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Canada's Great Depression

it changed the way that Canadians looked at money. It also changed life as it was known. During the depression of the thirties, ...

Great Depression and Economic Policies

and Medicare. With these policies people were no longer destitute if they were to lose their jobs. Legislation also sprang forth t...

Great Depression and the American Labor Movement

unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

Great Depression and Migration of Population

In thirteen pages this paper discusses migration patterns and how they were influenced by the economic hardships of the Great Depr...

Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Great Depression Entertainment

The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...

Great Depression and Deception by the Media

In eight pages this essay examines the 1930s Great Depression and the optimist deception engaged in by the motion picture industry...

The Great Depression and the Policies of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt

consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...

The Great Depression

hit" (Rothbard xiv). The money possessed by cities, by schools, and by higher educational institutions dwindled and bankruptcy was...

Riot and Remembrance by Hirsch

Depression looming on the horizon. Hirsch tells the reader that when the Depression did come to the region Greenwood was devasta...

Politics and Society in Argentina During the Thirties and Forties

increasingly corrupt, set the stage for the Army revolt that occurred in September, 1930 (Alexander 3). A predecessor of the 1943 ...

American Family and a Character Study of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper examines the Joad family matriarch featured in this classic American novel in a consideration of her role...

California's Marginalized Migrants

truly present itself as a state that truly marginalized such people. While California had always been a state, not unlike any othe...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

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...

Comparing the Economic Depressions Between the US and Japan

which monetary policy doesnt work because interest rates are as low as theyre going to go (without going below zero) (Krugman, 199...

A Saga of the Great Depression in 'Riding the Rails'

This is a 7 page paper that analyzes Errol L. Uys' text that considers how the Great Depression influenced American culture during...

A Book Review of Milton Meltzer's 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'

In 5 pages, this paper focuses on a popular middle school textbook's exploration of the Great Depression's economic crisis and the...

New Deal and the Great Depression

In six pages this paper discusses the New Deal policies' impact upon a Great Depression in an interview with someone who lived thr...

Terrorism/Comparing Countries

the threat of bio-terrorism (Dammer and Fairchild 304). France : France, also, has long had to cope with terrorism, as the Frenc...

Women And Depression

of their physical, biological and social milieu, and how we respond is governed by genetic make-up" (pp. 44-45). Postpartum-relat...

Young Victims of Suicide and Depression

and adolescents (Mahler, 2005). Of every twenty children, in fact, one has struggled with severe depression at one point or anoth...

New York Life During the Thirties

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious life story of a Brooklyn, New York woman who lived during the Great Depression and ...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the Great Dust Bowl, and Families

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

Economic Development and Roles of Investment and Savings

In three pages this paper discusses how economic development during the Great Depression was influenced by the roles played by sav...

1930s' UK and Economic Recovery

In five pages this paper examines how during the 1930s the United Kingdom was able to recover from the Great Depression in a consi...

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

Life of Tillie Olsen in Her Stories

may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...

The United States of the 1920s

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...