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The limitations in education meant pursuing high-skilled careers such as teachers, lawyers or doctors, required migration. According to this article, no one was “immune” to the hardships brought upon by the Great Depression. The word immune in this context in a sense compares the Great Depression to a virus or disease that eliminates all in its path with no one possessing an immunity. Education is usually the key to escaping poverty and provides hope for the future. Seeing that even education could not provide a sense of economic security demonstrates how truly desperate times were during the Great

After the Great Depression, many things changed, different\\ genders and races were all treated differently. Blacks and white women were forced to be outcast in the world, women belonged in the house and blacks did not belong anywhere. In the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrays perfectly of how blacks and women were separated from everyone else with Curley’s wife and Crooks, the black stable hand. Curley’s wife and Crooks are alike in many ways; in their loneliness, the way they are separated from everyone else and how they get out casted from everything, discriminated against during the time period; which helps show how blacks and women were treated during this time period of life.

The Great Depression was a time of poverty, unemployment, stress, frustration, and of course depression. During that era, many had known and heard about the depression. It wasn’t until a photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, had taken the pictures of a defeated worn out mother, that people had an accurate visual of the Depression. The picture was known as the Migrant Mother. Seeing it with their eyes, many saw a new different perspective of that era.

To show the state of people’s lives before the WPA, we found this quote that was written by a boy from Chicago during The Great Depression, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, “I’m a boy of 12 years. I want to tell you about my family. My father hasn’t worked for 5 months. He went plenty times to relief, he filled out application. They won’t give us anything. I don’t know why. Please you do something. We haven’t paid 4 months’ rent. Every day the landlord rings the doorbell, we don’t open the door for him. We are afraid that we will be put out, been put out before, and don’t want to happen again. We haven’t paid the gas bill, and the electric bill, haven’t paid grocery bill for 3 months. My father he staying home. All the time he’s crying because he can’t find work. I told him why are you crying daddy, and daddy said why shouldn’t I cry when there is nothing in the house. I feel sorry for him…. Please answer right away because we need it or we will starve. Thank you. God bless you.” The Great Depression was a time where lots of families suffered, and with the formation of the WPA, many families got the help they needed through relief programs. Despite the success of the WPA, there were charges of corruption within the agency. In 1939, charges of mismanagement and abuse of employees was brought against the WPA. This led to a reduction in appropriations, and a strike led by construction workers who were against wage cuts.

The Great Depression affected many Americans throughout the 1930s. Many people had no source of income and had no other choice but to travel and find new jobs. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George Milton and Lennie Small wander through California in search of a new job that would help them make enough money to live their American dream on “the fatta the lan’”(Steinbeck 14). George and Lennie’s hard work and determination is not enough for them to live their dream. Lennie has a mental disability that slows the two friends down from living their dream; they have to run from job to job because of Lennie’s unintentional actions.

Also in her letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, she ask if the first lady could send them money so they could get some clothes to wear. Shinning on the fact that the family is likely wearing worn and used clothes. E.B. wasn’t the only girl asking for clothes when writing to the first lady, in source one; the fifth grader told Mrs. Roosevelt what sizes she wears in certain clothes. In both sources two and three, the writers ask Mrs. Roosevelt if she has any old clothing that they can give to their families. These families was not alone, in source twenty-three there is a picture of young children in an Iowa Tenant Farmer’s House were the children are wearing dirty and very shabby clothing. This problem of poor clothing didn’t just faced white, but also blacks. In source twenty-five, a FSA (Farm Service Agency) family of African-American can be seen wearing frayed clothing, starting from the baby all the way to the oldest. Also in source twenty-six, Agricultural Workers and Children, another African-American family is seen facing the same issues with clothing in sources twenty-five and twenty-three. This issue did not only just face families who lived on farms, but also migrant workers too. In sources sixteen,

McElvaine book reveals a collection of letters of the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through the Great Depression. McElvaine puts the reader in direct contact with Depression victims, showing a feeling of what it was like to live through this dilemma. The writers of the letters came from different kinds of people:middle-class people, blacks, rural residents, the elderly, and children. By looking at the Great Depression from the perspectives of its victims of diverse backgrounds and McElvaine gives the reader a better understanding of their struggles on a more personal level.

