sharing her experience on the Seniors Australian Government website as a child during the 1930s. In 1929‚ the world was plunged into its worst crisis since World War 1; the Great Depression. The great depression was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. After the crash of the center stock market of trading in America‚ unemployment in Australia more than double to twenty-one per cent in mid-1930‚ and reached its peak in mid-1932 when almost thirty-two per cent of Australians were
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Karen Rusli Rusli 1 HIST 338 Dr. Bryan Lamkin 24 May 2013 California During the Great Depression The 1930s was not the best time period for California‚ the U.S.‚ or the world. When the stock market crashed in 1929 in the United States‚ it set off the most severe economic depression in the Western world. On top of all of that‚ a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains in 1931 just two years after the stock market crashed. This became known as the Dust Bowl. In the Dust Bowl‚ crops
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started around about the 1930’s when the stock market crashed this happened because the government decided not to get involved with the peoples businesses. The businesses were owned personally or with a group of people and the government had no say in it at all so the people of the United States of America could do what they wanted with their money and investments. The main reason for the stock market crash was that there was a big difference between rich and poor during the 1930’s. President hover was
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The Role of Women During the ‘30’s The 1930s were dominated by one of America’s greatest economic crises and during this time millions of Americans suffered. Unemployment was common‚ seniors lost their life savings when banks collapsed‚ schools shut down and children went uneducated. During this time‚ women’s roles were mostly as homemaker and in the workplace remained traditional. Women were viewed as caretakers of the home‚ or working jobs such as nurses and teachers. Only 24.3 percent
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often recognized as a chronicle of the Depression and as a commentary of the economic and social systems that caused it. The "Dust Bowl" phenomenon occurred throughout western Oklahoma and Kansas and in the Texas panhandle. Severe drought during the 1930’s had led to massive agricultural failures in the Southwest. These areas had been heavily overcultivated by the wheat farmers for the last decades and were covered with millions of acres of loose‚ uncovered topsoil. Without precipitation the crops
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vehicles. Those who made it to California found little work‚ poor living conditions‚ a great deal of resentment and prejudice‚ and even violence directed against them.”(The Grapes of Wrath) These were the environments Steinbeck revealed in the late 1930s when he visited migrant camps in northern California for the San Francisco
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1932 Scottsboro Case (1931-1950) NAACP began to work to win a position for blacks within the emerging labor mov’t -> over ½ million= able to join Steelworks Union- AA constituted a/b 20% of members 1. Mexican Americans: Aprrox. 2 million in the 1930’s Some farmed/ were agricultural migrants Most lived in urban areas Some= forced to leave country ½ a million Chicanoes left the U.S to Mexico Faced discrimination Relief programs excluded Mexicans from their roles No access to American schools
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perceptions affect a person’s mindset and result in the absence of hopes and dreams to move forward‚ transcend barriers and conquer the unimaginable. Steinbeck’s understanding of the impossible ‘American Dream’ as well as the harsh and cruel world of the 1930’s contextualises his novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ and centralises the importance of hopes and dreams in overcoming the negativity and disbelief found not only within society‚ but within oneself. Despite the context of the novel‚ the underlying concepts
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Curley’s wife is just a young woman seeking attention‚ feeling the only way she can receive it is if she throws herself at the men around the ranch. In all honesty‚ Curley should give her more attention than she could ever wish for‚ however‚ in the 1930s things were a lot different to how they are now for women. Curley’s wife gives off the impression that she is a floozy and an extremely flirtatious woman throughout the whole novel. For example‚ when she leans her body against the pole “So her body
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spirit to the core. Despite the recent economic recession experienced by much of our nation‚ our country’s current situation is nowhere near the magnitude of the Great Depression. The desperation and misery felt by the country during the 1920s and 1930s is nearly impossible to grasp by today’s society‚ yet when looking at photographs such as “Migrant Mother” we are given a glimpse of the hardships that plagued the nation. The hopeless‚ weathered gaze of the woman in “Migrant Mother” served as a representation
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