Ellen Pompeo

critical intellectual and a committed internationalist. She developed an educational philosophy called Socialized education. The idea of the settlement house was presented and developed by her to the United States (the founding of Hall House with Ellen Starr in 1889). She campaigned to improve social conditions and led investigations in different areas of social and health welfare. Jane Adams saw education as the basis of democracy. She also argued for women's right to vote, to choose their own careers

‘To have quality work is harder than what most would think. Questions about ‘Why can we not just pay the people ? Or try to let other people work ? ‘It seems easy to do but is harder to carry out, we need to have people who stand up against Labor( Sweatshops) and that is what Jane Addams did. Jane Addams started off by opening hull house she was letting in European people in who had nowhere to go and no money. She stood up for not letting children labor all day long for work they shouldn't do, and

Stanton Coit was born in Ohio in 1857. He grew up in a time burgeoning with social change and reform. After years of study at various institutions Coit founded Neighborhood Guild, the original settlement house in the United States. Settlement houses were places, set up in poor areas, which provided a helping hand for the neighborhood (Koger, 2015). He also founded the South Place Ethical Society in London, which focused on the ethical issues in all areas of life and society (Hansan, 2011). Coit was

the immigrants in need. These settlement houses also became meeting spots where reformers and intellectuals of all kinds could discuss various problems in society. The most well-known settlement house was created by Jane Addams and her good friend, Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House, which was named after Mr. Hull, was located in Chicago's Nineteenth Ward. It housed immigrants with diverse nationalities such as Italians, Bohemians, Irish, English, Germans, Americans, Canadians, and Russians. As a result

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

relationship among individuals, families and communities; this is the Discipline of the profession of Family and Consumer Science. Throughout the history of this subject there have been major accomplishments for not only one type of people, but all people. Ellen Swallow Richards was the founder of the discipline, she was the first woman to graduate from MIT, and she was the first president of Adult Higher Education Alliance. These were huge steps for Home Economics and for women in general. This was only one

Twenty Years at Hull-House   Two Works Cited    Victoria Bissell Brown's introduction to Twenty Years at Hull-House explains the life of Jane Addams and her commitment to insight social change to problems that existed during the turn of the 20th century.  As a reaction to the hardships of a changing industrial society, Addams decided to establish a settlement house in the West side of Chicago to help individuals who had suffered from the cruelties of industrialization

standing up for what she believed in was described as being “bold as a lion” (20 yr) growing up and, through her adult years when initiating change in the way the government and society assist with the impoverished. Adams established the Hull House with Ellen Gates Star “on the 18th of September, 1889”(20 yr.). This started the movement that is know as the Settlement House Movement. “The purpose of the Hull House as stated in its character was “to provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to

Jane Addams was known as the “mother” of social work. Feminist and activist are two words that can best describe her. She was an advocate for education and better living conditions for those who did not have the means to do it themselves. Addams and Ellen G Starr opened a settlement house in Chicago, which is formally known as the Hull House. Having health problems never stopped Jane from dedicating her life to the Hull House, as well as other well-known contributions to the social work field. Several

Action is inherent in the tasks of a social activist. Ideas alone are not enough. Though the development of philosophies and manifestos is the basis for every social movement and every stride toward social justice, without social action and the social activist, little can ever be accomplished. The great social activist must, by definition, be the great social action taker. Jane Addams was the epitome of such an action taker. Addams herself believed that ideas were not enough. She was not satisfied