The economy of the United States expanded greatly through the 1920 's reaching its climax in August 1929. By this point, production had already declined and unemployment was at an all-time high, leaving stocks to imitate their real value. During the stock market crash of 1929, better known as Black Tuesday, investors traded vast numbers of shares in a single day, causing billions of dollars to be lost and millions of investors to be eliminated. This "crash" signaled the beginning of a decade long Great Depression that would affect all Western industrialized nations; a crash that would later become known as one of the darkest, longest lasting, economic downturns in American history. People all around the world suffered greatly as personal income, …show more content…
The photograph 's title, Migrant Mother identifies the mother, as a migrant worker inferably a farmer outside of her home, as the majority of Americans were as they suffered through the tragedy of the Dust Bowl. Migrant workers traveled from farm to farm picking vegetation and other crops at starvation wages (Boundless). The mother and her children 's location in a tent support the suggestion that they moved frequently and did not possess a home of their own. The mother herself wears unmatched clothing: a plaid shirt underneath a linen coat. The coat is frayed at the sleeves barely extending to her elbows. Her face is beaten and her hair looks to be thrown back in a messy pony tail free of care. She displays no trace of earrings, necklaces, rings or other lavish accessories. The baby lies wrapped in what looks to be soiled cloth. It could possibly be that it is stained by dirt and debris. Its face is unclean and covered in dirt. The child leaning on the mother 's left wears a coat filled with holes and that is teared towards the bottom sleeve. Their hair is not groomed and their hands are soiled with dirt. There also appears to be a bruise on its visible arm. The child leaning on the mother 's right is wearing a loosely fit blazer, clearly not fit to size. These aspects of poverty displayed by the mother and her children display the Great Depression 's grim impression on several aspects of their lives …show more content…
The physical image of poverty portrayed by the family reflects The Great Depression’s toll on their livelihood. It is clearly and plainly displayed that the mother and her children are impoverished by the techniques of black and white color choice, and intricate, detailed texture. The hardship faced by the family is highlighted by the photograph being in black and white. This allows for the simplicity of their condition to be shown without the distractions a photograph in color would provide. The image is very detailed and defined by texture, to leave no question to whether the family lacks wealth or riches. The mother’s face filled with wrinkles, the children’s face streaked with dirt and clothes filled with holes confirm such
THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 was the start of the deepest and darkest time for the United States Stock Market and the people of the United States. The Market crash, the loss of American jobs and homes, lead to one of the hardest downfalls in American history. Along with billions of dollars lost due to bad stock trading, over extending on personal credit and the spending of money that had yet to be produced. The American people never stood a chance and in a matter of 10 days the lives of almost everyone changed. In 1928 Herbert Hoover was elected as president.
In a New York Times article, “Too Poor to Make the News,” author Barbara Ehrenreich focuses on the impact the recession has caused to the lives of the working poor. She begins her article by describing how the newly group, known as Nouveau poor, have to give up valuables where as the working poor have to give up housing, food, and prescription medicines. Ehrenreich’s purpose is to inform her readers who are blessed enough not to suffer like the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich’s article examines the impacts the recession has on the lives of the working poor, by demonstrating pathos, and makes readers aware of the sufferings the poor have to face. Barbara Ehrenreich examines the aspects that are impacting the working poor from the recession.
This illustration displays the lack of resources provided in rural Alabama that he mother risks her life to feed the eight children. Difficult living conditions, such as this illustration determinates Moss to escape from the life-risking everyday problems of finding a meal to eat. Despite Barbara Moss’s abnormalities and setbacks she is a successful writer/author. Although she changes her face structure when she is an adult, she embraces that beauty comes from within.
Ravaged the Great Depression, the Copelands struggled to make ends meet. Young Ray Copeland resorted to stealing livestock and forging false checks. It was not long before Ray Copeland was soon caught and served a year in jail. The Depression represents rapid social change and upheaval as represented by the Functionalist point of view. (
Who is Margaret Walker? Margaret Walker was a poet who wrote five bibliography poems (Poetry Foundation). Margaret Walker wrote more poems but these are just the ones she wrote about her life. She leaned toward writing about nature and black lives, she addresses these things in the poems “Sorrow Home”, “ Memory”, and “Southern Song”, most people can relate to these types of poems because they can relate to being outdoors and doing hard work and putting forth the effort to get a job done. Margaret Walker was an interesting poet because her poems can transport the reader back to a time and place of hardships and struggles of the black community in the days of slavery and their strength to overcome these sometimes unbearable conditions.
