The Great Depression
During the year of 1929 to 1933, the Great Depression had a big impact in people's lives. It began on a Tuesday October 29, 1929 when the stock prices at the New York Stock exchange fell in what was thought to be the most disastrous trading day in the history of the market and the effects that this had on people left them with a hard, hopeless, and confusing feeling. Leaving people, specificly the farmers, in debt. And by looking at photographs that were taken during the Great Depression, I can tell how hard it must've been for those people, having no money, no land, no shelter, no food, because everything was taken away from them. And so In the following essay, I will discuss more about my opinion on the photographs that were taken of people that was effected by the Great Depression. The Great Depression didn't just effected the lives of people but it also had a huge impact on the economy. In 1930, numbers of unemployment went over 4 million, as I saw in one photo where it showed a bunch of mens waiting in a straight line, over 100 of them, to be interviewed for a job that needed probaly about 4 or 5 people. I can't even imagine how tough it must o
because they had no homes to live in. One picture I saw was of an old man, standing in what he is doing, in order to keep his family together. His wife was holding their other impact in people's lives. Photos were taken of the people that was effected by the Great There were so many photos that I saw that got me thinking how hard it was
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Approximate Word count = 969
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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