All this is done by Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives‚ where the reader is informed about the hideous conditions that the poor had to face in New York City. Riis uses detailed images‚ facts with statistics‚ and examples to create an image to the reader of what these people go through in their everyday lives. Using this process‚ Riis is able to create an important image‚ which allows the reader to imagine the conditions of these people‚ make a change to help these poor people‚ and to promote and
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wealthy-class and the imminent growing presence of poor‚ hopeless immigrants is prominent from the interaction between Jacob Riis and Stanford White. Jacob Riis is a newspaper reporter and reformer who writes about the need of housing for the poor‚ while Stanford White is a renowned‚ affluent architect. There was a clear distinction between each of the two’s vision. Jacob Riis was motivated with the immigrant’s condition from the grim sight he saw happening. “Children died of mild colds or slight rashes
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disorder from occurring in these areas. One of the tactics being used is offender-focused hot spot policing. This type of tactic focuses on small places or groups of people in small places‚ and tailor specific solutions to problems using careful analysis of local conditions. This tactic has been used as an effective way to reduce violent crimes (cite). This paper will describe the goals of offender focused hot spots policing and provide evidence that this form of policing is effective. With every policing
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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 to put
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