Diary Entry 4:
The night had just started to darken; the stars that were coming up as though they were individual beacons of hope that kept people going to see another day. Everyone was scattered around in their makeshift houses; we had been living in a cardboard box for a while now just like everyone around us. As I looked down I could see my ribs sticking out, the piece of an apple I ate to today did not satisfy my hunger; albeit it was the first food I had in three days. The lack of food was because of where I lived, Hooverville, it was where the cardboard houses were abundant, yet the food was scarce, and there was a copious amount of unemployment. My mother, being one of the unemployed, had sold everything valuable she owned for barely 50 cents when she first lost her job. My mother had said she was rich until October 29th, that was the time the stock market pummeled and everyone panicked. As I fall asleep, I hope for a better tomorrow, as that is …show more content…
America is said to be heading in a downhill spiral towards another crash which could potentially lead into another depression. Hopefully this one will not be as severe as the first one! Statistics show that if our stock market crashed it will most likely not be as severe as the events in 1929, yet there is still the potential to change America immensely. Seeing that the Stock Market Crash of 1929 caused the Great Depression, which caused one of the nation’s greatest leaders to become president and many other events following, proves that it was the most impactful event in history. As a sovereign nation, there has been many experienced advances that can exceed any explanation. Without the crash, there would be no advances leading in a fundamentally different world. The repercussions of this event changed mankind in a way that is almost unexplainable and caused a remarkably memorable event in
The night had just started to darken; the stars that were coming up as though they were individual beacons of hope that kept people going to see another day. Everyone was scattered around in their makeshift houses; we had been living in a cardboard box for a while now just like everyone around us. As I looked down I could see my ribs sticking out, the piece of an apple I ate to today did not satisfy my hunger; albeit it was the first food I had in three days. The lack of food was because of where I lived, Hooverville, it was where the cardboard houses were abundant, yet the food was scarce, and there was a copious amount of unemployment. My mother, being one of the unemployed, had sold everything valuable she owned for barely 50 cents when she first lost her job. My mother had said she was rich until October 29th, that was the time the stock market pummeled and everyone panicked. As I fall asleep, I hope for a better tomorrow, as that is …show more content…
America is said to be heading in a downhill spiral towards another crash which could potentially lead into another depression. Hopefully this one will not be as severe as the first one! Statistics show that if our stock market crashed it will most likely not be as severe as the events in 1929, yet there is still the potential to change America immensely. Seeing that the Stock Market Crash of 1929 caused the Great Depression, which caused one of the nation’s greatest leaders to become president and many other events following, proves that it was the most impactful event in history. As a sovereign nation, there has been many experienced advances that can exceed any explanation. Without the crash, there would be no advances leading in a fundamentally different world. The repercussions of this event changed mankind in a way that is almost unexplainable and caused a remarkably memorable event in