Research Paper On Jane Addams

Women have virtually the same rights as men. However, the fault needing to be recognized in today’s society is the way that women are treated. Even in simple areas, such as jobs, women are put on the back burner. A woman is able to become a CEO of a company, nonetheless, she will struggle twice as hard as a man would. Even as an employee, women are statistically paid less than men are.

Jane (Laura) Addams was born to Sarah (Weber) Addams and John Huy Addams on September 16, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois near Rockford and Wisconsin border. She was the eighth of nine children. From this union out of the nine children only three of the daughters and one son survived to see adulthood.

Laura Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. Addams lost her mother to childbirth at the age of two, and her father, John Addams, was a prominent

     Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, the eighth child of a prominent family in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois. Of the nine

Was Jane long really the mother of Texas?I think not . It all started on july 23 1798 , when Jane Herbert wilkinson was born. When Jane was born the doctors thought that she was dead and then proceeded to shoved her in a night stand drawer while they saved her mother's life.When the doctors opened the nightstand drawer they discovered Jane Herbert Wilkinson alive and well. Jane was the tenth child in her family.Sadly,Jane’s father died when jane was only one years old .Jane later became an orphan at the age of fourteen. After jane's mom died she moved in with her aunt .Jane’s family was very wealthy, so wealthy that Jane got her own slave named Kian , they were really good friends and when Jane was sixteen she was on her way to school and Kian told her about a very handsome man that was a doctor and persuaded her to skip school and meet him ,she then proceeded to introduced her to James long ,her future husband. Jane later got married to James long in may of 1815 and had her first child when she was only eighteen years old .In September of 1821 jane was expecting her second child and stayed behind at a post while james,her husband left ,she vowed to not leave till he returned but , he never did. She had her child in a very harsh winter,on the Bolivar peninsula in december of 1821. Jane and her slave,Kian fought starvation for over two weeks.She claimed to be the first english-speaking woman to give birth in Texas but, we know now that she wasn't.Soon after she found out that she was a widow in 1822 at the age of twenty four .

Jane Addams was a Victorian woman born into a male-dominated society on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. Her father was a wealthy landowner and an Illinois senator who did not object to his daughter’s choice to further her education, but who wanted her to have a traditional life. For years after his death, Addams tried to reconcile the family role she was expected to play with her need to achieve personal fulfillment.

     Born in Cederville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, Jane Addams founded the world famous social settlement of Hull House. From Hull House, where she lived and worked from it’s start in 1889 to her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country’s most prominent women through her writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. In 1931, she became the first women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Born in the year 1860, Jane Addams was no stranger to politics and society. Her parents were one of the founders of the Republican Party and her father, John Addams was a senator and abolitionist. Senator Addams had a huge influence over his daughter’s life especially since her mother, Sarah Addams died when Jane was a toddler.

“To fear is to expect punishment.  To love is to know we are immersed, not in darkness, but in light.” - Mother Teresa. Have you ever heard of Elizabeth Phoebe Griscom? Elizabeth Ross? How about Elizabeth Ashburn? Elizabeth Claypoole? How about her nickname, Betsy? Betsy Ross was born on January 1st, 1752. She made our first American Flag. Because She was a Patriotic figure, she made the American Flag, and she helped/changed the world for the better, Betsy Ross was an amazing person.

As I’m sure you know it’s important that every citizen undertake in their civic duty. From students attending school, to people voting, to those serving in the military. Without people voting and following the laws of the land, the country would devolve into anarchy.

Laura Jane Addams was born on September 6th 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. She was the eighth of nine children born in her family. Her father was an affluent state senator and businessman. Since her dad had an important job, she was wealthy. At a young age, she suffered from various health problems

An American pragmatist and feminist, Hull-House founder Jane Addams (1860-1935) came of age in time of increasing tensions and division between segments of the American society, a division that was reflected in debates about educational reform. In the midst of this diversity, Addams saw the profoundly interdependent nature of all social and political interaction, and she aligned her efforts to support, emphasize and increase this interdependence. Education was one of the ways she relied on to overcome class disparity, as well as to increase interaction between classes. Her theories about the interdependent nature of living in a democracy provided a backdrop for her educational theory. Education, she thought, needed to produce people who

An American pragmatist and feminist, Hull-House founder Jane Addams (1860-1935) came of age in time of increasing tensions and division between segments of the American society, a division that was reflected in debates about educational reform. In the midst of this diversity, Addams saw the profoundly interdependent nature of all social and political interaction, and she aligned her efforts to support, emphasize and increase this interdependence. Education was one of the ways she relied on to overcome class disparity, as well as to increase interaction between classes. Her theories about the interdependent nature of living in a democracy provided a backdrop for her educational theory. Education, she thought, needed to produce people who

Jane Addams, a pioneer in the field of social work was co-founder of The Hull in Chicago, one of the first settlements in America. The daughter of a political leader and her dad a close friend to President Lincoln, Ms. Addams lived a life of privilege. Ms. Addams's path to social work took some twists and turns. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary which later became known as Rockford College (Jane Addams, 2014) and was awarded a bachelor's degree. She began to study medicine but due to health reasons left her studies and began travel and study in Europe. It was on one of her trips to Europe, she and her friend Ellen Gates Starr visited Toynbee Hall, a special facility established to help the poor where she became inspired to open Hull House in Chicago. This vision of a settlement Addams had was started by using her own finances “…but eventually Hull-House benefited from the sponsorship of wealthy women in Chicago who became Addams's allies in civic reform. Hull-House expanded over an entire square block at Halsted and Polk streets, encompassing thirteen different buildings that encircled a playground for the neighborhood's children”

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15th, 1820. She was raised in a Quaker household in Adams, Massachusetts. Anthony taught for fifteen years before becoming interested in the temperance