2012 Report on 1930s & 1960s 1930s- In the 1930s money was scarce because of the depression. People tried what they could too to keep themselves happy. They would watch movies‚ play games‚ and such. In the great depression the American dream had become a nightmare. The great place that was once called the land of opportunity was now known as the land of desperation. The best place for a better life was California. Also in the 1930s economics dominated politics. The Social
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Cited: Bonnifield‚ Paul. “1930 ’s Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl Men‚ Dirt and Depression. 5 Oct. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2010. Kelly‚ Martin. “Top 5 Causes of the Great Depression.” About.com:American History‚ 2010. Web. 4 Nov. 2010. Kelly‚ Martin. “What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.” About
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it”. Page 10os 1d- Narrow span of interest and almost no interest in the world outside of Maycomb. * “Nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County”. Page 10 2- Approximately when does the story start? * The story begins in the 1930’s after the great depression in Maycomb. “There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.” Page 6 3- What do we know for certain about Boo Radely? * Radley had apparently been in the house ever since
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the product side‚ strong research enabled the company to broaden its product line‚ starting with light bulbs but growing into vacuum tubes‚ radios and X-ray tubes by the 1930s (Barlett‚ 2009 p.332). When the Great Depression happen Philips build local production facilities to protect his foreign sales of product. In the late 1930s‚ with the anticipation of the war Philips had to transfer overseas assets to British and North American corporation but most of the vital research laboratories to Redhill
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Dramatic Theatre. Later on she got signed a contract with MGM. This is what really started her career as an actor. People growing up watching Greta Garbo really looked up to her as a roll model. She was born and raised in Stockholm Sweden‚ and in 1930s she was one of the highest paid women in America. One goal she achieved throughout her life was she was named “the most beautiful women that ever lived” in
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During the Great Depression the American people suffer the worse of it from the Bread lines‚ Hooverville‚ and the degradation of the social norms. Before men went to ask for relief‚ Men exhausted their savings and borrowed from friends and family‚ their last option would the bread line. Also‚ many minorities suffered during the Great Depression‚ minorities were often the last to be hired and first to be fired. Also‚ farmers suffer as well‚ having purchased costly equipment for agriculture found it
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Have you ever gotten sand in your eye at the beach? Living in the Dust Bowl era was like getting a sandcastle thrown in your eye everyday. In the novel of “Out of the Dust” by Karen Hesse‚ a girl named Billie Jo and her family have to deal with living during the Dust Bowl era. The novel focuses on the effect and difficulties families had during the Dust Bowl. The article“ The Dust Bowl” by Jan Meyers‚ discusses information about the dust bowl and it’s causes and effects. “Out of the Dust” uses historically
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The Dust Bowl was a treacherous storm‚ which occurred in the 1930’s‚ that affected the midwestern people‚ for example the farmers‚ and which taught us new technologies and methods of farming. As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas‚ families‚ tribes‚ dusted out. Carloads‚ caravans‚ homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two
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How does Stienbeck explore different attitudes to women in the novel? ‘Of-Mice-and-Men’ was written by Steinbeck in the 1930’s towards the end of the depression where millions of people were financially ruined and had lost everything. This crisis was added to by a series of droughts which caused crops to fail and lots of farmers were unable to cover bank loans used to buy their farms and had to sell up to cover debts. One third of America’s population were unemployed and there was then no dole
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Life in the 1930’s shown in Cinderella Man In Ron Howard’s film‚ Cinderella Man‚ the story of the famous boxer James J. Braddock is told during his career in the late 1920’s and 1930’s during the Great Depression. Jim is a fierce boxer during the 1920’s and is very successful‚ but as the years go by Jim begins to wash up and lose his luck in the ring. He suffers an injury and loses his job as a professional boxer right as the economy begins to plunge as the country enters the Great Depression.
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