Clara Nielsen US History 3.11.2015 Civil Concentration Corps Before the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) were started our country was in a great depression. People had almost no money and couldn’t afford some of the necessities of life. All around the world there was fires, smoke, floods, drought, erosion, and to top it off the dust bowl. It was very difficult to find good soil. The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s.
By using a mild scare tactic to begin his argument, Pelletier not only captures his readers’ attention, but he forces them to realize what would have to be given up if we were to only eat locally. Many everyday and even essential products would be lost in some communities. If this were not reason enough to reject the locavore movement, he also gives logical reasoning as to why this idea simply would not work. The environment and economy would both experience negative effects. The change in consumption would ultimately lead to famine in many thriving nations.
Hard Times shadowed across the globe as the stock market dropped rapidly. During the term of presidency of Herbert Hoover in 1929, the United States became a jobless nation and left many people homeless, penniless. The economy’s confidence was lowered as numerous banks failed. Since Americans were unable to look for support amongst each other, the government and charity were the only industries they could depend on for providing food. Amidst of such a high suicidal rate the United States grew in need of a new leader that would take higher precautions on how the country should be ran in order to enable them to rise out of the Depression.
Seventy five percent of American families lived in poverty. The stock market crashed. People stopped spending money. There were long lines of starving people in the streets. They waited for hours for a bowl
And 80% would die within a week. Back then thay had lack of medical knowledge and they tried anything to cure the disease but nothing would work. The towns and cities faced food shortage. The outbreak had a huge impact on the field because the men who work in them was to sick to tend to the field and the crops would die. Animals that was being raised to eat went free because people was not able to tend to them.
Swift, however, resists this idea, protesting that "their Flesh was generally tough and lean...and their Taste disagreeable." He then acknowledges a general concern about the vast number of elderly, sick, and handicapped among the poor, who are no more able to find work than the children. Having been asked to consider how the country could be relieved of that burden, Swift declares himself unworried--these people are dying off fast enough anyway. The proposal draws attention to the self-degradation of the nation as a whole by illustrating it in shockingly literal ways. The idea of fattening up a starving population in order to feed the rich casts a grim judgment on the nature of social relations in Ireland.
This was a time when most of the people in the country were starving and fell victim to famines. People were forced to harvest their crops, and turn them over to the government to feed the soldiers. Life was hard. Some six million died. Children witnessed disfigured corpses in the streets and heard terrible tales of people consuming, buying, and selling human flesh on the street.
Food shortages were spreading throughout and people were easily getting susceptible to sickness and disease. Also harsh winters, long periods of rainfall and wet seasons deceased the production of food. It was a chain reaction of unfortunate events. There was no food, people were not eating, they were getting sick and dying at a rapid pace and very soon a plague would eventually kill more. This was a tough time
The famine had a disastrous effect all over Ireland and with the failure of the then British rulers to help with the food shortage and the exporting of grain to pay landlords their rent Ireland became practically unlivable which was the main reason for Irish immigration in the 1800’s. The famine left over a million people dead of starvation and others who survived with diseases such as cholera and typhus. Making them flee to the United States and Canada as well, as the living conditions were harsh in Ireland, the ship they traveled in to America was poorly as well, it was know as the “Coffin Ship”. The conditions were so poorly that many Irish died during the trip to the United States and Canada, never having the chance to live the better
There should be better and easier ways for people to access food when in need. A better system of food distribution should fix the unjustifiable issue of hunger in the United States. If hunger is not put to an end, it will only get worse. “We live in the world's wealthiest nation. Yet 14.5 percent of