When the word ‘celebrity’ is used, what comes to mind? Most likely, it is people who are singers, movie stars, or talk show hosts. The word includes a much broader group of people, though. Despite the fact that people do not realize it, politicians, activists, and sports stars are celebrities too. All of these people have an impact on society; whether it is through their activism, their impact in sports, or their contribution to the entertainment industry.
Sigmund Freud was influential in the study of psychology. Freud was born in Freiberg, a town in Austria, on May 6, 1856. When he was only four, Freud and his family moved to Vienna, where he would live out the duration of his life. He entered into the University of Vienna in 1873, a medical
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Born in 1860, she grew up in a small Illinois town called Cedarville. Addams faced tragedy early on when her mother died in January of 1863, and she was essentially raised by two of her older sisters, Mary Addams and Martha Addams. As a child, Addams dealt with “a succession of illnesses in childhood, the most serious being tuberculosis of the spine” (American Heroine, 6). Addams did not grow up in poverty. In fact, her family was quite well off. Her father, John Huy Addams, was “the epitome of the nineteenth century American self-made man although he never aspired to become a millionaire” (American Heroine, 3) . As a result of this, she was able to attend college at Rockford Female Seminary in the fall of 1877, just like her sisters had before her. Her time in college “reinforced her childhood desire to do something important with her life” (American Heroine, 10) . Rockford is also where she met Ellen Gates Starr, who became her best friend and eventually moved with Addams to Chicago, the poverty section to be exact, in 1888. On September 18, 1889, Addams and Starr opened the Hull House. Inspired by the Toynbee Hall in London, England, which Addams visited with Starr in 1888, the Hull House was a settlement house founded to “Bring the Rich and Poor Closer Together” (American Heroine, 60). The Hull House served as many things to the less fortunate in Chicago: a daycare for the children of working mothers, a place to be cultured with art, a place to learn from free lectures given by scholars or staff of the House, and clubs separated by gender where citizens could take classes or just relax and relieve stress. The Hull House was a place where the lower-class people felt safe and welcome: “an Italian woman presented them with a bottle of olives, and a mother came to leave her baby for the day, while a young man dropped in to invite them to his wedding” (American Heroine, 69) . The idea of the settlement houses took off in
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Austria (?). His family moved to Vienna in 1860, and that is where Freud spent, mostly, the remainder of his life (?). Freud is considered the father of Psychoanalysis, the first acknowledged personality theory (?). His theory suggest that a person’s personality is controlled by their unconscious which is established in their early childhood. The psychoanalytic theory is made up of three different elements interacting to make up the human personality: the id, the ego, and the superego (?).
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. Rejecting the philosophies that stemmed from the Gilded Age, such as social Darwinism and the belief that human affairs were determined by natural law, Addams was a progressive who wanted government to be more responsive to the people.
Women’s History - 2nd edition. The creation of Hull House allowed for a closer and more understanding relationship between the settlement workers themselves and the immigrants and the poor. Jane knew as a little child that she wanted to help the poor, and she recalls an incident early in her life of seeing a homeless man on the street. She asked her father why that was, and he replied that that was just the way things were.
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 the city, and led the way through social reform for women and children.
The Hull House was an important step for the many Chicago immigrants needing help. Although it started out as a nursery, the mothers of the children would sit in a room to sit and talk. The house later developed into a larger house of education. Here, you could take classes, do activities, and learn English. The mansion had many options for one person to keep busy with. Many immigrants brought their children to the Hull House, too. Here, the children were taken care of and also paid very close attention to. Adults also found a warm welcome in this mansion. There were clinics, exhibits, and different typos of classes being taken to further their education.
