In 1877 Riis became a police reporter for the New York Tribune. Knowing the struggle of life in urban poverty, Riis was fixated on utilizing this opportunity to employ his writing abilities to communicate and raise awareness of this inhumane treatment that was present in a “civilized society” to the public. He ceaselessly claimed that the "poor were the victims rather than the makers of their fate.”
Yufei Hua 1000067205 GGR124 Assignment 1 Professor: Deborah Cowen TA: Madeleine Cahuas TUT 5301 Word Count:393 Engage the City Institutional racism, as one of the causes of urban inequality, is slowing down urban gentrification. Institutional racism is “discrimination based on both formal rules and common practices that are so widespread and so well established that they are taken for granted” as defined in the book “Starting Points: A Sociological Journey” (Tepperman, 2011, p.266). Thus, people sometimes are being racist without realizing it. Similarly, collateral damage might be already happening in the city before people’s awareness, urban inequality, for example. In Professor Hulchanski ’s work “Three cities within Toronto”, the existence of urban inequality and a trend of polarization are apparently admitted as
The article claims that efforts targeted to catch offenders are harsh, inappropriate and a waste of time. Since neither prostitutes nor the male customers run to the police to complain about the other's conduct, police must count on trickery and deceit. For example, in some cities, laws against prostitution are converting local policemen into de facto car thieves and policewomen into masquerade prostitutes. Unfortunately, according to the article laws against prostitution bring out the worst among the nation's law-enforcement agencies. Putting prostitutes and their customers in jail will just overcrowd jails which causes hardships to many
Even though Jacob Riis was poor prior to this, Jacob believed the the poor were powerless in society and that he had the power to help them by using this his journalistic skills to communicate this to the public. He wasn’t very sympathetic towards the poor. He constantly argued that the "poor were the victims rather than the makers of their fate" (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk). Jacob Riis says that the poor are so powerless in society that they don’t even have control over their own fate, they are victims of it. When he got more and more involved with the tribune during these times as a police reporter, Riis worked and wrote about the some of the most dangerous slums of the city.
This stupid law only makes people criminals and dies in this city, Chicago. These days, polices and courts look too busy to control, spending their time mostly on Prohibition cases, and they look overburdened to take care of their real purposes which to protect people and citizens’ properties. Even more, people start to distrust the government because people know that many of candidates have their relationships with mobsters who have money and influence from organized crime as a support. The society looks corrupted and this is all because of stupid prohibition at least for these days. A lot of friends of mine also had changes of drinking habits, which means that they drink at home mostly instead of drinking in the bar or pub, and they prefer hard liquors because it is easier to get and cheaper.
As coolie labor, the "heathen Chinese" undermined the American workingman with his dangerously low wage and filthy work habits that bred disease and immorality. The "Chinese" even went so far as to covet Anglo-Saxon women or so proclaimed by such popular magazines as Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated
It was believed that working class men wasted all their wages and spare time on alcohol. It was seen to encourage violence and drunkenness. It was seen as unchristian to drink as it encouraged immortal behaviour and the mistreatment of women. Another reason for the introduction of prohibition was because of racial reasons. Drinking was associated with new immigrants like
The article, Why I love Shoplifting, talks about the unfair treatment that big corporations force upon citizens of the world. The essay explains and expresses the opinions of a shoplifter and why she steals from corporations. The author gives valid reasons for why people shoplift and why it is acceptable for them to do it. In the essay, the author analyzes the pros and cons of shoplifting in order to establish a credible connection with the audience, thus providing a credible connection with them. Using the collective knowledge of ex-corporation workers, the author uses rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos to express the true nature of the shoplifter’s intentions.
Which can be supported by the quote “[…] none knew he was in debt” (Prologue Chaucer 123). Many people didn’t leave their homes or went and moved far away from cities to avoid the plague. This happening caused many people to not attend their jobs and sell goods. Trading was also affected a lot from this plague; some cities even closed their shipping docks, scared that incoming ships would bring more of the Black Plague with them. The only people who enjoyed the black plague were the peasants as said in the quote “As the Black Death swung the balance in the peasants favor” (Routt).
Thus, poor people living in the slums were considered as miserable sinners who well deserved their destiny. That’s why the middle class completely ignored the social problems of the