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Historical Perspective on The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In six pages this paper examines this famous novel on the Great Depression and related social issues from a historical perspective...

Charles Chaplin's Modern Times

In two pages the film's satire as well as the stand it takes against certain issues are discussed as they reflect America's Great ...

1929 to 1932 Period of the Great Depression in America

In sixteen pages this paper examines the events, government response, and societal implications of the first 3 years of America's ...

Causes of the Great Depression of the Thirties

great unresolved mysteries of the 20th century (Norton, 1997). When they do broach the subject more aggressively they often are v...

Analysis of the Great Depression of 1929

In four pages this paper argues that the Great Depression of 1929 was inevitable in a consideration of domestic and global economi...

75 Year Old New York Woman Interviewed

In ten pages this paper presents an interview with a New York woman that spans her life from the early 1920s to 1979 and includes ...

Optimism in Literature for Children During the Second World War

it serves as an "adjuvant or facilitator to treatment" (American Childrens Literature: A Bibliotheraputic Approach) for a child wh...

1929 Stock Market Crash and its Impact

In five pages this paper examines the effects of the 1929 stock market crash which caused the economic Great Depression, led to th...

Lloyd's Empire, Welfare State, Europe and British History

In seven pages England's economic and political structures and the effects of the Great Depression as portrayed by Lloyd's text ar...

Labor and Its Impact Upon the Great Depression

In five pages this paper examines how organized labor affected the Great Depression. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comparison of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover

In seven pages this paper examines these two U.S. presidencies in terms of individual philosophies and the impact the Great Depres...

How the Great Depression Ended by United States Entry into the Second World War

to regulate financial markets to prevent the fraud and over-speculation demonstrated in the past decade. Next he initiated his no...

The Causes of the Second World War

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...

World Wars I and II

Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...

Life After Retirement

was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...

U.S. and Thoughts on the Great Depression

period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...

Unique Spirit of California

diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

Gender Roles and the Effect of the Great Depression

deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

Two Essays in One, the Great Depression and Alexander Hamilton's Financial System

effect was worse due to the number of people who had bought their stock with borrowed money and were forced to liquidate capital t...

FDR's New Deal Programs

were beginning to lose faith in the entire banking system, and to prevent a catastrophe, Roosevelt ordered the banks closed ("The ...

US Great Depression and Unemployment

In nine pages this paper discusses the impact of the Great Depression on unemployment in America, with the primary focus being 192...

Making America by Carol Berkin

The writer analyzes Carol Berkin's book Making America: Changes at the Turn of the Century, and relates such events, eras and peop...

The Great Depression

a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...

The 2008-2009 Economic Crisis vs. The Great Depression

of laissez faire, which Soros quite appropriately described as Market Fundamentalism" (Petrov). But the free market mechanism has ...

FROM HERE TO ECONOMY - AN ANALYSIS

the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...

GOVERNMENTS AND ECONOMIC CRISES

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...

Families and Children in the Great Depression

the fields. It describes the tent cities, the illness and death, the hardships and most of all the despair of this particular era ...