Family Of The Great Depression: A Short Story

Many years ago when the Great depression affected the economy and that is known as a big part of history, and a big part of me, especially before my Grandfather passed away he told me as many stories about how he served in the war and how when he was a child and was in the great depression. Now my Grandfather was a man that would keep EVERYTHING i mean like from yogurt cups to boxes with nothing in them. Now i use to ask my mom when i was little why does he do that and she explained that it was because of how he was raised they didn't have anything and when they had anything they would keep it because they could use that one day. That was the one thing i would hear from him over and over “ i can use that one day.” or “ I can use that for something.”

The fresh morning air was cool against my face. Father had been gone for a while now, he had been called by his work for some “serious business.” As my sister Aliah, and I played in the pond by our 2 story house, we heard a faint muttering of Father’s pick-up.

The great depression all started with the stock market crash of 1928. The president at the time was herbert hoover who promised to keep peace. He ended up winning 444 electoral votes to his opposing opponent who only had 87 electoral votes (Notes). After the stock market crashed banks started to fail and had no money to give to people. Nobody had money to pay anyone so unemployment roared all the way to 23% from 3%.

Everyone experiences sadness — sadness is a part of life. However, with many people, their sadness can escalate into a feeling of emptiness and a lack of motivation. I have encountered this, and I am still dealing with it today. Few can remember the moment it happened, but I can. For me, my depression started on my 14th birthday. It happened during a sleepover at my house around 12 a.m. I can remember just laying on my couch texting my friend all content and the next thing I know, I just feel this empty sadness take over, it was unlike anything I had felt before. It had taken me awhile but eventually I realized what was happening to me. It started out as just sadness for a few years, then it morphed into this numbing emptiness. I could still

‘The hardships of the Great Depression in Australia were not shared equally.’ (Anderson et. al.,2012)

Depression placed a dark brooding shadow over my mind. I was weighed down, oppressed by the burden of having to carry on with life. In my mind, there was a crushing sense of hopelessness that I have never felt before. The only therapy I found was taking that beautiful, freshly sharpened razor to my left arm. A sigh of relief departed me as I watched the bright red blood drip from my vein. The only burden I had was going to school and hiding my war scars. Each day, the darkness spread through me like cancer. My body withering away, I needed an escape route from this crucial disease. This all continued until the day I saw a light and the darkness began to fade

When I was 15 years-old, I didn’t realize that the next ten years of my life we’re changing history as they were happening. Those were the most difficult years of my life. America is still recovering from the Great Depression, and I am now 25 years old and married. I have created a good life for myself and tried to forget those horrible years. My parents are recovering slowly. I tried to help them as much as I could when I was younger, but they didn’t pay much attention to me. All those years I was working to make money for them, and they just argued with each other. I don’t think I will ever forget how hard my family took the Great Depression. At the time I didn’t know the painful struggle that The Great Depression would cause my family

market did not cause the Great Depression people took the crash as a signal. Why? Because

There are many examples during The Great Depression that showed the best and the worst in people while they went through hard times. Many people struggled with finding jobs, being fed, and taking care of their families and themselves. Some good things happened as well, the moment they heard they have been hired all you would see is a big smile on their face or when they they have a piece of bread in front of them which in their eyes was a feast.

On Thursday, October 24, 1929, United States witnessed it’s first national crisis when the stock market crashed. It was eight months after former President Herbert Hoover was elected. The Great Depression caused a myriad of changes in American economic policies and society, many of which linger to this day. In the onset of the Great Depression many American were shocked into poverty. The Great Depression challenged American families in major ways, placing great social, economic and psychological strains. Many ethnic minorities like Mexican Indians, American Indians, and the African Americans fared rather poorly.

The book Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience was written by Glen H. Elder, to inform the audience of the effects that the Great Depression had on children that lived during that time period. The author 's argument is that the children of the Great Depression were psychologically affected by the economic hardships encountered by their families. This book relates to Hawk 's Nest because it is set in the Great Depression. In the field of child development, one aspect of that we look at is social development, and what impacts that development. This book explores the "Oakland Growth Study" that was conducted "more than forty years ago, and to the extraordinary ingenuity and persistence of Glen Elder, who took data collected for totally different purposes, reconceptualized them, and brought them to bear on a set of significant sociological questions" (Elder xvii). This reconceptualization of the data from the Oakland Growth study is called secondary data analysis. This is effective because the data is free, but because Elder was on the research team later in the study he was already familiar with the data when reanalyzing.

Between 1929 and 1939 there was an economic downfall know better was the Great Depression. According to the Family and Home, Impact of the Great Depression article on encyclopedia.com, The Great Depression challenged American families in major ways, placing great economic, social, and psychological strains and demands on families and their members. Families of various class, ethnic, racial, and regional backgrounds, various styles of marital and familial relationships, responded in different ways to the stresses and demands that they had to deal with. In 1933, the average family income had dropped to $1,500, 40 percent less than the 1929 average family income of $2,300. Millions of families lost their savings when many banks collapsed in the

The Great Depression changed all my life, not only mine, but my whole family. The Great Depression has caused you to lose one of my children, my farm, my house and into my bag. I'm trying my entire livelihood through this mess because I know my wife and my children depend on me. I just want to be able to feed and provide for my family and not have to fight. When we lost our house and everything else, we have lost all our extra clothes, so they only have the clothes that are in the back now. I hope, where my family and I moved, it can be a better life for us there.

Have you ever wondered how you could ever survive without water or food? This is how families lived during the Great Depression. The jobs that families had been uneasy. Families had to save every penny they could. Families would keep on hoping for rain. The families had to cut back on things and borrow loans from the president. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, he made a promise to families who needed help during the Great Depression.The New Deal held programs to help families get back on their feet. Women even sold children to earn a bit of money.

Family pressure during the great depression was unlike any the U.S. has ever seen. Everything about families changed in the 1930s. Couples during the depression delayed marriage, and at the same time the divorce rates dropped because people could not afford to pay for two households. Birthrates also dropped and for the first time in American history below the replacement level. Income was closed to none in all families; regular income had dropped by 35% just in the years Hoover was in office. Families had a lot of stress; some pulled together and made do with what they had others pushed away. People turned to who ever they had, family, friends, and after all else the government. Although there were rich people in the depression as well