1930s

worker taking a piece of an automobile from the workplace every day for years, and assembling the car years later. There is talk about the Nation of Islam, Huey Long, the establishment of Liberia as a country of African American expatriates, and the 1930’s as a time of many extremist groups such as the silver shirts in Detroit and Father Coughlin in Royal Oak. The theme of the day is all about the automobile industry and the movie taken from the PBS series about the Great Depression focuses on…

Money is not an Option During the 1930’s when To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place there was a depression everywhere in the country. Great dust storms ravaged land across the great plains. This put an end to almost all agriculture in the region. People starving, many people had very little to eat. The stock market crashed. A lot of banks closed. The main point of the story is that there is a african american man that must go on trial for crime he may not have committed. The trial…

brother Darry, in oklahoma and is caught between a gang war in the late 1960’s. Billie Jo from Out of the Dust is a young girl who has found herself in the middle of the dust bowl with her family who owns a farm in the panhandle of Oklahoma in the 1930’s and her father tries to grow wheat but is unsuccessful due to the animals and the weather. Billie Jo’s father owns a farm and wanted a boy hence the name Billie Jo and that she looks very similar to her father, her mother also lives on the…

Kit Kittredge seemed to live a good life with both of her parents, her brother Charlie, and her best friend Ruthie. Kit lives in the time during the Great Depression. The story talks about how her father, like many other men, lost their jobs. In our text, it states that some men had to travel to other cities hoping to find work, just like what Mrs. Kittredge’s friend Mrs. Howard 's’ husband had to do to keep their family fed. In the story, Mrs. Kittredge comes up with the idea of taking in…

In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck takes readers back to the great depression. During this time, around the 1930s, people had to go from farm to farm to make enough money to survive. Many people traveled from job to job alone, never making friends or having the chance to talk to anyone. Steinbeck’s characters show how this affected them and how they wanted to make friends, and get out of the isolation people had put them in. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck claims that isolation can…

Toys have evolved greatly with the advancement of technology over time. Toys have found ways to educate and entertain children for many years, becoming a part of every kid’s childhood, you may even remember some of your favorite toys as a child. Back in the roaring twenties, the now well-known Fisher Price company was beginning to make history. At the same time, the world was facing The Great Depression, and later would face World War One. But for now, Herman Fisher was brainstorming ideas to…

A young upper class woman, Ellie Andrews, and a newspaper reporter, Peter Warne, unexpectedly fall in love in Frank Capra’s 1934 film. The film explores the idea of relationships formed around the concept of class all while set in the Great Depression. The Production Code idealized American for the sake of the upkeep of morality according to those in favor of censorship. In Capra’s film ideal America cracks with screwball humor, pointing out the absurdity of grown adults behaving in such a…

The Glass Menagerie is a tragic play where the dreams of the characters are put on the line. Characters are faced with choices that will have a huge impact on those around them. They enter a power struggle in order to realize their ambitions with their differing personalities playing a important role in how they negotiate their ambitions with each other. For us to understand the severity of choices that have to be made, we need to look into the major event occurring during this time period that…

The great depression is one of the most deviating points in American history as it pushed the American spirit to the brink of the human limit. This horrible time in American history has many different causes that notable historians focus and pinpoint this result on. The main 3 common causes for the Great Depression though are the original stock market crash of 1929, the drought conditions of the time on North American soil and the overall lack of purchasing of goods in our nation at…

In the era of the Great depression people, such as John Fulmer, struggled to keep afloat the economic crisis that was brought on by buying on the margin. The year 1933 was the defining year in 20th century American history because of the president 's economic plan, The New Deal, as well as the Dust Bowl on farmers and overlooked discrimination. These events from 1933 changed people 's opinions on economic troubles, domestic and nondomestic, and discrimination towards others in the era of the…