Daily Summary

Today we had one presentation and then a free day for the rest of the day.

Notes for Monday, 3/12/07 - 4th Period

So, we didn't take any notes today. We continued Dinner Party presentations, and we'll be doing the same tomorrow.

W-

5th period notes

Hey guys! So today we just finished up our New Deal Dinner Party Presentations. Be sure to read Liberty… pgs 897-908!

Late Great Depression Comment....

Yea, I'm a little late getting this up, but better late than never right? Anyway, i thought the whole website was a little on the depressing side. But then again, it is all about the great depression, I wasn't exactly expecting puppies and butterflies. I liked the letters they had that people had written to Eleanor Roosevelt. It was cool to see that people actually did that back then, and that there was a chance the government might actually listen, unlike today. I did like the WWI website better. But maybe thats because this site didnt have a page devoted to weapons.

Friday, March 9th 4th Period

We continued with the New Deal Dinner Party Presentations.

Friday Notes 5th Period

Today we continued the New Deal Dinner Party presentations. There are still a few left.

Thursday 3-8-07

Today we started presenting New Deal Dinner Party projects. If you have not gone already you will go tomorrow (Friday). Presentations include a short summary or reading of script, explanation of seating chart, and reading of 1 thank you note.

Late New Deal Website Comment

UUGGggg. I am having so much trouble logging in still. I looked at the New Deal website about an hour ago but haven't figured out how to log in till just now. I'm sure it's probably just me.

Well anyways I thought the website was very insightful and I liked the fact that it had a lot of 1st person accounts. When I first went to the website, though, I was a bit overwhlemed with all the information there was; so I went staight to the pictures, which I thought were pretty neat. I looked at the pictures of the CCC camps (maybe Mr. G's dad was in one of those pictures). In addition I looked at a slide show which recounted the effect of the CWA in one Alabama city. Which reminds me, what came first the CWA or the PWA? I also read the letters people sent to Mrs. Roosevelt. Most of them were pretty sad, and most were kids, who were writing to ask for things that I normally might have taken for granted. One teenager asking for football shoes said something like, "I just thought your son might have an old pair of football shoes". And that was considered a request for a luxury item!! I have to say the point of view for the website was bias. Most of the site was in favor of the New Deal and Mr. Roosevelt (which makes sense because the site was sponsored by something like the Roosevelt Memorial Perservation or something) but I would have liked to see the critics views on Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal and the reasons for their beliefs. Other than that the website was pretty good.

Thursday March 8th

Well all we did in class today was present our New Deal Dinner Party stuff. Everyone that went today had very nice projects. Maybe we will see nice ones tomorrow (hopefully).

Great Depression Blog Post Thingy

Alright, shocker here...

The Great Depression sight was depressing... imagine that. I don't think the site was as well put-together as the WWI site, and I liked the pics in the WWI site a lot more. It was a lot more detailed, but I'm not supposed to be complaining, am I? At any rate, thank God for FDR... I wonder what would have happened if he had notbeen around to steer us in the right direction with the New Deal? So don't get me wrong... I found the site interesting... but I liked the WWI site better. I can't wait to see what G has planned for WWII.

See eveyone at school.

4th Period Class Notes

Lead-Up to WWII
*September 1931- Japan seizes Manchuria, breaking the Kellogg-Briand Pact. They broke from the League of Nations and Washington Treaties.
*1933- Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (Fascist), pulls Germany from the League of Nations, instates a draft, builds military with budget.
*1922- Mussolini takes power in Italy (Fascist), starts military buildup, invades Ethiopia in 1935
*Nye Report (1936)- Stated that munition and banking companies got U.S. into WWI. It pushed America toward neutrality and subsequent Neutrality Acts.
1924- Stalin takes control in Soviet Union (Communist)
1937- Neutrality Acts allow cash and carry, meaning that they American goods are carried on American ships and they paid in full and in cash.
Franco- Spanish socialist whom Hitler supported. He brought down the democratically elected govt. in Spain, the govt. the U.S. refused to support.
1937-Japanese sink U.S. ship Panay that was carrying U.S. diplomats out of China.

Repost

Thanks for the help Mr. G. Now it says I can post on the AP blog as well as my own "untitled" blog. So here's the copy and paste version of my original post: I guess I can say that I liked viewing the website. It was kind of difficult to navigate, I must say. I liked it because it gave me a bit of a perspective of the world my grandfather was born into. It's one thing to hear about how bad it was during that time and its another to actually see some hard evidence. One of the things I liked the most was the section about the depression and the arts. All in and I'd give it a depressing thumbs up.

