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How The Other Half Lives As the nineteenth century came to a close and the industrial revolution continued gathering momentum, the Victorian ideal of social responsibility was also coming to an end. The strong moral values the Victorian held to such things as self-control, order, sobriety, and being respectful of property seemed to be dieing along with public conscientiousness. These strong ethical beliefs held by Victorian society were slowly being replaced by greed, envy, anger …

…distribution of wealth, and it always has been. Reading Jacob Riis's How The Other Half Lives made me feel truly blessed to be living in the era in which I do but at the same time reopened my eyes to social issues facing this nation, such as poverty, that have at times been less than dramatic, but for the majority have always need to be dealt with in a different way than they have been.