Rhetorical Analysis: How The Other Half Lives

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Throughout the course of the semester so far there has been many ethical questions that we have talked about. One is about Jacob Riis and how he adopted a rhetorical position that made him sound like he was agreeing with his audience when presenting the photographs in his book How the Other Half Lives. Jacob Riis used a rhetorical strategy where the text would contradict what the image is portraying. “Its existence was designed to draw the audience’s attention away from the manipulations of the creator and the distortions of the medium, to lull viewers into believing themselves witnesses to an unrehearsed and untagged confrontation with the raw grit of a previously hidden world” (hughes 6). Riis also almost supported the stereotypes that were

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