Joey

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The Great Depression

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I chose to make my project about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. I made a Prezi showing how the events of that time really affected the people. I used pictures and music to make my point because they can show how the people of the time period felt. This topic was very interesting to me because we had studied it in history, but I felt that I could go into more detail. I felt that I should represent the Depression with pictures because pictures can really bring out the emotions of the time period. The pictures I chose represent the general feeling of the time period. The ideas that I meant to represent were not those of just what was going on. I wanted to make a project that would have a full effect. It was meant to put the viewer back in time. The addition of music was another thing that I added to the project to make it more immersing. That was music that the everyday person would hear. The pictures are what people would see. For most people, they lived those pictures. Their lives were directly affected. We sometimes see things like that happening today. There are many unemployed people. There are many homeless and hungry families. Issues from that time period are still around today. That is another reason that I did this topic. The Hoovervilles that sprang up are called Hoovervilles for a reason. They meant to blame the depression on Hoover and his republican policies. The same thing happens today with most politics. Everything is blamed on the previous president. Many things can be learned by looking back to the depression, so the depression is a very interesting topic.=====