The collapse of the housing market and unemployment caused the most damage. Between 1991 to 1992 unemployment had gone back up to 2.6 million. Negative equity meant home owner were paying mortgages far higher than their homes were worth. Many people could simply not keep up with the increased prices and resulted in them losing their homes due to the bank repossessing them. The recession hit close to home for the Tories, effecting the middle class not just the working class of the industrial north.
I compared three unlike points of Coontz with my family in this essay. Coontz describes that on the 1950’s families use to have a stable life. But on the other hand my family never have a stable and settled life till the 1980’s. My grandfather was a track driver from state to state , So he use to move from state to state with his family. My Grandfather never believed in distance relationship neither with his wife nor his children so he moved his family from place to place along with his work .
My family eats out only once or twice a week and the other days we eat home cooked meals. Parents are to blame for childhood obesity because they have the means to teach their children but choose not to because they believe someone else will teach them. It is not the lack of a nutritional guide or large portion sizes at cheap prices it is the irresponsibility of parents that is the cause. If you do not teach your kids who
The group that suffered a great deal - proportional to their income - was the middle class. Their hard earned savings disappeared overnight. They did not have the wealth or land to fall back on as the rich had. Many middle class families had to sell family heirlooms to survive. It is not surprising that many of those middle class, who suffered in 1923, were to turn to Hitler and the Nazi Party.
“That’s my grandmothers Bwwow regalia in your window I said. Somebody stole it from her fifty years ago and my family has been searching for it ever since”. The quote means after fifty long years he finally finds the important thing that belongs to his grandmother (her regalia). “That’s too bad he said and though third about the possibilities I’d sell it to you for a thousand dollars if you had it. The pawnbroker would sell Jackson Jackson his grandmother’s regalia back to him but it seems like he doesn’t have that much and he is homeless as well so it’s going to be hard for him to get a thousand dollars.
In 1776 French government paid half its annual budget for interest of their debt. The French government was nearly bankrupt. First and second estates comprised ten percent of the population and were incredibly well-to-do, but the French government had no authority to tax them. French government raised taxes ruinously on the third estate, which were mostly poor peasant. Main causes of French revolution were poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
Whereas, Walter is all about making money and reaching his goals. He is also extremely greedy. At one point Walter says, “I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy”(849). Many times throughout the movie Michael does not ask for much and he takes very little, and appreciates all he receives. During the scene where they were eating Thanksgiving dinner we saw the whole family taking huge helpings and Michael just taking a small amount.
Superficially, all seems well because his family lives a comfortable existence. Emotionally, however, his family has missed his emotional support for years. His wife, Helen, gave up “trying to compete with his work years ago.” All of his children grew up in a so-called normal family with a father and mother. At his funeral, though, they do not have enough memories about him to say a proper eulogy. Phil himself was “overweight” and unhealthy, obsessed with work and negligent with his personal life.
I never caught a break. I contemplated suicide many times. I would have been completely fine with taking my own life, but how selfish would that have been of me? My family is the most important thing in the world to me, and I would never put them through something like that. I tolerated the bulling every day until one day, in my senior year, Dick didn't show up to school for a whole week.
Now I am more motivated than ever. I am the youngest of my family. With that being said I currently live with both my mom and dad, my one and only brother is seven years older than me and is moved out and married. My dad has no college experience but he is successful in what he does, he is an engineer at a rubber factory. My mom has some college experience but never got any kind of degree and does home daycare.