One of the most world-changing moments in the world at the end of the 1920's was the Great Depression. Although some might have benefited from it, the Great Depression was also the event that caused the economy to become depressed due to many changes in the world. The Great Depression caused extreme poverty, severe number of unemployed people and homelessness. In picture two, it shows how there's a homeless man sitting there with a little baby.
The stock market crash on Black Tuesday set the direction of the stock market and the economy for the next decade in the way it effected everyone. In only four days, the stock market fell twenty-five percent. It lost thirty billion, or forty percent, in market value. This was amazingly ten times more than the 1929 Federal budget of the United States, and more than the United States ended up spending in World War I. By November, stock prices hit their lowest point ever in 1929 which all started on Black Tuesday. Over one hundred billion had vanished from the American economy.
There began to be a gradual decline in prices and the stock market ruptured. On October 24, 1929, the infamous “Black Thursday” took place, where stock holders went on a panic selling spree. Things then went from bad to worse, stock prices went down 33 percent. People stopped purchasing goods and business investments decreased after the crash. In the fall of 1930, the first of four major waves
Laura Marie Yapelli Professor Rung Final Paper 12/8/2016 Baseball in The Great Depression On October 29th, 1929 the stock market crashed and sent the United States into a severe economic disaster marking the start of the Great Depression. The effects of the crash were extreme and affected the living and working conditions of Americans across the Country. People and families were not the only ones affected by the Great Depression. Many companies and organizations were feeling the effects as well.
In an unadulterated manner, Lange allows the reader to be transported to that wearisome time... and lyrically gives the children a voice in this paradoxical issue. Throughout time we see all forms of media altering facts. Overall, they offer assumptions and interpretations that the readers may not always agree with or trust. The Great Depression is one of the events in history with many opinions surrounding it, for the Japanese it was a truly tragic time, the American take on the same situation may be somewhat different due to the blinding patriotism.
Kids back then were in awful conditions because their children had no freedom, got deformities due to not ever seeing the sunlight, were underpaid, working up to 16 hours a day, underfed, and often had very poor sleeping and housing conditions. This book was bringing attention to the awful conditions these young kids had to go through. Many families got separated and many people died during this time period. Around the world in poorer places there are still very poor and harsh working conditions for people. Many people take their freedom for
The fact that these men had to resorted to soup kitchens like this for daily meals, because they can’t afford a meal on the table due to the economical situation fluctuating causing many of them to lose here jobs, creates sympathy for the men lined up in the photograph. It is a very straight to the point photograph, it is what it is making a direct statement about the seriousness of the Great Depression and what It is resulting in. This could of possibly be done on purpose to allow the people viewing the photo to sympathize with the subjects. Soup kitchens were considered a key aspect for the people in the 1930s daily life. Almost every city and town had soup kitchens to accommodate the poor some people went to the extent of (5) arguing that soup kitchens were preferable to the "police station
In “Photographing History” People were still living on the streets poor, with nothing to help them or really do. But one day, one camera would change the entire world. Dorothea Lange, a young woman born in the United States, was really wanting to help others by documenting them with camera’s by taking pictures. The text stated, “When the Great Depression began, Lange started to photograph people throughout San Francisco's neighborhoods. Some were homeless or hungry—and many did not have jobs.”
The letter provides a personal account of the bad circumstances and desperation experienced by individuals and families during that time. The most effective point in the letter that explains this is the author's statement, "I have no money at all to buy the baby clothes. " This simple sentence shows the severe poverty and lack of resources that families were dealing with, and it highlights the urgent need for assistance. People can use this letter as a primary source to show the real-life struggles and challenges faced by ordinary people during the Great Depression, adding deep and personal descriptions to their historical
On January 26, 1952, squads of right-wing extremists stormed into Cairo that led to riot in the streets in response to the battle that occurred at the headquarters of the Ismailia gendarmerie the day before (Gordon 1992, 26). The government was inept in handling of the situation and had no available allies to assist them. The next day, the country was under martial law, the constitution was suspended, the Wafd was dismissed, and the guerillas were arrested (Abdel-Malek, 39). The event known as “Black Saturday” and the virtual collapse of government with five changes of prime ministers enticed the Free Officers to move ahead on their plan to initiate a coup (Hopwood 1982, 37).