During the Great depression many people thought that when the stock market crashed that it would only affect those who are rich. They were wrong. Gordon Parks wrote: I couldn’t imagine such financial disaster touching my small world”, “But by the first of November I too knew differently; along with millions of others across the nation, I was with out a job”. When the stock market crashed many businesses had to fire their employees to keep up with the fall of the stock market.

Quoting Herbert Hoover: “The spread of Government destroys initiative”. Herbert’s attitude towards government intervention is clear. He does not want America to rely solely upon the government when there is trouble; he wants individual independency, he wants America to be strong and be able to pick up the pieces without relying solely upon government interaction. If the government was too help everyone during every time of crisis then America will be unable to help itself during a disaster,......

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Title: Depressionish
Approximate Word Count: 379
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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