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The Great Depression

a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...

Racism and Class: 1890 to 1929

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...

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...

The Banking Panics of the 1930s

would become insolvent. This was not so unusual. What was unusual about the 1930s-around the time that the Bailey Savings and Loan...

Social Failure in Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie”

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

World Wars I and II

Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...

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 ...

A Clinical Overview of Depression

experts agree that clinical depression is a depression that does not go away with accompanying feelings of worthlessness and despa...

Mood Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment

suffer from bipolar disorders (Simon, 2001). For those who do not respond well to the traditional medications offered to stabiliz...

Teenagers and Depression

however, contends that it is both biological and environmental factors which cause this condition. Regardless of the cause, depre...

Depression, its Causes and Effects

can be Both Internal and External. b. External Biological Factors are Often the Result of Invasive Biotic Organisms...

Women and Depression

by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45) -- and this lists but a few of many such manifestations. Depression related to eati...