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    How the Other Half Lives

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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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    In the second half of the nineteenth century‚ technology played a significant role in the lives of the Native Americans in the Great Plains region. During this time‚ the US government was trying to restrict residency of Indians in the Plains area as well as trying to avoid the spread of their culture. Technological developments aided the Native Americans in some ways‚ but it ultimately became a negative factor. In addition‚ government actions were astute in how they would mistreat and desolate the

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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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    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. The immigrants arriving in America during the 19th century mostly came from Germany and Ireland then later from Italy‚ China

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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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    How the Indians solved the problems of living on the plains The Plains Indians were a people who had to survive under harsh living conditions. They were faced with many problems and challenges and yet they survived for hundreds of years thanks to their way of life. Each tribe was accustomed to different methods of survival; some were nomads and some were settled in the same place‚ but they all had similar attributes on how to survive. The Native American Indians main source of food was hunting

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    The arrival of the Europeans affected the Indians in several different ways. The Indians were exposed to new experiences such as diseases‚ religion‚ racism‚ land ownership‚ and trade to name a few. The Indians way of life changed forever with the arrival of the European colonists. Diseases were introduced to them as early as 1550 by European fisherman who stayed on the New England shores during the winter. The fisherman brought devastating illnesses which the Indians had little resistance to such

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    Technological Developments in Indian Banking Sector N. Mohan Babu‚ Asst. Professor‚ Vignan Degree and P.G. College‚ Palakaluru Road‚ Guntur – 5. Abstract The origin of Banking in the modern era is traced in Italy. Banking is a business like any other business‚ banking sector place a significant role in development of Indian Economy. So‚ Banks need to have technology to improve their productivity and efficiency‚ to provide faster and better services to the customers. Technology enables the banks

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    tried to get the Indians to agree to living on reservations instead of on their homelands. For the rest of the following century they struggled to force the Indians to accept it‚ they failed to do so in the end and were forced to more desperate measures to clear the west for western settlement. The first policy was the Medicine Lodge Treaty‚ signed in Kansas‚ 1867. It divided the Great Plains into two huge Indian territories. In return for government supplies‚ most of the Indians stayed in their

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    The nineteenth century is marked with many advances‚ particularly in the realm of industrial growth. Great Britain was the first country to begin its industrialization process in the late eighteenth century where it has since grown steadily with the gradual introduction of new technologies. This industrial growth led to social and demographic changes that started to rapidly increase during the Second Industrial Revolution during the later years of the nineteenth century. With the large increase in

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