In how the other half lives, jacob riis exposed

 The book dramatized the awful living conditions in New York City slums in the late 1800s.

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Jacob Riis was a police reporter in New York.  In 1888, Riis took pictures of what life was like in city's slums.  Using his own photos as well as photos gathered from other photographers, Riis began to give lectures titled, "The Other Half: How It Lives and Dies in New York," in which he would show the pictures on a projection screen and describe for viewers what the situations were like.  He gave his lectures in New York City churches.  In 1989, a magazine article by Riis (based on his lectures) was published in Scribner's Magazine.  The book version was then published in 1890 as How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York.

Riis blamed the poor living conditions on greed and neglect from society's wealthier classes, and called on society to remedy the situation as a moral obligation.

– In ‘How the other half lives’, Jacob Riis has highlighted the condition of the people living in the slum areas of ‘New York’ during the period of 1890’s.

Further Explanation:

‘How the other half lives’ is a publication of photojournalism in 1890’s by Jacob Riis and in this he has shown bad living conditions in the slums of New York. In this publication, Jacob Riis has shown the difference between the livelihoods of people of lower class as compared to people from upper class. It is widely known that in early 1900’s, USA was known as a promised state to do business and because of this many immigrants from Asia, East Europe and south Europe immigrated to USA to get settled and as many as 5 million immigrants entered USA during that period and majority of them went to New York which lead to increase of 25% of population for New York alone during that time. In this publication, Jacob Riis has highlighted the conditions of slums of New York such as miserable living condition in slum areas such as Spreading of diseases, safety for women, Dangerous unhygienic conditions and many other core issues were exposed by Jacob Riis in his publication. This publication made and impact and many steps were taken by the government in regards to improvement of conditions in the slum areas of New York. Jacob Riis was only the first one who exposed such an issue during that period.  

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1. A main purpose of the president’s state of the union address is to?

2. The fourth amendment implies privacy because it protects the right?

Answer details:

Grade: High School

Subject: Tenant System in New York

Chapter: Immigration

Keywords- Jacob Riis, New York, Tenant System,  Asia, East Europe, South Europe, Women Safety, 1890, Photojournalism, USA.  

i believe the answer is d.