Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html. Read the biography of Jane Addams and answer the following questions:

a. Where was Hull House located?

b. What sort of services did Hull House provide to the neighborhood?

c. To what other organizations did Addams belong?

d. What did Addams do during the First World War?

Exercise 2

Go to http://www.bartleby.com/114/100.html. Read the introduction ("The Forethought") to W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk and answer the following questions:

a. According to Du Bois, what was the problem of the twentieth century?

b. What is the significance of "the veil" in this passage?

c. What topics does Du Bois cover in this work?

d. Du Bois's book was published in 1903. What other sociologists were writing at that time, and what were they writing about?