Essay on The Great Depression and the Cinderella Man

Taking place in the states of New York and New Jersey, Cinderella Man takes you through the hardships an American boxer faces during the Great Depression. Starting out as a very successful prize fighter James J. Braddock is able to provide for his family, but then loses everything but his family after the stock markets crashed. He breaks his hand during a fight which not only prevents him from fighting but it also leads to him having a difficulty getting working shifts at the docks. Braddock’s luck turns around when he gets an opportunity to fight one last time due to a cancellation against the number two contender at the time. He proceeds to knock out John "Corn" Griffin and continous his boxing career. After a climbing the ranks he became

“Cinderella Man” showed a better representation of The Great Depression because it showed the living style of people in the 1930’s and it showed how desperate people were to get a job to feed there family. “The Untouchables” vaguely went over these topics but it was mostly about booze and guns. In “Cinderella Man” there is are scenes where the main protagonist James J. Braddock as well as many other men, piling up against a gate in hope of getting a job to earn enough money to feed their family. When James finally gets the opportunity to work somewhere the film shows how useless these jobs are, they show men moving bags off a board and that was there job.

Franklin Roosevelt once said, “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” There was a lot of ideals that went into making the New Deal how it was. One ideal that played a factor was that fact that people that were affected by the Great Depression feared they were honestly going to starve to death due to different factors that contributed to The Great Depression. Another ideal was the fact that there was inequality in the 1920s and most people could not participate in the economic boom. Workers wages were way too low. The last main ideal that went into the The Deal was the fact that there was a lack of purchasing power. The Great Depression was an awful time and it was hard for the President to try and meet everyone’s needs.

When a person hears the words “The Great Depression,” almost everyone thinks of the worst economic times in the United States. The Great Depression started in the late 1920s and continued on until the early 1940s. It is known as being “the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world” (History.com). We can learn from the occurrences during The Great Depression that government involvement is the deciding factor of whether an economy will expand or continue to shrink during a recession.

The Great Depression was a time when a lot of us citizens were unemployed we would all wanted a job in order to survive so when there was a job opening the people would go out and apply for the same job. The unemployment rate was I out of 4 Americans in the time of the Great Depression. Some that were lucky enough got a job at a place called as “Hoovervilles” (shantytown) or outside of town. As unemployment rose those the working wages went decreasing for those who worked. Some of the jobs that were available were Farming Labor

The Great Depression struck The United States economy in the 1930s causing billions of dollars to be lost. The tragedy hit the workforce and many Americans lost their jobs, homes and belongings. This Movie Seabiscuit portrays four main characters who were successful and lost everything during the depression, but did not give up in their strive toward the American Dream. Gary Ross uses the theme of Seabiscuit rising and falling to capture those who rise from a life of depression and failure to an inspiring life of success.

The first act FDR passed was the Emergency Banking Reliefs Act. That gave the federal government control over the banks. The next significant act passed was the, National Industrial Recovery Act. Another significant act that Roosevelt pushed for was the National Labor Relations Act. The Social Security act played a huge role in America. One of the more significant acts passed was the Aid to Department Children act.

This may seem quite far fetched, but the Crash of 1929 made this a reality.

By the end of the 1920s, the United States had the largest economy in the world. With the destruction brought on by WWI, Europeans endured hardships while Americans continued to thrive. Upon a successful victory of the presidency, Herbert Hoover didn’t have a doubt that the United States would soon witness the day when poverty was exterminated. Then, in a moment of what seemed to be triumph, everything collapsed in the U.S. With the stock market crashing in 1929, it set off a chain of events that catapulted the U.S. into the longest and deepest economic crisis it had ever seen. It is far too easy to put the blame of the Great Depression on one event, but when there is poor investing over time with the lack of government programs and a drop in consumer purchasing power due to the market collapse it can delay the process of fixing the economy for future leaders.

Depression sucks. Thinking that you’re useless, unworthy of anything good, it’s painful. In my experiences, it’s usually caused by someone else. I have been bullied since I was 5 years old by my neighbors kids. Once at a party at their house, he for some reason started to beat me hard. I’m not gonna lie I was a year older than him and I could’ve easily beaten him to a pulp but for some reason, I just froze, took all of his beatings. He did this in front of everyone at the party and no one did anything. Only my mom and a friend that was there wanted to punish him because what he did was unforgivable. No punishments were given and that’s how it is every single time he would beat me, mock me, whatever he did to me. The world spoiled was practically created to describe him. He was

The American Dream has devolved from Gatsby’s ostentatious lifestyle to the Great Depression’s poverty of low expectations. In Steinback’s novella, Of Mice and Men, the story is shaped by the intense friendship between these disparate characters, Lennie Small and George Milton, and their legitimate aspirations to achieve a dignified livelihood by owning land.

The great depression opened up a wide range of economic implications, and brought harsh and cruel adversities on Americans. Even so, the movie indicates that, despite the hard economic times, Americans were out to prove to the world that the impossible was possible. For millions of individuals during the 1930s who were on the verge of giving up, the construction of Hoover dam was symbolic of the effort of industrial workers. It was a sign that the American industries were capable of achieving the unimaginable, and transform the country into a gold mine. With the emergence of economic depression, millions starved, lost their farms and homes, and as seen in the film, no hope was left.

Cinderella man is a movie based on a true story about a boxer during the great depression named Jim Braddock. The movie starts off with Jim living a happy life making enough money to survive and during a fight he breaks his wrist and he's doesn't have enough money to fix it. He has another boxing match which he shows up to with a broken wrist and the fight was very boring and Jim's manager suspends his license and he is now out of a job. After losing his job, Jim truly starts to feel the effects of the great depression. While unemployed Jim's family starts selling their belongings and eventually lose power and heat to their home at which point Jims wife wants to send the kids away to live with their grandparents which upsets Jim very much.

Imagine your life is a bed of roses, everyone you know is prospering, and everything is going fine. Until the time comes where your parents don’t say there is a large problem, but you can feel the tension in your home. The portion of food that lands on your plate is reduced, the pleasures you had before diminish before your eyes. T You don’t say anything but you observe something isn’t right, but you just can’t put your finger on it. Until finally one day your parents stop eating and watch you eat and things just begin to spiral down from there. The kids of the horrible time period of the Great Depression went through it all, they had gone hungry for weeks without proper clothing and trying to get any food they could scrape together. They

There were many primary causes for The Great Depression, Unequal distribution of money to the economy,