University of Hull Essays

  • The Recurring Theme of Death in the Poetry of Philip Larkin.

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    The Recurring Theme of Death in the Poetry of Philip Larkin. In reading the poetry of Philip Larkin for the first time, one is struck by the characteristically glum atmosphere that pervades most of his poems. The vast majority of his verse is devoted to what is generally taken to be negative aspects of life, such as loneliness and dejection, disappointments, loss, and the terrifying prospect of impending death. Evidently, there are uplifting and humorous sides to his work as well, but for

  • Biography of Florence Kelley

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    father, exploring steel and iron manufacturing sites, prefacing her future career path. In addition to vocational learning, Florence Kelley absorbed knowledge through the massive library at h... ... middle of paper ... ...ugh her work in college, at Hull House, or with the NCL, Florence Kelley’s impact was truly remarkable. She never criticized any potential cause that she encountered, and she helped most everyone that needed it. The proof is in her career. She not only helped start the NCL, a general

  • Yale Sexual Misconduct Summary

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    Liena Vayzman, Laura Wexler and Shirley McCarthy, detail the sexual misconduct policy at Yale University and the effects it has had on the school. Sexual misconduct is a problem that has been plaguing college campuses for decades and as stated by the authors, most universities don’t know how to define sexual misconduct. This means that they cannot properly handle the issue they’re faced with. Yale University was faced with this problem and changed their sexual misconduct policy to better handle the

  • Jane Addams and the Successful Hull House

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    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 the city, and led the way

  • Laura Jane Addams: The Mother Of The Social Work

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    who spent their whole life helping the poor people. She creates certain organizations that help the poor people to get the necessary things to life. One of these organizations that began as known her as ¨The Mother Of The Social Work¨ was the Chicago Hull House (The Settlement House) in 1889. Addams create this organization to promote welfare for those people in need. Jane Addams with this organization made a critical impact in people's lives with her generous, caring heart and became a big influence

  • Jane Addams

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    Mary Rozet Smith or other women at Hull House, but the question has never been definitively resolved. While Addams was a great organizer and reformer, it must be noted that she had the help of several ambitious women at Hull House who were progressive thinkers in their own right. Furthermore, she would have never been able to achieve so much without the many donations that she was able to secure from philanthropists. Today, the 13 buildings that surrounded the Hull House settlement have been destroyed

  • Sexism In The Hull House

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    at the settlement house and worked to help those less fortunate. These women became the care givers, teachers, and health service providers for their community. There were many settlement houses founded by women but some of the most popular are the Hull House founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr and the Henry Street Settlement 1893 in New York by Lillian Wald (Women in the Progressive Era). Lillian Wald was a head-hard worker. Coming from a well off family and having attended nursing school, Wald

  • Jane Addams Influence On Social Work

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    Her works are still remembered in the United States. The Hull House is now a museum. Every year on the same day, December 10th, she is remembered and celebrated. I also learned that the social work department of the University of Illinois at Chicago is named after Addams. (Jane Addams College of Social Work). She has written many books in her time as well. For example, maybe her most famous book was/is Twenty Years At Hull House. This book is about her accounts of the existence of poverty

  • Social Work Interview Analysis

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    Introduction The term social worker encompasses numerous different functions. They encompass a variety of skills which are linked, with the goal of helping individuals in need (Kirst-Ashman, & Hull, 2015). Discussed in this paper is the interview conducted with Tiernan Seaver, MSW, Program Coordinator at the CASA FAMILIAR, nonprofit community development agency, located in San Ysidro, California. The interview consisted of questions regarding Tiernan’s educational background, what brought her to

  • Jane Addams in Action

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    The Nobel Foundation, Web. 1 Dec 2009. . Brown, Victoria B. The Education of Jane Addams. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2004. Print. Daniel, Cathleen L. "Hull House Incorporated: The Professionalization of Social Work." Jan 2001. The University of Virginia, Web. 1 Dec 2009. . Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Print. Elshtain, Jean B. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy. New York: Basic Books

  • Night Waitress Essay

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    the way someone feels towards others and yourself? Social class can be defined by “a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status”. (Social Class, np). Lynda Hull is an American poet, who attended Johns Hopkins University. (Lynda Hull, np ). In the “Night Waitress” by Lynda Hull a waitress gives insight about how she feels working as a waitress and the effects it has on her social class. Being in a low social class, can cause feelings of hopelessness. In this essay

  • Biography of Philip Larkin

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    in Wartime. Two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter were published in 1946 and 1947 respectively. In 1946, Larkin became assistant Librarian at the University College of Leicester. He completed his professional studies and became an Associate of the Library Association in 1949. In October 1950, he became Sub-Librarian at Queen's University, Belfast. It was in Belfast that he applied fresh vigour to his poetry activities, and, in 1951, had a small collection, XX Poems, privately printed in

  • International Free Trade and World Peace

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    range of sources, this study features the ideas of four influential authors from two time periods and continents: from the 18th Century, Adam Smith and Alexander Hamilton, and from the 20th Century, John Maynard Keynes and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. My thesis is that the four authors examined actually agreed with one another on the connection between free trade and peace, despite the discordant resonance of their arguments. Due to the nature of trade in Hamilton and Smith's time, their assertions

  • Mode Two: Groupwork

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    Multicultural Affairs, 6,500 British Child Migrants were sent to Australia; 3,500 before WW1 and 3,000 after WW2 (Irizarry, 2011). This focus group brought together 6 to 10 women whom had a connection of child migration. The meetings consisted of a Flinders University social work staff member and another part-time social worker (Irizarry,

  • Jane Addams: The Most Influential Person Of The Gilded Age

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    the Hull House. Their mission was to help immigrants adapt to America’s language, lifestyle, and customs. The reason I

  • The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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    There are mysteries which man can only guess at, which may only ever truly be solved in part; the SS Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is one of them. At the time it was launched in 1958, the 729-foot long, 75-foot wide freighter was the largest ship to ply the Great Lakes. Although, on November 9, 1975 the ship embarked upon what would become its final voyage. She was carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets and bound for Detroit, and though the day was bright, in her path laid great turbulence.

  • Elon Musk Accomplishments

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    reading and keeping to himself allowed him research and think about what innovative technologies he could create. “When he was 17, in 1989, he moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University and to avoid mandatory service in the South African military, but he left Queen’s University to study business and physics at University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics” (Elon Musk

  • Distance Education Essay

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    during the entire course of study (Lei & Gupta). Distance education began in Europe with correspondence schools (Hull, 2009). The primary purpose of these correspondence schools was to teach shorthand (Hull, 2009). The United States adopted the idea around 1980, and it was primary used for broadening vocational training for mining, and state college agriculture extension programs (Hull, 2009). In 1926, the Distance Education and Training Counsel (DETC) was created and was the source of many well-known

  • The Importance Of Black Women's Studies

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    expanded admissions. Thus, African-descent women entered white universities in relatively greater numbers during this period and they are still currently entering now. Introducing Black women studies into universities would be centered around power and inequality. If we was to introduce Black studies in universities, then the white women would want White women studies in schools. In the Politics of Black Women’s Studies by Gloria Hull, and Barbara Smith , they said “ the horrors we have faced historically

  • Angelina Weld Grimke's Poetry and Use of Nature

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    First, Grimké uses nature as a way to display her abilities as a poet. As described by Gloria T. Hull, Grimké’s poetry is “very delicate, musical, romantic, and pensive, and draws extensively on the natural world for allusions and figures of speech. Her greatest strength is her affinity for nature, her ability to really see it and then describe what she has seen with precision and subtlety…” (Hull, para. 1).