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How many children were in Jacob Riis' family?
Jacob Riis was one of fifteen children, although one was his cousin, who was a foster child. He was the third oldest, born in 1849.
What injustice did muckraker Jacob Riis document?
Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives." He exposed the lives of the many poor Americans living in the slums of the city. These treachers include tenements in which many people crammed together to live in, hot beds which were the poorly made mattresses that they slept in, called hot beds because one person would go to work (usually in a factory) while the other slept and then they would rotate, so the beds would always be warm, and there were often no windows or it was one or two rooms with bunks and a makeshift stove in the middle of the room. Children would be playing in the dirty streets and illness was easily spread.
What injustice did Jacob riis document?
Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives." He exposed the lives of the many poor Americans living in the slums of the city. These treachers include tenements in which many people crammed together to live in, hot beds which were the poorly made mattresses that they slept in, called hot beds because one person would go to work (usually in a factory) while the other slept and then they would rotate, so the beds would always be warm, and there were often no windows or it was one or two rooms with bunks and a makeshift stove in the middle of the room. Children would be playing in the dirty streets and illness was easily spread.
Riis wrote and all be poisend alike by their summer stenches what did he mean?
This statement by Riis highlights the idea that during the heat of summer, all individuals, regardless of their social status, are equally affected by the unpleasant odors and stenches present in the environment. It suggests that unpleasant conditions like foul smells do not discriminate based on one's background or position in society, impacting everyone equally.
How many people are named jacob in the world?
No one knows exactly but there could be over one million.
What was one of the goals Jacob riis's book?
To show well-off americans what it was like to live in a slum.
What was one of the goals of Jacob Riis's book?
To show well-off americans what it was like to live in a slum.
What was one cause for improvements in the slums?
Jacob Riis' book, How the Other Half Lives
What was one of the goals of Jacob riiss book?
Riis' goal was to bring to light the conditions of the poor living in the tenements and slums of New York City.
According to Jacob Riis who was 'the working man'?
Jacob Riis identified the working man as "The Other Half" and wrote a book on the living conditions of the working poor in New York City. He was one of the most effective muckraking journalists, and advocated relentlessly for the poor.
Which of these people was one of the main founders of the grander movement?
Jacob Riis
How many children were in Jacob Riis' family?
Jacob Riis was one of fifteen children, although one was his cousin, who was a foster child. He was the third oldest, born in 1849.
What was one of the goals of Jacobs riiss book?
Riis' goal was to bring to light the conditions of the poor living in the tenements and slums of New York City.
Which quotation attributed to Jacob riis?
Here's one of the best: " Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."--Jacob Riis
Does Breaking Dawn have a book two Jacob?
Aha! There is book one- Bella. Book two- Jacob. Book Three- Bella :P
What are Jacob Riis Ida Tarbell Margaret Sanger best known?
Jacob Riis is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City. Ida Tarbell was one of the leading journalists of the progressive era. Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. She also opened up one of the first birth control clinics.
What book of twilight does Bella meet Jacob?
the first one
