Research Paper on:
Jane Addams' Twenty Years at Hull House and Themes

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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