Life in the Great Depression
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 1:02 PM
Friday, April 10, 2009
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- Name: Mr. Carlisle
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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11 Comments:
Kind of interesting that he didn't really the extent of the depression. He only vaguely remembers the day the stock market crashed, and it took him a while after that to realize what it meant for him. But I guess it's a sign of how much the media has changed since then. He also didn't seem that affected or traumatized by the depression...I suppose it fits in with our reading yesterday that life simply kept going during the depression.
5:11 PM
Great insight Kristin.
6:21 PM
Interesting vids. I also would like to say that you did a pretty good Jimmy Stewart impression today Mr. Carlisle. And for that, I commend you.
10:05 PM
That picture is so sad. Do you know who the photographer was? I think I've seen this picture before, it's pretty famous.
6:40 PM
Carlisle! I got accepted as an Alternate for the Congressional Academy.
6:49 PM
He is so adorable! His story is similar to that of my interviewee's. They both seemed to have been able to find ways to get around the Depression. He found a job at a swimming pool, and my interviewee found a job at a movie theatre. Both of them were able to keep making money despite the hard times. I'm not underestimating the impact of the Great Depression, but I think that many people found ways to compromise. That compromise taught people that it is possible to live on just what you need, and you can find entertainment (like sports, seen in the video) that doesn't cost much, if anything.
8:33 PM
Allie,
Congrats!!
Narintohn,
Not sure who the photographer is. It's one of my favs.
Alex,
I can't wait to hear/read your oral history paper.
10:13 PM
Mr. Stroup does not look like he's 99.
i think he looks younger.
6:33 PM
The interview with Mr. Kurnow is interesting. The professor claims that the average person in the early 1930s didn't talk about the economy. But they began to care when things fell apart in 1933. Is the same course of events happening now? Was the ignorance of the common person or the poor decisions on the part of the powerful more responsible for our current economic crisis?
5:22 PM
Firefox,
It definitely wasn't the "common person" that caused the economic crisis we're experiencing right now.
5:59 PM
i watched the first vid, the vid on jackson pollock and patricia addis. the last two were the most interesting to me, it really convinced me anyway that during these tough economical times its nearly impossable to earn a living doing anything you want. the woman who was a graphic designer probibly studied it out of passion, which is fine, but that obviously isnt good enough to get through times like this. i think its good to have a passion and all, but it would be best to earn a college degree in somthing that can be easly manipulated into something of greater use... not sure if that has much to do with the great depression, but thats what the video made me think of. the video on jackson pollock was cool ^^, i like letters between artists
6:52 PM
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