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Rawan Alkhafaf

Ms. Blank

History 3 1

24 April 2019

Works Cited

American Experience: The Great Depression. YouTube. PBS, 15 Apr 2013. Web. 24 April 2019.

In 2013 PBS created a documentary on the Great Depression showing how life was before the

economic crash. This documentary helped me find what life turned into and how it changed

simply by going to the theatre or listening to the radio.

Brandon, Tran. "Old Radio World." Fireside Chat with Franklin D. Roosevelt. 2003.

http://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Fireside_Chat_with_Franklin_D._Roosevelt.php. 24 April.

2019

I chose transcripts of President Roosevelts “fireside chat” because the transcripts show that he was

a committed and an involved president. An example of this was his “fireside chats” that he would

have to the citizens during his terms in office. In these chats, he addressed himself in first person

and the awaiting citizens in second as if he was having a conversation with them. This showed that

he wants to reassure the public that there was no difference in the between the President and his

people. This is a very useful source because all of the transcripts are the president’s exact words

which reassured Americans during the tragic times as well as communicate and entertain them.

Bailey, Thomas. "United States Resource Center." Primary Sources. Cengage Learning.

Web.http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/students/primary/depression.htm. 24 April

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This source shows a graph from the beginning of the depression to decades afterward. It shows

the unemployment rate. The graph starts low, then the unemployment rate rises to 12 million

people. It fluctuates by going up and down after that, but we were never fully back to where we

were before the crash. This source is useful because it shows the graphic change between the

amount of year this depression went on for.

Clausen, John A. American lives: looking back at the children of the Great Depression. Accessed 24 April

2019.

This text looks into how the children of the Great Depression’s lives were affected then and now. In

the book they use 300 men and 300 women to evaluate the impact of the depression, it shows how

men and women handled the effects of the Great Depression differently and how they came out in

the end. This reflects how entertainment affected children during the Great Depression.

Digital images. Getty Images. Getty Images, Web. 24 Apr. 2019.

The photos used in the website were taken from Getty Images to capture the society during the

1930s and the different types of entertainments. Some images focus on the nightlife and music,

whereas others focus on the regular daily entertainments such as radios and sporting events,

Jensen, Richard J. "The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression." The Journal of

Interdisciplinary History 19. http://www.jstor.org/stable/203954. Accessed 24 April 2019

The most important variety of structural unemployment in the I930s was difficult. Specifically, the

lower class was affected the most because of the situations that changed during the depression. It

also introduced the different entertainment the lower class used to spend their time.

"Living History Farm." https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_14.html. Accessed 23 Apr. 2019.

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I really enjoyed the organization and information available on this site. While it may not provide

primary source-type information, it provided me with a list of entertainments which played a big

role during the Great Depression. This helped me find additional resources for my project.

Movies of 1930s. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000006439/. IMDb. Accessed 23 Apr. 2019.

This website represents all of the popular and successful movies of the 1930. This website also

provided me for the images for the movies. It explains in depth the description of the movies and

the reviews of the people of the time.

Stoddard, Scott. "Economic Optimism Hits 17-Month Low."

https://www.investors.com/news/economy/ibdtipp-poll-economic-optimism-index/. 24

April 2019.

I found this article in the Business Source Complete database. I search keywords like

“entertainment” and “economy” and “optimism.” The article spoke on how depressed people have

been in the shaky economy, and how they have lost faith in the government and used entertainment

as a distraction. It shows how fearful and depressed the economy has made Americans. It provides

useful, current information, and was easily understandable.