unemployment was at an all-time high‚ with states averaging 20 percent. Some states had very high unemployment‚ such as Ohio with a 50 percent unemployment rate and Toledo with an 80 percent unemployment rate. The Great Depression was said to have been caused by many factors‚ including maldistribution of purchasing power‚ credit structure‚ international trade‚ and lack if diversification (Unfinished Nation‚ pg.
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Who really caused Jay Gatsby’s downfall? Imagine hearing about a friend or family member’s death and not truthfully knowing how they died. In the novel it states that George Wilson shot Gatsby‚ but what were all the underlying reasons… was it really him? The mystery of this non fictional death is a various blame game including all the events leading up to his death. It all starts when Nick Carraway moves to West Egg‚ a wealthy area‚ and gets invited to a party by the “big name” of Gatsby (Fitzgerald
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In the 1930s Americans life’s drastically changed for the worst. During this time period an economic crisis occurred putting citizens into a panic. This period of time was known as the Great Depression. Many problems cause the US to go into this crisis‚ one of them was the crash of the Stock Market. On October 29‚ 1929 (Black Thursday) the stocks fell rapidly due to the lack of investors putting money into stocks. The dramatic decline in market did cost the US to lose 10-15 billions dollars in value
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2013 The Execution of Salem Witches In Salem during the year 1962‚ nineteen people were executed due to witchcraft. During this period‚ 188 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. Out of these 188 people‚ 59 were tried‚ 31 of them were convicted and nineteen of the 31 that were convicted were then all hung at Gallows Hill. In the seventeenth century it was normal procedures to have people corrected or even execute people who were a threat to the town of Salem because everyone thought
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effect to conformity within groups of my peers throughout school. I would like to discuss some of them and some situations in which they were a part of my life experiences. One experience in my life is an instance of the bystander effect. My example is what you would think of as cliché‚ like a scene from a movie or something‚ but I’ve experienced it firsthand nonetheless. One day when I was in high school‚ I passed by a girl who had opened her locker‚ only to have her books and papers fall out and on
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humans are eye colour‚ hair colour and gender. Variations caused by the environment are the climate (tanned/pale skin) this is affected by the environment as the sun comes in contact with your skin and will darken it‚ the language that you speak as when you are young‚ you are impacted by the individuals that raise you and their language will rub off on you as you are constantly hearing it‚ your diet (thin/big) becoming bigger is caused by an overwhelming amount of food at your finger tips (MEDC)
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or so. In concurrence with historian John Alden’s opinion‚ I believe the mistakes of the british government caused this said "revolution." The British taxation was a large contributing factor to the start of this inevitable revolution. Even though the taxes were necessary to support the British empire‚ the arbitrarity of the taxes‚ or so claimed the American Colonists‚ caused the boycotts and reactions to them. In a sense‚ the British were provoking the colonists with some of their taxes
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Arthur Miller‚ various citizens of Salem‚ Massachusetts face the witch trials. Victims were tried and convicted based on only spectral evidence. John Proctor‚ Giles Corey‚ and Reverend Hale were a few among the many that went through these severe tests‚ hardships and trials. John Proctor’s wife; Elizabeth Proctor‚ was accused of witchery and sent to prison. John loves his wife and tries to save her and all of the other accused women. His crucible is the Salem Court because Proctor has to prove
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France. His rise and fall from power can be analyzed in any number of ways‚ but what I am most curious about is what exactly caused the shift in Robespierre’s mental and emotional state which resulted in the brutal execution of 40‚000 of his own citizens. Could he sense the shift? Was he helpless to stop his changing attitudes‚ so hypnotized by the lure of power that he was willing to do anything to keep it? Or did he know what was taking place‚ the horrors that he was committing‚ and did he continue to
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jobs. At first the stock market was an important but not the most dominant influence. But however‚ the market became the symbol of the nation’s prosperity and an icon of American business culture. Everything was going great the stock prices reached what looked to be a high peak. The market began to slide‚ but Investors soon realized they were heavily in debt so they started to sell their stocks which led to others doing the same. That was the start of all the panic‚ everyone started selling but most
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