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sweatshops, and the failure of public officials to enforce laws. Settlement house residents soon learned that the conditions of the poor people in the neighborhoods were most often not the result of choice but of necessity. These discoveries led to the house residents acting as advocates on behalf of immigrants and their neighborhoods. Some even organized English classes and immigrant protective associations. At the same time as the settlement houses were in effect, the charities were being discouraged

people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. To begin, in 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able to participate in. Additionally, it was located in one

impact on people and America? It helped create new laws, teach immigrants important skills, improved education, and inspired others to fight for what is right. In 1888, Jane Addams and her good friend Ellen Gates Starr went on a trip to visit a settlement house in London called Toynbee Hall. Toynbee Hall had many, many activities that people were able to participate in. Additionally, it was located in one of the

Women’s Active Role Throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, gender roles began to change as women became active participants in American society. For instance, women became active in expressing their views against alcohol and pushed for the prohibition and temperance. Organizations such as The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), argued that alcohol led to societal problems. Male and female reformers banned together to argue that alcohol was immoral and causing a negative impact on women

birth, I was also given a special name that only my closest family members would know: Matoaka, which means “Little Snow Feather,” but my public name was “Pocahontas.” Faith: How did your people react when the Englishmen came in 1607 to start the settlement of Jamestown? Pocahontas: I was twelve when this was happening, and we were all very curious, yet untrusting and even fearful of the strange men with light skin and metal clothes. We didn’t exactly know why they had come, how long they were staying

“How will your family react, if they find out how you spend your nights here?” said Gil. Isn’t it true that as a free individual, Nimr has every right to pursue the sexual orientation that makes him feel most comfortable? Isn’t it true that Abir should choose the man she is in love with and not the man chosen by her family? Isn’t it true that Gil’s discovery of Nabil’s cache of guns is only one small step towards preventing a shooting war between Israelis and West Bank Palestinians and regrettably

Jane Addams and Hull House      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.      Addams, whose father was an

The Rebirth of Community Schooling Today 's urban communities are all too often debilitated by poverty, violence, drug addiction and crime. The decaying community has little to offer it 's youth who are being born into overwhelming disadvantage through no fault of their own. Disadvantaged children lag behind throughout the school years, mainly due to poverty. Despite our wealth and sophistication, thirteen million children in the United States live below the poverty level (Williams-Boyd 1)

aware of the dichotomy between fact and fiction. This is brilliantly explained in David A. Price's, Love and Hate in Jamestown. Price describes a more robust account of events that really did take place in the poorly run, miserable, yet evolving settlement of Jamestown, Virginia; and engulfs and edifies the story marketed by

territorial expansion. Jamestown began the tenuous, often violent, mingling of different peoples that came to embody the American experience.” Dr. James Horn A Land As God Made It. In the 1400’s Europe had very little land for agriculture and settlement. The Europeans desired riches such as gold, luxury food items, land, and timber. None of these products could be produced in Europe so they had to find these resources elsewhere. This led to a lot of importing and trading with