NOTES 5th period (Tuesday March 6th)

sooo today was fun.. because we finished our notes on Chapter 25 (the great depression and new deals 1 and 2) we got to watch a movie. The movie was on the same stuff like the new deal and the second new deal. So pretty much read the assignments on school notes and dont forget **DINNER PARTY ASSIGNMENT DUE THURSDAY!!!

Great Depression.

Okay, after 18 different passwords and Internet Explorer kicking me off twice, I am finally posting my blog comment! The Great Depression website was well, depressing. I felt it was not as detailed as the WWI website, but it was interesting to see those pictures. I felt it really struck home for me because I had family members who I was close to, who lived through the Great Depression and unfortunately those pictures are all 100% accurate. It was exciting to see how far we've come, in the sense of stability, and the amount of effort Americans put forth. I really feel lucky when compared to those times. Thanks for this assignment Mr. G!

Depression/New Deal site

I didnt like this website as much as the WWI website, but I really enjoyed looking at the photos of the depression. I think looking at pictures of life during the depression makes it easier to imagine what the time must have been like for those people. I could read about it and never quite understand the time period, but looking at those pictures made it ten times more interesting and tangible to me.

Tuesday, March 6 - 4th period

So, today we watched another very informative video, Video Schlesinger Vol. XVIII-The Great Depression. It just recapped what we have been talking about. It went over the events that led to the Great Depression, like the inflation of stocks, stock market crash, etc. There was also a overview of the New Deal and its programs, etc. Don't forget that our New Deal Dinner Party projects are due Thursday. That's it.

-lauren

Website Comment

Okay its really late but ya obviously I dont look on school notes on a regular basis. So about this site I thought it was kinda hard to navigate and I like sites where the info is right there and you dont have to click alot to get to the desired place. Other than that i thought it provided some good info on the new deal. And like always I think that the photos were and always will be the most interesting things on these sites. But that might just because because I'm more of a visual person. I also thought that the Articles and such were pretty neat and it had a good amount of them. So lesson learned from the day look at school notes so that you know when stuff is due.

So this is the Deal

So I went to that uber awesome site that G told us to go to. I have come to the conclusion that it's pretty alright. I personally enjoyed the pictures it gave a great image of what the time where like during the Great Deal Era. The site gave a really good insight on the effect Roosevelt had on politics and the change he tried to bring about in the United States. I dont think this site was as in depth as the WWI site though, but it was still pretty detailed. Thats it.

New Deal website blog assignment

I really enjoyed the New Deal website because it gave a lot of information on the New Deal and what it tried to do for the schools and work places in the different communities across the nation. My favorite part of the entire website was the Photo Gallery because I got to view pictures from all kinds of categories such as art, recreation and music. I also enjoyed looking at the different pictures that showed womens’ clothing because I was able to notice the change in fashion from back then to now. I am glad that Mr. G found this website for us to look at because it helped clear up a lot of questions that I had on the New Deal and other FDR programs.

Great Depression Site

Well I looked through the photos and I really found them quite interesting. I feel that pictures give us a really neat perspective into what life what was like during the Depression. My favorite pics were the dance ones. I have danced since I was three, so it was very neat to see the African Dance Group in Bassa Moona pictures. The Candide pictures were also really interesting because they seemed to have a more interpretive theme to them, which has become very popular today. Overall, I enjoyed the website and what it had to offer.

New Deal Comment

Yes I am late but better now than never.....


I really like the pictures. There was over 5,000 images. I didn't get to look at all of them but I did look at quite a few. The are very good and gives you a good idea of what it was like. As I think I have stated before I learn better by visually seeing things. Thanks for the site Mr. G! :)

Janice

Notes from Friday

Sorry that I am late but I forgot my notebook at school that had all the notes in it, so i figured it was better to do it now than never. Notes for 6th period:

Critics to The New Deal
~Father Caughlin "radio priest" founded the National Union of Social Justice
~camea to admire Hitler and Mussilini as they rose to power
~denunication of democracy and hews cost him the radio

~Townshend called on Government to give every senior $200 a month provided that they would spend it

~millions of workers joined labor unions
~encouraged by Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers
~NIRA had granted workers the right to join unions
~employers ignored NIRA's wage/ hour guidelines, led to strikes 1934
~strikes turned violent (2,000 of them)
~workers took anger at pools with democrats, winning 70% of the seats

~american communist party, took it's orders from Moscow, gained strength

Thats it. Don't forget to work on the New Deal Project. :)

Website of the New Deal

I found this website to remind me a lot of the World war one website, possible due to the fact that it was referred by the same person or their both about history. In any case, I thought it was interesting that it told the story about the specific town of Carbon Hill, Alabama and how the new deal (and depression) affected it. It brought the new deal into more perspective, showing how it actually worked with people, not just what it was.

