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    graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in Illinois in 1881 and attended medical school. At the age of twenty-seven, Addams and her close friend Ellen G. Starr visited a settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in London. This visit helped to finalize Jane’s idea of helping the poor area of Chicago. Specifically, her path was settled as indicated, “On one trip with friend Ellen Gates Starr, the 27-year-old Addams visited the famed Toynbee Hall in London, England, a special facility

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    are, most basically, Christians, but we worship on the Saturday as the Sabbath, not Sunday. This “bizarre” idea was due to Ellen G. White and a quite a few others because of what they all taught and wrote about. She is very possibly the most revered person in the Adventist community to date. She still has a lot of influence in our daily Adventist lives to this day, actually. Ellen was born November 26, 1827 in Gorham Maine and lived for 87 years, dying on the 16th of July, 1915 in Elmshaven, California

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    will soon return to this earth. Seventh-day Adventists differ in only four areas of beliefs from the mainstream Trinitarian Christian denominations. These are the Sabbath day, the doctrine of the heavenly sanctuary, the status of the writings of Ellen White, and their doctrine of the second coming and millennium. Adventists live modest lives, with a strict code of ethics.

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    This experience filled her head with ideas for her home state of Chicago. When she returned back to the states, Addams and her good friend, Ellen Starr observed the many slums of Chicago. While doing this, her mind was focused on starting a settlement house in Chicago. “Chicago seemed the place to look; it had large Italian colonies, and though bluff and grasping, it still remembered the easy

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    By starting the tenement houses in Chicago through the Hull Houses, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr had already begun their journey into the public sphere. Through opening the tenement houses and allowing people to see them and come live in them helped the two women make a name for themselves, with the more well-known woman of the pair being

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    Jane Addams and her colleague, Ellen Gates Starr, founded the most successful settlement house in the United States otherwise known as the Hull-House (“Settlement” 1). It was located in a city overrun by poverty, filth and gangsters, and it could not have come at a better time (Lundblad 663). The main purpose of settlement houses was to ease the transition into the American culture and labor force, and The Hull-House offered its residents an opportunity to help the community, was a safe haven for

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    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. Additionally, it was located in one

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    House. How 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. 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

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    have shared their stereotypes of Ellen White. Looking at her life on surface level she is viewed as being quiet strict and conservative. The book Walking with Ellen White by George R. Knight gives detailed insight into the everyday troubles as well as the humorous and adventures side of Ellen White. Ellen White is such an influential person in the Adventist church, but she is often times taken out of context and misunderstood. This book takes the reader on Ellen White’s journey. Telling her story

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    Hull House Exhibit Analysis Hull House was a settlement house, founded in 1889, by Jane Addams. The purpose of Hull House was to aid a community of impoverished immigrants. Today, Hull House is a museum on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, which was the settlement house’s original home before the university transplanted itself to the area. Hull House is a permanent fixture on campus, although some exhibits within Hull House are temporary. Hull House successfully displays it’s

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