| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| The Great Depression...=[ |
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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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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