| Friday, December 19, 2008 |
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1. The WPA was one of President Roosevelt's New Deal Agencies that employed artists.
2. WPA stands for the Works Progress Administration.
3. The term depression applied not only to the economy but it applied to the mental state of the nation as well.
4. The prices on groceries were so high that children often went to school without lunch.
5. People founded different unions to help each other.
• Why did President Roosevelt particularly help artists?
• Why didn't he help anyone else?
• Why didn't school's provide food for their students?
• How long were these unions going to last?
Pointillist (noun) - the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together (pg#120)
Fortuitous (adjective) - occurring by chance (pg#123)
Solicitous (adjective) - full of concern or fears (pg#129)
The lack of money circulating, made making a buck extremely hard. |
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1. People during the depression had a lot of idle time and they didn't know what to do with it.
2. Flagpole and tree sitting, six day bicycle races, and marathon dancing were just a few things they did to pass the time.
3. Everybody seemed to prosper during the postwar years.
4. The economy was growing rapidly so investors were making a fortune in the stock market.
5. New technologies were also creating new jobs.
• Why were experienced trades men finding work?
• Why were most skilled workers finding it difficult to stay employed for long?
• How did people find food during these hard times?
• Did they start to steal from the groceries?
Commodity (noun) - something useful or valued (pg#89)
Eviction (noun) - to put (a tenant) out by legal process (pg#102)
Jest (noun) - a ludicrous circumstance or incident (pg#104)
Because the economy was down sizing many people were forced to life off of their live savings, if they had any. |
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1. During the depression, urban black Americans not only experienced job discriminations they also had a hard time finding places to live.
2. To afford the rent, multiple families moved in together.
3. There would often be one family to a room.
4. Many families had a night worker who would occupy a bed in the day that would be rented out at night.
5. People were envied if they had their own bathtub, it meant that they could rent it out for money.
• Why would someone want to sleep in someone elses bed?
• Did this spread diseases more quickly?
• Why did black tenants pay more than the white tenants have to pay?
• Why didn't the union hire black workers?
Exorbitant (adjective) - not coming within the scope of the law(pg#83)
Flagrantly (adjective) - conspicuously offensive (pg#84)
Ostensibly (adverb) - plausible rather than demonstrably true or real (pg#87)
Negro churches played a large role in helping people who were suffering. |
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| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
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1. During the depression homeless women were not seen as much although they lived on the streets.
2. Many often hid themselves from society.
3. Sometimes they found refuge with men but nothing happened to them.
4. In 1932, an estimated fifteen to twenty-five thousand veterans of the First World War went to Washington D.C., to demand bonuses that had been promised to them by Congress?
5. President Hoover and other conservatives believed that it wasn't the governments job to issue handouts.
• Why were women forced to live on the streets?
• Where was the government going to find all this money to give to the veterans?
• If they knew that there would be no more money to dole, then why would they promise the veterans a bonus?
• Why did President Hoover think it wasn't the governments job to give handouts to its citizens?
Blithe (adjective) - lacking due thought or consideration (pg#70)
Typhoid (adjective) - of, relating to, or suggestive of typhus(pg#71)
Meager (adjective) - lacking desirable qualities (pg#75)
After World War 2 many veterans were promised bonuses by Congress but president Hoover did not believe it was the governments job to give handouts. |
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| Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| The Great Depression... |
1. The stock market crash of 1929 did not affect everybody because most people didn't have th extra money to invest.
2. During the Great Depression women were often left at home while the men were out looking for work(which was extremely difficult).
3. People often sat there for several days waiting and looking for work but turned up with nothing.
4. Many families had to seek aid from charities.
5. Women had a hard time finding jobs and if they did, they had low wages.
• Where were all the jobs going?
• How did this change in the economy affect the amount of children produced?
• Did the amount of deaths and the number of suicides increase?
• Why didn't the government use some sort of bail out?
Amidst (preposition) - in or into the middle of (pg#57)
Docile (adjective) - easily led or managed (pg#59)
Charlatan (noun) - one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability (pg#62)
People walked around like zombies because they were used to riding around in Cadillacs but now were lucky of they could afford taxi fare. |
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1. It was starting to become clear that in 1921 a recession in the US had began.
2. Anyone could buy stocks worth $50,000 for only $500 down.
3. As the prices continued to drop the people got into a frenzy.
4. He got out of a major money loss by backing out of a bad deal.
5. The people who stayed, eventually went bankrupt and many killed themselves because they did not want to broke.
• What was responsible for making the prices go down?
• Why were things in a frenzy?
• How is buying broken down businesses going to help the economy?
• What was the usual pay for brokers before the depression began?
Pittance (noun) - a small portion, amount, or allowance (pg#43)
Faddist (noun) - a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal (pg#45)
Abrasive (adjective) - causing irritation (pg#47)
The amount of money needed to put down for stock decreased drastically, which was really responsible for Wall Streets collapse. |
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| Monday, December 1, 2008 |
| The Great Depression. |
1. Beginning on Monday, October 21st 1929, prices on the stock market exchange began to drop.
2. The next day, Black Tuesday, many investors and speculators began to panic.
3. People were hypnotized by panic, even the clocks seemed to be off.
4. October 24th about $34 billion in market value disappeared.
5. Wall street seemed to have lost all its wealth and power.
• Why was Tuesday, October 22nd 1929 called Black Tuesday?
• Why did J.P. Morgan's attempt to save Wall Street fail?
• Why were companies selling their shares so low?
• How did the falling of Wall Street effect Americans?
Euphoria - a feeling of well-being or elation (pg#31)
Inundated - to cover with a flood (pg#32)
Veritable - being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary (pg#33)
Wall Street was beginning to collapse. |
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| Books I Want to Read |
Get me one of these books and I'll be your loyal friend for life (see below for my email address if you're actually considering the idea - not that I'm expecting you to)...
- Dante's Inferno
- Mansfield Park
- Midnight Sun
- Macbeth
- Incarceron
- Northanger Abbey
- Flowers in the Attic
- The Age of Innocence
- Emma
- Cather in the Rye
- Bombs on Aunt Dainty
- The Silver Kiss
- Pride & Prejudice
- Midnight's Choice
- Tuck Everlasting
- 1984
- Wild Blood
- Persuasion
- The Notebook
- Stone from the River
- Light in August
- Sense & Sensibility
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