In 1890, Riis compiled his work into his own book titled, How the Other Half Lives. As he wrote, "every man’s experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be.” The eye-opening images in the book caught the attent...
根据第二段最后四句"And he wrote many stories about the life there.Riis started a personal war against slum houses (贫民窟),the sort he saw in Mulberry Bend.He also worked to get laws against child labor,and made sure that these laws were obeyed.And he helped establish centers for older ...
What did Riis do to help people in Mul-ple were in Mulberry Bend. But as a newspaper reporter, heberry Bend?could find the truth. And he wrote many stories about the lifeA. Made laws against child labor.there. Riis started a personal war against slum houses(贫民B. Fought with the ...
York City.Riis's the Other Half Lives,was published in 1890.Alter that,he wrote twelve books,(8) including(包括)Children of the Poorr and How the Other Hulf Lives.They helped(9) improve(提高:改善)conditions in the city.The books also made him popular as a speaker in America....
文章主要讲述了美籍丹麦作家Jacob Riis为了给穷人创造一个更美好的世界而努力奋斗了一生的故事以及他一生中所取得的成就。 事实细节题。根据第一段第一句"In the spring of 1870, a young man called Jacob Riis traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City, who came from Denmark."1870年春天,一个...
Riis' goal was to bring to light the conditions of the poor living in the tenements and slums of New York City. His dramatic photographs, later... Learn more about this topic: Jacob Riis: Biography, Facts & Books from Chapter 13/ Lesson 9 ...
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York. By Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. (New York: New Press... _title /html_title Reviewed by Miles Orvell Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New ...
Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914), the most important Danish American journalist, fought for the rights of the poor; his work,How the Other Half Lives(1890), described the impoverished conditions of laborers in New York City. Riis had a powerful ally in the person of President Teddy Roosevelt. Tw...
Riis, Jacob: Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the Century New York.(Brief article)(Book review)Power, Matthew
Riis’s 1890 treatise of social criticismHow the Other Half Liveswas written in the belief “that every man’s experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along ...