In Lithuania, its custom that guests at a wedding-feast leave money to cover the cost, but since they were in America, many of the guest leave the feast without leaving any money since money was being budgeted amongst each person due to the lack of jobs available. Jurgis, who has great faith in the American Dream, vowed that he will simply work harder to make more money so that they may pay off the debt and continue living in America without struggling. Jobs in Packingtown involve back-breaking labor, however, conducted in unsafe conditions with little regard for individual workers. Therefore, Jurgis quickly finds work since he is young and eager to work. The family signed an agreement to buy a house, but the house was poorly maintained so it was full of repairs which evidently would cost money that they didn’t have.
After fourth month my parents and me rented apartment. So we got our house after too much struggle. At that time only me and my dad had job so it was hard for us to pay the rent at that time. We were saving each of penny we could at that time. After a month my mom also got job so after that we spent our life with ease but at the same time we were saving money.
Casper ten Boom took over his father’s watch shop but the store never made a good sum of money because he would often work for free if the costumer was unable to pay. Corrie started to help her father with the shop and in 1920 she began her training as a watchmaker. Two years later she became the first female watchmaker to earn her license in the Netherlands. Her father then had Corrie take over all the financial part of the business. The business began to flourish but still only made enough money for the ten Boom family and people that they helped.
WW1 ends – The ending of WW1 meant that the European countries were able to meet their own demands and therefore did not need any more supplies from America. Farmers suffered from overproduction and could not afford to keep their homes or pay mortgages, some farmers even decided to become sharecroppers. In 1924, 600,000 farmers went bankrupt. Also, there was stiff competition from Canadian, Australian and Argentinean farmers who were selling vast amounts of grain to the world market. Over-production – Fewer products such as cars, consumer good etc were not being sold as factories were making more goods than Americans needed or could afford to buy.
I always wanted to go to workwith him. I never thought about going to work just to make a living, but it did make it a little clearer for me to understand. My father would let me know that I will be out on my own one day, and in order to live life comfortably I will have to work to earn a living. I now realize what Russell Baker meant in his quote “go to work and make a living.” There are so many children out there that are clueless about work in America. Most don’t understand what their parents work for.
Whether it was to try to help their parents make more money, or to feed themselves, they would work. Some of the problems the workers would have were the lack of time and of money. They worked under very poor conditions, and did not have many privileges. Incidents like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory had major effects on the way the escapes in buildings were designed. Anyways all these incidents, made a difference, the government
People are struggling to survive everyday because they have no food and shelter. These people may always dig through the trash to find something to eat for the day, not knowing if they will find anything. Families may always live in horrible conditions, having no other choice, because they do not have enough money. It’s extremely hard for them to find well paying jobs in these countries. For most of these people it’s nearly impossible to get out of poverty because they were born and raised in that culture, unless other people who aren’t in poverty help them out.
When they get one, they would need money for food and utilities. Once you make a mistake it leads to others and that’s what starts a life in poverty. ¬Daniel Zimmerman was laid off from many job’s because the company he worked for always shut down or moved over seas. They said he was the best Crane worker they had and he didn’t have to
His sister wasn’t even born; his brother took care of his own business. I mean Holland had a tough childhood as in socially and being with his family. Money wise he had it all and that’s another problem. He might have it all but it hurt him because he had nothing to work for, life was a breeze. He thought he didn’t need family and his family didn’t need him.
When living in a big city you barely have time or the money to spend for yourself especially if you’re a single parent. Being raised by a single mother there were a lot of things we didn’t have that the other kids had. Now I understand where all of the paycheck went to but if my mother had some money left over she would spend it on us. In other countries just having a house, a farm, and some livestock they considered that being rich but that doesn’t really have an impact here in the United States. Here you have to have some education and a good paying job and wear brand name clothes but there are some citizens who may look high class but they just dress well to make other people assume that they are.