Pg. 750 #6:

10 Questions to ask a young man living during The Great Depression:

1. Were you one of the many people who invested their entire life savings into the stock market in the 1920s?
2. Did the stock market crash of 1929 have an affect on you and your money?
3. Are you stable financially, or is your family struggling like so many others?
4. Did you get laid off or receive a pay cut due to the depression going on?
5. If you were laid off, how is your family dealing with this tragedy?
6. Are you able to find more work anywhere where you live?
7. Do you have to go to other cities to find work and make money?
8. Is your wife working now too to try to make some extra money, or are you the main provider for the family still?
9. How has the depression directly affected you?
10. Has this depression had an impact on your children? for example are they still in school, or did they have to be removed because of the cost?

Homer Simpson versus the 18th Amendment:

Part 1. 
In the episode of the Simpsons "Homer Simpson versus the 18th Amendment", I think the producers did a good job accurately portrayed many elements of the 1920s. Many of the accuracies they included within the episode outweighed the fictional comedy. Some of these accuracies included prohibition started because of drunkenness, fighting, and violence. This was in the episode, it showed drunkenness and violence. Also speakeasies were a major part of the 1920s so that people could illegally drink. These were also in the episode as the former bar. Cops in the episode were shown breaking the law, and illegally drinking in speakeasies. This is another accurate point from the 1920s because in the 1920s, many police officers broke the law and drank as well. In the 1920s, many people found other ways of obtaining alcohol such as making their own, or buying it illegally. This was accurately portrayed in the episode because Homer was making his own alcohol and selling it. In the 1920s this resulted in a rise in organized crime. Some of the fictional aspects however that were not accurate and there for the sole purpose of comedy were the digging up of the beer at the dump, smuggling beer in bowling balls for bars, and being punished by catapult if one was caught breaking the law and drinking illegally. I personally enjoyed this episode because it was very comical with accurate facts from the 1920s, so it related perfectly to what we are studying.
Part 2.
Based on what we have studied in class, the scene where the police force and the governor and everyone in town catapult the people who have disobeyed the law against alcohol proves to be extremely inaccurate. I understand this scene was put in the episode for comedy purposes, however, I would change it to be more accurate. Instead of having the people who were caught with alcohol catapulted out of town, I would have stuck to the facts. People who were caught drinking or selling alcohol illegally during the time of prohibition were often put into jail. So I would have put the people who were caught with illegal alcohol in the episode in jail instead of using the catapult (although it was pretty funny).