Jacob Riis

In every great city throughout history, there has always been a separation between those who are marginalized and downtrodden and the upper echelons of society. This reached a climax in the first modern metropolis, New York City. At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States of America was in the process of emerging as an industrial and economic world power. The chance to come to the land of opportunity lead to a massive influx of immigrants, the majority of which were uneducated and…

During the Progressive Era (1896-1917) in the United States, there were journalists, writers, and photographers known as muckrakers. They aimed to reveal corruption and wrongdoing in big businesses and the government by publishing sensationalist books and articles. Although President Theodore Roosevelt initially created the term to criticize journalists who he believed had crossed the line in their pursuit of stories, many journalists in today’s world, including Jessica Mitford, consider the…

when they did, they formed a social movement which later grew into a political movement. The movement fought for the government to provide the people with good education, a safe environment, and a better work place. Leaders such as; Jane Addams, Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbel, really pushed for change during the progressive age. They helped the people involved with…

To work “on behalf others” means to speak out on issues that the victims are saying themselves. It means to do something to impact the lives of others that are having the same issue. This type of work has been made in documentaries, audios, visuals, and photographs. It is supposed to impact the lives of others as most people come in to help after learning about the issue. I believe someone has the right to act on behalf of others because these documentaries show the living environments, the…

In both sources of “The Woman Who Toils” and “Jacob Riis Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women,” indicates different ways of how women's experiences poverty and underpaid labor in the late nineteenth century differ from men. Men was the authority holder while women were the follower. Without much rights and education, women was uneducated and was not as knowledgeable as of compared to men. Due to this, many women such as unmarried and widow faced unimaginably difficult situations. Different…

Like in article 2 it says how this guys built better homes for people who needed it. Mr. T Ashton probably built the house after reading How the Other Half Lives. Jacob riis wrote this because he want to show how the other half of people live because most people didn’t know Stamp, Jimmy. "Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed "How The Other Half Lives" in America." Smithsonian. Web. 18 Nov. 2015. After this people really tried to help these people who lived in poor conditions. That…

muckrack were Nellie bly, Susan Anthony and Jacob Riis. Nellie bly exposed insane asylums by making herself go crazy, by doing so she starved herself, locked herself in a room, and pulled out her hair. The only was she go in was by faking her craziness. When she went into the asylum, she had a reporter to show how badly the people there were being treated. Nellie bly put it in a newspaper for people to see how bad the treatment was. Another person was Jacob Riis a police reporter who took…

composed from Mrs. Bessie and Marie Van Vorst’s experiences as factory girls, “The Woman Who Toils,” consisted of the numerous tasks given and the wage they received as payment for the long hours they worked. Focusing on the lives of immigrants, Jacob Riis provided still imagery to convey the grimy conditions children and women do in order to see the next sky. It is clear that the level of factory women’s work environment were far worse than men’s condition in this period of time. From…

The Industrial Revolution came with great economic development for the United States. Taking place in the 18th to 19th centuries, what you found for the most part was agricultural, rural societies in Europe and America advancing to industrial and urban societies. Preceeding to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often accomplished in the home's of the people, with basic machines and hand tools. Economic development marked a change to powered,…

housing conditions proved to be scarce. At the time, many artists attempted to capture the hardships these immigrants faced in many different forms. Using the newly invented box camera, which was a mass produced camera for amateurs, artists like Jacob Riis documented immigrant life in the city to garner attention from upper classes. Of course, photography was not the only art form used to accomplish this. Artists like Abastenia Saint Leger Eberle also supported in the form of sculpture. With the…