Essays 31 - 60
Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the Great Depression. A review of literature explores macroeconomic causes. Paper u...
consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...
compare the economic crisis that began in the 2000s to the stock market of 1929, which led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. T...
of laissez faire, which Soros quite appropriately described as Market Fundamentalism" (Petrov). But the free market mechanism has ...
the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...
the U.S. (and the rest of the world) out of it. None of this is exactly true, but if you try to pinpoint the exact cause of the Gr...
the fields. It describes the tent cities, the illness and death, the hardships and most of all the despair of this particular era ...
should have seen the 2000s coming. The student notes that attention to things in the history of the U.S. might have averted or mit...
the early twentieth century, the United States was still very much an agrarian or agricultural economy. After the First World War...
This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...
converted into gold at the fixed price" (qtd. in Moffatt, 2009). What would happen is that a nation using the standard would set t...
dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
would become insolvent. This was not so unusual. What was unusual about the 1930s-around the time that the Bailey Savings and Loan...
a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...
and Medicare. With these policies people were no longer destitute if they were to lose their jobs. Legislation also sprang forth t...
Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...
those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...
We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...
nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...
the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...
were beginning to lose faith in the entire banking system, and to prevent a catastrophe, Roosevelt ordered the banks closed ("The ...
as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...
diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...
truly present itself as a state that truly marginalized such people. While California had always been a state, not unlike any othe...
In eight pages this paper discusses the 1929 to 1941 Great Depression in America in a consideration of its causes. Three sources ...