YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Saga of the Great Depression in Riding the Rails
Essays 61 - 90
In thirteen pages this paper discusses migration patterns and how they were influenced by the economic hardships of the Great Depr...
held a dance as a means by which to temporarily relieve their minds of the perpetual anxiety that intrinsically accompanies povert...
In nine pages this paper discusses the impact of the Great Depression on unemployment in America, with the primary focus being 192...
it serves as an "adjuvant or facilitator to treatment" (American Childrens Literature: A Bibliotheraputic Approach) for a child wh...
barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...
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...
with little respect for or understanding of any other generation that did not share in the same advancements. Harv just thinks Ma...
Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...
and Medicare. With these policies people were no longer destitute if they were to lose their jobs. Legislation also sprang forth t...
During the Depression, people simply made do with what they had. There was little if any excess income in most families, and peop...
place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...
the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...
those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...
We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...
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...
period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...
effect was worse due to the number of people who had bought their stock with borrowed money and were forced to liquidate capital t...
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...
deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...
was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...
poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...
as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...
The radio was an important entertainment form. Television, in contrast, was just beginning to make its entry into the American ho...
increasingly corrupt, set the stage for the Army revolt that occurred in September, 1930 (Alexander 3). A predecessor of the 1943 ...
In twelve pages this paper examines the social, political, but primarily economic factors that culminated in the Great Depression ...
In five pages this paper presents a fictitious life story of a Brooklyn, New York woman who lived during the Great Depression and ...
In eight pages this paper discusses the 1929 to 1941 Great Depression in America in a consideration of its causes. Three sources ...
Fed the kids..and raised a big family But the rain quit and the wind got high...
unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions...