor Before Popularity Jane Addams wanted many things in her life, but first and foremost, she wanted to live a life that was useful and of service to others. Before World War I, Addams was probably the most beloved woman in America. "In a newspaper poll that asked, "Who among our contemporaries are of the most value to the community?" Jane Addams was second, after Thomas Edison." (p. 28)
They left the city's poorest people to their own devices; something Addams felt had to stop for the country to truly call itself a democracy. Addams ideas were not only concerning shelter and hunger. She also wanted Hull-House to be a place where people could gather socially to learn new ideas, enrich their lives, and even have their own social gatherings. She notes, "The Hull-House students and club members supped