Jane Addams
Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. She grew up in Cedarville, but later moved to Chicago where she died on May 21, 1935 of cancer. Being a woman, she made up about fifty percent of the population. Addams was very well known. Addams was quoted by President Theadore Roosevelt as "America's most useful citizen." She was a social reformer, internationalist, and feminist, but she was most well known for founding the Hull House.
For the most part, she did live the "American Dream," if you interpret the "American Dream" as wealth and success. She never had financial problems at all. Her father was a wealthy businessman and Illinois senator for eight consecutive years. He was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and he was a widely respected leader in his community. He also helped to bring a railroad into the country. She was also a very prominent member of society, and was very widely respected.
In some ways, though, she did not live the "American Dream." She did not strive to be wealthy and successful, she spent more of her time giving back to society than trying to become wealthy, prosperous and successful, which was what many people wanted. She worked for gaining the rights for everyone in society including the right for women to vote and anti child labor laws.
This was not true for most people of that time. Many people were very poor and tried to become prosperous, but could not. There were many immigrants, especially around Chicago where Addams was. They came here in hope of prosperity, but instead had to work long hard hours for very low wages.
Addams was greatly influenced by her father's strong morals. She was the eighth of nine chil...
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...rcotics consumption, milk supplies, and sanitary conditions. Because of her work, she received the first ever honorary degree ever awarded to a woman by Yale University. Addams was also a major peace advocate.
In 1914, when world tensions erupted into war, Addams focused her energy into peace. Since 1906, she had tried to find a "moral substitute" for war. In 1915 she joined other reform and peace-minded women in forming the Women's Peace Party, which was dedicated to finding a quick peace settlement and establishing a permanent international peacekeeping organization.
Addams was a woman with strong values that she worked to uphold. She did many good things for society and worked for many good causes. We can thank her now for working towards anti child labor, woman's suffrage and many other things. She was very accomplished and well liked by many people.
...d the fact that every time she moved into a different state, she found work and a decent place to stay with money in hand. It was not her intention to help those who are of the working class. She did not suffer any great damages. And at no point in time did she go without bare necessities such as the individuals that lead the life she lived for a few months.
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Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist and a social reformer. She dedicated her life to spread awareness of the danger and unfairness of social inequalities and slavery. She helped creating or advocating many US and International organizations. She lobbied the creation of laws to protect the rights of citizens regardless of their ethnicity or gender. She was "one of the most loved and hated women in the country. "Her opponents often described her as "nsexed, an unnatural creature that did not function as a true woman, one who devoted her life to a husband” (Barry). She passed away
Jane Addams was a Victorian woman born into a male-dominated society on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. Her father was a wealthy landowner and an Illinois senator who did not object to his daughter’s choice to further her education, but who wanted her to have a traditional life. For years after his death, Addams tried to reconcile the family role she was expected to play with her need to achieve personal fulfillment.
Susan B. anthony wasn’t as big as Martin Luther King Jr. or Abraham Lincoln but she nothing short of inspiring. One of her greatest speeches was Women's Rights to Suffrage in 1873. She was an agent for the Anti-Slavery Society and collected petitions when she was only 17. She was also president of the Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage Organization (CUWO). She also helped with Fredrick Douglas and his situation.
Sumner graduated from Yale University and upon graduating he went back to the university becoming a professor. Sumner was the first to teach a course titled “Sociology”. Addams, on the other hand, did not attend the college that she had chosen, Smith College. Instead, she had the opportunity to attend Rockford Female Seminary. This specific college was a missionary college. Another similarity between Addams and Sumner is that they both came from families that were considered well rounded. Additionally, they both lost their mothers at a fairly young age. Sumner comes from a hardworking family. Addams’ main influence in her childhood was her father, John Addams. Addams was very much influenced by her father’s strong ethics. He helped shape his daughter to become more benevolent to the less
Addams was kindhearted from the time she was young. At an early age, she had an aspiration to help those who were less privileged than herself. She was into science during her undergraduate days. She was already anxious about the place of women in American life, a distress that would advance transmission for her
She grew up being raised by a politician and a mill owner, so at a young age she was exposed to large crowds and hard labor which she used throughout her life. She never gave up on people or on a project and she worked day and night if she had too(Boman 3). During the span of her life, Addams was proposed to twice, but to keep her path clear she rejected both marriages. This impacted her because instead of settling down she took the path of her career and continued to pour her heart and soul into her clients and projects. Jane Addams also didn’t have any religious preference and considered them all to be right in their own ways. She worked with to many different cultures to be dedicated to just one, so she wasn’t dedicated to any(Hamington 3). Another cultural influence Addams had was having the privilege to go to college. In her time, women rarely attended school, but Addams went to Rockford College in Illinois and got a degree in medical(Shuman 2). All these cultural influences led Addams to the path of social work and helping people, but it wouldn’t be fair not to add in her economic influences that made all her achievements
Women’s right was a troubling issue in the United State triggered by the American Revolution and Civil War, because when the men were fighting in war the women would take up their jobs, and would have to support the family which led to the cult of domesticity. Women had little rights and were ban from involvement in politics, voting, and paid unequal to men. One of the major advocates for equality of women was Susan B. Anthony. She strived for the acknowledgment for women in the work forces, politics, and voting. In Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words talks about Susan B. Anthony incredible, but struggling journey for women rights.
Jane Addams was the woman was influential in the Settlement House movement. The first settlement house she organized was called Hull House. Jane Addams is credited for looking out for the down trodden and truly wanting to fix the poverty problem in America. She also helped congress pass child regulation laws in America. Addams was also the first woman to be given the honor of representing the National Conference of Charities and Correction as president of the organization.
The American dream can be realized by anyone who puts their mind to it. Some people shoot for what they can afford and some turn for the stars. The House On Mango Street really gives people a good example of how a poor American family can achieve the American Dream. Esperanza and her family proves that anyone with a strong will and a lot of hope can make a worthwhile struggle for what they need to get ever closer to the fulfilling and completing their extension of the American Dream so maybe, it would not be an extension anymore. So they do achieve their own version while Esperanza must now go off and achieve hers.
Jane Adams, pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, peace activists, and leader in women's suffrage, was born on the eve of the Civil War, September 6, 1960, in the small farming community of Cedarville, just outside Freeport, in northern Illinois. She was the youngest of five children. Her family was known as the wealthiest and most respected family in the community. She attended Rockford Female Seminary where she was the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor's degree, an event that mark the school's transition to collegiate status. She was serving as a desirable model student and a fascinating campus leader, serving as class president all four years, editor of the school magazine, president of the literary society, and valedictorian. She was among the fist college- educated woman in the United States.
In the Epic Of America, James Truslow Adams defines the American dream as "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement…. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." (p.214-215) In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby, he describes three ways to achieve the American Dream: be born into it, marry into it, or work hard. Jay Gatsby strives to achieve the American
In conclusion, I think my mother did great in completing her american dream. She is a great role model for me to take as example as I just now start my journey for my life objective. My american dream has always been similar to my mom’s. Personally, I wish to accomplish my dream by becoming a professional soccer player, getting wealthy, and then live happily with my family. Compared to how my mom described the american dream, I think she fully describes the main characters from Of Mice and Men. I feel like George and Lennie both worked hard at fulfilling their dream just like my mom portrayed
Every character in the Great Gatsby fulfilled his or her part of the "American Dream". It didn't always make the person better, in most cases worse. It made the characters see life I an unnatural light that they would not of other wise seen. First I need to make clear what the "American Dream really" is.