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    Research Paper The Hull House was the “flagship of movement” in the late 19th century and early 20th century (Chicago Planning History). It was established in 1889 by Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams to help poor immigrants with many of their needs, including education. The Hull House started out small, solving small problems in its neighborhood, but soon grew bigger as more immigrants joined and sometimes even protested for causes on the government level. The Hull House helped immigrants achieve

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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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    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

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    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 the

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    The dark neighborhood near Hull House was home to brothels, saloons, dope peddlers and all-night "druggists", plying their trade along Sangamon, Green, Peoria, Curtis, Carpenter and Morgan Streets. Prostitutes beckoned openly from open doorways to the string of whorehouses that operated between Monroe and Lake Streets. It was a horrible place, and amidst it all were the broken-down refugees and immigrants. It was to this people that Jane Addams' Hull House appealed. Addams was given a 25 year, without

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    at Hull-House” by Jane Addams and “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston are both stories that deal with women’s issues. “The Devil Baby at Hull-House” is the story of how a myth of a devil baby can became an important symbol for many women. “No Name Women,” on the other hand, is about the narrator’s desire for her aunt’s story to be told. Both stories were written in the 20th century a time period where women had few rights and where men attempted to dominate women. “The Devil Baby at Hull-House”

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    In a passage from her book Twenty Years at Hull House, author Jane Addams uses rhetorical devices such as anecdotes of her experience living in Hull House and vivid imagery as powerful tools of social advocacy especially for the elderly who cannot care for themselves. Throughout the passage three anecdotes describing the lives of old women brought to the Hull House after no one else was left to care for them are used to show first hand what living in poverty is like. . Firsthand experiences give

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    Jane Addams and the Hull House Can you imagine living in a run-down neighborhood, with streets full of garbage? How about having to watch young children play in the streets wearing dirty, ragged clothes? Jane Addams grew up in a place like this, and she wanted to make changes in the world, so she founded the Hull 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

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    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

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    Jane Addams and the Hull House: The Hull House was opened in 1889, which was settlement house run by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. It was located on the Near West Side of Chicago. The Hull House was important because it was located in a poor area yet it provided services which included kindergarten, music school, and the Hull House even had a theater and gymnasium in it. Jane Addams, not necessarily the Hull House, was mentioned in the book. Jane had attended the World’s Fair. (WHAT ELSE)

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