She grew up without a mother, but had a prosperous father. Addams assisted with bringing attention to the opportunity of revolutionizing America’s approach toward the poor. In 1889, alongside her friend, Jane Addams, founded the Hull House in Chicago. The Hull House assisted underprivileged people who needed help, care and love. One of the challenges that Addams faced and wanted to overcome was to mandate legislation on the local, state and federal levels. By doing so it would allow all individuals to receive the assistance needed in spite of race, sex, religion or social class. Her desire was to be a self-sacrificing giver to the poor and advocate for women’s rights and change laws that would help put a stop to poverty. Addams advocated for anti child labor laws to limit the hours that a woman can work, mandate schooling for children and she wanted to protect immigrants from exploration. Addams took action to the needs of the community by starting a nursery, dispensary, playground, and gymnasium and provided kindergarten, day care facilities for children of working mothers and accommodating housing for young working women. In the reading, Democracy and Social Ethics, Addams identified that she saw that there were people being excluded in different aspects of society and was therefore actively involved or proactive in attempting to establish inclusion and equal opportunity for
Hull House was the settlement house co-founded by Jane Addams in 1889. The Hull House attracted male and female basically european immigrants.It was basically like school or a place where they held their meetings. The house held over 2,000 people every week. The hull house provide education to those who couldn’t afford to in the Chicago. Ellen Starr and Jane Addams was the founders of hull house; they were inspired by visiting Toynbee Hall in london. They moved into the house on September 18,1889 were they invited people to come and live in there. The hull house was just a house to other people who really didn’t care about the poor. Hull house simply provided education, a nursery, a play area (playground or gym). Over the years, Hull House
The Hull House was a center for research, empirical analysis, study, and debate, as well as a pragmatic center for living in and establishing good relations with the neighborhood. Residents of Hull-house conducted investigations on housing, midwifery, fatigue, tuberculosis, typhoid, garbage collection, cocaine, and truancy. Its facilities included a night school for adults, clubs for older children, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a gym , a girls club , a bathhouse , a book bindery , a music school , a drama group and a theater, apartments, a library, meeting rooms for discussion, clubs, an employment bureau, and a lunchroom. The Hull House neighborhood was a mix of European ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago around the start of the 20th century. That mix was the ground where Hull House's inner social and philanthropic elitists tested their theories and challenged the establishment. The ethnic mix is recorded by the Bethlehem-Howard Neighborhood Center: "Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core. Hull House became America's best known settlement house. Addams used it to generate system-directed change, on the principle that to keep families safe, community and societal conditions had to be improved. Starr and Addams developed three "ethical principles" for social settlements: "to teach by example, to practice cooperation, and to practice social democracy, that is, egalitarian, or democratic, social relations across class lines. Generally, Addams was close to a wide set of other women and was very good at eliciting their involvement from different classes in Hull House's programs. Nevertheless, throughout her life Addams did have significant romantic relationships with a few of these women, including Mary Rozet Smith and Ellen Starr. Her relationships offered her the time and energy to pursue her social work while
There are many celebrities who support and promote causes and charities to create awareness about peace, humanitarian causes, poverty, and illness in the world. Does celebrity activism really have the intention to help others or do celebrities get involved in it because they want to enhance their reputation? Although some celebrity activists do not have a good reputation because of their bad behavior, they contribute to society by giving donations or by supporting good causes. Celebrity activism matters because celebrities are powerful tools who raise awareness of good causes. Celebrities have the power to attract people’s attention, for instance, their fans, to influence them to support the important causes.
In 1889 intending to bring culture of the arts to immigrants, Ellen Starr and Jane Addams purchased an abandoned mansion (Kelland 783). The Hull House provided services such as child watch, educational classes, employment agencies, public kitchens and even a library. According to Women in the Progressive Era, by the second year of the Hull House, fulfilled more than two thousand people a week. Just ten years after the Hull House was founded it grew to include roughly 13 buildings, along with working women’s programs, conference rooms, a gym, and a pool. Hull-House helped educate immigrants by ha...
In the 1880s, a new generation of social workers, led by Jane Addams, argued that providing education and opportunity was more important than preaching morality. In 1889, Addams and a friend established Hull House in Chicago, where they lived and worked among the poor immigrants they aimed to help. Addams set up a kindergarten, a day nursery, and an employment bureau for the poor. On the other hand, Sumner is arguing (logically) that social classes will always exist, but that some men only need a little help to become a part of a higher class. He argues that “Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances. The greater
Jane Addams along with her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded one of the first settlement houses in the United States. Hull House provided programs and services for immigrants and those in need. The settlement house movement changed the way social workers viewed poverty from a micro to a macro level. As the authors stated, the blame was not on the person’s lack of morality but on a larger system that
Freud also was a medical doctor that specialized in the treatment of nervous disorder also known as neuroses. His main focus was that of psychoanalysis. He was also the first person to map out the entire subconscious geography of the human psych. Through his studies, he concluded that disordered thinking was the result of fears experienced in childhood. These disorders can range from hysteria, anxiety, depression, and obsession. Through his studies, he argued that neurotic behaviors had to be treated by bringing childhood experiences to the surface and confront them.
We are part of a generation that is obsessed with celebrity culture. Celebrities are distinctive. Media and consumers alike invented them to be a different race of super beings: flawless, divine and above all the real moral world. In a 1995 New York Times article “In contrast, 9 out of 10 of those polled could think of something
Freud was born in May 6, 1856 in the Czech Republic. He attended Spurling Gymnasium. At Spurling, he was first in his class and graduated Summa Cum Laude. After studying medicine at the University of Vienna, he gained respect while working as a physician. Freud and a friend were introduced to a case study that resulted in no cause, but they found that having the patient talk about her experiences had a calming effect on the symptoms. That was considered to be the beginning of the study of psychology.