Compare journalists O. Henry & Riis.  Both wrote about working women in New York, but they took different approaches to their work.  Compare their publications.  What work do women do in their respective works?  How much are they paid?  How do they economize?  What does each author conclude about the women’s sex lives?  What do the authors think of the working and living conditions they are describing?  You can answer these questions in any order that would make sense as an essay.  Do this in no more than three pages

read O. Henry,  “An Unfinished Story,” The Four Million.  Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2776/2776-h/2776-h.htm#17 (May 21, 2014).
Jacob A. Riis, “The Working Girls of New York,” How the Other Half Lives:  Studies among the Tenements of New York.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.  Google Books, http://books.google.com/books?id=zhcv_oA5dwgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=how+the+other+half+lives&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DiB5U_25LOjesASbpYDYCw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=The%20color%20line%20of%20&f=false (May 21, 2014).