Okay, I was arrested when I was in middle school, and I just got out a year ago, (I’m sixteen now). I have a crush on this girl, but parts of my brain still function like a twelve year old’s because that’s when I was pretty much ripped away from my childhood. So now parts of me are extremely experienced, mainly in caombative and survival, (due to being beaten, raped, and shanked on a weekly basis), and I know some girls are really atracted to me since I’ve been back, but I have the romantic relationship skills of a little kid. Meaning when I here the word girlfriend I’m automatically thinking of hightailing it out of there as to not look potentially ridiculous. I’ve been told that having a…”romantic partner” can help with depression, (which I have pretty much 24/7. i.e. a good day is when I don’t try slitting my wrists or killing myself). I’ve been doing slightly better at not thinking about taking my life, but I’d like to be able to have something to live for outside of my drug addicted family, which is why I’ve been thinking about getting a girlfriend. Problem is: I don’t know how to, where to, when to, or anything! How should I talk to her? I sound like freaking tarzan when talking to girls! How should I dress? What types of things are girls around 16 interested in anyway? Please please help! Thank you.
What practical use does gold have outside of the electronics and jewelry industry? Tulips in Denmark come to mind when I think about gold. In the past few weeks gold has shot up, and if there is another economic depression I imagine that it will climb even higher.
But in a world where people are trying to survive, what will they do with their gold? At least salt can be used to preserve meat and flavor food. What would anyone want with gold when they’re busy trying to survive? Is gold the ultimate fool’s bubble?
Can anyone say WHY it is “the pure currency” or why it has value?
What I see are people buying gold out of fear, not out of love of the metal.
The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters US self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, leading to further isolationism. The worldwide depression gives rise to national dictators, but the US is so preoccupied with domestic problems that it ignores the threat. President Hoover is not equipped to deal with the national crisis. The London Naval Conference insults Japan and when the Japanese invade Manchuria, a preoccupied United States does nothing. This classic documentary series, The Road to WWII, follows the events that inevitably sparked World War II, capturing the drama, the excitement and the juxtapositions of these crucial years between the end of World War I and Pearl Harbor. Former CBS News correspondent and commentator, Eric Sevareid, one of the world’s most respected figures in journalism, presents this extraordinary series which features stunning original newsreels, soundtracks, and rare archival footage. It was the era of Lucky Lindy, bootleg, Babe Ruth, Valentino and assembly-line Fords. It was also the time of market collapse, Klan meetings, demagogues abroad, red scares at home and bread lines. The best of times, the worst of times, and the times in which the United States reluctantly moved center stage. The Road to WWII is an innovative 16-part series that examines this crucial time as it progressed from the Armistice in 1918 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. You will see the people who made history, hear their voices, and …
Starring Franka Potente (“The Bourne Identity”, “Blow”, “Run, Lola, Run”) in the lead role, “The Bridge” is a modern remake of Gregor Dorfmeister’s autobiographical novel. The original film, made in the fifties, was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe. Only a few weeks before the end of World War II, having escaped the massive bombing taking place throughout Germany, sixteen year-old Albert and his mother finally make their way to the relative safety of a small Bavarian town. Albert soon becomes friends with the slightly older Walter, who is in the midst of a secret affair with his widowed 29-year-old teacher Elfie. Walter’s father, the local chairman of the National Socialist Party, reports Elfie to the police in order to end the love affair. Shortly thereafter, Hitler’s army begins mobilizing their last troops and Albert and his new friends are recruited to help defend the area’s one main bridge. For the group of teenagers, who are proud to be involved in the war effort, the mission represents an exciting adventure. It’s not long, however, before their superiors flee, leaving the bridge’s defense completely in the hands of the young and poorly equipped recruits. What begins as a relatively unimportant operation quickly deteriorates into a life or death battle to survive. In the very first American bombing raid, the idealistic young men are confronted by the brutal reality of war when one in their group, Siegi, is killed. The American forces’ advance is swift …
That Franklin Roosevelt ended the Great Depression? Unemployment stayed around 18 percent right up until 1940.
And after that, it only dropped because Roosevelt drafted the unemployed into the US Army and forced a war with Germany and Japan.
Social Security didn’t end the Depression. World War II didn’t end it really. When the US economy kept growing after demobilization after WWII has the end of the Depression, and Roosevelt was dead by then.
This short novel looks examines the first days of the Second American Depression as seen through the journal of someone who lived through it.
This depression is sparked by a widespread series of terrorist attacks which take place sometime in the decade of the 2010′s. The disruptions, particularly to the electric grid are almost immediate. But even though there is relatively little physical damage, the fact that the power grid is working at almost 100% efficiency means that there is little margin for error. A series of cascading failures almost immediately plunge the country into darkness and deprive it of most of its communications and industrial infrastructure.
This is the journal of someone who lived through those early days. He’s a lawyer and a ham radio operator, so he has unique insights not only into the technological issues, but also the legal issues that ensue.
The country survives, and even thrives, as evidenced by a preface that he writes years later. Things even get back to normal. But it’s a new normal.
(Approx. 9800 words)This short novel looks examines the first days of the Second American Depression as seen through the journal of someone who lived through it.
This depression is sparked by a widespread series of terrorist attacks which take place sometime in the decade of the 2010′s. The disruptions, particularly to the electric grid are almost immediate. But even though there is relatively little physical damage, the fact that the power grid is working at almost 100% efficiency means that there is little margin for error. A series of cascading failures almost immediately plunge the country into darkness and deprive it of most of its communications and industrial infrastructure.
This is the journal of someone who lived through those early days. He’s a lawyer and a ham radio operator, so he has unique insights not only into the technological issues, but also the legal issues that ensue.
The country survives, and even thrives, as evidenced by a preface that he writes years later. Things even get back to normal. But it’s a new normal.
