Summary #1: Chores by Claudia Reinhardt and Bill Genzel‚ 2003 Families that lived in a farm in the 1930s‚ spent most of their time trying to raise their own food. An interviewer that lived in a southern farm in the 30s said on a daily routine in the farm the following words: "We were always busy. You had chores in those days to do... You came home from school‚ did your chores‚ helped with supper‚ get your lessons‚ and by that time it’s almost bedtime." Many chores had to be done daily‚ and some
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imagination. Jean is a six year old girl‚ living in Maycomb County of Alabama in the 1930’s. She lives with her father‚ Atticus Finch‚ her brother Jem Finch‚ and her cook Calpurnia. You are able to see that Jean is the narrator because everything is told through her perspective. She builds a “road map” through the story because she tells what’s going to happen. Since this story took place in the 1930’s‚ the story took place during the Great Depression. This meant that during this time‚ almost
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number of other reasons that the 1930’s were such hard times and the Government didn’t do it’s best to stop them. He did make relief but it didn’t live up to its potential‚ healthcare and living conditions were also inadequate. There were also selfish people like R.B. Bennett and Charles Miller that made the hard times worse. The Government put Canadians in work camps but the fought back by starting the On-To-Ottawa Trek. It was not easy to live in Canada in the 1930’s and Government didn’t put forth
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sharing her experience on the Seniors Australian Government website as a child during the 1930s. In 1929‚ the world was plunged into its worst crisis since World War 1; the Great Depression. The great depression was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. After the crash of the center stock market of trading in America‚ unemployment in Australia more than double to twenty-one per cent in mid-1930‚ and reached its peak in mid-1932 when almost thirty-two per cent of Australians were
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Karen Rusli Rusli 1 HIST 338 Dr. Bryan Lamkin 24 May 2013 California During the Great Depression The 1930s was not the best time period for California‚ the U.S.‚ or the world. When the stock market crashed in 1929 in the United States‚ it set off the most severe economic depression in the Western world. On top of all of that‚ a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains in 1931 just two years after the stock market crashed. This became known as the Dust Bowl. In the Dust Bowl‚ crops
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started around about the 1930’s when the stock market crashed this happened because the government decided not to get involved with the peoples businesses. The businesses were owned personally or with a group of people and the government had no say in it at all so the people of the United States of America could do what they wanted with their money and investments. The main reason for the stock market crash was that there was a big difference between rich and poor during the 1930’s. President hover was
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your life like this every day? This was just some of what a hobo would experience in his/her life in the 1930s. In the 1930’s the Great Depression was at its height‚ unemployment was very high ‚ people lost their homes‚ many went hungry‚ and many thought that the only way to find work was to become a hobo and ride the rails until they found work and a new place to call home. In the 1930’s the unemployment rate had reached its peak and as a result thousands of businesses had either cut their
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money they had lost. Even though the stock market began to regain some of its losses The stock by the end of 1930 it just was not enough and America truly entered what is called the Great Depression. Two months after the original crash in October‚ stockholders had lost more than $40 billion dollars. Americans suffered and could not believe that all there money was gone. Throughout the 1930s over 9‚000 banks failed. The banks failed because of the stock market crashing. When the stock market crashed
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Memoirs of a Geisha. Memoirs of A Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden. It is a Historical Drama that is set in Japan in the 1930’s. It follows the life of a young Japanese girl named Chiyo. She and her sister Satsu are sold into slavery during the great depression. Her father sells them to a businessman and because of Chiyo’s strange‚ grey eyes‚ she is sold into an okiya (a geisha house) in Gion‚ Kyoto while her sister is sold into prostitution. After being in the okiya for a couple of months
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their debts. D. International trade began to decline. E. The international debt of World War I. II. Stock market crash of 1929 was not the cause of the Great Depression. A. 9‚000 American banks closed down due to bankruptcy between 1930 and 1933. B. The American gross national product dropped severely‚ 25% in 3 years. III. Unemployment dropped significantly. A. Americans thought in the way if they are unemployed‚ they were in personal failure. 1. A number of families
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