The Making Of An American - Softcover

Riis, Jacob A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9376395697 ISBN 13: 9789376395699

Verlag: Double 9 Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The making of an American traces a personal journey shaped by migration struggle and self discovery as an individual moves from a sheltered upbringing toward an uncertain future abroad. The narrative reflects on early memories of home family guidance and youthful ideals that nurture optimism and emotional attachment. These formative experiences contrast sharply with later encounters marked by hardship dislocation and social inequality. The book explores how identity is reshaped through labor disappointment perseverance and moral awakening. Dreams of opportunity drive departure while reality demands resilience adaptability and endurance. Encounters with poverty injustice and exclusion reveal the challenges faced by newcomers seeking belonging and purpose. Personal reflection blends with social observation showing how private experience mirrors wider immigrant realities. Hope persists despite repeated setbacks reinforcing belief in progress earned through effort and conscience. The work emphasizes growth through adversity highlighting compassion responsibility and determination as defining forces. By weaving memory with experience the narrative presents transformation not as sudden success but as a gradual shaping of character rooted in endurance and belief in possibility.

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Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer journalist and photographer whose work focused on poverty inequality and moral responsibility within urban society. Born in Ribe to Niels Edward Riis and Carolina Riis he carried early values of discipline empathy and social duty into his adult life. His experiences as an immigrant shaped a lifelong concern for displaced and marginalized communities themes that strongly informed his writing and visual documentation. Through investigative journalism and photography he revealed harsh living conditions while emphasizing human dignity resilience and the possibility of reform. His work combined personal experience with social observation linking individual struggle to systemic failure. Marriage and family life including his unions with Elisabeth Dorthea Nielsen Riis and later Mary Phillips grounded his perspective in responsibility and continuity while raising children strengthened his concern for future generations. Across his career he emphasized reform through awareness compassion and ethical action portraying progress as the result of conscience perseverance and collective responsibility rather than privilege or chance.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9376395697
• ISBN 13: 9789376395699
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland