Jacob Riis’ photo, Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street (1889), expresses a moral environmentalist approach similar to that of Van Hoffman because of its cluttered and humanizing elements that display the tired and sleeping faces in a dull, crowded, and unclean lodging room. The first thing that comes to the forefront is the scenery. The crowded and dirty room distracts people from the people who are actually living in it. The viewer is immediately distracted and displeased with these elements. Riis uses this tool to create a visceral reaction of disgust with the living conditions of the lodging. The reader is compelled to question whether this is adequate lodging and if 5 cents is exactly cheap enough. In this way, the viewer makes the quick …show more content…
They’re faces peak above torn, dirty thin sheets that cover them for sleep. The viewer is forced to recognize that these people don’t have much. They pay to be bunched together in small quarters—perhaps to avoid the cold. And if you look onto their faces, they are tired. Some lay back up from discomfort while others prop themselves up on walls. There are no formal beds. There appears to be piled cloths and old cushions that are being used as fabric to soften the metal structures set up for people to sleep. Even in this picture, the environment dehumanizes the people within it. Like the furniture, dishes, and luggage, these people are meant to be put away somewhere so that they are not on the streets. It’s an inhuman response to a real human need for safety and shelter. These people are clearly workers. They have money to rent the lodging, but the amount of money they make does not appear to be equal to the value they add to the world around them. This is an example of the other side of the world like in New York: A Documentary Film. This is the world that sits in the shadows of the production and growth of that time. Their poverty becomes an untold story that changes the perception of what the American dream is (Ric
R/s there is a hole in the celling and the floors are bucking up. R/s Chrishonna, Keausha and Adrianna don’t have a bed, they sometimes sleep on the floor and chair. R/s Kenidre sleeps in the bed with his uncle Anthony and Lavette sleeps in the bed with her mother, Carrie. R/s Lavette verbal abusive to child. R/s Chrishonna doesn’t want to go back home.
Housekeeping, taxi driving or car detailing to name a few, are survival jobs that offer minimum wage or tips and no source of benefits. In They Say I Say” Barbara Ehrenreich author of “The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream” claims that: Stories of white-collar downward mobility cannot be brushed off as easily as account of blue-collar economic woes, which the hard-hearted traditionally
One person in a room and a soft bed to sleep in. Iraq is a different story. I lived in a tent with 50 other guys. No bed, just a cot to sleep on. No carpet on the floors, or floors for that matter.
The bunkhouse may represent suspicion and the very harsh life of the migrant workers. Throughout the text, the bunkhouse becomes a place of misery, despair, and anger. All of the men in the bunk are working towards the same goal of making it off the farm and making some money. Though some of them have a different attitude towards that such as crooks, who understands the harsh reality they are living in... “I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain't wanted in my room.” (68) Crooks is very direct and almost harsh in the way he treats Lennie.
Awed by this stalwart activist and with visions of the petite lady and her troop of Girl Scouts standing arm-in-arm defiantly defending the stained glass from burly and befuddled construction workers, I stepped out of my car, which gave the enthusiastic conversationalist time to catch her breath. The dialogue moved to the sidewalk and the shade of a nearby shop awning, where the discourse progressed to a casual exchange. I spoke of my trip home from Ames and my desire to indulge in the artistry of Louis Sullivan’s architectural genius. She disclosed that her husband had been a banker and that they had become enamored by Sullivan’s work while living in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, not far from Sullivan’s Owatonna bank.
“Living like kings” is about the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes effect on the homeless. These people tell the audience how their lives changed and how they went from having nothing (nowhere to sleep) to having everything (deserted buildings to live in). I believe that a theme in “ Living like kings” is rags to riches, as the homeless went from having nothing to having everything. I also think that the idea of misrepresentation is very important in this short film.
Without a screen, the window should be sensibly closed at night, meaning no air, unless I’m willing to take my chances with the bugs and the neighbors.” (pg 151-152) it reveals that when you pay more you get more and better quantity. For example, Barbara paid a lot from her wages in order to rent room 133 which didn’t include any source of ventilation. Also, the conditions were unsafe because the door had no bolt, the curtains were see through limiting privacy from others whom lived there. Since, Barbara was alone in the room she was afraid to sleep tightly because she wanted to stay aware and cautioned before anyone comes into the room while she is sleeping.
The author uses the metaphor to compare his bedroom to a mausoleum, in the thought that a bedroom is a place of warmth and liveliness rather than a place that is unwelcoming and depressing. In Guy Montag’s
The dream here belongs to a ‘rootless men of home.’ Then own land for them where they want to sense of belonging and tragically end in disillusion. The migrant shifts from one ranch to another, they work in land that is not their own, sow reap and harvest crop which is not belong to them, and sleep in bunk houses. In loneliness they dream of home—a small white house, a few pigs and rabbits and chicken. The migrants are lonely men.
In the essay, The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, she discusses her observations and experiment with “White-Collar” workers in America. White-Collar workers are known as the “Middle Class” people of America. They are classified that way by the amount of income they receive. A short definition of “White-Collar” is making enough to live off of and having a little extra money on the side. Barbara thinks that, “While blue-collar poverty has become numbingly routine, white-collar unemployment-and the poverty that often results-remains a rude finger in the face of the American dream.”
Both beds come furnished with clean linens and the hosts even provide additional sheets and blankets for those cold Colorado nights. The wood floor of the yurt is also refinished giving you the option of sleeping even more guests if you bring sleeping bags, or an inflatable air
The rooms are neat, clean and have adequate space. Ms. Compton reported that although her room is located downstairs, she sleeps upstairs in the guestroom when Comelia is
Before each person was incentirated, they had to take off all of their clothes, including their shoes. The shoe room was the size of 3 football fields. If there were enough shoes to cover 3 football fields, imagine all of the deceased people laid out; tyranny that could happen again if not taught. Shoes weren’t the only remains found in the camp, there was a pile of empty gas containers. The room filled with gas containers represents the number of
Message: The message of the film is that these immigrants work for minimum wage or less at times, even with the small amount of money that they make they have to be able to provide for themselves as well as taking care of their family back homes. It is hard for them at times and the do have to make sacrifices in order to be able to live in a foreign country to try and make some extra money to provide for their family back home. Summary: Immigrants have to leave behind many things that many of us would never think about living without, like our family.
The father looks very frail and it looks as he may not be eating or eating less, in order to feed his family more. The windows are dirty and dusty and haven’t been cleaned in a very long time. The wood floors are unkept and have many stains, the bed sheets look ratty, torn and grimy. The picture of Bud Fields and