Dissertation Writers: What was the objective of Riis in writing How the Other Half Lives?
· How do you explain the problems associated with American cities of the late Nineteenth Century?
· How did Progressives like Jane Addams and Upton Sinclair respond to the problems and offer different solutions to the urban problems?
· How did Jane Addams argue for the Settlement House movement and why?
· What was the intention of Upton Sinclair in writing to the President? To what extend was he persuasive?
· How did reporter and social reformer Jacob A. Riis describe the tenements of New York in his book, How the Other Half Lives?
· What was the objective of Riis in writing How the Other Half Lives?
