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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...

Reviewing the New Deal

The programs of the New Deal have been in place since the 1930s. This research paper examines differing opinions on their success ...

Capitalism and Europe in the 20th Century

barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...

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...

Economics of the Great Depression

In twelve pages this paper examines the social, political, but primarily economic factors that culminated in the Great Depression ...

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 ...

20th Century United States and Social Welfare

those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...

Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Its Opposition

the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...

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...

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...

Dust Bowl and the Great Depression

Fed the kids..and raised a big family But the rain quit and the wind got high...

Brother Can You Spare A Dime? by Milton Meltzer

In five pages this text on the Great Depression is summarized. There are no other sources listed....

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 ...

American Economy Growth and Changes After the Great Depression

standard was to let prices and wages fall. The Government Steps In By 1932 hundreds of banks had failed, hundreds of manufa...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...