Research Paper on:
Hull House by Jane Addams

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earliest memories was being appalled by the effects of poverty, which made her determined to help the waves of immigrants flowing into the country. Together with Ellen Starr, she founded  Hull House, the first "settlement" house in the US. Patterned after a British settlement house, Addams enlarged greatly on this model and offered Chicago immigrants around Hull House services that  included everything from day care to acting as an employment bureau. As this implies, Addams, with her colleagues at Hull House, more or less, invented what today is referred  to as a community center, that is, a place where residents of a neighborhood can come for social services. While today the idea that certain services should be available is  taken for granted, when Addams opened Hull House, it was a radical notion. The following examination of Addams account of her years at Hull House compares her early social work  with how these problems are addressed today. The student researching this topic should note that the questions to be answered on the requested source - i.e. Addams autobiography -  presume prior knowledge of the material covered in the course thus far. Not actually being a member of this class - which is complicated by the fact that the student  requested that the review of early social work use only one source-- there is no available option for determining who "C. W. Mills" is or what he means by "private  troubles." On the other hand, basing an answer simply on the connotative meaning behind the phrases "private troubles" and "public issues," the student should note that when Addams discusses  the "public issue" of mothers having to work to support their families, she does so by relating the "private troubles" that these women personally encountered that resulted from there being