Essays 31 - 60
Resulting from a variety of causes, World War I spanned a four year period between...
converted into gold at the fixed price" (qtd. in Moffatt, 2009). What would happen is that a nation using the standard would set t...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the Great Depression. A review of literature explores macroeconomic causes. Paper u...
consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...
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...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
of laissez faire, which Soros quite appropriately described as Market Fundamentalism" (Petrov). But the free market mechanism has ...
the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...
the U.S. (and the rest of the world) out of it. None of this is exactly true, but if you try to pinpoint the exact cause of the Gr...
the fields. It describes the tent cities, the illness and death, the hardships and most of all the despair of this particular era ...
should have seen the 2000s coming. The student notes that attention to things in the history of the U.S. might have averted or mit...
the early twentieth century, the United States was still very much an agrarian or agricultural economy. After the First World War...
This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...
dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...
a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...
would become insolvent. This was not so unusual. What was unusual about the 1930s-around the time that the Bailey Savings and Loan...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...
diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...
were beginning to lose faith in the entire banking system, and to prevent a catastrophe, Roosevelt ordered the banks closed ("The ...
truly present itself as a state that truly marginalized such people. While California had always been a state, not unlike any othe...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...
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...
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...