M Warner History April 23th‚ 2013 Canadian Life during the Great Depression Canadians were faced with many challenges during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The biggest challenges were the drought in the prairies‚ unemployment and being able to provide. It was a tough time to live in for Canadians and many other people around the world. Firstly‚ one of the challenges Canadians faced during the Great Depression was the disastrous drought in Saskatchewan. Canadians had to face the bitter
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The social effects during the great depression. In the early 1930’s there was the great depression. This was caused when the market went into recession and did not recover causing the markets to crash and people lost all of their money. The great depression effected all of the people in many ways‚ one of the ways was socially. Firstly: The most effected people were the working class. Secondly: The class which was effected a little was the middle class. Finally: The class which was hardly effected
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nineteenth century the United States has underwent numerous recessions or panic. None of them were as a serve or endured as long as the Great Depression. There has been much argument over what were the causes of the Great Depression. Following in the 1930’s‚ the depression remains the most important economic experience in the United States history. There are many factors that caused the Great depression: one of the causes was structural weakness and specific events that turned it into a major depression
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and anticipating the tragic end by suggesting that Yerma not get pregnant because John is not fertile and it is he who does not conform to the "rules of society". The choirs also represent the situation of women in particular in Spain during the 1930s. This is in terms of their biological‚ child bearer‚ wife and a woman who wants to fulfill. Lorca
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John Steinbeck is the author of ‘Of Mice And Men’ and he was born in Salinas‚ California in 1902 just over a hundred years ago. Some of his most famous books was written in the 1930’s and the 1940’s and are set in California. Most of his works focus on lives and problems of working people‚ often times these people were immigrants who went to California looking for work or a better life. Of Mice And Men is set in the farmland of the Salinas valley‚ the same valley where Steinbeck was born. As a
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There were very many influential people in the 1930s. One that stuck out the most was Dorothea Lange. She was a professional photographer‚ a very known professional photographer‚ during the Great Depression and even after that. She documented the struggle of migrant farm families. Lange photographed the pain and despair of women‚ men‚ and children living in dirty‚ miserable camps. She also photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets of San Francisco (Migrants). Lange was an influential
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The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl began on April 14‚ 1935. It followed the drought of 1930‚ which left the farmlands on the Great Plains dead and dry. Farmers discontinued farming and left the crops open to the strong winds. Winds grew and continued to pick up the loose‚ dry soil forming clouds of dust. The vast grasslands that once occupied this region were killed due to over grazing and the three-year long drought. The lands were easy eroded by the wind without the protection of these thick
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which led to more economic failure. Many thought the economy would hit rock bottom and then the economy would start to rise but that did not happen. Total demand stayed low‚ business firms continued to lay off employees and went bankrupt. Then in 1930 the banks
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Lesson 1 How to be resourceful in economic turmoil One lesson learned during the Great Depression was to be resourceful in times of need. When the stock market crashed and banks closed people were made to make use of what they had‚ whether that was food or clothes. The Great Depression left a great impression on people of the era’s thoughts‚ and their habits. Many of them hoarded money‚ become pack rats‚ and generally had trouble parting with anything they may possibly have found a use for down
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‘Of Mice and Men’ is a novel that was published by John Steinbeck in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The Great Depression brought many rural‚ poor and migrant workers to the Great Plains states‚ such as California‚ which is where Steinbeck sets the whole novel. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 forced banks to foreclose on mortgages and collect debts. Unable to pay their debts many farmers lost their property and were forced to find other work. Steinbeck uses animal imagery on migrant characters
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