Personal Narrative: The Great Depression

The Great Depression was a devastating period in United States History, the economy collapsed, and a staggering 25% of the population was unemployed. During this time, there were large wage disparity gaps that were very prevalent, there was no middle class, you were either wealthy or you were poor. It was hard for family life to continue, parents had to take up two and three jobs to make sure their kids were staying safe, and well. Most of these jobs were odd-jobs, and were temporary with no sense of security. It was a struggle to find work, and no job was too demeaning for you to do, because you may not find work again.

He approached his speech with a very negative tone. Ronald Reagan focused on what was going to be done to rebuild our country's unity whereas Mario Cuomo only focused on what hadn't been done. Mario Cuomo believed that Reagan was only seeing the good parts of America but was failing to see the suffering that many people were facing. People who can't pay their mortgages, afford an education, and parents have to let their dreams go that they have for their children. In this negative tone throughout his speech, he uses the metaphor that “All the President sees from the veranda of the white house is a shining city”.

As previously mentioned, food prices had deflated causing farmers to not be able to make a profit off of their land. Subsequently, they would not sell the crops that they produced, which was not a lot because along with the Great Depression the Dust Bowl was also taking place. The Dust Bowl was a massive drought in the middle portion of the country, while it did not affect Alabama where the story took place, it was a detriment to many families. As a consequence of the Dust Bowl many farms produced a small amount of crop, and it contributed to the money deflation of Great

I believe that I would never want to live during this time, there were a high amount of savages fending for themselves and their families. I believe this must’ve placed every community in hostile situations. We can easily see that this era was cruel and horrendous as it a domino effect had taken effect and had destroyed

The cost of this is most probably more than 7800$ so we can infer that he had no savings as he had to spend all of his money yearly including some of the money his wife made, so when she left him it must have been a huge decrease in funds for the family. This brings me to my third

Following the devastating economic disaster in 1920, 15 million people had not only lost their jobs, but a majority of their savings as well. Many of their homes were dependent on the money used for relief from the government. A number of business and banks were shutting down, the production and sales of services and goods were drastically reduced. All the while, very little aid had reached state level. By May 22, 1933, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was set up.

Poverty and unemployment were at an all time high; however, most car companies and factory workers had a low unemployment rate. The poverty level started to drop as World War 2 came around. During the war, there was a need for factory workers to help make ammunition and means of transportation for the civil defense. This led to a significant decrease in the total number of impoverished people. Most people who were employed were doing very well.

Since no fields where in working condition because of the dust bowl unemployment skyrocketed. in a document about unemployment they said, “In 1933, at the worst point in the Great Depression years, unemployment rates in the United States reached almost 25%, with more than 11 million people looking for work”(Kelley 1). Unemployment left people on the streets as much as being jobless was common so was being homeless. People fought for survival any form they could, they began creating shanty towns all over nicknamed ‘Hooverville’ after President Herbert Hoover who was onset of the depression and who they blamed responsible for it. These were some of the hells people suffered through caused by the Great

Every night in the United States, more than 550,000 people have no home to return to. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), last year our country experienced the first increase in homelessness rates in a decade. The issue of homelessness is persistent and continues to ruin the lives of many Americans today, and no solution has been able to holistically address the problem. In recent discussions about assistance to the homeless in America, government intervention has been a controversial topic. On one hand, some argue that those in need should learn to rely on themselves, and that private nonprofits are more effective than federal programs.

He never saw a good outcome is violence,nothing good comes out of it. If you protest and don 't buy their goods or anything they will break eventually. In Martin Luther King 's own words he says “ IN the past six months simply by refusing to purchase products from companies which would not hire negroes in meaningful numbers and in all job categories, the Ministers of Chicago under SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket have increased the income of the Negro community by more than two million dollars annually”. This is a non violence at its peak of power,when it cuts into the profit margin of a business in order to bring about a more just distribution of jobs and opportunities for Negro wage earners. In these two sentences you can obviously see that by protesting and no violence Negro job distribution has gone up.