The 1930s provided women with more opportunities for women in education and work. Women graduated high school at a slightly higher rate than men did. Female high school graduates increased 20% throughout the 1930s; double than that of the 1920s. However‚ more men continued to graduate college than women (7%); there were less female college graduates in the 1930s than in the 1920s. Even though not as many women were getting college diplomas‚ businesses were hiring twice as many women than men. According
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Introduction The 1930’s‚ known as the Great Depression Era‚ were a time of economic struggles for the American People. The United States Government was faced with multiple issues‚ having an economic depression at home‚ and trying to avoid getting involved with foreign affairs going on in Europe. Although it was a time of difficulty‚ a lot of good came out of this era. Inventions would make life easier‚ and there was a rise in entertainment as the movie industry grew‚ and great novels depicted the
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HIST104: Abortion in the 1930s. The economic situation during the 1930s drove some potential mothers to undergo illegal abortions. Opinions on this issue differed‚ as illustrated by these three documents. Doris Gordon‚ in her newspaper report Evil of Abortion’‚ argues that it is a woman’s duty to reproduce. She feels that the increase in illegal abortions has been contributed to by the advertising of contraceptives‚ high wages for women and lack of supervision of children by parents who
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and Michida ed.‚ Economic Integration and Recycling in Asia: An Interim Report‚ Chosakenkyu Hokokusho‚ Institute of Developing Economies‚ 2011 Chapter 5 Review of the Waste Management System in the Philippines: Initiatives to Promote Waste Segregation and Recycling through Good Governance Vella ATIENZA1 Abstract Like other developing countries‚ waste management has become a major problem in the Philippines for the past decades. This paper provides an overview of the waste management and
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The 1930s was a period of depression in the UK. While the US‚ Germany‚ Canada‚ and Canada had all had periods of economic boom in the 1920s‚ (though the US had entered a depression in the 1930s‚ also) the United Kingdom had yet to have their economic breakthrough. As the US had their Wall Street crash‚ they cut off their loans to other countries and stopped importing foreign goods in an effort to stop themselves from plunging into a depression. In response to this‚ many countries plummeted into a
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People learn to hate‚ they can be taught to love‚ for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” -Nelson Mandela. African Americans deserve to have the same rights and levels of respect as every other American. Racism and segregation have been attacking african americans since the beginning of time‚ and lord knows we’ve had it rough. In the old days we were told that we were equal yet laws still were made to keep whites in power over us. According to (www.history.com) the “black
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The Klan of the 1930’s In 1865‚ the bloodiest war in American history drew itself to a much-needed end. However‚ the gory war had severe repercussions. One of which is the Ku Klux Klan‚ or as it is more commonly known‚ the ‘KKK’‚ or even ‘the Klan’. The Klan was not originally meant to perform filthy crimes against humanity‚ but any group started by individuals with such dark beliefs is bound to morph into something unintentionally. Something horrible. Something that would burn fear into the
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people and I will be talking about the statistics of both neighborhoods and providing proof and evidence on which community provides the most for the upcoming generation. I chose the opposing neighborhood to show that Chicago can be segregated and segregation in Chicago causes kids to lack the knowledge and education they need in order to “survive” if you must say. Introduction The way one’s lifestyle that they live today is based on the community they live in. There are
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policy of appeasement is one in which both Britain and France and many other nations took towards Nazi Germany and its expansionist aims during the late 1930s‚ it is one of the most controversial and criticized foreign policies in history (Gelernter D 2002:22). This paper argues that the appeasement policy was for most nations around the world in the 1930s a less challenging way to deal with the problem of Hitler. Nowadays it is a common view that if Britain and France would have taken a harder line against
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was not wrong for a state to use discriminatory seating practices on public transportation and that each state may require segregation on public transportation. It sustained the transportation law that ordered separate but equal transportation facilities for blacks and whites. The Supreme Court went on to make several other significant decisions sanctioning racial segregation in other circumstances and in other places. The Supreme
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