Great Depression Ten Questions

1. Did you lose your job?
2. Did you have a family?
3. How much money did you have in the bank?
4. Where you able to take any of the money out of the bank?
5. Did you have to sell you house?
6. Did you have to sell any of your goods?
7. Did you have to live in a Hoverville?
8. Did you have to go to soup kitchens?
9. What type of work are you in?
10. Did your kids go to school or did they drop out?

Simpsons Prohibition

1.)  I think the Simpson’s did a great job to portray the 1920s prohibition in Springfield. The episode has a lot of true things that happened in the prohibition in the 1920s. Then they also put some funny twists on the information. The characters in the episode looked like they could be in the 1920s and acted like they were in the 1920s. I liked the episode because it was historically correct and it was fun to watch. Some of the elements that were portrayed well were the music, dancing and the way the people acted. I thought that this episode portrayed the 1920s in a great way.

2.)  Some things that the producers could have put in was to incorporate the mob a little more. The mob was a big part in the 1920s they had a lot of money and power in the towns. They could also show the money that Homer made and what he would have spent the money on, because people that had alcohol would have made a good amount of money. I think the producers did a good job in the episode.