Riis

Jacob Riis was a journalist who made a big impact on society during the progressive era. He managed to open the eyes of the wealthy and showed them the brutal conditions of the poor in New York City during the progressive era. All the way from the time he was very young, he was helping people in need. His background from where he grew up definitely impacted his motives behind his causes. Jacob Riis altered society in a big way during the early 1900s. Motivation Riis was inspired by his past experiences

chapter of “How the Other Half Lives,” the powerful work of Jacob Riis, which examined the harsh living conditions of tenements in New York City during the latter part of the 19th century. With a combination of investigative journalism, personal accounts, and data, Riis provides an evocative image of the life of the poverty-stricken working class occupying these dilapidated buildings. In the first two paragraphs of this chapter, Riis describes the early days of New York City, and how, while there “

Understanding the state of poverty to the other half of people that struggled to live day-to-day is hard to fully grasp. In the Novel, “How the Other Half Lives”, Jacob Riis tells us from first hand experience about the disturbing stories and facts on the countless number of poverty and hardship that New York City saw in the 18th and 19th century. Riis was born in Denmark, immigrated to New York in 1870 and describes from first hand experience the hope New York City gave immigrants coming from across the world;

Whereas Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis establishes a connection between the American dream, disappointment, and lack of satisfaction in the middle class, How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis exposes the gap between the poverty, unsightly and dangerous conditions of the poor and the uncaring or uneducated middle- and upper-class in the context of New York. Set in the 1920s, the period in America following World War I that is considered materialistic and depraved, Babbitt captures the political and personal

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

The portrayal of Jacob Riis’ views through his book ‘How the Other Half Lives,’ is conveyed by storytelling and is largely made of logos, however the key component is actually ethos, like a politician running a campaign, Jacob Riis’s uses logos and pathos to create a persona of authority on the topic of the poor in New York City. I am going to look in depth on how Riis uses different approaches to convey his views to his audience: why does do some of Riis’ key texts contradict each other? Is he

have it in life. In the late 1800's this county was taking place in the industrial revolution. In the book "How the Other half Lives" by Jacob Riis it shows the lives of poor immigrants that have come over to American from mostly European countries to try to get a fresh start on a new land. What these people did not know is how they would have to live. Riis wanted people to see what was really going on in the live of many immigrants during this time in New York. Most immigrants didn’t have much money

Claire Chang Steinhauser APUSH / Block 4 16 January 2015 Book Review: How the Other Half Lives In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, Riis reveals and decries the horrific conditions that the urban poor and immigrants were subjected to as a result of shifts in the social order brought about by industrialization. Riis, a Danish immigrant himself, had a heart for the poor and wrote the How the Other Half Lives, also a photojournalist endeavor, to provide social commentary about urban poverty and

How the Other Half Lives by: Jacob Riis Through his brilliant journalism and striking 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

prevalent. In his famous book, How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis dug deeper into the lives of the lower class. While analyzing the relationships between tenement residents and their backgrounds, Riis recognized the global representation beyond simply being ‘American’. He wrote, "The one thing you shall vainly ask for in the chief city of America is a distinctively American community. There is none; certainly not among the tenements” (Riis). Riis works to describe the overall makeup of the tenements in