Analysis: The Great Depression
When life is going our way, people tend to forget that even when things are going our way, there is always another fall and things can take a turn for the worse. The roaring twenties was a time of fun, dancing and adventure. The great war was over and people wanted to live life to the fullest. Things like cars, homes, and other expensive items were paid for using forms credit. This reckless spending eventually led to the Stock Market Crash of 1923, the plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of The Great Depression. On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, seventy-five percent of Americans lost their entire life savings in a matter of a few hours. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed to fix the economy, help those in need,
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But that was not the case. One of the most popular songs of the depression was called “No Depression in Heaven”. “Out here the hearts of men are failing, For theses are the latter days we know, The Great Depression now is spreading, God’s words declared it would be so” (No Depression in Heaven). This part of the song is talking about how the American people was losing hope, happiness, and other feelings of the heart because of how bad the Depression was. And the Depression was still spreading, it was getting even worse. This song was written in 1936, the first new deal was put into action in 1933. All of theses things were happening three years into the new deal and yet Americans still had no hope for the future. The song says that a lot of people are dying from starvation, and people were working so hard all day but they still couldn’t get payed at the end of the day. Widows were still mourning the loss of their husbands from World War 1. Women at this time still could not get a proper job, so how were they supposed to survive and take care a family? It was a constant cycle of toil and struggle just to survive day to day. The song also states that it would just be easier to die than to go through what they were every day because there is no depression in heaven. So if the New Deal programs were so helpful and effective, then why did Americans have feelings and struggles such as this? The New Deal failed to lift the failing spirits of American
But that was not the case. One of the most popular songs of the depression was called “No Depression in Heaven”. “Out here the hearts of men are failing, For theses are the latter days we know, The Great Depression now is spreading, God’s words declared it would be so” (No Depression in Heaven). This part of the song is talking about how the American people was losing hope, happiness, and other feelings of the heart because of how bad the Depression was. And the Depression was still spreading, it was getting even worse. This song was written in 1936, the first new deal was put into action in 1933. All of theses things were happening three years into the new deal and yet Americans still had no hope for the future. The song says that a lot of people are dying from starvation, and people were working so hard all day but they still couldn’t get payed at the end of the day. Widows were still mourning the loss of their husbands from World War 1. Women at this time still could not get a proper job, so how were they supposed to survive and take care a family? It was a constant cycle of toil and struggle just to survive day to day. The song also states that it would just be easier to die than to go through what they were every day because there is no depression in heaven. So if the New Deal programs were so helpful and effective, then why did Americans have feelings and struggles such as this? The New Deal failed to lift the failing spirits of American