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton. This quote explains how most of the American families felt during the great depression. During the great depression a lot of men and woman lost their jobs, and could longer provide for their families.

The study of Thomas Minehan revealed that about two hundred and fifty thousand youth were homeless in the early years of the Great Depression. Some left their homes because they felt they were a burden to their families and some fled homes shattered by the unemployment and poverty. Once on the road, they confronted danger, cold, hunger, loneliness, and humiliation. Jobless and homeless, they begged for food and slept in hobo camps as they crossed the country in search of jobs opportunity. They suffered diseases due to lack of cleanliness, contagion and infection. Many of them were malnourished because sometimes days went by without anything to eat. In addition, the study revealed the poor condition of thousands of kids live because of the

Although this book may a fiction work, it still hold a great deal of the mood of the 1930’s. The Americans of this time period were going through a huge economic depression. Most people were out of work and extremely poor. Food was scarce and homes were even harder to find. Many people lived in Hoovervilles made of tarp and tin. This book goes through the life of one family through their troubles. Although the family is made up, this would represent the untold struggles of thousands of American families.

When states and communities ran out of money, they turned to the federal government to shoulder the financial and administrative burden, but instead providing them with funding, Hoover suggested that the problem could be overcome through individual volunteerism and charity (Walton, 2010). “Few families were spared” when local programs failed. Lacking federal support, they “were left with no one to turn to” (Atkinson, 2006). Men, women, and children from rural and urban settings were fighting for their existence and “many Americans lost their life savings, their homes, and their land” (Atkinson, 2006). Nationwide, quiet entreaties for change based on economic and ethical grounds emerged, underscoring the need for a permanent federal plan to help American workers cope with severe losses in income “brought on by illness, unemployment, disability, birth of a child and heavy burdens of supporting a large family, and old age.” (Atkinson, 2006). Tired of waiting for the market to self-heal, civic, religious, and state leaders throughout the country took matters into their own hands and proposed “radical” relief programs that rapidly gained popularity with millions of Americans and challenged Hoover’s efficacy (Xxxxx, 2006). When Frances Perkins began her job as Secretary of Labor in 1933, she, “found on [her] desk over 2,000 plans [from workers] for curing the Depression” (Perkins,

This short writing written by a woman of the time of the Great Depression, brings an impact to the reader’s mind, and different views of this historical event. The author describes the terrible situations she had to get through, and clearly shows an argument of why the women were actually more in need than the men, who in our learnings, were a bigger part of this happening. Through this essay, she used many different writing skills and definite points, to hit the reader’s emotions, and thus persuade us to this point.

Because women were relied upon so heavily to sustain the family throughout the Great Depression, the loss of a job did not mean that job-related activity would cease. Operating from within a patriarchal society that was heavily biased towards coming to the aid of white men at the expense of all others, women of all races were forced to take whatever work was available to them. For this it may be argued that the New Deal, though oft lauded for its equanimity and effectiveness, nonetheless created opportunities that disproportionately

The mood and effects of The Great Depression is well documented within John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, predominately in the values and customs of familial and societal standings. This novel is paralleled by documents and pictures that further extenuate the points made by Steinbeck, by highlighting the setting and theme of the novel and this era in history. A primary example of this is the picture entitled, “Families on the road with all their possessions”, it mirrors three main overall themes that the novel elaborates on; these include the selection process of what is needed in regards to possessions, the family problems and values expressed, as well as the symbolism and meaning of the rain. To fully understand how this image parallels

The depression forced woman in the working class into early retirement, and those who are married were fired from their job. These measures were taken to provide jobs for men who are supposedly supporting their families. Pregnancy and offspring deepened household difficulties and as the depression continued there was less and less children being born. Families suffered economic hardship and relied mainly on women’s capacity to cut down on household costs. Women gave up on commercially prepared food, kept bees to cut down sugar costs and reused everything that was salvageable. This photo clearly demonstrates the hopelessness women and adolescents were encountering everyday. Upon first glance I noticed how worn and filthy their clothes were.