It doesn't have to be an essay for the answers, it can be a short answer with like 2-3 sentences is all, please help iv been stuck on these questions for awhile and i really want to be done. ESSAY: Some of this document has been edited for the purposes of this task. As you analyze the document, consider both the source of the document and the author's point of view. Stanley Watson describes his experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1937: After eighteen months of riding box cars, begging and robbing for my food, fighting, dodging policemen, and committing other forms of petty larceny, I arrived in the village of Woodridge, New York, where I called upon an aunt and uncle. They talked to me of an organization called the Civilian Conservation Corps in which I could earn $30 a month and my room and board. . . . My first assignment was that of a "galley slave," . . . I peeled vegetables, washed dishes, and scrubbed floors until I almost did them in my sleep. . . . Evenings I took advantage of the many educational advantages offered to the enrollees. I studied Psychology, Sociology, and Speech. Through the winter I worked with but one picture in my mind-that of a beautiful green campus with big brick buildings and of myself going to and from classes-a beautiful picture if only it could be realized. . . . Knowing that I would have to work my way through, I made several applications for work and received many offers, two of which I answered and accepted. . . . On September . . . the eighteenth I was enrolled and registered as a member in full standing in the [college] freshman class. At the present time I am doing on the average of twenty-five hours work a week and am carrying a full schedule of school work. . . . My dreams have been realized, thanks to an educational advisor and the lessons learned in the CCC. 25. How did the CCC help Watson improve his life? 26. The CCC provided jobs for more than 2 million young men. Based on this account, what impact do you think the CCC had on the nation in the 1930s? ESSAY: Portions of the document below have been omitted for the purposes of this task. As you analyze the document, consider both the source of the document and the author's point of view. Letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt from Minnie A. Hardin of Indianapolis, Indiana, December 14, 1937: We have always had a shiftless, never-do-well class of people whose one and only aim in life is to live without work. . . . We cannot help those who will not try to help themselves and if they do try, a square deal is all they need, and by the way that is all this country needs or ever has needed: a square deal for all and then, let each paddle their own canoe, or sink. There has never been any necessity for any one who is able to work, being on relief in this locality, but there have been many eating the bread of charity and they have lived better than ever before. . . . During the worst of the depression many of the farmers had to deny their families butter, eggs, meat, etc. and sell it to pay their taxes and then had to stand by and see the dead-beats carry it home to their families by the arm load, and they knew their tax money was helping pay for it. . . . The crookedness, selfishness, greed and graft of the crooked politicians is making one gigantic racket out of the new deal, and it is making this a nation of deadbeats and beggars and if it continues the people who will work will soon be nothing but slaves for the pampered poverty rats and I am afraid these human parasites [people clinging to others for their own advantage] are going to become a menace to the country unless they are disenfranchised [denied the right to vote]. No one should have the right to vote theirself a living at the expense of the taxpayers. -Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
QUESTIONS: Does Minnie Hardin believe that there is a need for New Deal programs to help the people living in her community? Why or why not?
According to Hardin, who is being hurt by the New Deal and who is unjustly benefiting from it? How is this occurring?
What do you think Hardin's purpose was for writing to Eleanor Roosevelt?