The Great Depression was only “great” if you enjoyed being poor and standing in breadlines; if that wasn’t your thing then the Great Depression was not for you. The great depression was horrible, in the early 1930’s over 10 million people were out of work and some people were even searching trash cans for food. There were protest in Washington D.C. by the same me who protect our country, dustbowls, and thousands of people standing in breadlines for relief; no, the Great Depression wasn’t all that grand. There were squatter areas named affectionately after President Herbert Hoover called “Hoovervilles” in which people who had lost their homes constructed shanties out of cardboard, tar paper, glass, lumber, tin and whatever else they could salvage . Some of the “homes” were not buildings at all but deep holes dug in the ground with a makeshift roof .
In the peak of the depression with one-quarter of America’s population unemployed, people had to look to …show more content…
As I listened to the Bing Crosby version (of course) and I loved how he intertwined with the mood of the song perfectly right from the beginning; and the pictures that played in the background were just as eerily fitting and disheartening. The song goes on to summarize the feelings of the common American people at that time. To think of all these great things that the citizens had done to help institute America, and now they had nothing to show for their
In the peak of the depression with one-quarter of America’s population unemployed, people had to look to …show more content…
As I listened to the Bing Crosby version (of course) and I loved how he intertwined with the mood of the song perfectly right from the beginning; and the pictures that played in the background were just as eerily fitting and disheartening. The song goes on to summarize the feelings of the common American people at that time. To think of all these great things that the citizens had done to help institute America, and now they had nothing to show for their