Great Depression Interview

Questions

1.) How did they stretch their money?

2.) What particular jobs did you do?

3.) Was it hard to feed your family?

4.) Did you feel guilty for not providing money for your family?

5.) Did you put your money in stocks?

6.) If so, how did you feel when the stocks crashed?

7.) If you had children, did they go to school? Or did they have to drop out?

8.) Was medication available when you were sick?

9.) What was the most expensive product you had to buy?

10.)  If you had a job, how much did you get paid?

Simpsons Prohibition

I think the producers of the Simpson's episode did a superior job showing the elements of the Prohibition in 1920. The accuracies outweighed the inaccurate or the comedic value of the episode. It showed how their was speakeasies in the 1920's and how they had to pay more money for beer since it was hard to get it. It showed how they had to bootleg the beer in Springfield and cost more for each cup, just like in the 1920's they had to increase the value of beer. I enloyed watching the Simpsons in class because it shows how different shows use historic times for their show. Its a different way of learning what happened in the past and how we see it today.

The scene in the Simpson's espisode that I would rewrite would be in the beginning where Bart was drunk. During the St. Patrick's Day parade, Bart accidentally got drunk which lead to prohibition. To make it more historically accurate, they should have put more people drinking such as women. Not only men were drinking during the 1920's, some of the women were drinking too. In my opinion, I think they should have more violent and destruction to the town. So people could see why they enforced the prohibition.