Essays 31 - 60
a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...
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...
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...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
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...
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 ...
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...
In eight pages this paper discusses the 1929 to 1941 Great Depression in America in a consideration of its causes. Three sources ...
Fed the kids..and raised a big family But the rain quit and the wind got high...
In five pages this text on the Great Depression is summarized. There are no other sources listed....
increasingly corrupt, set the stage for the Army revolt that occurred in September, 1930 (Alexander 3). A predecessor of the 1943 ...
In twelve pages this paper examines the social, political, but primarily economic factors that culminated in the Great Depression ...
unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...
of such changes that occurred during the 1930s. A number of the First Person America interviews focus upon the sharp class consci...
held a dance as a means by which to temporarily relieve their minds of the perpetual anxiety that intrinsically accompanies povert...
Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and t...
noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...
In five pages the life of Huey P. Long is examined within the context of Glen Jeansonne's biography Messiah of the Masses Huey P....