twelve men and women slept two or three to a bed and the rest on the floor in one home. I also noticed the cost at what the tenant was paying for certain rooms. The attic rooms were priced between $3.75 and $5.50 a month. This just comes to show you how run down this part of the “block” was. I was really caught off guard when Riis stated that all the women were seen carrying babies in a sling‚ firewood on top of their head and loads of decaying vegetables in their apron all at once while the men stood
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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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In the book How the Other Half Lives‚ is the most touching and sympathetic book that 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
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How would you feel if even paying money you‚ have to share your bed with someone else that you might not know or if you and your family have to share your home with some other families? well‚ that’s some of the things that these people 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
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How Life Shapes Us Roman poet Horace once stated: Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace’s proclamation can be tested and ultimately proven true through evidence and experience. In the book How the Other Half Lives‚ there are many parts and quotes that can be used to support Horace’s statement. For example‚ Jacob Riis wrote‚ “He goes to describe the plight of the city’s poor children‚ many of them homeless‚ having been cast
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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 it
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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 conscious of if? Is it
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# 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 difficulties
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Jacob Riis It was 1890‚ a difficult time in the still young America‚ when author Jacob Riis won international acclaim for this bestseller of that year‚ “How the Other Half Lives‚” an in-depth expose on the desperate and squalid conditions of New York City’s tenements and slums. Riis’ book provided impetus to a sanitary reform movement that began in the 1840s and ultimately culminated in New York State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901. Jacob August Riis‚ journalist‚ author‚ photographer
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of 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
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