The Effects of the Great Depression on Children You’re dreaming and you see your birthday from last year. You see the giant feast your mom made. Creamy mashed potatoes, just the way you like it, juicy roasted chicken with your favorite seasonings, and little green peas, your favorite. A giant mountain of gifts awaits you in the living room, and after that grand meal a giant cake with two tiers with just the right amount of frosting is next. As you start to take a bite, you wake up. For a split second you forget. You forget that your dad lost his job, your brother died working in a mine, you have no money, no food, and that you nearly lost your entire head of hair at the factory. Then the deep growl howling from your stomach snaps you back …show more content…
In the 1920s, schools spent lots of money building and expanding schools. When the Great Depression, came like a giant tornado whirling out of control, many schools had too much debt, so they closed down. Other schools stayed open by eliminating extra programs like sports, the arts, and foreign language. When schools terminate these activities, the value of the schools ability to provide education goes down. Children need to be exposed to those things to thrive in life. Some schools even stopped serving lunch, so numerous children who didn’t have enough food now received at least one less meal a day. African American students were not welcome to white schools. They were put in a completely separate building due to segregation. Many children gave up their education to ride the rails in hope of a better …show more content…
Can you see the stack of gifts, the restaurant your parents took you too, and that delicious birthday cake? Thanks to the Great Depression, children didn’t get that, they woke up hungry on their birthday with no presents, feasts, or cake. The reality of children’s lives in the Great depression was truly depressing because of child labor, poor education, children hopping trains, and children without a childhood. Young children had to get jobs to try and support their families. Education was barely average if it was still available at all, and children ran away putting their life on the line to ride the rails. The saddest thing is kids couldn’t be kids. They had to worry about things like where the next meal was coming from or possibly dying at
No Promises In the Wind, authored by Irene Hunt, gives an excellent description of growing up in the center of the Great Depression. Chapter One begins with the alerting sound of an alarm clock going off at 4am. Josh, a fifteen year old boy, leaves his bed, and departs from his family’s home to deliver newspapers. Notwithstanding, the paper route brought very little money, but the money earned was needed. Directly after finishing his route, Josh returns home to prepare for school, where he anticipated the day’s end, knowing that Miss Crowne’s music room belonged to them after school hours.
The Great Depression is one of the worst time for America. Books, cartoons, and articles have been written about the people during the Depression and how they survived in that miserable period. For example, the book Bud not Buddy takes place in the time of the Great Depression. Bud is a ten year old orphan, who was on the run trying to find his dad. There are many feelings throughout the book like sadness and scarceness. There are many diverse tones in the book about what people were feeling at the time.
They way people interacted with others changed in the Great Depression. One of the main changes is the way the family was run. During the glutted 1920s, the father is the support of the family while the mother do the housekeeping. When the great depression struck, the men lost their jobs. They can no longer support their families. Because of self pride, many fathers left their families and never came back because felt that they lost their purpose in the
The Great Depression is a time in the history of the United States that people have learned and gained knowledge from. Its harsh times and conflicts have been written about in books, seen in movies, talked about on radios, and told to families throughout the generations. Seeing how life was during the 1930s in the movie, The Cinderella Man, was a great eye opener to how the people of this time truly survived and kept their true humanity in times of havoc. The time of the 1930s should be an inspiration to the nation and cause many to do well and live life smart and prosperous.
...tter poverty. The depression affected millions of Americans and I got to really feel what they went through when I watched the movie Cinderella Man. Jim Braddock the main character of the movie went thorough tough times; he lost his job, couldn’t support his family and witnessed loved ones being lost to the Great Depression. Going through all this just made him a stronger man. This gargantuan mess was all created because of the Stock Market crash of the 1930’s. This was a time when the huge stock market fell to the ground. The crash hurt so many American families including Braddock. Even though the Great Depression ended a while ago there are similar things that happened in the Great Depression that are happening in 2010. The Great Depression ruined many people, America needs to learn from their mistakes and make sure ruination like this never happens again.
The Great Depression often seems very distant to people of the 21st century. This article is a good reminder of potential problems that may reoccur. The article showed in a very literal way the idea that a depression can bring a growing country to its knees. The overall ramifications of the event were never discussed in detail, but the historical significance is that people's lives were put on hold while they tried to struggle through an extremely difficult time.
The Effect of the Great Depression on National and Individual Morale The Great Depression of the 1930’s was an era of hopelessness and fear for many. Coming soon after the prosperous Coolidge era, the Depression affected a nation of people who had based their self esteem around their ability to work and provide well for their families (Clements, page 67 - 69). Individuals and families had to contend not only with an existence that pushed people close to suicide and starvation, but a total loss of self worth and the haunting memories of the cars, radios and relatively luxurious lives they would have led five years previously.
