Children living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in which How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis was written, had extremely difficult lives. The use of child labor in the many sweatshops of the city is brought into the light in this book. Food, orphans, lodging arrangements, and the overall standard of living is poor for most children. In Riis’s book, he tells us real life experiences of these children in which he has witnessed using statistics to show extreme conditions.
Most families had several children each, meaning overcrowding in apartment buildings and other tenements. In one tenement, officials counted 142 residents in 40 families, or about three or four children per family. This overcrowding and an abundance of poor families meant that most children didn't attend school, or have any education for that matter. A general lack of education in large cities increased and encouraged delinquency. Children also lacked an understanding of the outside world. They stayed inside in cramped apartments or lived on the muddy streets. "...his only bed was a heap of dirty straw on the floor, his daily diet a crust in the morning, nothing else." Riis said about a young child he saw.
Infants were often left by a mother who could not afford to take care of a child so they had to leave them on the streets in the hopes that another family would take them in and the child would grow up with a better life than she could have given it herself. However, very few abandoned children actually managed to survive. These unfortunate infants had a much higher death rate than the other children and even reached about
“How the Other Half lives”, a book which could save neglected immigrants and even more! ! Since the Industrial Revolution began, it attracted many immigrants to use to archive what so-called “ American dreams”. However, lives of immigrant were not good as they had expected. they had to suffer terrible life conditions and were ignored by the rest of American Society.! ! There were many reasons, but the most important reason is because they were immigrant. In this era, more and more jobs were created…
Jacob Riis' book How the Other Half Lives is a detailed description on the poor and the destitute in the inner realms of New York City. Riis tries to portray the living conditions through the eyes' of his camera. He sneaks up on the people flashes a picture and then tells the rest of the city how the other half' is living. As shocking as the truth was without seeing such poverty and horrible conditions with their own eyes or taking in the experience with all their senses it still seemed like…
Riis’s View on the Other Side As a Danish immigrant like Jacob A. Riis who arrived in New York City from Denmark in 1870 at a young age, it must be known that he traveled only with $40 to the states, and loved the new land. His main interests upon arrival was to settle down, find a job, and live the American dream. Riis quickly picked up a pen and initiated his career in journalism as well as gave rise to many questions about the struggles of humanity in slum regions of New York. Riis gives a very…
History 261 Professor Ruddy 6 February 2014 Word Count: 1,132 A Reflection on "How the Other Half Lives" The author of "How the Other Half Lives", Jacob Riis, inscribes on the deplorable living conditions of the Progressive Era from a first-person perspective. Riis is an immigrant, police reporter, photojournalist and most importantly: a innovator and social reformer, who tells a very captivating yet atrocious experience of the lower class life in New York City beginning in the 19th century…
Water (H2O) 2:1 Methane (CH4) 1:4 Dalton’s Atomic Theory of Matter Elements are made up of atoms which are extremely small particles. Atoms of each element are different from those of other elements, including in their masses. Atoms of a given element are identical to each other. Chemical compounds are formed when atoms of one element combine with atoms of another element in the same fixed proportions. Atoms cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction. Evidence…
Mammals Mammals like other organisms are important in maintaining a balance in the environment. About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs and many other organisms became extinct. More than 4,000 species of mammals have evolved from animals similar to the one called the Divinia which lived about 200 million years ago. Mammals are now classified into 3 groups based on how their young develop. The 3 mammal groups are called monotremes, marsupials, and placentals. Mammals and other animals today are in trouble…
the charges cancel each other out (opposite charges attract) Atoms/Isotopes 4. What unit measures mass of atoms? amu (atomic mass unit) 5. What does the atomic number tell you? the number of protons in the atom/element 6. What does a mass number tell you? the number of protons PLUS the number of neutrons (the sum) 7. What are isotopes? atoms of the same element (same atomic number, same number of protons), but with different numbers of neutrons 8. How does mass number differ…
corner of the city. However, when I came to Lowell, I felt like I came through the countryside which has not any tall buildings and also after 8 pm no one will be in the street which is little terrifying. In other hand, my university location and buildings looks very different than any other Old Lowell’s buildings and locations. That is because the most of our campus’ buildings are new and colored like skittles such as university suites which has red, black, and grey walls. I always think that our…
die. Now why would you deny someone their right to love another just because they are the same gender? Because you don’t like it? Even if you don't like it or if you're against it, how does a complete stranger’s life affect you in any way? If a gay couple got married right now how would it affect you and the way you live your life. So why not just let them get married. Another argument one might make against gay marriage hurts children. They feel that children do best when they are raised by married…
mother's illness and isolation she is going through. Allen also expresses her feelings on how her mother went through her illness by being a half-breed. Half Native American and half American, which are isolated in her body and makes the disease unbearable for her to deal with. In the first part of the poem Allens mother sees lupus as a “ self -attack”; because her blood types are half Native American and the other American. This presents a point of view in the poem.”She says that the disease is…