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Jacob Riis

As a reporter for the New York Evening Sun Riis began photographing the slums and tenements.Riis wrote How the Other Half Lives to reveal the terrible conditions.Riis suggested that the upper class should help improve the slums as a way to not only benefit them financially but also morally.Riis suggested that the high rate of criminality in the slums was a direct result of the environment, not the people. The children of the poor grow up in joyless homes to lives of wearisome toil that claims them at an age when the play of their happier fellows has but just begun.Background on RiisChoose the song lyrics you think best relates to your picture/painting. Find a passage from Maggie that relates to the conversation between the lyrics and pictures/paintings.Riis and Maggie