Riis

This is a chapter of a book was written by Jacob Riis, who was a muckraking journalist. Muckraker was a journalist who pushed for reform in publications that covered the issues of society for the middle and wealthy classes. In this book, Riis made a photographic report about the life of poor people in the tenements of New York. In the beginning, Riis described a raid which was made by policemen. The object of that raid was the stale-beer dives. He said that the squads sent to make simultaneous control

This is a book was written by Jacob Riis, who was a muckraking journalist. Muckraker was a journalist who pushed for reform in publications that covered the issues of society for the middle and wealthy classes. In this book, Riis made a photographic report about the life of poor people in the tenements of New York. In the beginning, Riis described a raid which was made by policemen. The object of that raid was the stale-beer dives. He said that the squads sent to make simultaneous control on all

always the case. The excerpt, Waifs of the City’s Slums, is from a book written and photographed by Jacob Riis in 1890. How the Other Half Live, Riis’s book, s was used to highlight the injustices many immigrants faced in the lower East Side of New York City. His writing showed that he was intolerant towards certain races, but despite his feeling he was able to show the real need for such a book. Riis separated the people in the slum into two different categories; those who deserved help and those who

After reading chapter 3, it was interesting to see how Riis separated each nationality based on tenements. It consisted of nationalities based on Italian, German, French, African, Spanish, Bohemian, Russian, Scandinavian, Jewish, and Chinese. He then began to explain how each nationality treated tenement life. For example, “The Irishman does not naturally take kindly to tenement life, though with characteristic versatility he adapts him to its conditions at once. It does violence, nevertheless, to

Though people did have their right to vote they often did not have the freedom to choose whom they wanted to vote for. Jacob Riis was a popular political cartoonist in New York, one of Riis' most famous pieces "The Power behind the Throne". He depicted William Tweed the leader of Tammany Hall as king for his shady accumulation of power. Tweed became a powerful New York politician by promising immigrants

“Publicize the plight of impoverished children”. Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870, found sporadic work as a casual laborer, then eventually landed a job as a newspaper reporter. Riis authored several books documenting the life of the urban poor in the crowded slums of New York. His use of photography visually depicted the filth and unsanitary conditions that

First of all, Jacob Riis is the author of “How the Other Side lives”. He was famous for using photography to document the extremely poor conditions of many poor populations in the early 20th century. Riis was a Danish immigrant, he worked as a police reporter for The New York Tribune, a job that gave him a close and personal relationship with Mulberry Bend, a vestige of Five Points, the most infamous slum in the city. This book reveals the dirt, disease and misery associated with the living in the

Jacob August Riis wasn’t just another immigrant from the industrial revolution. He was a photojournalist. Someone that took pictures and wrote about them that caused a change in American society. But, to begin with he was from Ribe, Denmark, born on May 3, 1849, being the third of fifteen children. Growing up, he was a never a schoolboy but enjoyed reading. His father being a editor of local newspaper had influenced him from a young age to be how he was when he grown up. Though, the death of his

Through his brilliant journalism and vivid photography, Jacob Riis exposes the horrifying living conditions of the New York tenements in How the Other Half Lives. With the excess inflow of immigrants into the United States in the 19th century, New York City (a very popular port) became tremendously overcrowded. The city did not adapt well to the increasing population and thus warehouses and homes meant for just one family were often divided into numerous rooms for dozens of people. These impoverished

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