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    footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Colombia national team as an attacking midfielder or winger. James Rodriguez current wife is Daniela Ospina and they share a daughter named Salome Rodriguez. James Rodriguez is 24 years old and his wife Daniela Ospina is 27 years old. There daughter Salome Rodriguez is 3 years old. James Rodriguez was born on July 12 1991 in Cúcuta‚ Colombia. James Rodriguez currently has 7 goals to his name and 8 assist to add onto that. James Rodriguez has only

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    book‚ How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York‚ really assisted in bringing attention to the subject of housing. The first sign of reform came with the New York Tenement act of 1895.This act basically gave the health department‚ fire department‚ and the newly created building department the right to regulate and enforce certain laws regarding the management of plumbing‚ drainage‚ light and ventilation in newly built tenement houses. An example of a law that was introduced

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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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    poverty-stricken. The only affordable shelter in close proximity to work and their community were overcrowded housing tenements‚ overcrowded being an understatement. From 1869 to 1890 tenement housing almost tripled to over 37‚000 tenements in use.(p204 Riis) Houses and blocks were turned into barracks‚ giving a whole new meaning to overcrowding‚ and the expense unjust compared to living conditions. Tenements were the equivalent of coal mines; in early developments there were no safety standards‚ just the quickest

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    These buildings were often referred to as “Railroad Tenements” because the rooms were connected in a linear order‚ like cars on a train; the interior rooms were often dark and musty‚ as only the very front room had windows and received any ventilation. Despite a widespread cholera epidemic in 1849 and draft riots during the 1850s‚ the first official investigation into tenement life did not occur until 1857. However‚ no real attention was given to the issue until

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    Aslan is the creator of Narnia‚ also he is the highest leader of this kingdom. Aslan is representing Jesus in the Bible‚ also he is a savior. He represents Jesus’ kindness. In the book‚ Aslan was willing to die for the redemption of Edmund‚ who had been betrayed‚ similarly Jesus willing to die for saving people. When Aslan was walking toward death‚ Susan and Lucy accompanied him‚ just as Jesus before he been crucified‚ and several women followed him far away. “‘Stop!’ said the Witch. ‘Let

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    to about 1889 when many immigrants from all over the world came to North America. In Jacob Riis’s book he breaks down the immigrants in to different race groups. This book is also about the overcrowding and the unhealthy living conditions of the tenement and how there community changes to become a healthy place to live and work. 2. The author Jacob Riis proved that the saying ‘’one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.’’ Although we are not talking about the other half of the

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    The industrialization of America began in the 1860s through the 1900s and jobs and manufacturing started to replace human workers with machinery. Industrialization caused a big change in the country that affected a lot of people who had jobs. Getting jobs and making money was harder to do‚ so people were desperate for jobs. Though many jobs were brutal‚ they stayed for the money. Another thing that occurred in the Industrialization of America was that a large amount of immigrants came over seas to

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    conditions were like‚ who lived in them‚ and how they were affected by them. Mostly how each ethnic group lived in the tenements‚ and what the city did to improve them. Genesis of the Tenement In thirty-five years the city of New York went from less then a hundred thousand people to at least harbor a half a million souls‚ in which housing had to be found. In the beginning of the tenement housing it came as a blessing to people living there‚ because with the low income they were getting it was perfect

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    “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 the misery of the tenements. In 1888‚ the

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