'An Analysis Of The Evil Riis'

In the novel girls/women are looked upon as if they are in a lower class than boys/men and they can never be equal. At the age of 5, girls are taught how to carry buckets of water on their heads and how to hold the bucket with both hands. In the novel only girls had their ears pierced and had to sit down for hours getting their hair braided. Girls/women were expected to remain in the home and doing domesticated chores such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, and sew clothes. Girls were given tasks such as shaking and sunning bed mats and sprinkle the street in front of their cottages. In the novel boys/men are expected to do manual labor such as work in coffee patches or banana stands picking coffee beans or cutting down weeds in the fields. When boys are under the age of 6, they are given chores such as feeding the animals, letting the animals out, running errands, gather firewood, water the burros, halter the burros, and pick coffee beans. At the age of 6, boys became an apprentice under their father and learned the role of their respective job. At the age of 14, boys were considered men and got machetes to work in the coffee

She draws in many facts such as statistics about children working, “two million children under the age of sixteen years...are earning their bread” and “No other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as the young girls from fourteen to twenty years”. The facts are establishing her logos through the use of actual facts and not guessing or generalization. At this point in time, there were two million children working and most of them were young girls. She is starting out the essay by being honest and direct with her audience. Kelley later brings in examples and hypotheticals of children going to work “A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night. A little girl, on her thirteenth birthday, could start away from her home at half past five in the afternoon, carrying her pail of midnight luncheon as happier people carry their midday luncheon, and could work in the mill from six at night until six in the morning, without violating any laws of the Commonwealth.” Many women in the audience have children around the ages of thirteen and can recall this when their children go to work. The mothers may also recall this scenario from when they were younger. Truth uses more figurative rather than direct statistics, such as “women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place

Kelley commences her speech by providing a shocking statistic that “two million children under the age of sixteen years” strenuously work to support themselves and their families in order to create a forceful sense of emotion within her audience. By doing this she illuminates the rate of child labor to stress the severity of the problem. The author repeats “increase” to emphasize and describe that the American workforce is increasingly composed of girls/women in order to highlight their role and the growth of their participation in the workforce. Juxtaposing how girls spend their time with how

Even though it was easy for women to obtain jobs in the field of domestic work or laundresses, they faced heavier exploitation; considering, that with these jobs women often had no time to care for their families. Leading a life in extreme poverty, these women had no choice, but to search for other opportunities to keep their families, and themselves, alive. At some point African American women even had to sacrifice their prides, in order to earn breadline wages to survive.

     The reality of this book hit the people of New York right between the eyes. Riis was once ascribed the label of lower class society, but

In America, there used to be unfair laws and regulations regarding labor. Children are put to work in harsh conditions, conditions often deemed difficult even for adults, and are forced to work ridiculous hours. Florence Kelley gave a speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905. In her speech, Kelley uses repetition, pathos, imagery, logos, and carefully placed diction to express how child labor is morally wrong and inhumane.

The speaker begins her speech with introducing the topic of child labor by stating powerful facts that support her case and using poignant diction to create sympathy; these devices work together to bring attention to the problem of children being overworked from very young ages, and attempt to win the audiences allegiance to her cause. Kelley refers to a census regarding the different groups of people making up the “wage earning class,” and saying that “no contingent so doubles from census period to census period…as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age.” The rate of young girls working, earning a living, increases faster than any other group of people. The reference to a census, tells the audience that, not only has the speaker done research on her topic using credible sources, it indicates she is serious about it. Utilizing the census’ data, the speaker does well. In addition to using fact, the speaker also uses diction to reveal that she would like to make a

Riis’s rhetoric is simplistic to understand. He writes his observations and feelings as fact. “The Color Line in New York” provides a contrast between colored and European minorities: the colored referring to the African-Americans while the white referred to the Irish and Italian generally. Colored tenants in New York were crammed into small spaces together and charged more rent compared to their white counterparts. The idea was that once a “negro” occupied the space, it loses its value. Riis’s rhetoric depicts the unfairness that African-Americans faced at the greedy hands of white landlords in his story of Anna. The landlord was willing to take the money from Riis as an excuse for an unpaid rent that Riis was quick to disbelieve. Riis is fair in his explanation that the progress which African-Americans have made is great considering that they were slaves twenty-five years ago and prejudice still exists. He is also fair in demonstrating that African-Americans are orderly as to European minorities, which allows for the discrimination over the rent amount to be observable.

They were not getting paid and any woman that was a slave and had a child the child would be forced to be a slave. The author used very specific rules to inform the slaves what would happen

The book “There Are No Children Here” by Alex Kotlowitz details the challenges two young boy’s face by being raised in the inner city housing project (Henry Horner Homes). These challenges stem from racism, discrimination, the social construction of reality, social location, social class, and the deviance theory, which is due to their location and influences at which causes many youths to lead a life of crime. The book focuses on the Conflict and Symbolic Interaction theories of sociology. What is the true cause of their struggle? Is it the run down housing, lack of education, race, gangs, violence and drugs? I think that all of these play a part into their everyday

Kelley continuously describes how young and innocent these children are so that the audience can better understand that this is no place for young children to be working. By using the racial word “white” to describe the girls Kelley is appealing to her audience, which is primarily upper class white women (29). In doing so, she shocks the audience into realizing this could be their children. Furthermore, Kelley declares, “nor is it only in the south” that this is happening, which suggests to the audience that this is a national issue and is probably occurring in more than just the six states she mentioned (36). Consequently, Kelley condemns the New Jersey legislature by using the word “shameful” in describing the repeal bill that allows girls as young as fourteen years of age to work all night (60). She calls these children “beasts of burden” to emphasize how the people in America no longer treat children as blessings, but as inhuman as “beasts,” as well as stating “of burden” to show that there is a great load that is overpowering young children (76). Furthermore, she explains how children have been “robbed” of their education and socialization in school so they can be little slaves. Kelley uses the word “robbed” to emphasize that the right to education belongs to children, and is being stolen from them. Throughout this speech Kelley uses phrases such as “our socks,” “our

Callum Babbs Mr.Green AP US History 20 April 2018 The Progressive era was a period full with the desire to better life in the industrial age by creating modest political adjustment and social improvements through government action. A lot of progressives had like goals of limiting the power of big businesses, improving democracy for the people, and making social justice stronger. Although the progressives had managed to better the life quality and made a precedent for a more active role for the federal government, it is obvious that they didn’t succeed in solving many big problems they were faced with.

2. Rii’s point in these pictures and the excerpt is clear. The living conditions and circumstances of the poor in America’s cities are deplorable. The poor strive for dignity and to make a better life for themselves and their families, but everything is working against them. They cannot afford to live or care for their children despite working hard, long hours. They want to be respectable, but everything works against them. If nothing changes in their circumstances, their only escape is vice like the saloon mentioned in the excerpt. If the reader does not take action, their will always be an “other half” and their condition will not change.

Kelley begins to directly focus on young girls because the women may be able to relate more to reflection of themselves. The idea that “a girl… just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night,” could arise a more sympathetic viewpoint from the women. Each working group has changed it’s numbers, for example,“men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase… but no contingent doubles from census period to census period to census period… as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age.” The epistrophe of “increase” allows for the women to hear that this is the group most affected. Kelley wants the women to understand that “no other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as the young girls,” did.

2. Daubie wrote this document in order to advocate for the women factory workers, who she argues that the horrible working conditions. For example fact that women work 14 hours a day for low wages and are paid significantly less than men. Women were also harassed at work and were away from the house all day, unable to attend to their children.