The Great Depression, beginning in the last few months of 1929, impacted the vast majority of people nationwide and worldwide. With millions of Americans unemployed and many in danger of losing their homes, they could no longer support their families. Children, if they were lucky, wore torn up ragged clothing to school and those who were not lucky remained without clothes. The food supply was scarce, and bread was the most that families could afford. Households would receive very limited rations of food, or small amounts of money to buy food.
The ten year span of the Great Depression showed families how to live without a stable home or even going to bed without dinner some nights. First off, many people living in the 1930’s were unemployed and homeless, causing them to live in Hoovervilles. The citizens living in Hoovervilles lived unsanitary lives and often faced hunger. In fact, Hoovervilles were built out of unwanted material and provided little shelter. Many put all the blame on the then president, Herbert Hoover, when he refused to help his people through this life changing event. The comparison of Hoover and his poor decisions often got compared to the poor situations that his people had to live in. Hoover should no support during his presidency. Therefore, life during the
The efforts of desegregation have to be back in order and this means that more adults have to admit their children to schools irrespective of the ethnicity. So, what’s stopping them? A Guest Post in Colorado school grades, a coalition of 18 non-profit community organizations, written by Michael Petrilli, an award-winning writer, and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which talks about pros and cons of choosing a diverse school for children might give us an answer. Focusing on the cons, we have the first one which is the child might end up in a school that has less funding and resources which is true as emphasized in the article Desegregation Since the Coleman Report. The next reason was having to take small risks regarding safety and finally, the third being even if the classes were not separated by race, they would be separated by intellect which was again both of which were discussed in “A Crisis of Authority in Predominantly Black Schools?” I.E the concluding that American education system is directly or indirectly involved in the matters of segregation and playing a huge role in discrimination and education
The education gap between the north and the south has many roles in the African American community. The north has always been industrial while the south was agricultural, many of these children who was suppose to be attending school was helping on farms working and helping their parents throughout the day instead of getting an education. “The percentage of all schools with so called racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9% to 16%” Today students still experience or has been a victim to social and racial differences. When segregation was abolished it allowed students to be in the same classroom together, be able to eat and go to the same bathrooms, also being taught by the same teacher. However many teachers failed to realized or wanted to teach these students based on the color of their skin, causing many students to drop out of school because of not being heard. The black community has a low rate of graduation rates in the south than the white community “In the last four years more than 69 percent of white louisiana males graduated making for a 16 point difference, while 59 percent of black louisiana males graduated” These school systems doesn’t care that they’re not being taught or graduation. Based on race in louisiana it’s a 10 percent difference that causing them to less likely become successful. Still causing the social differences teachers refused to teach an African American student
Through out history education has been a topic of many concerns. Historically Black Colleges and Universities were established to try and provide freed slaves education they were not able to obtain. For African Americans in the 20th century attending school was a burden. The children had to withstand long walks to get to their designated schools, being denied classes that the white students had in their schools, outdated books and hand me down classroom materials. African Americans all across the United States fought for their kids rights to get a good education, education provided to white only schools. There was a period of time schools were able to legally deny a student acceptance into their institutions based solely on the color of their skin. Many African Americans tried and majority of them got denied. Students at all levels were being denied, from Pre-K all the way up to college. After many attempts to integrate schools parents of the children being denied education just like the white kids, they realized it would be easier to just build their own schools.
The Great Depression was a difficult time to have a family. Money was Scarce and food was expensive. Family where torn apart by Stress and financial issues. The Braddock family was a poor with a father struggling to keep food on the table and the lights on. The Great Depression had a great impact on the Braddock family by making them face economic hardship, emotional distress, and family unity.
During the 1930’s the Stock Market crashed causing millions of people to go unemployed putting most people in extreme poverty or homeless. This has made life for teenagers difficult as they do not have the same entertainment teenagers have today. Music was a luxury to those who had a radio or access to instruments. A bunch of teens left their homes in search for jobs. For the exception of the rich, food was very hard to come by and they were hungry most of the time. Teens in during the Great Depression had a much harder time than most teens today.
When talking about a school that is mostly filled with African Americans, it is common to picture it as somewhere that has limited programs due to low funding from the government and located where poverty rate is high. Normally the thought of a brand new facility or more investment in schools is not associated with African American schools. The universal problem of mostly black schools is the fact that there is a lack of funding for the school and it...