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A 5 page paper which examines various
themes within Jane Addams' "Twenty Years at Hull House." The themes addressed are
industrialization, poverty, and the attempt to industrialize society in Chicago as far as
Addams' felt was possible. No additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAhullhs.rtf
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By Julie A. Rodgers - November 2001 -- properly! Introduction In Jane Addams "Twenty years at Hull House"
we are given an incredibly detailed account of American life as the country was immersed in industrialization. It is a story of a woman who once knew Abraham Lincoln, and
a woman who was compassionate as well as passionate about her cause. She felt a need to help others, and to make some social changes, as well as offer possibilities
to citizens of the city. She was a woman with a vision, and also a woman of her times. She felt that the industrialized nation lacked something, something that was
perhaps to be found in examining the early American "Settlements." Bearing these realities in mind, we present the following paper which illustrates some of the themes in Addams work. The
paper focuses mainly on industrialization but also discusses elements of poverty, the reality of ghettos, and Addams desire to deindustrialize, to some extent, her surrounding society and the people she
came in contact with. Hull House We note in Addams a need to somehow bring a balance to society, or to social cause, as it relates to industrial
cities and the location of Hull House which, although it existed within the city, seemed somehow removed from the city as it provided a sanctuary. In the following we see
her attention to this presumed need as it involves her "Settlement": "The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which
are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of a city. It is an
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