Due date: 02/23/17 Rachel Eichmann
Hull House Exercise
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Chapter 1 (12 points) At the beginning of Chapter 1, Jane Addams states that she is going to discuss her childhood because that is the time when “character is formless but nevertheless setting into definite lines of future development.” After reading Chapter 1, choose three incidents from Jane Addams’ childhood which influenced her character development, briefly describe each incident, and tell what character trait resulted from it.
• Jane was the youngest child out of her family and the community’s children. She had to learn to fit in and make friends with children
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A two story home, built for Mr. Charles J. Hull in 1856 caught the eyes of both Addams and Starr. The home had originally been a secondhand furniture store, and then a home for the elderly, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. At the time, the lower floor was being rented for offices and storerooms for the factory that stood behind the house. Addams was able to sublet the second floor and what had been a vast drawingroom located on the first floor. The following spring after renovations had begun, the house owner, Helen Culver, gave the leasehold of the entire house the Addams. The two women began furnishing the house, and on September eighteenth of eighteen eighty-nine, they moved into the settlement, along with Mary Keyser. Volunteers at the house were bountiful, regardless of the many reservations surrounding the settlement. Many young women left their comfortable lives and homes in order to come to the house and care for those taking residence in the …show more content…
It started with kindergarten classes and a boys’ club. The clubs grew and altered themselves into a class setting. More advanced education was brought into the house to teach the children, which built the social character and minds of the children.
• On New Year’s Day, Hull House opened its doors to the older generation in an “Old Settlers’ Party” in order to gather older folks in the settlement. Every year since that first New Year’s in the house, older people have come to the house to relate to each other, and talk. Former residents would come back to talk about their lives since leaving.
• Addams was often confronted on why she chose the location for Hull House when she could afford a much nicer location. The location was chosen in order to reach and speak to more people in which it yearned to help. The poor, elderly, women and children all came to the house in order to learn and receive help and care. Many different people became residents in the house and after leaving would come back and volunteer. Some former residents even stated that they had found nowhere with as much kindness and compassion in which they had found at Hull
No other place in the world could rival the US’s diversity, leading to many greats things in the US immediately, and in the long term. For example, Doc 3 shows Chinese workers in a salmon cannery, bringing along their knowledge of fish and how to prepare it. Something as small as this proves the larger idea that foreign immigrants bring along with them their traditions that make the US a more complex and interesting place to live. Due to this new diversity, places such as the “Hull House” were created to help immigrants adapt to life in the US, as well as a place to interact with other cultures. As Hilda Statt Polacheck said, “Hull House was an oasis in a desert of disease and monotony.
In Cold Blood Essay The actions of Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene “Dick” Hickock on November 15, 1959, will forever be remembered and gives the state all reason to why they deserve the death penalty. Herb Clutter, Bonnie Clutter, the father and mother, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, the children of Mrs. and Mr. Clutter were the four citizens that tragically lost their lives. Smith and Hickock deserve the death penalty for the crime they committed.
Jane Addams once firmly stated, "Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. " Her mission was to keep the people 's interest in the eyes of the country and to help them progress as a society in the wake of the corrupted Gilded Age. With the American people in the grasps of big industries and immigrants looking for a better life struggled in a nation where the dollar sign was held over politicians and the middle class and poor people, they needed help. Jane Addams, a kind woman who established a settlement house for the poor nineteenth ward of Chicago, had an astounding influence upon American society through social reforms in urban cities and influence
In the Novel “Homecoming” a family of children, the Tillermans, are having a rough time finding a place they can call home. There is many definitions for the word home, but to the Tillermans a home is place where they can not be separated. The children have been through and have thought about four homes, Cousin Eunice, foster care, Will and Claire, and their grandmother’s home. They chose to stay with their grandmother, but the children could have went to any of the other three homes. Each home offers something in both a positive and negative way, and the Tillermans prefer one home of the others.
