Jacob Riis Analysis

To Continue, In the novel “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and the article “Can You Trust The News” by Lauren Tarshis, the authors use imagery that is similar to each other because in both imagery it is a situation that is unfair and incredibly negative. An example of this similarity in “Farewell to Manzanar” is “we woke early, shivering and coated with dust that had blown through the knotholes and through the slits around the doorway. During the night mama unpacked all the clothes and heaped them on the bed for warmth.” this imagery of the intense cold and dust covered children showed the tough and unfair living conditions. An example of this in the article is “Imagine someone made up a terrible lie about you: that you robbed a bank. Then imagine that this person wrote a whole

Jacob Riis, an immigrant from Denmark and the author and photographer of How the Other Half Lives, is no exception to this reality. Riis, in his book, tries to convince reformers to do something about the poor, urban slums of which many immigrants lived. He has many images depicting the conditions in these slums, however none of them completely tell the whole story. For example, as a Christian, Riis incorporates his moral beliefs into his pictures of the slums. Riis believed that stable families was a factor that could lead to making the slum conditions more bearable. The family and home were supposed to be a haven from the harsh work world. He photographed a family in their home, as seen on page 217, however, their home looks the opposite of a haven from the work world. Every member of the family is stretching tobacco leaves as if the work world has nudged its way into their home. Riis’ typical audience and intended audience would find this shocking because Protestants had the same belief Riis did on work coming into the home. By taking this picture, Riis wants the viewer to think that every household (if one had a residence) in the slums was like this. His purpose, to get reformers to reform the urban slum situation, prevents the viewer from knowing the truth that not

About the neighborhood were the ruins of an ancient civilization, or the aftermath of a bomb dropped by a phantom jet. Sides of houses lay fallen, crumbled and broken on the ground, block walls that once demarcated each property were toppled. Up the street the large two-story’s second floor shifted by more than a foot. It was surreal to walk into the bedroom and see a bed wedged at an unnatural angle against the outer wall, its headboard all that kept its lucky occupants from plunging to the grass below.

“The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, whereas children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised” (Desmond 2016, 293). Evictions! The root of poverty? Matthew Desmond’s novel “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in America City, portrays the lives of tenants, landlords, and house marketing on the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee. Desmond gives the reader overwhelming evidence and revealing testimony illustrating the major impact of inadequate housing on individuals, local, and national level. Desmond’s analysis and observation of his case study enables him to portray the reality of poverty, and to persuade the readers that evictions are a major consequence, and primary contributors in the relentless cycle of poverty. Desmond build his argument using two Aristotelian rhetorical appeals, ethos, logos and inductive reasoning to illustrates the importance of ending the cycle of poverty.

When it was published in 1890, the novel How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis astonished the middle and upper class Americans. Riis revealed to the world the horrific living conditions of New York City’s tenement housing. He did this by the use of graphic photographs (that he himself took) and detailed written descriptions which are all first-hand accounts, as he was a witness to whatever he wrote. After reading the novel one might question how are the poor subjected to such harsh living conditions and also how the environment affects them. Riis reveals the hardships each ethnic group faces as he investigates each tenement to draw out some kind of solution. In doing so, many of his fears and prejudices are revealed as well.

In Riis’ novel “How the other half lives”, Riis intends to expose the harsh conditions that the families of New York were being housed in. While doing so, he rights all of what he finds in his journal. Riis first fills in some informational background about the history of New York tenements, which once belonged to some of the city’s most luxurious families. As industrialization increased over the course of the nineteenth century, the rising rates of immigration of both rural and urban areas that ensued caused these families to move out of the city all of which occured in the 1890’s . The buildings’ owners then began to subdivide them into windowless apartments for the new arrivals streaming in. Riis describes these tenements as increasingly

If you lived in the Revolutionary war times would you risk your life to be a spy for the patriots? This is what John Reid what have done. Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi is about a household living happier than ever, that is until the Revolutionary War comes by. Now the men of the Emerson family have gone out into the war, leaving Jemima, her mom, the Moores which is a friendly Quaker family, and Lucy and Cornelius which are the Emersons house’s servants that were slaves but were free but wanted to stay, at home. So who is John Reid? At first, to Jemima and many more people John Reid is a Tory also known as a Loyalist in the beginning, but he was also Jemima’s tutor. Why did I pick John Reid? I chose him because he is brave, serious, and demanding keep reading and find out how.