I also found that there was a lot of info that was more catered to teachers who want to teach about the new deal. I mean, I like lesson plans as much as the next guy, but I think that I would not find that as useful as just an article.

New Deal Website

I thought the photo-documentary was the most interesting thing. Old timey photography of the effects of the New Deal. Good stuff. I especially liked the one with the swimming pool built by the WPA. I also looked around in the Documents archive and found the WPA handbook. Apparently the WPA worked the same for women as it did for men. I also noticed that the website itself seemed more oriented at teachers than at students. As such, it wasn't very interactive. I enjoyed the World War One website way more. And I would greatly appreciate being notified early and often in class about these things due to my natural aversion to zeros. I didn't even see it on schoolnotes.com. Oh well, that's what I get.

Website comment

I found the portion on Blacks and the New Deal very interesting. The statistics provided about the unemployment rate and how the depression affected Blacks directly, definitely gave a better perspective on the things Blacks went through during that time. The pictures also proved to be fairly interesting, especially the stills from the different movie productions at that time, The River, and The City. The graphic picture called "Technological Improvements" was also pretty cool to look at, as it was very unusual and abstract.

The Arts during the Great Depression and the New Deal

While I was looking at the site, the arts of the Great depression articles sparked my interest so I had to write a post about it. I learned that many Americans believed because of Roosevelt, American culture had not abandon any imagination, humor, and downright fun because of the hardships that were currently going on at the time. With government patronage to the arts, it inspired many people to become creative, create entertainment, and promote American culture from America to the world.
The creativeness appeared in music, newspapers, the radio, and the movies. I learned that even John Steinbeck and John Ford even found creative inspirations from these times, which showed in their works. Though the New Deal had many weaknesses, it however proved that democracy could survive and adapt. Anyway, I really did enjoy learning that the Americans back then could find it within themselves to have a good time and be creative even during the bad times.

Website comment

This webiste didn't had as much detailed links as the WW1 website, but it was interesting nonetheless. The feature about the photo documentary provided a first look into how the depression effected the towns of the US, not just its cities. The Magpie magazine was inspiring to know that writers, poets, and photographers were still motivated despite the Depression. The magazine also revealed how the Depression effected the youth especially in the cities where the impact was heaviest.

New Deal Website Comment

The website has a lot of information on it and does a good job of explaining every detail of the New Deal. I especially like the section on the Great Depression and the Arts, and the site does a good job of explaining Franklin Delano Roosevelt's involvement in politics after the Depression. Overall, I found the website to be of great help.

New Deal Website

So even though the website was a lot more unorganized than the WW1 website, it was pretty interesting. I dont really like to read long paragraphs of information on topics, so the way that they used pictures to try and show the great depression. I looked at the pictures on the slums and the new housing developments. It was sad to look at but very informative. It was really neat to see the small apartment type buildings that the people must have been crammed into. In the slums you could see people just hanging out and playing games in the dirty streets. Its sad to think that that was how the people had to live back then.

New Deal Post

Well a part from the not so friendly user interface, the site had A LOT of information. I was particularly impressed with the New Deal Document Library with an impressive 900+ articles, speeches, and letters. This library basically nailed any possible tad bit of information that is relevant to the United States during the New Deal period. The photographs were also rather helpful, it gives one a mind set for many of the large parts of the New Deal we heard about but didn't actually see visually outside the videos from the power points in class. The only short side of the site is it's interface which I couldn't seem to get over. Great find nonetheless.

New Deal Post

I didn't really like the way the website was set up because you would have to keep on clicking one link after another, and sometimes you would even forget what you started off in the first place.
"The Great Depression and the Arts" under Features was pretty informative about the New Deal and the depression and it was easy to read.
I also liked "The Puzzlers" under Features. It was like taking a quiz, but it not really counting for a grade, so like learning and having fun at the same time.
I didn't like the Photographs page because it was one link after another, I mean they could have just pasted pictures on one page with captions underneath, right?
All in all, the website was hard to navigate through, but it did offer a variety of things for you to look at.

