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Ellen Degeneres has become a household name, starting with stand up to sitcom and now her very popular talk show Ellen: The Ellen Degeneres Show, which won four Emmys in the first season. (Reed 1) She is also known as a very publicly open gay individual. Ellen Degeneres speaks out on behalf of the LGBTQ community but with the focus of equality and accepting others rather than on gay politics. Ellen Degeneres’ first show was Ellen. She is remembered as famously coming out on this sitcom, but more

wondered how Ellen DeGeneres came to fame? Ellen DeGeneres is a well-known comedian and in 1997 she came out as Lesbian. With that, she became a part of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community. While this was happening, Ellen was being criticized because she was a lesbian. Other accomplishments that Ellen DeGeneres has is that she gives back to the community, supports wildlife and helps those in need. Below you will get further detail in how she came to fame. Ellen DeGeneres was

Fish have thoughts, don't they! In the movie, Finding Nemo, the main character, Marlin, wants get his son back because a diver took him, so Marlin and a fish named Dory go through many challenges and he finally reunites with his son. The author of the movie Finding Nemo, Andrew Stanton, creates the theme learning to trust can help make friendship. Marlin, Nemos father, proves that learning to trust your peers can make friendship. First, Marlin doesn't trust that Dory knows where she is going.

did the Hull House have a positive 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. 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.

white, Protestant, middle-class women. However, Jane could not fit into even those broad categories. She was constantly asked to declare her faith and pressured to become a foreign missionary. But Jane never could accept Christ’s divinity. Writing to Ellen Gates Starr, a religious friend she met at Rockford and a lifelong friend, she said of Jesus, "I think of him simply as a Jew living hundreds of years ago, surrounding whom there is a mystery (and) a beauty incomprehensible to me. I feel a little as

Jane Addams is known as “the mother of social work” and is responsible for the first U.S settlement house movement, in the late 1800’s. Addams believed that people of poverty and the disadvantaged were caused by society, not laziness or a lack of morals. Her approach to help the poor in an unfair society was of compassion and kindness. The opening of the first settlement house was considered the beginning of the most significant social movement, in U.S history. Addams was born in Chicago, Illinois

Agency Overview/ Historical Origins of the Agency The facility that I am placed at for my field practicum is called Mary’s Outreach Center. Mary’s Outreach Center is located in Rochester, New York and has only been in business for six years. Initially this program only passed out clothes to about a dozen refugees. The refugees who received clothing from Mary Outreach Center started to tell others about the clothes that they were receiving, which brought dozens of other refugees. After about one year

Civil rights demonstrates that all people, no matter what race, religion, color or class, are equal and have equal rights. Although the civil rights time period is a subject that is not talked about much today, it was years ago when there was a lot of segregation and discrimination. There were many African Americans who made a difference in their fight for civil rights, but not many white people tried to make that same difference. Jane Addams was one of the few white people who made this effort;

Following the Civil War, the issue of slavery was no longer the primary concern of many Americans. Instead, many turned their attention to the growing cities, and in this the many challenges that arose in the development and increased aggregation of people in these condensed areas. Jane Addams, a privileged and educated daughter of a politician, called for social reform and created the first settlement house for immigrants in the United States, Hull House. From Addams’ experience working at Hull

Journal 1- Chapter 16-20 1) 1%- Upon reading chapter 16 I was profoundly shocked to see mention of the 1%. In the news over the last few years this has become a rather recognizable term however I did not realize this went all the way back to the beginnings of our country. I also find it shocking that after all this time we still have found no real resolution for the distribution of wealth in America. While I understand hard work for hard cash I do not understand how even back then these companies