Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half Lives Essay -- Jacob Riis Other Half

Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half LivesThis book talks about the immigrants in the early 1900s. The book describes how they live on their daily lives in New York City. It helped me a lot on Riis photographs and his writings on to better understand the book and the harsh reality this people lived. This comes to turn in us that life is not that easy and it will cost us work to succeed. Riis talked about all the immigrant major groups that came to the United States during this time period. Riis was a cow chip prejudice and stereotyped the people he wrote about. For example he talked about he Italians as existence gamblers and being slow learners. He criticizes them as being dumb and that is the reason they were cheated on their pay roll. They were told that by coming to America they would get pay...