Caroline Eliassen‚ and Samantha Minio Mr. Burrows Sociology September 13‚ 2012 Jane Addams Jane Addams of Cedarville‚ Illinois‚ is anything except ordinary. She was a member and founder of the Settlement House Movement. Along with her companion Ellen Starr‚ Addams founded the Hull House‚ which is located in Chicago. If that is not enough‚ she was also the first woman from America to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. You may wonder how this woman was able to fulfill all of her achievements‚ being
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University’s class of 2009‚ but Ellen DeGeneres was there to congratulate them as well! This class was dubbed the "Katrina Class" for being survivors of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Katrina was named one of the deadliest Hurricanes‚ causing more than 1‚836 deaths. Tulane University is located in New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ where the most significant amount of deaths took place and 80 percent of the city was destroyed. These graduates have survived a lot ‚ and Ellen wants to congratulate them
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The Company Man by Ellen Goodman Elie Mbys-Davidson Journal Journal turned in July 23rd 2013 Dr. Pollick WRTG 101S-Camp Schwab In this essay Goodman retaliates at the middle class‚ constantly trying to become the upper class in a fit of greed lost in a fog. The Company Many is an ironic essay‚ in which the main character “Phil” represents every American that loses touch with reality in the fog of ambition. Phil is the ideal hardworking man‚ dedicated to his cause‚ and all that he believes to
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“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart‚ the less capable you are of loving the present”- Barbara De Angelis. Ellen Hopkins’s novel Rumble uncovers the story of Matthew‚ an average teenage boy struggling with the suicide of his younger brother‚ Luke. Through poetry‚ Matthew expresses his denial‚ guilt‚ and‚ most importantly loss of faith. He explains the guilt he feels for not standing up for his brother who endured constant homophobic bullying. These emotions present in Matthew’s
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Earlier in the novel‚ Ellen asked herself a very important question. She wondered if she was the same girl who would not drink after Starletta or eat a colored biscuit when she was starved. She said: It is the same girl but I am old now I know it is not the germs you cannot see that slide off her lips on to a glass then to your white lips that will hurt you or turn you colored. What you had better worry about though is the people you know and trusted they would be like you because you were all made
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“The Company Man” Rhetorical Analysis In the 1970’s Ellen Goodman wrote “The Company Man”. The purpose of Goodman’s piece was showing through an irony filled short story what matters in life as opposed to what should actually matter. She conveys this purpose towards her audience through the arrangement in her writing‚ the constant repetition of numbers‚ omission of last names and first names. Another rhetorical device she uses is irony and the use of limited quotations in her piece.
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Jane Addams and Civic Housekeeping: Bringing Women into the Public Sphere HIST 102: Introduction to U.S. History II Professor Stacie Taranto Phillip Gatto December 5‚ 2013 In the early 20th century‚ more and more issues began to face cities of the United States. Specific issues that cities began facing more and more included the rise in poor sanitation and health concerns in local tenement housing. In order for women to gain access to the public sphere
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In "Dispensing Morality" (2005)‚ Ellen Goodman asserts that she wants people to have strong moral grounds ("To each his own conscience...") but they have to understand other people’s moral grounds and priorities and not meddle into other people’s personal lives ("But the drugstore is not an altar. The last time I looked‚ the pharmacist’s license did not include the right to dispense morality."). Goodman illuminates how conscience clauses starts to increasingly empower and gives people opportunities
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Urban experiences in Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate
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In the piece “ The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman he describes the life of a man named Phil through literary techniques. Ellen spoke of the man unable to be memorable and a pedestrian man who was easily replaced. Utilizing them he created an apathetic attitude that accepted Phil’s death quite easily despite him being a “Type A” worker and a vice president for a company . Rhetorical techniques that were incorporated in the writing include both the writer’s and Phil’s “Dearly beloved” perspective ‚
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