How the Other Half Lives

When an individual’s assumptions are challenged by significant discoveries, their lives are often transformed. This perspective is represented throughout Ernesto Che Guevara’s eclectic memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries, which details his arguably metamorphic journey through Latin America in the early 1950s and the diverse discoveries he makes, which are personal and political in their nature. Guevara’s varied and confronting encounters throughout his travels challenge his preconceived views of…

Mansfield, an elderly woman describes how she feels and what she sees as she visits Seaside Park on a Sunday afternoon for her weekly ritual. Miss Brill portrays a lonely, elderly English school teacher who would like a different reality from the one she lives in. Miss Brill attends Seaside Park as an escape from her reality and to feel as a part of society. Miss Brill time is only taken up by her trips to the park and her 5th grade students. Mansfield shows the reader how harmful criticism…

metaphorical picture on the metaphorical door of every non metaphorical, wealthy, eccentric high class millionaire in all of New York City. His revolutionary work, and his book, How the Other Half Lives, displayed the widespread oppression of the lower class. Ideas and concepts from Jacob Riis’s “How the Other Half Lives: were not only relevant in 1890, but also have precedence today. First, Riis outlines the past to highlight the present…

newcomers faced hostility, discrimination, and were separated from the white citizens, but where do they settle? In 1890, Jacob Riis, a photojournalist, exposed the living conditions of hundreds of immigrants in New York’s slums in his book How the Other Half Lives. In this essay, an excerpt taken from Jacob Riis’s book will be analyzed to illustrate the issues he wants to reveal to the public. The primary source being analyzed in this essay is an excerpt called The Awakening, taken from Jacob…

In both “Half-Hanged Mary” and Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, the overall tone grows confrontational, and each narrator challenges their oblivious onlookers. In “Half-Hanged Mary,” after the speaker understands the unfruitful results of relying on God, she becomes resentful and believes she is above Him. When she is brought down from the noose, she recalls all the women merely staring at her, and speaks with a sarcastic tone towards the bystanders. The mockery she depicts is the same dynamic…

states on what makeup shaming is and where she stands on the issue. Mika is against girls or specifically women, as she targets in her article, who bring down other girl’s for wearing an excessive amount of makeup. In her article, she talks about the power of makeup and what it means to a lot of people. She also states in her article what other people think girls wear makeup for. Some of the points she says is that girls wear makeup because they are insecure or they don’t love themselves. She…

else's life at some point of their lives. I wonder if that was what it was like for the half-bloods we always hear about. You know, the half-bloods like Percy and Annabeth, all those ones that we always hear stories about. You spend your time dazing off thinking did they spend their entire lives wishing they could be like regular kids, with no intensity and adventure in their lives? But here's the main question and problem: They made a better future for the half bloods in the generations to come…

liberated through the passing of her significant other. In Kate Chopin 's "The Story of…

spreads across the globe. From a young age, we need to be taught how to function in our role of the community. There are many different types of citizenship with many ways to act, but in the end, what you do should be for the good of all people. Several people have spoken of citizenship and what comes along with it and none of them seem to agree on any one thing; a person really has to make up their mind as to how to be a good citizen and how important that will be to them. The role of a citizen…

issue and brings together a happy ending. Martha’s Half-Breed doesn’t follow this outline and because it is based on her life it shows a dark reality to this world that the author thought might not be welcomed by the readers, by focusing on her childhood and omitting the other sections he might have thought it would have appealed to a larger audience. Half-Breed starts off with the innocent childhood of Maria as she starts off with a description of how her family came to be which consists of…