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Great Depression Causes and its Significance

In eight pages this paper discusses the 1929 stock market crash in a consideration of the Great Depression, its causes and its imp...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Economic Comparison of the Similarities Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan

In five pages this paper examines how Ronald Reagan employed FDR's 1930s' Great Depression era New Deal type policies to cope with...

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...

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...

Hotel Industry and Employee Outsourcing

In eight pages this paper examines labor outsourcing by the hotel industry in a consideration of its advantages and disadvantages....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Capitalism and How It was Saved by FDR

as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...

Argument for Child Labor

controlling other cultures it does not even begin to understand. America takes its own ideals and puts them on cultures they do ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

of big business, especially in the past in this country, there was the issue of money and the power of money and how some companie...

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935

as the National Labor Relations Board which possesses a power wherein they can investigate issues, and made decisions on issues, t...

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...

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...

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...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...