For many Americans, the Great Depression caused many struggles that needed improvement. “The Great Depression was a traumatic experience for many men and women of the 1930s and exerted a profound influence on the generation that lived through it” (Himmelberg 3). It was traumatic because families lost jobs and lifestyles. As a way to ask for help; they contacted the White House to contact Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and his wife Eleanor. Around this time Franklin became disabled because he contracted polio. Eleonora had taken the opportunity to get involved to help her husband's figure and to create her own. Eleanor was born on October 11, 1884. Eleanor's parents, Anna Hall and Elliot Roosevelt, had two children later, Elliot Roosevelt and Gracie Hall Roosevelt. Eleanor's childhood was not perfect. Her mother died of diphtheria and her father died of alcohol problems when she was eight (Brick, "The Biography of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt"). Having moved to New York to live with her grandmother, Eleanor received an excellent education. As a child she had a private tutor, Frederic Roser, who taught her literature and mathematics from 1889 to 1890 (Biography of the First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt). She also attended Allenswood Girl's Academy in London from 1899 to 1902, where she studied languages, fine arts, and literature ("Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt," Bio.com). His education was very important because, later in life, he wrote many books, articles, spoke at large events for the public and more. Eleanor married her distant cousin, FDR, the 32nd president and had six children together (Tyle, “Eleanor Roosevelt”). He was a major influence on her ("Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt", Bio.com) along with her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt the... middle of paper... a vast archive of personal letters between the two women indicating at least an intense emotional relationship” (Biography of the First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt Concluding). the perfect life and perhaps there is more to Eleanor Roosevelt's life story than the public might actually see. Eleanor Roosevelt positively demonstrated herself to be both a social and political advocate of media, education, women's suffrage, and politics throughout her life herself to the lower classes to make everyone feel equal, although it was a great superiority. There's more to Eleanor Roosevelt and how she truly influenced history and the present day. Furthermore, Eleanor Roosevelt was a role model and a caring person who helped the sick and controversial issues a lot. Thanks to her, she increased the success of the generations to follow.