“Greatly moved by Riis's book, Roosevelt began to accompany him on many of his nightly journeys through the slums of New York. Roosevelt admired Riis, and when he became president he offered Riis government positions. Riis refused, however, claiming his work was in the city. By the turn of the twentieth century, Riis's work had started to take effect and improvement began to occur. New Yorkers demanded action to renovate the city's slums. School playgrounds and boys' and girls' clubs were established. The city water was purified, which reduced epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, and cholera. The police station lodging houses for the homeless were eliminated and more humane shelters were created. Riis helped force the destruction of overcrowded

New York’s housing problems in the 19th century was the result of a mix of factors such as increased immigration, rising rents and shortage of affordable housing supply. The sudden influx in the city’s population led to emergence of tenements in the 1840s and 50s, built specifically to accommodate large numbers of low-income people. Tenements soon became the dominant form of working class housing.

August Rinehard took his job as a soldier in the shifter’s rebel army seriously. This lone wolf had a simple mission: find India and get her back. However, along the way, he rescues Kory, a wolf that was subjected to the humans entrapment and torture. The two hit it off immediately and the passion between them sizzles. But the lone wolf doesn’t want a relationship, or worse, mate. While they search for their leader’s beloved sister, the pull of the moon is nearly unbearable. A quick romp in the sack leads to the beginning of the bonding phase that neither of them can deny. Can these two loners find a happy life together? Or will their bond be the end of them

Another thing that the portrait demonstrates is how the townspeople perform hard labor. Hard labor can be shown in the picture by the residents who are building houses and transporting building materials to one another. This proves that the city works hard to improve their town by building new houses. This also proves that the community is developing by improving people's living conditions. In short, the community is expanding as a result of all of the hard labor that the residents in the town are doing.

The poem shows some great examples of imagery, “Narrow streets of cobblestone.” The image makes readers picture not only the narrow street but make them feel a sense of isolation that the man feels walking down

The mother and child are located in the center of the image with more vivid color than other objects. Other objects such as the man at the corner, trees and stonewall that the mother and child are sitting on have a dark and gloomy tone. Thus, in the first level of signification, we interpret the image in terms of what we can generally

In the Book “Maggie: A Girl of The Streets”, (“the tale of a pretty young slum girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness,” (Lo)) Stephen Crane depicts selfishness in humanity by showing how living in a poor, poverty stricken, urban area can reduce people to their basic natural instincts by showing how they destroy their chances of progressing foreword, and using brutal tactics, such as selfishness and aggression to survive. He also uses Imagery to show how the filth of the streets that occupies Rum Alley (”An aptly named area where life is centered on working, drinking, and fighting” (dlschirf).) is like an echo of the bowery in which there house is also mentioned to reflect.

The depression of 1920 and 1930 was instrumental in starting programs for the housing of the poor. During the 1930s and till 1964 it was subsidized housing and the key players were the municipal authorities who wanted to bring in business and change the downtown areas. During the 1930s, attempts were made to create huge public housing program with the key factor being improved architectural design. Unfortunately it made the distinctive look make the occupants ashamed because the identity of these buildings showed that the inhabitants were poor. In 1949 the Housing Act was passed and the second attempt was made to accommodate the poor in high rise buildings, which also became a disaster. Now the tendency is to accommodate the poor in environments occupied by wealthier groups and this is expected to remove poverty. (Hoffman, 1996)