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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...

Macroenvironment and the Impact of Family

During the Depression, people simply made do with what they had. There was little if any excess income in most families, and peop...

America and Changes Brought About by FDR's New Deal

place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...

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...

The Great Depression History Firsthand by Dennis Nishi Summary and Review of Dennis Nishi's “The Great Depression (History Firsthand)”

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

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...

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...

War Generation, Depression, and Infochild

with little respect for or understanding of any other generation that did not share in the same advancements. Harv just thinks Ma...

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...

The Return of Depression Economics by Krugman

Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...

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...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. Great Depression and its Causes

In eight pages this paper discusses the 1929 to 1941 Great Depression in America in a consideration of its causes. Three sources ...

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....

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 ...

Economics of the Great Depression

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

Stock Market Crash of 1929

dollars in the immediately ensuing crash (Galbraith 62). Up until the very end, it was possible to read encouraging reports of t...

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 ...

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...

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...