Depression website.

Well, I looked at the webpage, and it was a little confusing (it was kind of hard to find information) but I liked looking at the art and advertisements from the time. I thought this was a fun advertisement for the zoo. I also thought it was intersting that the art at the time still tryed to be fun even though it was a rough time for most of America's citizens. I guess that shows that they had hope, which is pretty cool..

Website Comment

I felt as though the website had both its strong points and its weak points. The only true weak point I found in the website was the fact that everything was not well organized and difficult to get through. But I felt like there were more positive things than there were weak ones. There was a very impressive display of artistic work and interesting articles about the time of the depression. The best part about the website was that I felt it depicted Franklin Roosevelt as a wonderful president and a very positive influence in history and our world today. I think that President Roosevelt’s ideas that were included in the New Deal that creating new jobs in the country to bring us out of the depression was one of the smartest things he could have done. This helped motivate the country to get up and help them realize they could make a difference.

New Deal Website

This website had a lot of interesting features. I especially liked the photo gallery of the Great Depression era. It wasn't necessarily related to the New Deal, but it was still intriguing. It was odd how close they let people get to the cages of the zoo. It's nice to see that the fun of the 1920's didn't die when the money ran out. I read one part of the website that really caught me. The Archives in the Attic explained that a lot of documents and letters used for history books and research were found in the shoeboxes and family photo albums. This brought a family personality to the history of this era.

New Deal Post

I enjoyed looking at the pictures from the time period because they provided a better of understanding of what the world was like back then. There were pictures from many things we covered in class; such as the CCC, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and other parts of the New Deal. Although, I wonder why there was a section on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire when that happened almost twenty years before the stock market crash. Overall, the website was a perfect way to reestablish our knowledge of the New Deal.

WWI Website

I thought that the website was pretty cool. It contains a lot of information concerning the World War I period which is quite helpful for the class. I liked that it had a whole section on the sinking of the Lusitania because I feel that that was an immensely important occurrence in history which should be remembered. I was also very interested in the section on battlefield maps and I found it interesting that the battles which took place were extended over such a large area. The section on weapons also sparked my interest and I was amazed that the French were actually the first to use poison gas. Anyway, this website has been indeed helpful for me to understand the actual happenings of the war.

Depression Website

well not being original but i also felt like the site was hard to navigate. Through much searcing i did find some interesting pictures. I always like to look at photo galleries because i feel actual photographs and murals really capture life back in those times. The photos under the health care link was the most interesting for me. The relief pictures showed how hard life was, but the recreational photos, like the Children's Theater, showed a different side of the depression.

New Deal Website

Well, I think I more or less skimmed all of the links (including the "classroom" ones). I took the greatest interest in the "Contributions" page in the "Archives in the Attic" subdivision of the site. The article, "Forty-Year Loan Repaid In Five By Chatham Negro Who 'Just Couldn't Sleep In Debt'" caught my eye. Basically, an African American man and his wife (Ollie and Flonnie Burnett) were the first to pay off a 40-year farm plan debt in a record-breaking 5 years under the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Purchase Act. I don't think we've gotten to the Farm Security Administration as yet (of which the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Purchase Act was a part of). Anyways, I enjoyed reading it.

By the way, I really liked the Grapes of Wrath lesson plan the site had (for the sake of "documentary realism", as the site calls it). Of course, this would probably take several days and we would have to hasten the learning of our original lesson plan afterwards.

Yeah...overall, I liked the site.

New Deal Website

I actually liked this website BUT, im going to sound like everyone else and say, it was hard to figure out and i liked the photo gallery. The health care section really caught my eye and I think the photos really sumed up how life was back then. I really thought that the "Archives in the Attic" were neat because of the fact that they make history seem more personal rather than a list of dates and events. They actually show documents and things that people had back then that they contributed to the website. I enjoyed reading "Seven Months of Boyhood Adventures" under the achives in the attic headline. It was a personal account of what it was like to be alive during such a harsh time. All-in-all i think the website was very interesting to look through it had some very important information that is worth retaining.

new deal website.

I dont think the website was organized very well. I liked the Photo gallery because I actually got to see how things were during that time frame, the only thing I didnt like about it was the fact that i had to click on about 5 different links just to see one picture. Other than that I found the website helpful.

