previously knew that Jacob Riis took pictures showing the horrific nature of tenements; a fact that is shown in the novel as well with Doctorow writing‚ “The tenements glowed like furnaces and the tenants had no water to drink. The sink at the bottom of the stairs was dry” and “The bedroom‚ although it had a window‚ was almost as dark as the front room. It looked out on an air shaft.” It is shown that the nature of living in the tenements
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The novel‚ Maggie‚ A Girl of the Streets‚ by Stephen Crane‚ takes place in the slums of New York City during the 1890’s. It is about a girl‚ Maggie Johnson‚ who is forced to grow up in a tenement house. She had a brother‚ Jimmie‚ an abusive mother‚ Mary‚ and a father who died when Maggie was young. When Maggie grew up‚ she met her boyfriend‚ Pete. In Maggie’s eyes‚ Pete was a sophisticated young man who impressed Maggie because he treated her better than she had been treated to all
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TAMILNADU SLUM CLEARANCE BOARD NEED FOR IT ? A shelter with basic amenities is the most essential need of a human being. The influx into the city was caused primarily due to the unskilled labourers from the neighbouring rural areas entering into the city in search of jobs. Due to lack of required skills and their meagre income‚ they occupy vacant Government poramboke/private lands near their work place and put up hutments. These settlements generally lack proper sanitation facilities resulting
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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 and social reformer‚ was born in Ribe‚ Denmark‚ in 1849 and immigrated to the United States
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gave them a better opportunity to succeed‚ life was not glorious for the European immigrants. Fighting for a better life their were many barriers to their success. Whether it was not being able to speak English‚ living in the terrible conditions of tenements‚ or the limitations of being an immigrant life was difficult for the immigrants. Many Americans were 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
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ middle class Americans saw the need for changes. Reform was needed in society‚ politics‚ and economics. The problems of overcrowding in cities‚ corruption in government‚ as well as unsafe and indifferent working conditions all needed to be addressed. A wide variety of people advocated for major reforms that would make the United States more democratic‚ but Progressive Reformers differed on their goals‚ as well as their methods. This lack of an ability
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lack of it because of the hardships people in these tenements face. For example‚ in the “Bohemian cigar makers” photograph‚ the vision of work equipment in a place where people are supposed to relax would bring a sense of discomfort to other believers. The emphasis on “making a living” in Riis’s photograph of the tenement‚ shows the lack of comfort that these people felt in their own homes. This is different from the image called “Room in a tenement flat” that seems to show people who were ready for
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in the Union‚ as respects the habitations of the industrial classes - one represented by New-York and Boston‚ where the working people are crowded into large tenement-houses‚ and the other‚ of which Philadelphia‚ Buffalo and Detroit are examples‚ where the working man has the inestimable blessing of his own house‚ hold in fee.. The tenement-house system breeds poverty‚ disease and vice. It tends steadily to degrade and therefore to impoverish the working classes. Under it‚ the laborer knows nothing
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workers. 5. Clearly‚ the kids are sleeping maybe from a long night of work since it is still day time. 6. The children appear to be asleep on top of a storm drain near a house or tenement; it is noticeable by the window and gutter. It most likely is a tenement due to workers live closely to factories. The tenements most likely were too crowded for the children to sleep inside them‚ so they sleep outside in the cold. 7. This photo is definitely spontaneous due to it is really hard to get kids to
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How the Other Half Lives is a book that is written and published by Jacob Riis in 1890. Chapter two of the book‚ The Awakening‚ is one of the primary documents included in the reader. In this book‚ Jacob Riis describes in full details of the horrendous and disgusting living conditions that many immigrants had to live in. Jacob Riis is a photojournalist that “muckrakes”‚ or basically to expose something harsh that an individual or a group of people has to go through. Specifically‚ the author shows
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