middle-class women saw themselves as a morally uplifting force and went on to be reformers. Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in 1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with slum housing‚ disease‚ crowding‚ jobless‚ infant mortality‚ and environmental hazards. For women who held jobs‚ Hull House ran a day-car center and a boardinghouse. Addams was only one of many early reformers to take up social work. Jane Porter Barrett‚ an African American‚ founded
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This would prepare them for their inherited future. The children of the poor on the other hand would go to public schools which taught trade and industrial skills‚ which would prepare them to work in jobs at factories and such. However‚ educational reformers saw that in order for the country to succeed‚ the poor had to be taught‚ or democracy would not succeed. During the antebellum period‚ the north was in a very good position. They were manufacturing on a large scale and urbanizing. These two characteristics
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Dr. Ambedkar: A Social Reformer Through the Magnifier of Antonio Gramsci SAVITA V. DEOGIRKAR Lecturer in English‚ Adarsha Mahavidyalaya‚ Dhamangaon (Rly) Distt: Amravati (M.S.) Abstract A Champion of Human Rights‚ Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was a multi dimensional personality. He was a great thinker‚ a philosopher‚ a true revolutionist‚ a prolific writer and at the top a devoted reformer. If studied and analyzed his noble saga to fight against Castes’ and
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tenements that offered people shelter from the elements but not much more. Little change occurred before the 1900s because before this time the government did not see itself responsible for the welfare of individuals. But during the progressive era reformers goals were to improve the common person’s condition in life and labor. Reform was achieved when people were made aware of the social ills effecting the country. In the book The Jungle horrifying descriptions of how meat was prepared inspired the
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However‚ those seven words were not exactly what one should expect while entering the United States. Even before the 1900s‚ reformers were feverishly looking to improve the squalid life of all Americans‚ especially immigrants‚ women and children. Through past reform movements in the late nineteenth century‚ progressivism flourished and excelled even more due to their inspirational
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Martin Luther and John Calvin are two ingenious reformers. Evidently‚ the two reformers shared a variety of similarities as well as an abundance of differences. Listing every similarity would not help one see the reason Luther and Calvin are compared often. Listing every difference would not help one see the reason we contrast Luther and Calvin. Evidence of Luther and Calvin’s relation lies in their one goal: religious independence. Martin Luther and John Calvin are not compared so often because
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The Progressive Reform Movement ! The modern America that society enjoys today pays homage to the reforms of the progressive era. Numerous positive changes occurred during this time through the efforts of progressive reformers‚ however‚ the most important social‚ economic‚ and political reforms were as followed: finalizing the right’s of women to vote‚ improvement in products‚ and the governments new way of regulating growing businesses and outlooks on government. Among those who benefited from
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|or your research. | | |Tenement Housing- Buildings that |Social Reformers including the social gospel |As settlement houses matured |To some degree it is still a problem.| |had formerly housed one family |movement believed helping the poor was a duty |the social reformers also |There is still government subsidized | |that were divided into several |and created settlement houses. Hull House in |worked for legislative
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of Europe‚ with the pope as the head of the Catholic Church in Rome‚ dissatisfaction with the affairs of the church gave a voice to various theological interpretations. Radical reformers‚ commonly known as Anabaptist‚ particularly had an impact in the sixteenth century reformation of Europe. Unlike the magisterial reformers‚ which occurred under the leadership of Luther and Zwingli with the cooperation of the state leaders‚ the theological interpretation of the Radicals offered an alternative and
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19th Century Industrial Capitalism and the Youth Crisis of New York City. With the transformation of American society from a commonwealth model to a capitalistic one‚ young American men left their families and pursued their individual interests. Quickly‚ American society realized that the new system had many defects. The process of fixing those defects did not pass without creating victims. For example- Industrial Capitalism created a corrupt youth. Inexperienced young men found themselves
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