This week, the assigned blog was to pick a topic from a different chapter that you weren't assigned, and discuss it, expand on it. I chose to do chapter 7, section 2, and I chose to talk about Jane Addams.Quoted form the book, "Settlement houses in the United States wer founded by Charles Stover and Stanton Coit in New York City in 1886. Jane Addams-- one of the most influential memners of the movement--"Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1880, lived until she was seventy five years old, and died on May 21, 1935. As i already stated from the book, she was the original founder of the U.S. Settlement House, very influential, and was also one of the very first women to recieve the3 Nobel Peace Prize.On December 10, 1931, Addams recieved the peace prize for the following: elected President of the Woman's international League for Peace and Freedom, faced harsh critism, her speech on paficism recieved negative comments, and later she would meet with diplomats and civic leaders in order to gain peace.Addams was also remembered in many ways. In 1947, the Jane Addams House, a residence hall, was built at Connecticut College. In Cleveland, Ohio, there's a high school in her honor, Jane Addams Business Careers Center. There is a trial for hiking, bikeing. and so forth near her birthplace in Cedarville, Illinois. These are just a few examples of memorials for Jane Addams.I think that Jane Addams deserved the Nobel Peace Prize she recieved. She was a hard working woman who fought for what she beleived in and reached her goals in life. Personally, I agree much more wiith her recieving this award rather than when Obama recieved his.
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