Community in Action is written by Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize winning oral historian. This essay Terkel tells about his experiences as a young man during the Great Depression in 1930's America.
Terkel recalls the night of his family's eviction during the Great Depression. He remembers members of his community gathering together to help each other in their individual times of need. Terkel's essay is short but its message is strong. People need to come together to accomplish more than they ever could individually. Terkel states that even the strongest people cannot accomplish as much as a group can.
He also tells how everyone working together has "always paid its dues, too." People working together is the reason why people are where they are today. One person's work cannot achieve that of people working together. I must say I agree in some cases.
If a person's goal was to build a wall around a city, clearly they could get more done by working with multiple people. If a person were to want to make a miniature model car, a single person working on that car might be able to accomplish more by themselves rather than having an entire group of people working on the same little car.
In most cases I do feel that there is strength in numbers. Having more minds together means there is more potential for making great strides and accomplishments. This is shown by the 1930's community during the Great Depression coming together and prevailing through this tough time in history.
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