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Schools were hit the hardest during the Great Depression because many schools lacked funding/ they were not able to be supported by the government. Tax payers were a main reason many children got to go to school. The Great Depression affected many schools and limited the number of classes and supplies that were given out to each student. Rural areas were not as supported as urban areas, so many of them were shut down due to insufficient funds.

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Schools were hit the hardest during the Great Depression because many schools lacked funding/ they were not able to be supported by the government. Tax payers were a main reason many children got to go to school. The Great Depression affected many schools and limited the number of classes and supplies that were given out to each student. Rural areas were not as supported as urban areas, so many of them were shut down due to insufficient funds.

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This video shows the suffering many children experienced during the Great Depression. I chose this video because it stood out unlike the other options I could have picked. It describes the life that many children experienced on a daily basis and the constant worry.

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children during the great depression - Google Search

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The following photo shows three children with disappointment and sadness on their faces as many children went hungry throughout the day due to parents not being able to afford food or daily essentials. All three of the children have no shoes which indicated how desperate the great depression was for many families.The Great Depression was extremely harsh for many families as well.I chose this particular image because their is detail on it that highlights how difficult the Great Depression was for many children throughout the United States.

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The painting shows two children with disappointment in their faces. Many children did not have proper clothing. Many also had to drop out of school to attempt to earn money for their family. This impacted their education and future. I chose this painting because it shows the rough life many children faced, with constant hunger throughout the day

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Poems By A Thirteen Year Old

Poems that talk about feeling, love, hate, smiling, history and anything you can think of! So give my meaningful poems a shot eh? We Out! Don't judge me Cause I'm not pretty Don't judge me by a glance When you haven't given me a chance

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Poems that talk about feeling, love, hate, smiling, history and anything you can think of! So give my meaningful poems a shot eh? We Out! Don't judge me Cause I'm not pretty Don't judge me by a glance When you haven't given me a chance

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This poem describes the suffering many families went through during the Great Depression since many banks went bankrupt, many people couldn't have access to their life savings. “The Stock market crashed, the money loss was vast, farmers couldn't grow food.” The Great Depression affected every aspect in the United States, from farms to businesses. Children were also affected by lack of money because some went days without eating. I chose this poem for a particular reason becuase it was from a mother during the Great Depression sharing her thoughts and concerns in the form of a poem which I though was very sympatic towards many people through the concerns she worried about

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This infographic shows what children did to entertained themselves during the Great Depression despite the hunger they constantly faced. Many families incomes dropped from $2,300 to $1,500 between the years 1929 to 1932.The Great Depression was the deepest and longest- lasting economic down turn in the history of the Western Industrialization world. The board game Monopoly, which first became available in 1935 became immensely popular perhaps because players could become rich- at least in their imagination.
I chose this infographic because it captured my eyes and allowed me to virzulation what children really did to entertain themselves during these dark times.

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This political cartoon shows Franklin Roosevelt in the middle of six children dancing around him. The political cartoon represents the Library of Congress Cartoon of FDR as a 'father figure' surrounded by children dancing in a circle around him with abbreviations of some names of the organizations he helped make during the Great Depression. I chose this political cartoon because it seems very persuasive in a way that captures the reader to be informed about this topic(the Great Depression)

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Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine

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As a youngster, Mother to Son was one of the first poems I read by Langston Hughes. He had me hooked right away. I wondered when and where he'd met my mother and my grandmother. Their native language and my mom's American idiom were different from that of Hughes' anonymous mom but the song was the same. These were Great Depression era (1929 - late '30s) mothers. Yes! even mine. My big sister was born in 1936. It was a hard time for most everyone but harder still for minorities, emigres, and single mothers. Hughes wrote the poem when he was twenty-one years old, so the poem actually predates the Depression and he is illustrating the Black-American experience and a mother encouraging her son to preserver in spite of all. This poem, however, has such a wonderful heroic quality and a continuing universal appeal. This is the voice of mothers throughout time and all over the world who are living in strained circumstances.
Mother to Son
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor-
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now-
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

- Langston Hughes, excerpt from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
© Hughes' estate

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967), an inspiration in so many ways, was a social activist and leader of the HarlemRenaissance, a poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Hughes was an early innovator of a new style in his time, jazz poetry - i.e. jazz-like rhythms, improvisational feel - and much of his poetry was on social justice themes. (Jazz poetry tends to be consider outsider art. It is the root of poetry slams and hip-hop.)

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Recent in digital publications:
* Four poems , I Am Not a Silent Poet
* Remembering Mom, HerStry
* Three poems, Levure littéraire Upcoming in digital publications:
"Over His Morning Coffee," Front Porch Review

A homebound writer, poet, and former columnist and associate editor of a regional employment newspaper, my work has been featured widely in print and digital publications including: Ramingo's Porch, Vita Brevis Literature, Connotation Press, The Bar None Group, Salamander Cove, I Am Not a Silent Poet, The Compass Rose and California Woman. I run The Poet by Day, an info hub for poets and writers and am the founding/managing editor of The BeZine.
"Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure." Lucille Clifton

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Depression era moms and a poem by Langston Hughes

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"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be." - Langston Hughes As a youngster, Mother to Son was one of the first poems I read by Langston Hughes. He had me hooked right away.

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This poem mentions how tough life was for mother’s and their children during the Great Depression and the constant worry each family had. The constant anger expresses how severe many families were, without carpet on the floor and food on the table. I chose this poem because it is unlike any other. The constant fear of not being able to provide food on the table to the growing concern of schools potentially shutting down, these things were all worries for families.

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This poem mentions how tough life was for mother’s and their children during the Great Depression and the constant worry each family had. The constant anger expresses how severe many families were, without carpet on the floor and food on the table. I chose this poem because it is unlike any other. The constant fear of not being able to provide food on the table to the growing concern of schools potentially shutting down, these things were all worries for families.

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This photograph shows at least forty children waiting in line at school to receive food. Although many schools were shut down or could barely function some schools handed out food to children during these desperate times. I chose this photograph becuase it displays how many children didn't receive food at their home because of a low income and being unable to afford it.

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children during the great depression - Google Search

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children during the great depression graph - Google Search

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This Graph shows the decrease in babies being born due to a lack of money in each family. The Great Depression sufficiently limited the number of babies born due to hospitals also being occupied by other illnesses as well as many families couldn't afford to have another child or even take care of their current child. I chose this Graph because it shows the life expectancy and the number of babies being birthed. As you can see the number of babies being birthed is extremely low due to the difficult times everyone was facing at the time.

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This Chart shows statistics of the unemployment rate and the life expectancy for many humans. This affected children because this meant that many of them had to get jobs to support their family before their parents died at the young age of 63. I chose this chart because it is similar to the previous Graph because it highlighted how server the great depression was with the unemployment rate decreasing and the number of deaths increasing.

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