Timothy Connor, Vanessa’s grandfather, brought these spruce trees to his home from Galloping Mountain, feeling that they were for him. He planted them on the street opposite his house in a thick row to block out outsiders and offer protection. These trees, big and strong, were planted for the sake of protection, peace, and good luck to his family. Vanessa’s family was in fact one of the luckier ones during the Depression. For a long time, her family was able to eat fairly well and were able to keep their maids for a while in contrast to others during that time.
Carnegie’s ostentatious vanity indicates that he reaps pride from his attempt at improving society, which serves the explicit goal of “dignify[ing] his own life” (“Wealth”). Although Addams stresses the importance of unity and the interdependency of the classes (226), it is important to point out that she opened the Hull House in response to the uselessness she felt following a
With so many families in the city it was hard to find an affordable place with the low hourly wages they were making. With this one woman sought out to help these homeless mothers, and children. Jane Addams thought education and opportunity would help these people excel in life. One of the ways she provided education was that she actually started a kindergarten for some of the women’s’ children to gain some basic education. She continued educating them by giving the kids books and making them become self taught but still guided them with volunteer teachers and herself a tutor with her partner.
The 17th America was a farmland. People were poor and some migrated to this country in the hope of quick wealth. Individuals from England and Europe began to migrate to America. The book gives a detailed account of the first houses, or rather huts which have been built in America.
The personification of the Happylife Home sparks life into the machinery and gives it the purpose of pleasing the humans. A display of compassion and warmth create the welcoming atmosphere every home should have. In contrast with the actual people living here, "this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them" (p1) appeared to be more humane. The Hadleys were a troubled family. Adults who abandoned the responsibilities of being parents became irrelevant to the lives of their own children.
For a short lived crossroads in the history of Winnipeg, a fantastic, great event congregation entertained the masses and lit up the interesting neighborhood that is now known as Wolseley (Pujol, 2015). Portrayed as the city of good times for old and youthful, Happyland Park carried on a short albeit alluring presence. One would kind of see it on the grounds that on Garfield and Sherburn the houses are littler and they are more up to date. It is imperative to note that the houses toward the east and toward the west of were from before World War One that is evident in light of the fact that they had a tendency to have large spaces, residences with two floors. In the interim, the two strong squares of lodges covering the streets of the two places were built after the Great War amid the 1930s (Pujol, 2015).
All through the ages, the Christ figure archetype has appeared in literature and film. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry gives himself to Voldemort purposefully sacrificing himself for the benefit of the Wizarding World. In doing this he becomes the “Savior” and functions as a Christ figure in the novel. The Christ figure also emerges in real life, as anyone who acts as a role model and demonstrates moral fiber at an enormous cost to him or herself. In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Helen Burns serves as a Christ figure in the novel and her fundamental role is to illustrate and reveal the pivotal Christian belief of forgiveness to Jane.
The 1962 movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is about two older sisters, who were successful and famous in their early years. Now, they just think about the old days and wish they could get back to those glorious days. The two sisters in the movie are Jane and Blanche Hudson. Jane was a famous child star, where Blanche got recognized and became a famous actress later in her life. After reading Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on ‘Camp’”
“The Destructors” is a story of the Wormsley Common gang’s destruction of an old house shortly after World War II. The gang consists of teenage boys who meet every day in the parking place next to an old house. Mr. Thomas is the owner of the house. The teenagers consistently harass him and finally destroy his house under Trevor’s leading. In Graham Greene's “The Destructors,” Mr. Thomas’s house symbolizes England after World War II.
(true) I lived in a haunted house for over a decade (self.freehorrorstories) submitted 2 months ago by LinearEqualist When I was eight years old, my family moved into the house I grew up in. It wasn't an old house, and no one had died in it, and it didn't even feel creepy. Just an average suburban house in your average southern suburbs.
The property gave Kipling back some of the happiness he thought he had lost after Josephine’s death (Ricketts, “Rudyard Kipling, A Life,” 43). Kipling chose the place because it was antique and was located in an isolated area, away from reporters. Kipling also enjoyed the gardens and classic details of the house (Ricketts, “Rudyard Kipling, A Life,”43). Because Kipling mostly wrote stories, Carrie acted as the head of the house and deflected countless reporters away from her husband (Ricketts, “Rudyard Kipling, A Life,”