The Addams Family Essays

  • The Misfits: The Addams Family

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    obvious as the Addams Family a small replicate of then character is shown regularly in current generation television. What made the Addams so successful and well known was their spontaneous character traits which allowed them to break taboo and behave as if this was the social normality. Reactions presented from the interacting characters in the show which weren’t familiar with the family were what helped make the show ongoing and interesting by persisting with the idea that the family themselves were

  • The Addams Family

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    One favorite representation of the gothic clothing style in media is “The Addams Family”. In “The Addams Family” characters such as Morticia Addams are frequently seen in black clothing, have a pale complexion, black hair, and wear darker shades of makeup. Wednesday Addams is also seen wearing the same dark colors and has the same pale complexion that is now so often associated with gothic culture. Another aspect of gothic

  • The Addams Family Satirical

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    Addams Family Values: The Crazy and the Kooky of the Satirical The Addams Family was an unusual sitcom about an outlandish family of hellish outcasts homed in the center of suburban life. The 1964 television show was originally based off of a comic strip by a cartoonist, Charles Addams. It was a surreal show that was based one running joke. The Addams Family was “mysterious and kooky” and did not fit into comptempary life of modern suburban culture. Adaption of nostalgic popular culture allows

  • The Addams Family: Play Analysis

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    The Addams Family’s set, costumes, and lighting all collaborate to create an amazing play that boasts both comedy and drama. There were many decorations and props that stood out to me, but immediately upon entering the lobby of the theater; I was able to view a scene that included a mounted buck and many other eerie decorations. Following the opening of the curtains and the beginning of the play I was able to see a large tree covered in neon green and purple paint on stage right and a cemetery scene

  • Addams Family Musical Analysis

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    to see for this reaction paper was The Addams Family musical. I saw this show on May 27, at 8:00 PM. This production was put on by The Little Theatre of Norfolk. This paper will include an over view of the play through the four critical lenses, performance and technical aspects. The first lens that will be covered, is the formalistic lens. The formalistic lens looks at the basic elements of a dramatic work. The show is based off the well-known Addams family. It is a story of every parent’s worst

  • Suddenly Empty Chair

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    my heart. Objective-One of your favorite life experiences- The Lost Family 5. A family named, the Addams, was going on a vacation in Franklin, North Carolina. The family stayed in a cabin along the Little Tennessee River, the cabin had a rope bridge a little ways down that the family could enjoy. The Adams first went whitewater rafting down the Nantahala, and then zip lining through the trees. The next night the family went out to dinner and then to an arcade with games, bumper cars and go

  • Personal Narrative: The Addams Family Musical

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    On November 15th I attended The Addams Family musical at the Kirkland Fine Arts Center in Decatur. When I was walking in I was sure that this musical would be just like all of the others I have seen, full of catchy show tunes and over exaggerated stage makeup. Overall, I was.very excited to see a college preform a show that my high school shall preform later in the year. We were even directed to a room for a pre-show meeting with the director! Originally the musical was produced on Broadway by Stuart

  • Extended Families

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    Extended Families The evolution of extended families has progressed far from the early black and white episodes of The Addams Family, to the country life of The Waltons, and to the crazy lives of the family in Full House. It is clear that the changes in the portrayals of families provide audience members with a picture of families being more complex if nothing else (Bryant, 2001). Therefore, it is certain that each decade has surpassed the other in its growth and development of extended families

  • Compare And Contrast Jane Addams And Sumner

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    and you knew before you left this earth, you would? Helping the poor, saving lives, shielding families and inspiring individuals: this paper will compare and contrast Jane Addams and William Sumner. Although Addams and Sumner bear some superficial similarities, the differences between the both of them are clear. Although Addams and Sumner share a similar background, they each have their own worldview. Addams’ main focus was to contribute in any way that she could to help the poor and impact lives for

  • Jane Addams

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    An American pragmatist and feminist, Hull-House founder Jane Addams (1860-1935) came of age in time of increasing tensions and division between segments of the American society, a division that was reflected in debates about educational reform. In the midst of this diversity, Addams saw the profoundly interdependent nature of all social and political interaction, and she aligned her efforts to support, emphasize and increase this interdependence. Education was one of the ways she relied on to overcome

