Explanatory Writing
We are given four texts regarding the Great Depression:
Digging In,
“Debts,” passage about the programs in the New Deal, and the 1937 inaugural address. From these four passages, we are given a general idea of the effect the Great Depression caused. It definitely was not easy for people especially with the stock market crashing, the foreclosure homes, and the people losing jobs. Times through the Great Depression affected people greatly, and turned many people’s lives for the worse. But even through all the hardships, one of the only things people could’ve done was maintain hope that everything would be better. When president Franklin D.
Roosevelt went into office, we can only say that the economy took a change for the better.
Because of the stock market crash, many people lost their jobs. Mines and factories closed down, putting much of the majority out of jobs at the time. Being jobless meant no source of income, and alternative ways of finding money were necessary this is what the plurality of people did. According to Hasting’s
Digging In, ‘it was a day’s work here and a day’s work there, a coal order form the welfare office, a few days on WPA, a garden in the back yard, and a few chickens and eggs.’ This just merely shows the fact that from an ordinary person’s standpoint, the people are suffering. Jobs are hard to come by and money is hard to earn especially when you can’t stay stable in one location. Not only was it noticeable by everyday people, FDR took initiative to start the Civil Conservation Corps that ‘addressed the pressing problems of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the nations’ forests to work.’ Also thanks to president Roosevelt, ‘The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA) were designed to address unemployment by regulation the number of hours worked per week and banning child labor.’ (
The New Deal
)
Not only were people losing
Digging In,
“Debts,” passage about the programs in the New Deal, and the 1937 inaugural address. From these four passages, we are given a general idea of the effect the Great Depression caused. It definitely was not easy for people especially with the stock market crashing, the foreclosure homes, and the people losing jobs. Times through the Great Depression affected people greatly, and turned many people’s lives for the worse. But even through all the hardships, one of the only things people could’ve done was maintain hope that everything would be better. When president Franklin D.
Roosevelt went into office, we can only say that the economy took a change for the better.
Because of the stock market crash, many people lost their jobs. Mines and factories closed down, putting much of the majority out of jobs at the time. Being jobless meant no source of income, and alternative ways of finding money were necessary this is what the plurality of people did. According to Hasting’s
Digging In, ‘it was a day’s work here and a day’s work there, a coal order form the welfare office, a few days on WPA, a garden in the back yard, and a few chickens and eggs.’ This just merely shows the fact that from an ordinary person’s standpoint, the people are suffering. Jobs are hard to come by and money is hard to earn especially when you can’t stay stable in one location. Not only was it noticeable by everyday people, FDR took initiative to start the Civil Conservation Corps that ‘addressed the pressing problems of unemployment by sending 3 million single men from age 17 to 23 to the nations’ forests to work.’ Also thanks to president Roosevelt, ‘The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA) were designed to address unemployment by regulation the number of hours worked per week and banning child labor.’ (
The New Deal
)
Not only were people losing