Stories From The Great Depression
These will be very useful for your assignments. Please remember to think about issues of gender, class, nationality and so forth as you read. Make notes of points that might be useful in your assignment. Remember to keep information for your bibliography.
“I Remember . . .” – Reminiscences of the Great Depression
Memories of The Great [...]
Photos from The Great Depression
This link will take you straight to nine pages of actual photos from the great depression in Australia. If you copy something for your assignment be sure to keep the description and URL for your assignment and bibliography.
PictureAustralia | The Great Depression
Come Fly With Me
Kingsford-Smith Memorial by seychelles88
On the television this week.
AIR AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA’S OWN – EP 2 OF 3
The second episode begins in 1928, with the historic flight of the Southern Cross across the Pacific Ocean, followed throughout the 1930s by the continuing struggle to maintain an Australian-owned aviation industry in the face of powerful international airline businesses. [...]
The Great Depression in Australia
Overseas borrowing to fund greater levels of farming, manufacturing, and mining.
Migration has increased to boost the workforce.
World trading ceased with the crash of the US stock market.
Unemployment figures.
1928 10.8%
1930 19.3%
1932 29.0%
1934 20.5%
1936 12.3%
1938 9.7%
Produce a line graph for this data.
Produce pie graphs for 1928 and 1932
Unions against the dole [...]
Australian Democracy
Here are the notes from year nine history today. We were starting to look at legal documents that marked changes to Australian democracy since 1788.
Australian Courts Act 1828 (UK)
Introduced trial by jury in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.
Order-in-Council ending transportation of convicts
22 May 1840 (UK)
New South Wales ceased to be a penal [...]
Coming Up With Story Ideas
Some places you can start to come up with stories.
Your own life.
Gossip
News stories
Novels, television shows, movies (maybe look at the story of a minor character)
Dreams
Just Write
Today in English we just put our heads down and pens to paper and wrote. This sounds like a really simple and obvious idea but it is massively effective. You don’t have to keep everything you write but at least once it’s down on paper you can use it later.
The central question of the stories [...]
Big Rock Candy Mountain
This song was first recorded in 1928 which makes it just before the Great Depression. In spite of this it describes how men who roamed searching for work lived and what they dreamed of in a better life.
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo [...]
Documenting a Democracy
I was looking around for information about the development of democracy in Australia when I found this terrific site. It’s a bit dry but packed with information about key documents, especially legislation, which formed Australian political history. Better still in many cases it has images of the original documents and PDFs of their text.
Documenting a [...]
Star Wars Meets Mental Health
Anakin Skywalker: Borderline Personality, Bipolar or Narcissist?
Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, suffers from a controversial mental condition and could use some couch time in a shrink’s office, a team of researchers declared this week.
“He’s suffering. And he’s suffering from a disorder,” said Dr. Eric Bui, a psychiatrist in Toulouse, France, who co-wrote a study that [...]
Origins of The Great Depression
In the 1920s the stock market was popular.
Many people had invested in the stock market which seemed like easy money.
Many people did this with borrowed money.
As profits fell people suspected stocks were over-valued.
October 24 1929 – The stock market crashed.
12 million shares sold in one day.
Many people and businesses lost everything.
People, businesses and government stopped [...]
The Not So Killer Opening Sentence
Today we were talking about killer opening sentences and really bad ones. The site below is for award for really bad opening sentences in books.
Lyttony
Depression Introduction
Factors which contributed to changes in social life during the Great Depression.
Role of class, ethnicity, gender, political affiliation and nationality in social experience.
The ways groups tried to protect their interests in difficult times.
We defined the following terms
class
ethnicity
gender
political affiliation
nationality
The Seven Stories
Today in English we worked on the seven stories. There are several versions of this and the one we worked on was this.
[wo]man vs. nature
[wo]man vs. man
[wo]man vs. the environment
[wo]man vs. machines/technology
[wo]man vs. the supernatural
[wo]man vs. self
[wo]man vs. god/religion
The Pitch
We have been pitching movies in English. We are going to work on this a bit so that everyone can get to the point of selling a story idea quickly and persuasively. In the meantime you might get a giggle out of this short comedy on YouTube, Movie Executive Dad.
You’ll need a fast internet connection [...]