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Jacob Riis

            
             "I loved him from the day I saw him; nor ever in all the years that passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years we were brothers on Mulberry Street. (Theodore Roosevelt www.richmondhillhistory.org) Jacob Riis was a helpful kind of guy and was always there when you needed him. He was also a great man in the history of the U.S.
             In the year 1849 a great man was born who had a great impact on the United States of America. His name was Jacob Riis. He was born in Ribe, Denmark in 1849. Jacob Riis was the 3rd of 13 children in his family. .
             As a young child going into his teens he was noticed for many things he did. When he was around 9 or 10 years old he would give his pocket money to the residents of his hometown. He reported about the slums in the city where immigrants stayed and it was not clean and the streets were full of garbage. Therefore in his articles Riis tried to tell everything and allow his audiences to see through his stories and pictures the fact that poverty is present everywhere in the cities.
             As a young adult he immigrated to America in 1870. He got on a to the U.S. and later settled in Iowa and became a police reporter and then wrote a book called "How The Other Half Lives". Eventually Jacob Riis was the photographer and on the NY board about commissions. He was a Danish American journalist and a social reformer. To get his story of the slums in the papers he got a job at The New York Tribune. .
             In older adult years Riis began to use his photo's to backup his arguments. He was a journalist a lecturer and a photographer for the board of commission in 1891-1892. His pictures of the Brooklyn tenements brought about wide spread horror because it reported about how awful the cities were and how poor and run down the were. He also went to inspect the tenements in the city himself instead of having people go inspect them.


Essays Related to Jacob Riis

1. How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

In the book "How the Other Half Lives," by Jacob Riis, the author writes about the living conditions of the tenement houses. ... Jacob Riis worked as a reporter and was shocked by the conditions these people lived in. ... Riis traveled from tenement house to tenement house seeing the same conditions, if not worse. ... Riis also reported that he walked into one house and the floor was covered with hardened mud. ... Jacob Riis' message to the rest of the world was that there were thousands of people, many of them being children, living in horrible conditions and had no other choice to li...

  • Word Count: 912
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Jacob Riis and Social Reform

The chapter "The Down Town Back-Alleys" in Jacob Riis' novel "How the Other Half Lives" focuses on the plight of the poor on the lower east side of Manhattan. ... Riis creates many divisions in his writing. ... " Riis is imparting the idea of descending to the lower class. ... Riis does this by describing the racial hierarchy and how they differed. ... Here, Riis makes a point to discuss the Irish and Italian groups of people. ...

  • Word Count: 1082
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

3. An analysis of Joacob Riis" Ho

Jacob Riis" book, How the Other Half Lives, is an account on the unfortunate and the impoverished in New York City. Riis tried to write this book with objectivity but given his background and personal connection to the apartment tenants it was hard to keep that objectivity throughout his book. ... Riis refers to all the immigration groups in a negative way. ... Riis writes his book effectively and manages to grasp the attention of the nation with his depiction of real life stories and his snap photography of the tenements of New York City. ...

  • Word Count: 618
  • Approx Pages: 2

4. The Children & Orphanage

Jacob Riis evocative black and white photographs, taken more than a century ago, propel us both backward and forward through history. Jacob August Riis, a New York City police reporter, found his world transformed with the advent offlashlight powder.? ... Jacob Riis, the author of the bestseller How the Other Half Lives, hated poverty because it reminded him of his own tumultuous past. Riis left Denmark for New York at the age of 21. ... Jacob Riis passionate and oftentimes brutal descriptions of the conditions of poverty in the lower East Side of Manhattan were compelling. ...

  • Word Count: 555
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

5. How the Other Half Lives

"How the Other Half Lives" Jacob Riss was born into a middle-class Danish family in 1849. ... In "How The Other Half Lives", Jacob Riis tried to expose and clarify the living conditions of New York's poor to its wealthy. ... In his book Jacob A. ... (Riis, 121). ... (Riis, 37). ...

  • Word Count: 1875
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Grade Level: High School

6. Progressives And The Industrial Movement

The first progressive is Jacob Riis. Jacob Riis believed that the industrial movement brought forth terrible, poor tenement living. ... Unlike Sumner in which he said that change is part of our imagination and not be attempted, Riis thought otherwise and thought that change was part of our responsibility as a society to improve. Riis thought that this tenement problem was under our control and therefore solve the problems it had and we could live in a better society. ... Progressives were what Croly and Riis were called because progress meant to change. ...

  • Word Count: 1267
  • Approx Pages: 5

7. Progressives

The first progressive is Jacob Riis. Jacob Riis believed that the industrial movement brought forth terrible, poor tenement living. ... Unlike Sumner in which he said that change is part of our imagination and not be attempted, Riis thought otherwise and thought that change was part of our responsibility as a society to improve. Riis thought that this tenement problem was under our control and therefore solve the problems it had and we could live in a better society. ... Progressives were what Croly and Riis were called because progress meant to change. ...

  • Word Count: 831
  • Approx Pages: 3

8. Riis

The novel How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis shocked middle and upper class Americans when it was published in 1890. ... Jacob Riis recognized that the ever-increasing lower class was a major problem and would only get worse if the tenement situation was not remedied. ... In the middle Riis ranks the Italians, Jews, and blacks. On the bottom of the ladder Riis places the Chinese. ... Riis used his camera to express the poor in their supposed "natural" environment but Riis actually had the people pose for the photographs. ...

  • Word Count: 1638
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Grade Level: High School

9. The life of the Jewish Immigrant

Jacob A. Riis says "Penury and poverty are wedded everywhere to dirt and disease, and Jewtown is no exception." ... Jacob Riis interested me the most in that his views differed greatly from the other writers. ... Jacob goes on to say, "Money is their God. ... Riis does this all through out his book. ...

  • Word Count: 1938
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

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