The Great Depression Speech

History Assessment Task, John Appleseed, 9H2.

Personality of choice: An unemployed male with a family.

The last few weeks of my life have been pretty miserable for me, my wife and the kids, we even thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. Two days ago I had to get laid off my job at the factory as the manager could not afford to pay all of the workers since the Wall Street Crash, this was even after I put many extra hours of work in. The manager should have at least told us we weren’t going to be paid, many of the factory’s previous workers could not find another place to work, and this left many of us without any pay or income.

Some of us, including myself, swallowed our pride, suffered the humility that many before us had gone through, and registered for the dole as I couldn’t let my family go without food. The business owners don’t even look near us when they walk past the dole queue. I bet they thought we were a disgrace to the community, even though they were the ones who put us here.

If I had gotten paid for my last week of work we would be at least a bit better off as the extra hours I had put in added up to a substantial amount of pay, It would have been rather beneficial to helping us pay for food and other necessary items, this must be what all the other workers feel like. What really annoys me is that no matter how much we work, the rich always seem to be getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Today I heard shocking news from an old friend of mine, he heard that the factory that I had previously worked at had fully closed down, this was because no one was buying which forced the manager to lower the prices. This did not help the profit of the business at all since the rich then bought all the items cheaply as soon as they realised prices had gone down any more, this still left the manager with a tiny bit of money but no goods to sell. Not long after the whole business was gone.

Many of the previous workers lined up at the dole queue...