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    something – it provides a compelling representation of the author’s view. 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

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    An Analysis of How The Other Half Lives The massive overcrowding in New York was epitomized by the tenements‚ which by 1880 housed over 600‚000 people within 24‚000. This awful statistic was one of many declared by Jacob Riis in his How The Other Half Lives. His work‚ influenced by other tenement reform advocates‚ synthesized the cause for reform together into this journal to convince those who were blind to the problem to want to also help. This essay will evaluate the methods and effectiveness

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    4 March 2013 Progressivism on How The Other Half Lives‚ by Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives‚ “Studies Among the Tenements of New York”‚ written by Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ depicts the disturbingly low quality of living that immigrants and minorities had to endure in 19th century‚ particularly around the 1890’s‚ in New York. Riis tells the stories of the poverty-ridden that consisted mainly of minorities‚ or “the Other Half”‚ which included blacks‚ Italians‚ Jews‚ Bohemians‚ Chinese

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    Living conditions for many people back in the late 19th was depressing and an era filled with intensely hard and laborious work that did not offer any future for the average person. In “How the Other Half Lives”‚ Jacob Riis tried to expose and clarify of how harsh the living conditions for many people in New York‚ such as terrible overcrowding and terrible living conditions in tenement houses that many faced‚ the hardship of the working girls‚ and the effects that immigration has had on New York

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    oblivious to the conditions that the immigrants had dealt with until the publishing of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. How the Other Half Lives was a book that documented the hardships that immigrants faced living in American cities through pictures and observations. Riis gave Americans an opportunity to see what life was really like for an immigrant in living in America. In How the Other Half LivesRiis showed how immigrants were not entirely different from Americans and he talked about which

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    17‚ 2005 Book Report #2 How the Other Half Lives Introduction The book How the Other Half lives‚ is one of those books that definitely affects you as soon as you read it. Jacob Riis the author of the book‚ wrote it exactly for the purpose‚ to affect people and get them to realize how bad the conditions were back then in New York City. He goes into full depth‚ of what the living conditions were like‚ who lived in them‚ and how they were affected by them. Mostly how each ethnic group lived in

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    n 1890‚ Jacob Riis published a groundbreaking booked titled “How the Other Half Lives.” Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ spent the majority of the 1880s collecting the information that would later go into his bestselling book. “How the Other Half Lives” provides a written and visual portrayal of the horrendous living conditions in many New York City slums. While the middle and upper classes lived considerably more comfortable lives‚ the people suffering through the horrid conditions in the aforementioned

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    My Name Professor Name American History II 04October 2007 A Reflection on "How the Other Half Lives" by the Other Half The author of "How the Other Half Lives"‚ Jacob Riis‚ inscribes on the deplorable living conditions of the Progressive Era from a first-person perspective. Riis‚ an immigrant‚ police reporter‚ photojournalist and most importantly: a pioneer and social reformer‚ tells a very captivating yet appalling experience of the lower class life in New York

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    How the Other Half Lives In How the Other Half LivesRiis startles readers with the following statement “Long ago it was said that ‘one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.’ That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles‚ and less for the fate of those who were underneath‚ so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat”(Riis‚ 5). This book definitely changes history in a material way

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    Published in 1890 and sub-titled “Studies Among the Tenements of New York”‚ this book was written by Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ to expose the ill treatment of the tenement poor in New York City. The book grew out of both his personal experience in the neighborhoods he wrote about‚ and his work as a reporter for the New York Tribune‚ where he started working as a police reporter in 1877. He pioneered the use of flash photography‚ allowing him to capture and communicate in a very concrete way

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