Hemostasis Physiology and Clinical correlations by Dr Faiza.pdf
The depression power point
1. The Depression
The period, lasting roughly from
1930 to the start of World War II in
1939, is known as the
Depression.
2. The Depression
• Unemployment brought with it poverty,
hunger and homelessness.
• Firms and banks went bust and people’s
savings disappeared when the banks
closed
• It was hard to buy food and pay the rent
3. A Philadelphia storekeeper told a reporter of one
family he was keeping going
• Eleven children in that house. They’ve got
no shoes, no pants. In the house, no
chairs. My God, you go in there, you cry,
that’s all.
4. California or Bust
• In the country, especially in the states of
Oklahoma and Arkansas, things were almost
worse than they were in the cities
• Farmers were being driven off their land
• There had been a series of droughts which had
ruined the crops and dried up the soil, and
farmers could not afford to re-pay the bank loans
which had helped them buy their farms.
• When the banks took the land back, whole
families had to move – but where to?
5. California or Bust
• People headed to California, where the soil was
good and there was supposed to be plenty of
room.
• Steinbeck didn’t mention these farmers directly
in ‘Of Mice and Men’. Instead, he makes George
and Lennie dream of a little piece of land/
• The two men come to represent in a simple way
the hunger for land of many millions of people,
and their dream of being able to settle down.
6. Reality
• For most of the farmers the dream never
came true
• They were driven away by the Californians
who thought they were going to be
overrun.
• They had nowhere to go back to, and
many lived in vast camps like refugee
camps in the California valleys.