Jacob Riis

any attempt by their landlord or employer to improve the conditions. Riis laid the blame for the tenants feeling neglected and forgotten on greed (62). Instead of blaming the poor for the conditions he believed they were a product of their environment and through proper investment in them, the poor can be brought out of poverty (237). However, the growing masses in the tenements were still becoming increasingly impoverished and Riis feared this growing disparity would lead to the poor rising up…

unprepared for the rate of population increase and was forced to heavily utilize the tenement housing model. The poor, mainly blacks and recent immigrants, were crowded into rundown neighbourhoods where they were exploited by landlords and employers. Jacob Riis, who had been an immigrant himself a number of years earlier, attempted to give an intimate portrait of the struggle faced by New York’s poor in his book How the Other Half Lives. The book showed how the poor were exploited in every facet…

novel that that demonstrates this very routine of providing detailed information about a time period is “How the other half lives” by Jacob A Riis. This novel shows us, why reform was extremely necessary, and also what it really was like to live in the city areas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an immigrant. Photojournalist and news reporter, Riis, was one of the earliest social reformers to use his own work to educate to the people the effects that industrialization had…

this had many positive changes that affected society, but it created serious problems that required to be addressed. Through the sources: “Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women” by Lillie B. Chase Wyman and “Waifs in New York City’s Slums” by Jacob Riis, we can piece together how industrialization and urbanization affected the working class and the poor. These reformers during this era spent their time trying to expose the horrors of the working class and poor and the changes of gender role…

migrants, and low wage earners paid the highest price for rapid industrialization. The slums conjured up by rapid industrialization were eventually exposed. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant, photographed and wrote about the slums in New York City. In his book, How the Other Half Lives, Riis went on to discuss how the babies in the slums were affected. Riis…

In the very beginning of American society in 1787, a staggering 92% of Americans lived rurally. However, this percentage was steadily declining and would continue to do so, as Jacob Riis accurately predicted in his book How the Other Half Lives: “At the beginning of the century the percentage of our population that lived in cities was as one in twenty-five. In 1880 it was one in four and one-half, and in 1890 the census will in all probability show it to be one in four.” In fact, by 1910, the…

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Born in Springfield, Illinois in 1943, David Hammons is a world-renowned African-American installation artist, performance artist, and sculptor (“David Hammons” 2016). In 1963, Hammons moved to Los Angeles to study advertising at Los Angeles Trade Technical College (“David Hammons” 2016). While in advertising school, Hammons began taking night classes at the Otis Art Institute where he studied under the notable artist Charles White (“David Hammons” 2016). After unearthing his prodigious…

If a group from my congregation asked me to teach a four week course, I would choose Genesis on the grounds that it holds more stories that have relevance to the context of my congregation. The approximate demographics of my congregation are as follows: over ninety percent are Caucasian; over fifty percent are 45 years of age or older; women are the dominate group within most of the small group activities; and the mining, healthcare, and retail industries are the largest employers respectively.…