Blog Task for Week 12 *updated*

Find, post and compare two images, one an image of urban America from the Great Depression in the 1930s and the other any image of America from the recent recession (2008 and after). These can be images of poverty/deprivation or images of wealth/consumerism. NB  do NOT post images of rural poverty.

Interesting Links

'In Search of the American Dream', The Atlantic (2007)

 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/06/in-search-of-the-american-dream/305921/ 

'What Is the American Dream? Dueling Dualities in the American Tradition', The Center for a New American Dream (2011)

https://www.newdream.org/blog/2011-06-what-is-the-american-dream-dueling-dualities-in-the 

Mission statement, The Center for a New American Dream
https://www.newdream.org/about/mission  

'Rethinking the American Dream', Vanity Fair (2009)

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/04/american-dream200904  

'The Great Recession', The State of Working America - click on the side links for more info
http://stateofworkingamerica.org/great-recession/ 

'What Caused the Economic Crisis?', Slate (2010)

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2010/01/what_caused_the_economic_crisis.html 

'Did the Great Recession Bring Back The 1930s?' NPR (2012)

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/155991507/did-the-great-recession-bring-back-the-1930s 

Time Magazine Cover, November 24, 2008
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20081124,00.html 

'Now & then: Is the Great Recession so different from the Great Depression?', What Went Wrong (2011)
http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/Now-and-then-is-the-recession-so-different/