Depression 2009: What would it look like?

If we had a depression in 2009, I think it would be invisible. People are so self-conscious with their lives, if they have food stamps, social security, of Medicaid it’s an embarrassment for several people. I look at it today as an advantage if we have theses things because in the Great Depression of the 1930's they had nothing, they had no help. Today, kids are kids and parents are parents trying to get jobs and keep their families healthy. But what is it that we pay? We pay medical bills. Instead of there being lines at soup kitchens there are lines to get into the emergency room. Our parents, trying to apply for financial aid because schooling and education is becoming to hard to afford. We kids know that if we don’t dress in "Hollister, or Abercrombie and Fitch" you aren’t what kids call "hip." I recently worked at a store called Tj Maxx and in the past three years they have became busier and busier every year. During the Christmas season the store is packed with people trying to find knock off of these clothes. If we were to get hit with a really bad depression again, and it was like the 1930's my family would be lost. My mom works as a full time loan officer at a bank, which of course is the worst job when a Great Depression hits. Many of the banks would close down which would cause my mom to loose her job, and my dad’s job would be the only thing supporting our family. My dad owns his own business; he paints houses and tiles floors. With the depression the last thing people want is for their house to be painted, so on that note my dad would most likely have to shut down his business. This would definitely affect my family and we would have to work around the money loss. I think that if the Great Depression does hit again, it will be once again invisible. The Great Depression is invisible to several people because people would experience loses privately, not publicly. Many of the depressions that hit us today are found to be isolated, we as human beings don’t want to be judged and several families will try to hide their finical stabilities.

The Simpsons'

The Simpsons' 1920's

Part one:

The producers of the Simpsons episode of portraying the 1920’s/Prohibition in Springfield tried to show the different elements of the 1920’s. I enjoyed watching the episode; I definitely think this will help me remember several of the accurate details of this time. I think the accuracies outweighed the fiction comedy, it didn’t make it a bad show, but it came across very strong. For example, when there was no more alcohol, Bart and Homer went to the dumps and got alcohol, and snuck it into the bar; this would be an example of a bootlegger. Also “Moes Pet Shop,” this is an example of speakeasies. Speakeasies are private bars that no one knows about. Another scene that caught my attention was the part when the cops were on the side of the street and two men drove by in a truck that held alcohol; for them to get through they just slipped the cops some money and say “you didn’t see nuttin.” And then they get away with it. I definitely thought the movie brought about good points and the producers did a very good job. In then end you do have to realize that not all of the scense are accurate, they are just there to make us laugh.

Part two:

The one scene that caught my attention was when the new police officer and his crew went into “Moes Pet Shop.” In this scene, to make things more accurate the FBI should have busted in the doors. The FBI had developed and played a big role in the 1920’s. There are also several other things that could have been included in the film, like gambling, and fighting because the goals of prohibition was to eliminate these things. The clothing towards the end of the movie had gotten to look more like the 1920’s, although Homer is a main actor I still think that if he was wearing more of an 1920’s attire it would have been more emphasized.

Do I think Americans should give up their rights at war? NO

Absolutely not, I do not think we should give up our rights at any point in time. We fight terrorism to keep these rights. If we give them away then why fight, we no longer have the rights we were trying to protect. We cannot give up just some of our rights. If we give up one right then the situation will explode and all our rights will be taken. When that happens, terrorism has won and we are left with nothing. We need to accept the fact that there will always be fighting but giving up or allowing our rights to be taken with little or no fight we would not be able to live. So basically in other words we had to fight for our independace and our right to be free, and that should not be taken away from us.

USS Maine arrived on station, now where is it?

The battleship USS Maine arrived on station in Havana Harbor, Cuba, Jan. 25, 1898. American people/ authorities hoped that being stationed in the area would be seen as a goodwill gesture and stabilizing influence on the Spanish control of the colony. But little did everyone know, there was going to be an explosion! At 9:45 p.m. on the evening of February 15, 1898, a terrible explosion on board USS Maine that was in Havana Harbor, Cuba. Investigations would reveal that more than five tons of powder charges for the ship's six and 10-inch guns ignited which left big wreckage that just settled to the bottom of the Harbor. 353 officers and men lost their lives as a result of the disaster on February 15, 1898. Investigators were trying their hardest but with the wreckage that sank to the bottom and the lack of technical machinery they could not find the cause. Investigators are still contributing their time to discover the reasoning of the explosion.