have to live every day. Living in small places without any ventilation‚ light‚ plumbing or a place where their children can play even sometimes exposed to get robbed‚ having a high risk of diseases and without fire escapes. In this photo taken by Jacob Riis for his book "How the other half lives" we can see how people that pay a cent to spend the night (the ones that can afford it because many of those people don’t have the money to pay it) in those bedrooms with unsanitary conditions without any space
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anyone will ever read. Written by Jacob Riis‚ who was a poor immigrant himself‚ based this book on the poor living conditions he lived. Being an immigrant‚ it was hard for Jacob to find work. He had no money; therefore‚ he lived in police station lodging houses and shelters of all sorts. As soon as he found a successful job being a police reporter‚ he began writing and lecturing to inform people what a disgrace many people went through‚ including him. Jacob Riis experienced poverty early in his life
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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
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Jacob Riis’ book How the Other Half Lives is a detailed description on the poor and the destitute in the inner realms of New York City. Riis tries to portray the living conditions through the eyes’ of his camera. He sneaks up on the people flashes a picture and then tells the rest of the city how the other half’ is living. As shocking as the truth was without seeing such poverty and horrible conditions with their own eyes or taking in the experience with all their senses it still seemed like
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APPARTS: # 161. Jacob Riis Describes How The Other Half Lives‚ 1890* Author: This document was written by Jacob A. Riis‚ an excerpt from his How the Other Half Lives. The author views that most people do not realize the tremendous amount of poverty surrounding them. They do not realize how the “other half” of the population; meaning the poor‚ manage to make it through a living. Riis wants to describe the living conditions of the lower class to create Americans an image of how the poor has many
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Jacob Riis Jacob Riis was a social reformer who used photography to raise awareness for urban poverty. He became a reporter and wrote about individuals facing certain plights in order to garner sympathy for them. His book How the Other Half Lives caused people to try to reform the lives of people who lived in slums. He used vivid photographs and stories about individuals to call people to action. No one could argue with a picture‚ so his book showed urbanization and the problems that accompanied
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How the Other Half Lives a novel written by an immigrant from Denmark‚ Jacob Riis. In this novel Riis tells about the living conditions of multiple ethnic groups‚ known as the Jewish‚ Chinese and Italians. Each group had their own way to living life in the late 18th century‚ even though they were all living in New York. All of the groups came to America to pursue their vision of finding what in their minds was the “American Dream” but yet it was a different experience for everyone. Without a doubt
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How the Other Half Lives is a book that is written and published by Jacob Riis in 1890. Chapter two of the book‚ The Awakening‚ is one of the primary documents included in the reader. In this book‚ Jacob Riis describes in full details of the horrendous and disgusting living conditions that many immigrants had to live in. Jacob Riis is a photojournalist that “muckrakes”‚ or basically to expose something harsh that an individual or a group of people has to go through. Specifically‚ the author shows
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amount of credit for the success of the Progressive movement. Notable muckrakers Jane Addams and Jacob Riis showed determination towards there being a change; each made sure to use their abilities to aid in not only a social way‚ but ask economically and politically‚ even to this day what they’ve done has made a massive impact. A native of Denmark‚ Jacob Riis moved to the US in 1870 to pursue work. Riis worked as a police reporter‚ but eventually became a social reformer. He fought to eliminate the
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