Little did the boys know that they were in for a ton of trouble. The principle suspended them all for a week but not only that trouble, they also were no on Brother Leon’s bad side, and when they will have his class for three more years, that will be the worst punishment yet. Even though Jerry refused to sell the chocolates brother Leon was still willing to protect Jerry and give him a better freshman year. Sophomore year Jerry was the main guy for selling chocolates. Everyone came to him to learn how to get on Leon’s good side, and an easy way to sell the chocolates.
They went on lots of trips together but Milton wanted to start a new chocolate factory. He had dreams of building his own town in his childhood town of Derry Church. He choice Derry Church because of all the farm land and cows he needed for the fresh milk for the chocolate. Grounds broke to start the construction when he came back from his trips. The first thing Milton Hershey built was his factory.
Hershey, a long time competitor of Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc was also started back in the late 1800’s by a man from rural Pennsylvania named Milton Hershey. His company took flight when he decided to introduce a chocolate coating to his caramels. With this new found fame he created the Hershey Chocolate Company in Derry Pennsylvania and by the early 1900’s was using the rich milk from the nearby dairy farmers to produce and manufacture his delicious milk chocolate. Some of the delicious products that Hershey sells worldwide are Hershey Milk Chocolate, Twizzlers, Kit Kat, Reese’s, Almond Joy and many more. Today both Tootsie Roll Industries and Hershey are widely known for their candy products along with being publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Boys in carpentry classes made games for the sick soldiers or clothes hooks and magazine stands for naval hospitals. Girls in sewing class knitted and sewed items for soldiers. (redcross.org) The children of America made boxes of gifts for the children in Europe helping to promote international friendliness. The Red Cross was obviously the organization that helped us keep healthy and win the war. Although many people died, the Red Cross helped save more than anyone could think.
Bob Jones moved to Los Angeles from Cleveland because he was tired of being passed over for work while white boys were hired. Eventually Bob Jones does find work and has an important position as a Leaderman in a shipyard. In spite of his position he deals with racism at work especially from his supervisor. Easy Rawlins moved to Los Angeles from Houston after returning from the war and encountering an old friend. Mouse burdens Easy with the fact that he has committed a senseless murder.
So why are there millions of men, women, and children who are sick and starving in our world, while many of us thrive on excess? Farmer smartly states, “God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he’s not the one who’s supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us” (79). The
The great depression meant that many of the families had lost their savings; it was horrible to know that all the money that they had saved throughout the years has just vanished so quickly. They were also afraid of the growing communist party; they wanted to abolish private companies, land and businesses. If this happened many of the middle class would lose their job where they were able to make money. Therefore because of this they saw Hitler as a strong leader who could help their country recover and
The 1930’s was the time when the culture in America really began to take shape. The Great Depression affected the lives of every American. The lack of government regulation left many people unemployed as well as, working in horrible conditions. Many Americans had become fearful of banks because of the growing economic panic. President Franklin Roosevelt tried to help the banking crises as we all the American people to regain economic strength and civilization.
The gender roles, as well as how minorities fit into society affected how images and advertisements were portrayed. At the time, since so many people lost their jobs, many men were out of work. “Men's lives were more disrupted by the Depression than women's. As men tried desperately to remain breadwinners for their families, their self-esteem suffered when they lost their jobs” ("Encyclopedia.com"). Because they were not in work, men had more time than they did before the Great Depression, when they were in work.
I do believe sugar can be addicting because I myself have never gone a day without having some kind of sugar. Lustig, Schmidt, and Brindis states how “[o]ver the 50 years consumption of sugar has tripled world wide.” Instead of fixing the problem we are just getting worse. Since sugar is “cheap” we should make it more make it more expensive and hope for a change. Also, even though petitions keep getting “denied” we shouldn’t give up until there is a change. My uncle has diabetes and every time he sees me eating chocolate or some sort of candy he tells me that I’m going to end up dying from diabetes also because that’s all he would eat, I wouldn’t really take him seriously I would just laugh about it.