  • Compare And Contrast Jane Adddams And Sumneron

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    shielding families and inspiring individuals interest you or do you feel that it is your duty to uplift individuals in social classes? The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Jane Addams and William Sumner. Although Addams and Sumner bear some superficial similarities, the differences between the both of them are clear. Although Addams and Sumner share a similar background, they each have their own worldview on people that are poverty stricken and individuals that are wealthy. Addams’ main

  • Biography Of Laura Jane Addams

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    Laura Jane Addams, or best known as Jane Addams, was a strong willing woman to change the lives of others and to make things right. She was recognized as a pioneer settlement worker (Jane Addams-Biographical). Being a women’s rights activist and anti-war activist, Jane also co-founded the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois with a friend Ellen Starr. Addams was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in the year of 1931, four years before her death ("Laura Jane Addams" Bio.). Although Jane died at 74 from

  • Essay On Jane Addams

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    Jane Addams took a stand for social welfare /social reform by becoming a co-founder of the hull house and helping immigrants live, and get equal rights for women and also believed that social differences cannot affect her. Jane Addams the daughter of John H. Addams founded the first settlement house in chicago’s hull house. She helped America focus on issues that were of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, local public health, world peace and equal rights. Jane Addams the youngest

  • Exploring Rest Cure Therapy in The Yellow Wallpaper

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    Weir Mitchell (Kivo 8). Women from all over the world traveled to the United States to be treated by Silas Weir Mitchell (5). Rest cure therapy included secluding the patient from family and friends and complete physical and intellectual rest (5). Many women who followed Mitchell's treatment plan returned to their families cured, but there were some women whose symptoms became worse after being treated by Mitchell or after being restricted to bed rest. Many women did not benefit from rest. In "The

  • Jane Addams and the Successful Hull House

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    Jane Addams and her colleague, Ellen Gates Starr, founded the most successful settlement house in the United States otherwise known as the Hull-House (“Settlement” 1). It was located in a city overrun by poverty, filth and gangsters, and it could not have come at a better time (Lundblad 663). The main purpose of settlement houses was to ease the transition into the American culture and labor force, and The Hull-House offered its residents an opportunity to help the community, was a safe haven for

  • Twenty Years at Hull-House

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    Jane Addams and her commitment to insight social change to problems that existed during the turn of the 20th century.  As a reaction to the hardships of a changing industrial society, Addams decided to establish a settlement house in the West side of Chicago to help individuals who had suffered from the cruelties of industrialization.  Rejecting the philosophies that stemmed from the Gilded Age, such as social Darwinism and the belief that human affairs were determined by natural law, Addams was a

  • Hull House: Turned Immigrants into Americans

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    of the city that suffered from severe poverty. They often lived in run down tenement houses that were unsafe. All the while, they clung to the cultures of the “old world” they just left. It was not until the 1880s that things began to change. Jane Addams, a middle class woman, decided to help the impoverished immigrants. She opened a settlement house and she called it Hull House. It was the first settlement house in the United States. She focused on Chicago’s most poverty-stricken area. The Hull House

  • Hilda Polacheck's I Came A Outsider

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    opinion in society. For example, Jane Addams was a critical woman that help change the way women were viewed in society along with giving the people who may not speak a voice to be heard. In Polacheck’s book I came a Stranger she writes, “The American people still do not quite realize that is Jane Addams who woke the conscience of America to the debt that it owed to the great masses of people who were pouring into America.” Polacheck is trying to show how Jane Addams has been a major influence in American

  • How Did Jane Addams Influence Social Work

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    Keenan Cantrell Dr. Fisher History 5 March 2017   Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Jane Addams is a woman of history I admire, because she spoke up for all women in her time period and she is one of the reasons that women today are able to vote. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize which made a great impact on other women

  • What Is Jane Addams View Of Women's Equality

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    younger daughter responds saying that her bond of love is only as strong as his bond of love for her. Once the two older daughter received their portion of the kingdom, they became power hungry and irrational with all the power that they accepted. Jane Addams shows how this power overwhelmed the daughter’s when she says, “When the kingdom was given to them they received it as altogether their own, and were dominated by a sense of possession; “it is ours not yours” was never absent from their consciousness”