Jacob Riis

and collegiately educated. These individuals desired for the The document is a small section of Riis’ book, informing and describing the process of what would or what was happening to poor “waifs” (pg.68) of the late 1800s. In the 1890, a well-known book called “How the Other Half Lives” (p.67) was published. The book was written by (most famous for his journalism), Jacob Riis. Jacob Riis at the age of forty, revealed the ongoing abandonment of infants and other hidden horrors of the…

Among the Tenements of New York” and it was first published in 1890. Jacob A. Riis was a journalist and a photographer that focused mainly on the environment of the poor neighborhoods and slums in New York City in the second half of the 19th century. This essay deals with the motives behind Riis’s work and the importance of photographs for achieving his goals. At the beginning it is important to look at the life of Jacob A. Riis and his ideology because omission of these facts could result in…

Muckrakers were known as journalist that would expose the corruption within businesses and politics. These journalist were able to expose corruption using different types of information. For instance, documents 2,5, and 6 used information to expose business corruption. Documents 1 and 4 used information to expose the corruption of city living conditions. Lastly, document 3 used information in order to expose political corruption. The authors of documents 2, 5, and 6 were able to expose…

During the industrial revolution, a lot of people moved to cities because there were a lot of factories in the city. The most alarming about the housing situation during the industrial revolution is that people had to live in poor houses and they need to pay the rent. Is unfair when you pay rent to the landlord when the house is ugly and poorly. In London, a lot of people had to live in a small room because they don’t want to spend a lot of money. Also, a lot of houses were…

Racism has turned our society into one full of hate and discrimination based of skin color and cultural beliefs. Unfortunately, discrimination has done more than just separate individuals socially it has also divided them into high and low economic classes. We have created a society in which people who are born into lower classes are unable to climb the social ladder and reach an elite economic status. Our society has made it almost impossible for those who are not in power to ever reach such a…

of individuals who are poor and capturing what it is like to be poor is notorious in American History. Jacobs Riis and James Agree are two interesting authors with different backgrounds, but shared similar motives. The two authors bring the struggled of American poverty to life by inserting themselves among poor families and wrote about their lives. In his book “How the Other Half Lives”, Riis reports on the lives of many ethnic and demographic groups in New York as well as their struggles…

Jacob Riis, a newspaper photographer visited the different homes and wrote about the reality behind the overcrowded housing. Jacob Riis visited these homes and saw the terrible conditions these new immigrants were living under. Many squeezed into un-kept rooms with unstable conditions, they were exposed to disease because…

Riis is the author of the book, How the other Half Lives. This is about how terrible the living conditions are in the New York slums. In the interview he brought up a question from his book, “How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been…

The industrial condition reforms and improvement of urban life during the 1890-1915 period were very successful progressive reforms. Both helped improve the life of many citizens during that period and today. The many laws, such as child labor acts and pure food and drugs acts, made the quality of living much better. The Jungle, a book written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, was a fiction book about poor conditions in the meatpacking industry. It helped spark up new laws for health regulations…

connotation. Some famous Muckrakers were Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Jacob Riis. Upton Sinclair wrote a book called “The Jungle,” which exposed the mistreatment and horrible working conditions of workers in the meat-packing industry and the uncleanliness of the food. Lincoln Steffens was a reporter from New York who wrote many articles that ended up getting published in a book called “The Shame of the Cities.” Jacob Riis was a journalist and photographer whose photos exposed the…