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Racial And Ethnic Half Lives
1,652 wordsThe appalling conditions of New York Citys immigrants were disclosed by Jacob Riis in How the Other Half Lives. Being an immigrant from Denmark himself, Riis, felt it was his duty to present others the disturbing life that many immigrants endured, including children. Riis, a photographer, was able to portray the slums as no other person had been able to do before. He brought to light the crime, disease, and hopelessness of the tenements. His book and photographs led to legislation throughout New...
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Theodore Roosevelt Migrant Workers
1,331 wordsUnlike the majority of immigrants of his time, Jacob Riis assimilated easily into Americas melting pot. A Dutch born police reporter and amateur photographer, Riis dove into the impoverished streets of Americas most populated city and proved to the upper classes that horror does exist next door. In his early days of church exhibitions and in the writing of his novel, How the Other Half Lives, originally published on 15 November 1890, Riis depicted the color lines, tenements, stereotypes, careers...
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Effect On Society Half Lives
572 wordsThroughout the course of history, materials such as literature have been written about certain time periods. In time, these literary works can be assessed and interpreted to help discover facts about that period of history. One novel that can accomplish this task is How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis, in which Riis describes how reform is needed. Before this novel was published, the United States was going through a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. In the northeastern reg...
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Progressive Era Social Workers
816 wordsQuestion: How did progressives redefine poverty? Why was that important? Where and why did progressive solutions for the problems of poverty fall short? If there was one period of American history that could be labeled the most influential or constructive to the reality of our society today, perhaps it would be the Progressive movement. A reason may be progressives were not against the American system, they just wanted to fix it. They believed strongly in the good of humanity, fairness, and regu...
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Jane Addams Twentieth Century
1,409 words... the urban poor. His brutal documentation of sweatshops, disease-ridden tenements, and overcrowded schools stirred up public indignation and helped effect significant reform in housing, education, and child-labor laws. Riis lived in poverty in New York City for some time before he found a job with a news bureau in 1873. He became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and the Associated Press in 1877. Horrified by immigrant life, he began a series of exposes on slum conditions on New York...
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Ellis Island York City
986 wordsSince the Dutch first colonized what is now New York, this seaport city has welcomed millions of people to Americas shores. They have come from all four corners of the world: from England to Ethiopia, Italy to Indonesia and Turkey to Thailand. Between 1855 (the year New Yorks official immigration center at Castle Garden opened) to 1880, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States were from Ireland and Germany. Between 1880 and 1919 more than 23 million people emigrated to the United S...
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Half Lives Middle Class
1,686 wordsThe novel How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis shocked middle and upper class Americans when it was published in 1890. Riis created a sensation when he revealed to the world, combining detailed written descriptions with graphic photographs, the horrific conditions of New York City? s tenement housing. How the Other Half Lives raised many questions, such as how and why the poor are subjected to such terrible living conditions and how that environment affects them. Riis also reveals his fears an...
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Minimum Wage Living Wage
582 wordsMarx and Marxism 2. First noted by John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government, labor is a source of value. Stated simply, the work a person does is worth money or a wage. This is a fundamental, arguably the fundamental principle, in the capitalist economic system. Most critics of the system argue capitalism exploits the worker because he is not paid and cannot be paid the full value of his labor, because this is the profit for the capitalist or employer. In describing a utopian capitalist w...
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