1930s

reflects that era. The 1930’s was particularly hard on single, divorced , single mothers and minorities “ I was nineteen. It was the pre‐relief, pre‐WPA world of the depression. I would start running as soon as I got off the streetcar, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour, and awake or asleep to startle awake, when she saw me she would break into a clogged weeping that could not be comforted, a weeping I can yet hear” (pg. 271). Traditional gender roles during the 1930s were taken…

Family history has always intrigued me, as I want to know more about the times of the past and how my relatives grew up. As the world suffers today from instability and financial problems, I began to wonder what exactly it was like to grow up in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. This spark of thought made me relate this to the times when my grandfather grew up. Born in 1932, living in a rugged down home, striving to survive off of eating anything and everything possible. Never knowing when…

Canada in the 1930s hit a difficult time as the Great Depression affected Canada almost as equally as it did the United States of America. As the stock market crashed in October of 1929 in New York, the effect of it was felt across all North America as more then one-quarter of Canadians were out of work. Throughout the ten years of the depression, the way in which it most affected Canadians was through unemployment which led many into poverty. Typically, it was ideal for the man to achieve a…

dust storms in and around the Great Plains, physically destroyed and emotionally devastated an already depressed America during the 1930s. While still in the midst of the Great Depression, the ecological and agricultural mishaps of farmers caused a drought and dust storm that affected America for years to come. In his book, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, Donald Worster states that while irresponsible farming practices played a part in the phenomenon, the underlying cause was that…

still getting pregnant. Pregnancy during The Great Depression was just added pressure and put women in a bind to choose the tough decision. “As women pressured doctors for help, the medical practice of abortion, legal and illegal, expanded during the 1930’s. Physicians granted, for the first time, that the social conditions were an essential component of medical judgment in therapeutic abortion cases.” (Reagan 132). Social conditions played apart which in my mind means economic reasons. The…

just that. Although it is not as sanitary drinking milk straight from a goat, the boy does what he can do. Also the farms are still open I feel in the film because the 1920s was just the start of the Great Depression, until it actually took off in 1930. Each year something would happen it seemed and the economics of the year is unfortunate. The main effect of the Great Depression focused on banking as well and how the decline went down. The book, “New World Coming”, by Nathan Miller, discusses…

Despite thousands of history books about the Great Depression throughout the years, the readers could hardly comprehensively realize the sufferings from the unprecedented crisis unless they had experienced. However, about seventy years ago, Tennessee Williams, who was an American playwright, orchestrated a vivid literacy masterpiece that combined his personal experience with his distinguished and influential memory play, The Glass Menagerie, which transpired in St. Louis in 1937, and primarily…

In 1930s the great depression was a serious worldwide issue, when the horrifying weather destroyed all the crops and left the farmers wretched. Most farmers moved on and did some other labor. In Sinclair Ross’s “The lamp at noon” is set in the great depression time, about a farmer named Paul who has too much pride about his farming and strives to keep farming and maintaining the crops and land, but his wife Ellen opposes this and wants to move to her parents and work with her them. Yet his…

In the early 1900s in Vermont, the Great Depression devastated the people of the state. The economy was so poor that the state had almost no money, and could only hope to get federal loans. Not only that, but in 1934 the federal government was trying to buy most of the mountain land in vermont. “Agents of Washington moved to Vermont with the intention of buying up ‘submarginal land’”, and the mountain people of vermont were not very pleased about being forced to live in the valleys (Bryan 14).…

For many years, Little Orphan Annie has been a source of entertainment for Americans, both during the Great Depression and after. The Great Depression was a hard time for everybody and caused a national crisis due to the stock market crash within the United States. During the Great depression, more often than not, families would have to be separated in order to find work. During this time of struggle, the protagonist on the radio show Little Orphan Annie, Annie, became a figure of courage and…