A friend of mine introduced me to the stock market in late July of 2022. He was constantly sending me posts from Twitter of young teenagers with luxurious cars and designer bags etc and ever since then I’ve been super interested and fully committed to trading. The Stock market crash of 1929 was extremely fascinating to me, I wanted to know every detail about the crash, which is why I ultimately decided to research about The Great Depression. The purpose of my project is to remind people of all ages about a significant part of American history. This topic was brought up to me when I was in middle school and was never taught again in High school and as someone who did not pay much attention in history class, I feel like this is a great opportunity to research and educate myself and others about this topic. While this topic may not be interesting to some people, I personally think those who are interested in American history or those who’s studying to become an economist should enjoy reading my project. Therefore, I am mainly targeting those who are interested in the economy and stock market related stuff. A short yet informative Twitter thread will catch many people’s attention, with pictures added, it should be very straight forward. My Twitter thread is logos because I am writing about the causes of the Great depression which is heavily fact based therefore a Twitter thread will be best for this kind of topic. I like how neat and organized a thread is which is why I like this genre for my audience. Reading a twitter thread is almost like looking at an instruction booklet because it provides information in order from beginning to end. There are already too many articles, Youtube videos, and newspapers about The Great Depression so I figured doing a Twitter thread will be something new and engaging to readers. But because this is my first time working on a Twitter thread, I was pretty much disoriented and didn’t know how to start so the first step I took was to go through Twitter, look at other people’s threads and use it as a road map. I needed a Twitter thread template to write my draft and I stumbled upon Typefully.com where I am currently working on my draft. In the thread I introduced my topic, then I began to talk about the causes of the Great Depression, and then I added some pictures for my visual audience. My original plan was to write about the causes, the hardships people faced, and end it with how the depression was cured, but because Twitter threads have word limits I decided to not mention about the hardships because it should be self explanatory. I am pretty satisfied with my work even though I couldn’t add every detail, at least I mentioned the most important ones, but so far the thread looks really neat and professional and I am really happy with myself being my first time doing a project like this. One thing I would fix in my project is to add supporting evidence that supports my reasonings or even use quotes from my research. Reflecting on the process, I can’t say this project was easy or hard, at times I felt both ways, but I really hope my audience is able to learn something new and valuable to them. Additionally, doing a project like this in college will really prepare me in the future when I am required to write an informative document or an author’s statement just like this one.
