Descriptive Essay On Black Friday

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Black Friday is the following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many workers have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this increases the number of potential shoppers. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas and holiday season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open extremely early, with most of the retailers typically opening at 5 A.M. or even earlier. Retailers use Black Friday to kick off the holiday season to use much of their products to go from the red to the black.

My worst fear is getting shots. This arose when I was two years old, and had many visits to the doctor’s office because there were concerns about my respiratory system. I had to have many blood tests, which weren’t only scary, but also were painful. The blood tests came out normal, but it was later discovered I had asthma. After I had a severe reaction to tree nuts at around five, I had to have even more blood tests to determine if I had other allergies.

The sun peeks through my cardboard plywood tent. My burlap pillow scratches against my skin and the frosty breeze penetrates my flimsy blanket. I used to sleep on the softest of silk sheets covered by a thick comforter stuffed with goose feathers. I lived in a sizable house with my wife and worked on Wall Street making some real good money. The Dow sure was kind to me. The market was a bull market. I had so much confidence in that market that I bought a great deal of stocks on margin. I would have sworn on my life that I would earn back the money I borrowed and then some. Clearly, that didn’t happen. On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday, I lost everything. It seemed as if on that day the whole country sold their stocks. Logically, prices plummeted. My shares became virtually worthless. All of my money was invested in the market, so when the market went down the drain, my money and essentially my life followed. Unable to pay back what I owed, the bank foreclosed on my home. Needing a man that could provide for her, my wife left me for a doctor. In a matter of months, I went from the high man on the totem bowl, to a homeless bum living in a shanty town.

The 20th century was a time of enormous changes in American life. The history of the United States from 1918 through 1945 was World War I era, the Great Depression, and World War II.

As Black Friday has progressed along with retailors marketing their products and their sales, it has become a national day of shopping to get the best deals. Americans mainly go shopping on this day to get huge deals for Christmas presents. Stores have even taken this great opportunity to open their establishments for 24 hours. Just last year, consumers spent a whopping $57,400,000,000 with each consumer individually spending $410 on average. The #1 retailor customers purchased from and camped out at was Best Buy. All of the statistics are based on 2013 and this year was projected to be an 11% increase.

Black Saturday was a series of bushfires that occurred on Saturday, 7th of February, 2009. It was one of the most devastating bushfires in Australian history, and changed many Victorian lives forever. Three years later, the communities are rebuilding, the landscape is healing and flora and fauna are returning.

First, it all started when new inventions were coming out such as refrigerators and automobiles. People who could not afford them in the first place were buying them off credit. So already people had become in debt (Hayes). Then the stocks started to deplete and people got nervous and tried to sell them in a hurry. This caused the market to crash and everyone lost their money in the bank. At first the poor thought the rich could only be affected but soon that was not the case (Hayes). This day became known as Black Thursday and will be remembered forever.

The aftermath of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 went something like this- unemployment rose to twenty-five percent, wages fell to forty-two percent, United States economic growth decreased fifty percent, and world trade plummeted sixty-five percent. The Dow Jones Industry Average dropped twenty-five percent in four days, losing thirty billion dollars in market value. That is equivalent to three hundred ninety-six billion dollars today- more than the total cost of World War I. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. By 1932 stocks were worth only twenty percent of their original value in the summer of 1929. And in less than a year, the Dow dropped ninety percent from its record-high. “In the aftermath of Black Tuesday,

The Stock Market crash was something nobody expected, it came out of nowhere and striked fear into the american people. Many people started to panic which lead to a lot of poverty and people struggling economically to support their families. It all started on October 29, 1929 which today we know it as “Black Tuesday.”. “On Black Tuesday when the stock market crashed, billions of the people’s and Bank’s dollars were lost as the world went downward” ( Stock Market Crash). This was known to be the largest economic downturn in history. After all of the chaos with the economy the crash of the stock market led to the Great Depression. The Great Depression advanced the overall economic collapse of the U.S which lead to a lot of symptoms.

“On October 29,1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward..” (Stock Market Crash of 1929) The Stock Market Crash was significant because it marked the start of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the biggest economic downturn in American History. It not only caused millions of people to become jobless, but it also caused thousands to lose their life savings. People started to live in horrible conditions and they even began starving.

Overall, the stock market crash was not handled too well as history has shown. Stock market prices began to decline in September and early October 1929 and on October eighteenth the major fall began (1). Panic set in as stock prices dropped at an incredible rate (1). On October twenty-fourth, 1929 (Black Thursday), the Dow Jones stock opened with a drop of eleven percent in value (2).

Even though you can get with your family and be thankful and then go shopping until your legs hurt it can go either way. We should not have Black Friday on thanksgiving because Thanksgiving is for sharing and being thankful and if everybody goes shopping what's the point of even having Thanksgiving then and you should be with your family during all of Thanksgiving not only half of it.

The purpose of this research is to examine consumer behavior on Black Friday. Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year, and it is all driven by the chance for consumers to save the most amount of money possible while getting their holiday shopping done. Research was done online, and also through personal experiences. By understanding what retailers and consumers hope to accomplish on this day can have a positive impact on everyone. Consumers are able to get what they want with the least amount of turmoil, and retailers are able to turn a profit. This research can be most helpful to merchants, as it will help them to understand what a consumer

Another huge fear of mine are thugs. Thugs are so scary it's unbelievable. In the hallways of E.C. Glass, thugs are the people who have baggy clothing and a lot of "bling" which usually means they sold drugs to get it. Thugs are so violent, I don't even want to get near them. They're also very territorial. I stepped on a thug's Jordan shoes one time, and I prayed that I wouldn't get shot. When I took D.A.R.E. in elementary school, I was taught that thugs are even more violent than gangsters. I wouldn't want to be near a gangster let alone a thug. Like computer viruses, thugs can take a lot of money away from people.