Essays 31 - 60
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...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the Great Depression. A review of literature explores macroeconomic causes. Paper u...
During the Depression, people simply made do with what they had. There was little if any excess income in most families, and peop...
place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...
The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...
period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...
a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...
Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...
deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...
was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...
Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...
The writer argues that the basic cause of World War II was World War I. The paper also argues that the Great Depression did not ca...
converted into gold at the fixed price" (qtd. in Moffatt, 2009). What would happen is that a nation using the standard would set t...
consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
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...
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 ...
the early twentieth century, the United States was still very much an agrarian or agricultural economy. After the First World War...
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...
This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...
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...