New Deal Website

I sorta skipped around the website and found a few little interesting tid bits. It interested me to see that the WPA, or the Works Progress Administration, hired artists to paint fresco murals in the city, almost like those of Diego Rivera. A WPA branch in Milwaukee put women to work making dolls for children in nurseries, schools, and hospital. These WPA dolls are actually quite popular with doll collectors of today.

I also came across a man named Rondal Patridge who was a photographer. Patridge took photos in the west, in California. I found one photo particularly interesting; it was a Hoovervile in Sacramento. Right next to the Hooverville was a sign that said, "Dump no Rubbish here." Patridge also took photos of men and women waiting in line for food, and he took some interesting rodeo pictures as well. It was different to see the effects of the depression in the west, because when it comes to the Great Depression I usually think of big urban cities like New York. Patridge photos reminded me alot of the scenes the Steinbeck writes about in The Grapes of Wrath.

The Depression Website

When I hear the word Depression I think of many homeless and starving families. But, that is not all there is to it. Although many people have thought that during the Depression art had ceased, but it hadn't. When I visited The Magpie Sings the Great Depression, I found out that the Bronx's Dewitt Clinton High School produced many writers and artists. A lot of the art depicts the struggles that the city has faced and also gives the reader the emotional details of what the people had to deal with. Their depictions of teenage life documents the way in which they carried on their everyday lives and shows the economic problems at home. Even the influence of the Harlem Renaissance can be seen in the short stories. Many of the artists from this school became writers, directors, or artists. I think it is amazing that teenagers could create art from their daily lives that had to deal with poverty, starvation, and economic stress . It also helps later generations to get a feel from the pictures, stories, and poems the problems they faced everyday. I really enjoyed looking at this site, and it gave me a lot of perspective about the Depression: more than just poverty and political stress arose from the Depression.

I found this web site hard to maneuver through. Though hard to find, there was some great information on the Great Depression. I browsed through the photographs and I was really surprised by their content. Normally, I have imagined the Great Depression as being only dusty and impoverished, but these pictures showed a more personal side to it. I was surprised at the amount of recreational activities the pictures showed as well as how happy some people looked. This positive side of the Great Depression is very new to me. Of course, the pictures that showed the negative side of the Great Depression were hard to look at that. The long Breadlines, unemployment lines, hungry people definitely depicted the hardships of the time. These pictures did a great job in showing the different faces of the Great Depression.

Great Depression Carbon Hill Article

Carbon Hill was a small coal mining town that was hit hard in the Great Depression. The article shows how people desperately needed money and the only way was to use the programs of the New Deal. Carbon Hill used programs such as PWA and WPA which provided the town with 200,000 dollars to help the town try and work through the Depression. This article shows that the New Deal really did help out many small towns with their economic disaster.

Notes Friday March 2

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

• Electrified the Tennessee River Valley
• Dams and power plants were built
• Major producer of electricity
• Low rates compelled private companies to reduce their rates as well

Criticisms and Alternatives to the New Deal

• Said the New Deal ignored ordinary people
• Huey Long called for a "share the wealth" program which guaranteed each family 5,000 dollars
• Francis Townshend wanted to give senior citizens 200 dollars a month provided they would spend it

Growth of Labor Unions

• Millions joined labor unions because they were given the right to by NRA
• Employers granted little say to workers on the subject of working conditions
• This led to strikes and outbreaks

Great Depression website

I don't think this site is a interesting as the World War I site. I tried to look at the pictures but I had to go thorough five links to get on picture. On top of that the picture was really small and hard to see. Maybe the other areas are better but all in all the navigation of the site is difficult.

That Website Comment Thing-y

I really enjoyed the article The Magpie Sing the Great Depression about the magazine of the DeWitt Clinton High School. I just find it so much easier to relate to what the teens were going through. It just makes it more real in my mind and helps me understand better.

I also chuckled to myself as I read one of the letters that was published in The Magpie named "This Younger Generation" by Sidney Chayefsky. It sounds alot like something we would say or e-mail a friend.


Maybe we haven't changed as much as we like to think.

New Deal Website Comment

I thought that the site wasn't well organized in the sense of finding information easily. But, I thought, when I did find some information, that the site did a good job explaining what exactly happened during The Depression/The New Deal. I really enjoyed the photo gallery. The pictures really put a clear image into my head how The Depression affected people. The document library is rather extensive, so I couldn't read through all of the documents; however, the documents I did read were very helpful with coming to a full understanding of this time era. Overall, I think the site was informative once I was able to find information.

