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Depression Humor

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Great Depression Entertainment

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

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...

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...

Evolution of the Nation

In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...

The Gold Standard and The Great Depression

converted into gold at the fixed price" (qtd. in Moffatt, 2009). What would happen is that a nation using the standard would set t...

1929 and the 2000s: Comparing Economic Crises

compare the economic crisis that began in the 2000s to the stock market of 1929, which led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. T...

The Great Depression - A Macroeconomic View

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the Great Depression. A review of literature explores macroeconomic causes. Paper u...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

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...

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 Latest Pharma Merger

and the layoffs, Pfizer will gain economies of scale through savings (Armstrong, 2009). Estimated profit for the next four ears is...

Human Resource Management at a Telecommunications Company

high level of reliance on technical skills of relatively few employees as well as services standards, at both customer contact poi...

Innovation for Internet Banking - A Research Proposal

The banking industry has changed a great deal, the use of internet banking has become more popular and reduced the level of differ...

Bipolar Effect on Learning

& Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 2007). The advanced imaging technologies have allowed scientists to scan the brains of bipolar p...

Measures to Reduce the Risk of Terrorism in the Finance and Accounting Sector

inevitably requires money laundering to take place. To consider the way that measures that are found within the accounting and fi...

Capitalism: The Views of Marx and Weber

instinct (Marx as cited in Tucker, 1978). Here, the point of alienation is emphasized. The drive which is within man is truly rema...