The Chess Game of 1930’s America in The Big Sleep In Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep‚ Philip Marlowe represents the shred of chivalry that remains in a world of corruption. Set and written in 1930’s America‚ the economic devastation of the Great Depression has a significant influence on the book’s plot that revolves around profit-seeking crime and organized corruption. Marlowe’s work as a private detective brings him face to face with seedy criminals of every sort‚ and each corresponds
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“Scorched earth. Abandoned farms. Skies black with dust. Houses buried under great dunes of earth. Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended‚ images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide” (Wesson.) That is what a normal day during the 1930’s was like. Back then people farmed to get their profit‚ especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People’s lives revolved around farming. If they didn’t get their crops planted on time‚ there wouldn’t be food
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How did the cinema affect the lives of women and children in 1930’s? Labelled the ‘golden age of Hollywood’ the 1930’s was arguably a decade of turmoil. This led to many people attending the cinema to escape from reality. Among adults‚ women tended to go to the cinema more often than their husbands‚ and this finding was echoed by rowntree‚ who found that 75 per cent of cinema-goers in New York during the late 1930’s were women[1]. With large numbers of children attending these types of pictures
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Annotated Bibliography: American Education in the 1930’s Bondi ‚ Victor. "The Depression and Education (1930 ’s)." American Decades . Galenet ‚ 16 Dec. 2007. Web. 7 May 2013. . In his article‚ Victor Bondi explains how the depression effected education‚ and includes important and stunning facts about American education during the 1930 ’s. He explains how education as a whole went from a big increase to a huge decline. For example between 1930-1935 sales on textbooks decreased nationwide by over
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lawyers name is Atticus Finch. Atticus Finch is not just an ordinary father. He teaches his children things no parent of the 1930s‚ or even the modern time period‚ would think of doing. His style parenting‚ compared to modern day parenting and parenting in the 1930s‚ is unique and is not traditionally the way a parent wants to raise their child. The parenting styles of the 1930’s are very different then the style’s now‚ especially that of Atticus Finch‚ who raises his children in a very distinct and
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jerkline is a single rein that runs to the lead animal in the team of mules or horses. The skinner controls the jerkline. • Ranch Hand- A hired hand on a ranch. Info on: • Life working on farms/ranches in the 1930’s America. If you were a farmer in the Midwest and Southwest during the 1930s‚ you had seemingly everything against you--from the Great Depression to dust storms and drought‚ according to Robin A. Fanslow with the Library of Congress. This trifecta of poor circumstances pushed many farmers
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make it any better.” a famous quote said by Walt Disney‚ a man filled with joy and hope that the world can become anything we want. The 1930’s were tough considering that the Great Depression occurred along with the Dust Bowl‚ both events that ruined many people’s lives during the 1930’s. Walt Disney and Franklin D. roosevelt were two amazing people in the 1930’s whose dreams were to help get the people of the time back in order and and to help them forget about their worries. The photocopier and
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In 1930‚ California had 5.7 million residents‚ and the population shrank as 120‚000 Mexicans were banished. In the 1930s‚ farmers from the Midwestern Dust Bowl states‚ especially Oklahoma and Arkansas‚ began to move to California; 250‚000 arrived by 1940‚ including a third who moved into the San Joaquin Valley‚ which had a 1930 population of 540‚000. During the 1930s‚ some 2.5 million people left the Midwest states. The Modesto Bee on September 30‚ 2008 reviewed Dust Bowl migration to California
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Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted throughout the 1930’s. It affected everyone‚ farmers and consumers alike‚ in its path negatively. The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s was caused by four major factors: drought‚ climate misconception‚ poor land management‚ and most importantly‚ wind erosion. The first of the four major factors is drought. During the Dust Bowl and the 1930’s there were four major periods of drought. The first lasted from 1930 to 1931‚ the second occurred in 1934‚ the third in 1936
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Common Citizen in the Great Depression War‚ starvation‚ charges of corruption‚ mass migration‚ and desperation are often the subject of intense contemporary and historical scrutiny whenever and wherever they occur. The Great Depression of the 1930s‚ in America‚ contained all these elements and therefore left an indelible imprint on the minds of those who lived and struggled through it‚ and‚ in turn‚ on the minds of a significant number of historians who have studied its ramifications ever since
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