Essays on Jane Addams

ABSTRACT

The juvenile crime rate has made a significant increase in America as children as young as eight years old are committing violent crimes. The juvenile justice system was first created to keep children out of adult prisons and to rehabilitate the children so that they will become productive non-criminal adults. This system has not been effective. Children are impacted by many factors when faced with decisions in today’s society. They are not as developed and lack the reasoning capability like adults. Thus, new approaches to juvenile justice must be instilled throughout the country in order to prevent more ...

1- Historical span

Hull House was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams, and her partner Ellen Gates Starr, as the first settlement house in the United States. The building was a run-down mansion constructed by Charles Hull in 1856, and Adams and Starr turned it into a place where poor immigrants could come to be fed, sheltered, educated and overall taken care of. Hull House made social services and cultural events available for the residents of the house, and overall provided a means by which Addams and Starr could take care of these disenfranchised immigrants who were hoping to start over again in the new ...

Both Jane Addams and Booker T. Washington are incredibly important figures in the realm of providing positive social change in America, offering individual and institution solutions to the problems of economic destitution and social discrimination, respectively. Addams, with her Hull House, sought to provide a center for women and immigrants to have a place to stay, learn languages and trade, and have a place to stay when no one else would have them. Washington, with his Tuskegee Institute, was much more focused on vocational training and providing a newly freed black population with a better chance to enter proper American life during the Reconstruction. ...

Jane Addams is one of the influential philosophers in the history. She is regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the history of the modern America. Her thought and influence in the western thought cannot be measured. She is considered as the starting point of the inspiration of the idealism in America during the late 19th and early 20th century. Her contributions to the metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, as well as aesthetics have had an effect on almost all the philosophical movements after him (Addams 4). Her masterworks include the critique of critical thinking as well as the ...

The progressives encompassed a wide range viewpoint to economic and social problems that cropped up because of fast industrialization and urbanization that began in late 19th century. Progressivism began a social movement to address social needs but later grew into full-fledged reform movement. The early progressives varied depending with the cause they championed. The progressives were individuals and organizations that were dedicated to overall society change. The changes they advocated included health care reforms, safer environment, workers welfare, quality education, immigrant’s welfare, efficient workplace, good leadership and increase public participation in democratic processes. They viewed the equity amongst all people ...

Introduction

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was an American sociologist, social worker, author, public philosopher, and women’s rights activist. Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois. She was born in well up family as the youngest of nine children. Her father was a prominent businessperson and served as the Illinois State senator from 1855 to 1870. She received her education from the Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford University) in Rockford, Illinois (Addams & Elshtain, 2002). In her early life, Jane Addams loved reading and that is how she came to learn about the plight of poor people in Cedarville. She wanted to become a doctor ...

Jane Addams and Hull House:A Personal Reflection

Visiting the Hull House museum provided a revealing view of the great effort it took at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century for social change to happen, not only in Chicago, but also nationally. It was very interesting to learn that when, in 1889, Hull House opened, Jane Addams and her colleague Ellen Gates Starr viewed it simply as a place “to offer art and literary education to their less fortunate neighbors” and that it developed over the years into so much more (“About Hull” n.d.). Although I am not an expert in American history, I ...

Jane Addams entered public life in an era not all that different from our own time: the Oval Office was inhabited by a succession of men who were, it seemed, much smaller than the times, too often treating the position as a way to confer privileges on cronies for four (or, quite infrequently, eight) years, sucking all of the possible prestige (and income) out of this position but doing very little in the way of inspiring or even leading the nation. This procession began with the Republican Party’s deal to effectively end Reconstruction if Rutherford B. Hayes could take office, ...

A Critical Analysis of the Social Work Intervention Process

The term ‘empowerment’ is one which is used to designate the idea of giving control to an individual: if someone feels empowered, it means that they feel as though they can do something. In social work, this is no different: the empowerment approach is one which attempts to take control of a particular situation whilst giving those involved the skills and tools with which to manage their lives. Put succinctly, the empowerment process is “the process by which individuals and groups gain power, access to resources and control over their own lives. In doing so, they gain the ability to ...