New Deal/Depression Site

I didn't like this website as much as I liked the War World 1 website, mainly because it was hard to pick through the lesson plans and projects for teachers. Yet, I did find some interesting material. There was alot of information on the Depression hitting Alabama, which was interesting because I think of cities suffering in the Depression, not country areas. I also like the photo galleries. I can't believe that they had "Fight Against Cancer" posters. I wish the people back then could see the progress we've made in medical research! The Depression pictures are very disturbing and I feel hopeless because there is nothing we can do now. But, I guess that's just how history works!

Great Depression Website

I liked looking at the photos of the CCC. I think that the CCC was great program the was created during the Great Depression. By creating the CCC it provided money for the workers that they could spend to help get the economy started again. The CCC also built or improved many National and State Parks.
We can thank the CCC for the nice parks we have today. I also looked at some photos of the housing during the Great Depression. It helped me realize how widespread poverty was during the Great Depression.

Website posting

This site opened my eyes to how it was during the depression. The pictures and the info really help. I enjoyed looking at the art. This site is helping me with the dinner party project. This site is a wealth of information.

Great Depression Site

I enjoyed viewing the site. My ultimate favorite parts were related to the arts. I loved the murals of the time. Some work was abstract and others were very realistic with great meanings to them. Many of them portrayed the working class of the time participating in different jobs. There were a variety of subjects the paintings represented such as, the role of women, the working class, blacks in Harlem, New York, and the government. A few realistically showed the poor and the working class. The site opened my eyes to how artists viewed the times.

5th Period Friday 3/2

Hey Everyone!! Today we started class with questions about interims and the Chapter 21-24 test. I hope you call did well. Here are the note we reviewed today:
Criticism and Alternatives to the New Deal
- complained that they New Deal ignored ordinary people
- Louisiana Senator Huey Long called for "Share of Wealth" program that guaranteed each American family $5,000 estate by redistributing the nation's wealth
- Father Charles Coughlin "Radio Priest" found the National Union of Social Justice
- he came to admire Hitler and Mussolini as they gained power
- denusciated democracy and Jews
- Francis E. Townshend called on the government to give senior citizens $200 a month credited that they would spend it

Growth of Labor Unions
- millions of workers joined labor unions 1933-1934 - it was encouraged by John L. Lewis the president United Mine Workers
- NIRA granted workers the right to join unions of their own choosing and employers had to bargain wages and hours
- employers gave workers little say
- ignored NRA's wages and hours
- workers started strikes - 2,000 all of the nation
- usually turned violent
- took their anger out at the polls and voted Democrat

Thursday March 1, 2007 Notes; 5th Period

I apologize for posting so late. Here is some of the things we took down.

• Roosevelt's New Deal.
• FDIC invests deposits in banks up to $5,000 in a savings account
• Securities Act and Securities Exchange Act: later established Securites and Exchange Commision to enforce federal law.
• FER Administration prouded $500,000,000 for relief to the poor.
• Young people just coming out of high were in hard luck of finding a job because there were rarely available at the time. So Roosevelt put these people, including Mr. G's father to be to work with the Civil Conservation Corps. one of the most popular New Deal Programs.
• Civil works Administration put 4 million unemployed to wrok on 400,000 small scale government projects.
• 3-Rs: relief, recovery, and reform are relief programs.

Great Depression website

As I'm sure many people have come to find, there is a very mixed reveiw of the Great Depression. In every view it is seen as a very sad, low point in american history. As some the pictures on the site demonstrate, everything seemed gloomy and looked incredibly disdainful. However at the same time there was optimissum and hope with the New Deal reform projects going into effect and employing many many people. I spent most of my time on the site looking at the pictures. And from picture to picture the mood changed, in some, while there was nothing people seemed in good spirits. In others the well off looked glum and irreverant. I know the american spirit was crushed according to our text book, but some of the pictures, especially of things such as traveling theaters, seemed to be full of smiling children. It was rather shocking to me to see anyone happy and exhilerated during those times, because form everything we can see, even with reforms in place and slowly working, the country was still at the bottom of a very deep dark pit. Another thing that struck me as sad was the pictures of people in a service industry all lined up canning meat. Nearly 20 people were just standing there canning meat, which from that it would seem like there should be millions of jobs available, but knowing the rate of unemployment, i realized how hard it must have been for some to find themselves unemployed, feeding off the emergency relief canned meat, knowing that someone, somewhere had a job just to keep you alive by simply canning meat, which really brought the depression full circle, demonstrating how deep the its influence was on every american. -Zach