a. Harry Hopkins, a social worker, played a key role in focusing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attention on the poor. Hopkins administered the first federal relief programs in the United States. The programs intended to help support the people devastated by the effects of the Great Depression by providing government jobs, cash grants, food and clothing. b. 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 …show more content…
Dorothy Height was a social worker and a civil rights leader who championed for women’s rights and civil rights throughout the U.S. She was largely concerned with improving the lives and creating opportunities for African American women. Through her untiring work she became one of the leading figures of the Civil Rights Movement. She even worked alongside First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. 3. Charles Loring Brace was a philanthropist who made major contributions to social reform. He created the Children’s Aid Society, out of concern for the poor and homeless children in New York City at a time when orphan asylums and almshouses were the only resources available. He also created the Orphans Train Movement, which placed poor and orphaned children in rural western homes with loving families. He is often considered the father of modern foster care. 4. Clara Barton was a nurse, a teacher and a humanitarian who dedicated her life toward helping others. During the Civil War, she organized relief to heal the wounded and helped locate many missing soldiers. Her creation of the American Red Cross has provided families with emergency assistance, disaster relief and education for more than a
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary”, Sally Ride (http://www.brainyquote.com). This, of course, is true for the inspirational astronaut we know today. Sally Ride changed society’s views on women, and made it into American history books. She impacted modern day space exploration and young women by being the first American woman in space as shown by her work for NASA and her dedication toward young women and girls pursuing careers in science and math.
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
The founder of The Children’s Aid Society, the driving force behind the Orphan Train Movement, was Charles Loring Brace. Brace first realized the amount of homeless children while working at a mission center. Brace wanted to give homes to the over 30,000 children living on the streets in the 1850s. Speaking about the situation at hand, Brace noted:
Activist, author, and leader, are words that describe Dorothy Height. Many people know that Dorothy Height was a fighter against discrimination, but she was so much more. As a well known Civil rights and Women's Rights Activist, Dorothy Height, showed Americans that they should be not be discriminated or segregated by their race or gender. She left a lasting legacy that hard work is never a waste.
From childhood to death Clara Barton dedicated her life to helping others. She is most notably remembered for her work as a nurse on the battlefield during the Civil War and for the creation of the American Red Cross. Barton was also an advocate for human rights. Equal rights for all men, women, black and white. She worked on the American equal Rights Association and formed relations with civil rights leaders such as Anna Dickensen and Fredric Douglass. Her undeterred determination and selflessness is undoughtably what made her one of the most noteworthy nurses in American history.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” (Joseph Campbell). Clara Barton could be regarded as a hero because she went into several military battles during the civil war with a strong mindset to help the soldiers who were wounded and to provide supplies that were needed but scarce17.She was a woman of many talents who accomplished a lot but became best known for the founding of the Red Cross in America. Her humanitarian contributions and compassionate personality allowed her to connect with many people. As inspiring as Clara Barton was, she wasn’t born a hero but became one with the influence of her younger years. Clara Barton’s family life and personal struggles when she was younger, ultimately shaped
Dorothy Height was born in Richmond, Virginia on March 24th, 1912 and died on April 20, 2010 at the age of 98 (Williams, 2013). The racism she witnessed and personally went through as a child encouraged her to become who she grew up to be (Height, 2003). She said “I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor” (Height, 2003, p. 467). Dorothy Height was an advocate for women’s rights and civil rights because she heard many cases about African American women being violated, abused, and raped in jails and in public (McGuire, 2010). Height had a dual agenda to end racism and sexism which led her to earn 20 honorary degrees and more than 50 awards in her later life (Crewe, 2013). Dorothy Height was not in the media’s public eye during the Civil Rights Movement but later on she became known.
The end of the nineteenth century paved the way to the beginning of Progressivism; a time of reforms to change American life. Although politics were changing during this time, many sought to focus public concern on improving living conditions of poor urban communities. Settlement houses, an approach to social reform, was an establishment created by philanthropists whom first lived besides the residents in the communities they directly help. These houses created a plethora of programs to assist poor families by giving them the opportunities they needed for success in their fast evolving world. The settlement houses of the twentieth century, not only changed the lives of the individuals it hosted and the lives of the house staff but the houses
Clara Barton attacked many social problems of the 1800’s. From creating a free school, to being on the front lines helping soldiers in the Civil War, to creating the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian. She fought for what she believed in and because of her never-ending fight for people, the world is a different place.
The Children’s Aid Society in 1854 developed the Orphan Train program a predecessor to foster care. Charles Loring Brace believed that this would give children the chance of a good life by giving them the opportunity to live with “morally standing farm families”(Warren,