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"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it." - John Steinbeck

Life in poverty during the 1920's was very common in the United States. While most people were struggling to find a job, others had hope in loans from the bank. When the great depression started the stock market went down so banks stopped giving loans to most people. People were trying to find a resolution for this depression, but without government help it seemed hopeless. After a few years of agony,state officials started making a few changes that benefited the common people. The government should've helped the common people in the beginning of the depression.

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"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole." -Karl Marx

The early 1900's is known for one of Americas most darkest and vulnerable times in history. While most families were struggling to provide for their families other politicians and state authorities would give into fraud and crime. The police in streets would accept bribery that escalated crime within cities. The image below will show a perfect visual description of "normal life" as a state leader or authority. The federal government failed to investigate their  state employees therefore helped to continue the downfall of the country.

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"In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war."- James Meade

While the leaders of government during the 1930s were profiting over poverty. Most Americans couldn't find jobs and were unable to pay monthly bills. Children had to mature in a early age to help support their family. The government took no responsibility during the depression, even though most decisions destroying the economy were made by nation leaders. The news article shows the magnitude of fear and hopelessness people had during their darkest economic time.

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“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist."-Jerry Ash

The article below gives a description of life during the 1930s. It shows how racial identification and discrimination were the normal during these dark times. Families had to ask their children to help pay for bills. I learned that many business owners started paying lower salaries without even mentioning it to their employees. The government should take more responsibility for the cruel experiences people had to face in the 1930s. The economic drain and the racial discrimination made Americans feel hopeless.

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"Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values for me in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world."

-Steve Buyer

Many people don't get the life of the 1930s. Most people had to sacrifice many parts of their life just to keep their plates barley full. Most Americans wanted to have a conversation with their state leaders. Demanding more jobs and judical action toward crime escalating in cities. Because of corruption, crime escalated without punishment and taxes went up without vote. This poem gives a strong description of what Americans wanted to say during the 1930s.

BY DORIANNE LAUX

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I passed through the narrow hills

of my mother's hips one cold morning

and never looked back, until now, clipping

her tough toenails, sitting on the bed's edge

combing out the tuft of hair at the crown

where it ratted up while she slept, her thumbs

locked into her fists, a gesture as old

as she is, her blanched knees fallen together

beneath a blue nightgown. The stroke

took whole pages of words, random years

torn from the calendar, the names of roses

leaning over her driveway: Cadenza,

Great Western, American Beauty. She can't

think, can't drink her morning tea, do her

crossword puzzle in ink. She's afraid

of everything, the sound of the front door

opening, light falling through the blinds-

pulls her legs up so the bright bars

won't touch her feet. I help her

with the buttons on her sweater. She looks

hard at me and says the word sleeve.

Exactly, I tell her and her face relaxes

for the first time in days. I lie down

next to her on the flowered sheets and tell her

a story about the day she was born, head

first into a hard world: the Great Depression,

shanties, Hoovervilles, railroads and unions.

I tell her about Amelia Earhart and she asks

Air? and points to the ceiling. Asks Heart?

and points to her chest. Yes, I say. I sing

Cole Porter songs. Brother, Can You Spare

a Dime? When I recite lines from Gone

with the Wind she sits up and says Potatoes!

and I say, Right again. I read her Sandburg,

some Frost, and she closes her eyes. I say yes,

yes, and tuck her in. It's summer. She's tired.

No one knows where she's been.

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Mother's Day by Dorianne Laux | Poetry Foundation

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I passed through the narrow hills of my mother's hips one cold morning and never looked back, until now, clipping her tough toenails, sitting on the bed's edge combing out the tuft of hair at the crown where it ratted up while she slept, her thumbs locked into her fists, a gesture as old as she is, her blanched knees fallen together beneath a blue nightgown.

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"The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, the American way." -Upton Sinclair

The 2005 film shows the way a family lived during the depression. Without government aid and jobs available caused desperation among families. The quote represents the failure of the government in taking care of its people. The film also has a representation of the daily struggles and impacts faced everyday. The government should've done more to prevent further poverty among Americans.

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"As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour."
-James E. Faust

Labor was the biggest concern during the Depression. Many healthy families would be denied jobs because of the lack of jobs available. Most men in their families would line up in the streets begging for labor. The image shows the magnitude of people desperate for jobs in the streets. The government should e held accountable for not providing more jobs for the people.

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" Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body" - Herbert Hoover

The leadership during the most vulnerable times for Americans failed it people. President Hoover made it more difficult for jobs to be available. He had no interest in helping the poverty that was escalating in the U.S. In the image, you can see a man carrying his family while heading to work A true description of life during the corruption and poverty in the 1930s.

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“So you could argue that all of them were unconstitutional, all of them were illegal, because no modicum of process was followed.” - kevin R. Johnson

In the 1930's it was one of the worst times for the Mexican Americans. A couple million people were deported from their homes under the Hoover administration. Many families were separated and caused a lot of outrage within the nation that caused many strikes.The video shows the struggles and impacts the Mexican people had to live during the depression. The government made a mistake destroying millions of peoples lives and families.

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"In the Depression, the men could not get jobs, and especially the black men,here was my father with a degree in chemistry, and he could not get a job.- Wanda Bridgeforth.

The racism during the Great Depression made a huge impact in African American lives. Many industries and businesses would refuse to hire someone in color.Furthermore, many African families would starve and become ill because of lack of nutrition. The image shows the normal living in the African culture during the depression. The government should've been more helpful and understanding among people that couldn't even afford food.