Great Depression

A post I wrote before I figured out how to use the blogger:

I was reading about the Great Depression for AP US class earlier and stumbled upon a couple of readings that could change the way I look at things, despite the time gap. The reading was written by a woman who had to sit in a domestic waiting room for a job with half a dozen other women, every day, desperately waiting for work. I didn’t realize how essential having work was; I guess I had simply taken it for granted. I had also taken a lot of other things for granted. I know, from the movies and lectures we have in class, that people were poor and people were hungry during that time, but the magnitude of it is only clear to me now. I guess, for me, I need to see or read a firsthand account to really put it into a true perspective. The way she described the waiting women, staring blankly at the floor and thirsty and hungry like beasts, ready to work late or early hours to make even thirty cents at whatever work that was available, really made my heart ache.