Essays Tagged: "Ellen Gates Starr"

Jane Addams and her impact on society

nts from Oxford and Cambridge to teach workingmen. After returning to Chicago, Jane and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, decided to start looking into the possibilities of starting a settlement house in ... d had a mental breakdown, which in turn was an emotional setback for her.After Jane and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr opened the Hull House, they started to realize how bad conditions were in Chicago. ...

(4 pages) 251 0 4.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Jane Addams, a woman who transformed the immigrant learning and rights with the Hull-House reforment movement.

zed an impressive group to help her repair and manage it. Her comrades consisted of Florence Kelly, Ellen Gates Starr, and Dr. Alice Hamilton. Hull-House was going to be a very powerful reform movemen ...

(2 pages) 65 0 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Jane Adams- Female Sociologist

ith this. She once again traveled to Europe in search of clarity, this time with her college friend Ellen Gates Starr. On this trip Addams visited Toynbee Hall in London's east end. Associated with Ox ...

(9 pages) 88 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

History of Jane Addams

She decided to visit the world's first, Toynbee Hall, in London. She and several friends, including Ellen Gates Starr, traveled in Europe from December 1887 through the summer of 1888. After watching ... or not acting on her dream.] Believing that sharing her dream might help her to act on it, she told Ellen Gates Starr. Starr loved the idea and agreed to join Addams in starting a settlement house. Ad ...

(7 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History