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Life during the great depression era
Life during the great depression era
The effect of the great depression
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The social issues of the time are highlighted in the artist’s work. This was done to show that the working class is standing united in the face of oppression or opposition.
The physical image of poverty portrayed by the family reflects The Great Depression’s toll on their livelihood. It is clearly and plainly displayed that the mother and her children are impoverished by the techniques of black and white color choice, and intricate, detailed texture. The hardship faced by the family is highlighted by the photograph being in black and white. This allows for the simplicity of their condition to be shown without the distractions a photograph in color would provide. The image is very detailed and defined by texture, to leave no question to whether the family lacks wealth or riches.
The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Immigration photo by Jose Hernandez-claire both show the subject of family separation. In both of these text the author and artist use similar and different techniques to show that Immigration can bring stress and sadness to families. In both The Red Umbrella and the Immigration photo they share some similar techniques. They share the similar technique of figurative language.
Hence, the only way how to examine the ‘real’ aspect of life of ordinary people in the thirties, since there were no video recordings, is through the letter written to the public figures. The words of the men, women, and also children addressed to persons that were thought to be responsible for all the suffering and pain, can give us a better feeling of what it was like at that time. Therefore, McElvaine’s work, Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man, gives us the best insight about that time period and precisely describes the feelings and motifs why the letters were sent. Also, he smartly divides the letters into different sections, each characterized by the same group of senders. For example, he examines the letters from white men in one chapter and the elders in other.
The organization that employed D. Lange was the Farm Security Administration because they wanted to describe the depression in society using the illustration 12.15, Migrant Mother, which depicts the hardships of life and the impact takes on the individual. Also to document the unemployed citizens in the world to demonstrate how challenging it is for people to live in such harsh conditions. The FSA thought Lange was an important aspect in taking images of the poor because their mission was to fight against poverty and to establish change. Capturing the woman as seen in 12.15 it help generate a difference for humankind so that everyone can visually see how hard it is for individuals to survive on nothing. Later on, this image started to catch
During the “Gilded Age”, numerous people immigrated to New York due to an enormous economic growth in the United States. They strove after a better life for themselves and their families but instead, they encountered poverty and discrimination. Jacob Riis, an activist and journalist, captured the living conditions of those who contributed to this economic growth on photographs and tried to bring greater awareness to this issue in his 1890 publication How the other half lives. In the course of this essay, I want to discuss how – and if so, in how far – Giis’ photographs are in accurate representation of living conditions in this era. I will put the main focus on the influence Riis’ work had considering the perception of the working-class.
From our textbook we are able to learn the base information of the depression and migrant workers. The document provides a deeper insight with first hand views on the mistreatment of workers by wealthy landowners. First hand photographs allow a real view of how the impoverished migrant camps actually looked. The photos, along with Steinbeck's firsthand observations and genuine concern for the human suffering that was taking place allows for students to be further engaged into the topic. Our Texbook, Give Me Liberty, describes how the depression transformed American life.
The life of immigrants living on the Lower East Side in the late 1800s early 1900s was tough. Coming to a new country itself is difficult. Immigrants didn’t have much to begin with. Most of them had jobs that allow them to barely live. Anzia Yezierska’s short story “The Lost ’Beautifulness’” depicts the immigration experience.
Loss of work was an obvious struggle during the Great Depression and no doubt one the ‘Forgotten Man’ faced but the piece goes beyond surface. Man lost sense of community, motivation, and hope. The Depression may have caused citizens and the government to pull together in desperate need of support and comradery but that did not happen overnight. This piece shows a man, who is clearly not a hobo as he is dressed well and clean, being overlooked or as Dixon put it, forgotten. The frightful level of uncertainty the generation faced is unimaginable but they needed to remember they were not alone.
Analysis of “Migrant Mother” The famous photo of the Dorothea Lange known as “Migrant Mother” has become an icon of the great depression. It is an image of mother and her three children. The photo was captured in 1936 in Nipomo, California. To analyze any piece of art is totally depending upon the reader’s perception, what the readers sees in that piece of art they can present their own views about it.
During the 1930s, After World War I, the Great Depression from America spread to the whole world. According to the song Wanderin by Vernon Dalhart, describe the common people in America during the 1930s suffered the pressure by the society and homelessness became a serious problem at that time. People at that time can have a normal work. Also, homelessness becomes a serious problem at that time. In addition, it was chaos in social order and the crime rate during citizens was very high.
Americans had rarely accepted outsiders as equals, and that was the case with immigrants coming to the U.S in the 1840s to the 1920s. A time in America where immigrants were not considered inferior to native white Americans did not exist. The hatred of anything non-American, especially with the coming of World War I in 1914, would only cause more Americans to despise immigrants. Part of this was rooted simply in racism, which existed towards groups other than African Americans, but much of it was simply that Americans considered themselves the chosen people while everyone else was below them. Thus, despite immigrants being accepted into America, those immigrants were still treated far worse than white citizens between the 1840s and 1920s, for the prejudice against them was obvious even in the laws created.
Modernism and popular styles became indistinct from each other in the 1950s. Art was never the same after the Holocaust and atom bombs. Plurality of visual forms existed in 1950s. If we take 1950s painting as an offshoot of New York school of abstract art, then photography in the 1950s is a more eclectic phenomenon, harder to classify. This can be attributed to the commercialisation of photography by the mid-century due to the rise of print media during the 1940s.
Fencing game animals results in unnatural genetics with animals unable to move freely. Providing easy game on farms lulls hunters into thinking all is well and wild habitat doesn’t need to be protected, defended, or enhanced. Game farms ignore less popular species and no one has the right to pen any wild species. Conditions on breeding farms are inhumane. Trophy hunting encourages “canned hunting” where animals are raised in captivity to be shot.
The United States has an abundant amount of health organizations that’s responsible for protecting the public’s health by regulating items, restricting certain products, or simply to provide the population with helpful information to promote healthy lifestyles. The FDA is one of the most recognizable health associations that are deemed to do what exactly people expect, to protect their health. They’ve been around for over a century and everyone thinks they’ve been doing their job. In reality, that’s not the case for the most part. The FDA approves many harmful ingredients and/or products that actually are detrimental to the health.
