Addams spent time with the poor‚ deprived‚ and neglected‚ developing a sincere love and empathy for those in need. As a result of this trip‚ Addams founded the Hull House in an underprivileged area of Chicago in 1889. Addams and her colleague Ellen Starr provided shelter to the homeless‚ took care of children‚ nursed the sick‚ and listened to the outpourings of the troubled (Jane Addams –‚ n.d.). It is at this moment that I believe Jane Addams journey to becoming an emotionally intelligent leader
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Settlement houses are a large part of social work history in both the United States and England. These houses have many different functions‚ but their main priority is to provide services to individuals‚ groups and communities in order to solve community problems. Some houses have a specific focus such as children‚ women‚ employment etc. Others are simply a resource in the community for everything from employment to education. These houses were so successful that many are still in operation today
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Jane Addams played a significant role is shaping the Human Service profession. Jane Addams work in developing the settlement house movement has had lasting effects in our field even today. She was successful in changing the overall attitude toward welfare. Before the late 1800’s‚ there was still an attitude of the “worthy” poor vs. the “unworthy” poor. This negative attitude would cast continuous judgment on all people receiving assistance. Upper-class community members would accuse people who were
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Jane Addams and The People’s Hull House The genesis of social work is as diverse and heterogeneous as the profession itself. Social workers across time have committed their lives to bettering and improving the quality of the lives of people around them. Today‚ we the people‚ enjoy benefits like unconditional civil rights‚ social security‚ access to affordable health care‚ proper treatment for those with disabilities and most importantly gender equality along with many other services. This is due
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The birth of Habitat for Humanity started with both Millard and Linda fuller’s visit to Koinonia Farm in 1965. Just outside Americus Georgia one of the most poverty stricken cities in the United states. Biblical scholar Clarence Jordan founded this small christian community farm. Here the Fuller’s learned the concept of partnership housing‚ a tool that habitat uses to create simple decent homes by working with volunteers. Milliard Fuller would leave his comfortable life as a young millionaire and
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Victoria Bissell Brown’s introduction to Twenty Years at Hull-House explains the life of Jane Addams and her commitment to insight social change to problems that existed during the turn of the 20th century. As a reaction to the hardships of a changing industrial society‚ Addams decided to establish a settlement house in the West side of Chicago to help individuals who had suffered from the cruelties of industrialization. Rejecting the philosophies that stemmed from the Gilded Age‚ such as social
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At the turn of the twentieth century the press received a great amount of credit for the success of the Progressive movement. Notable muckrakers Jane Addams and Jacob Riis showed determination towards there being a change; each made sure to use their abilities to aid in not only a social way‚ but ask economically and politically‚ even to this day what they’ve done has made a massive impact. A native of Denmark‚ Jacob Riis moved to the US in 1870 to pursue work. Riis worked as a police reporter
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Brief Paper #1 Harvey Burchett Northeastern State University SOWK 4733 Practice III Dr. Satara Armstrong‚ MSW February 8‚ 2012 Brief Paper #1 Both Jane Addams and Saul Alinsky‚ worked to enact social change within the poor neighborhoods of Chicago. Both would also go on to inspire many other social changes due to their methodologies and accomplishments. However‚ Addams’ and Alinsky’s approaches to bring about social change are often
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was a teenager (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L). After the divorce‚ Degeneres and her mother moved to Atlanta. There‚ DeGeneres found her mother getting sadder and sadder. So she turned to comedy in trying to cheer her mother up (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L). As DeGeneres grew older‚ she has waited tables‚ sold vacuum cleaners‚ worked as a legal secretary‚ and even painted houses (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ Newsmakers.) DeGeneres wanted to be a veterinarian‚ but she was “not book smart” (“Ellen DeGeneres”‚ U*X*L)
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Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and recorded by Edwin Starr‚ “War” is one of the most famous protest songs of the latter part of the 20th century. This is a song protesting the war in Vietnam‚ the first truly unpopular war in the history of the United States (War (song)). Starr’s song harnesses the anger of the general populace towards the war and channels this anger into a persuasive and moving medium. The Vietnam War was met by heavy public resistance by the general public as
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