From Boom to Bust And The Lessons We Learn Along The Way
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"We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us." This was said by Herbert Hoover in his acceptance speech for the Republican Party in 1928. The people nominated him believing that the feelings of optimism would continue, they never saw the tragic and abrupt end to the marvelous era of the Roaring Twenties. People lived through these events; people sacrificed and devoted their entire lives to bettering ours. Although to many it is "just history", they must be forgetting the sacrifices of those who come before us. We must learn to respect history, learn from the past, and sacrifice for the future. From boom to bust, the lessons that we learned to better ourselves from the history of the 1920's and 30's era.
The first lesson that the 1920's taught me was that change is positive, it is good to embrace the new and cross boundaries. The 1920's era was recognized for crossing technological, social, and geographical boundaries...