1930s

During the 1930s, the American Dust Bowl was one of the worst environmental disasters that caused severe droughts and wind erosions. The Dust Bowl widely influenced soil productivity for farming, air quality in daily life, and human health in long term. It not only caused serious impacts on the environment of the United States, but also worsened the economic conditions after the Great Depression’s destructions in the late 1920s. The Dust Bowl took place on the Great Plains where severe dust…

1920s and 1930s was a detrimental time in America, especially Kentucky. People were dealing with the aftermath of the Stock market crash and the Great Depression. It was a time of poverty, hunger, and violence. Author, James Still was one of the few writers to accurately capture this time in Kentucky with his novel, River of Earth. Through his vivid writing and correspondence, James Still exemplifies the political, social, and cultural aspects of Kentucky during the era of the 1920s and 1930s…

Essay Throughout the novella Of Mice and Men, and novel The Grapes of Wrath, the author John Steinbeck, offers dignity to characters that live at the edge of society. Dignity is described as our intrinsic value and worth as human beings. During the 1930s, The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression were the uprising time for the downfall of human dignity since many obstacles occurred that mentally drained individuals. In Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck portrays self-respect…

Between 1929 to 1939, Canada suffered a Great Depression due to economic problems such as the over-reliance on staple exports, overproduction of wheat, and the collapse of the stock markets. In turn the government slowly responded to the Great Depression by deficit spending and financing a variety of work projects. These courses of action ultimately led to Canada’s revival. One the major causes for Canada’s Great Depression was their over-reliance on staples for exports. In the 1920s, 25%…

These are two of the biggest groups that the people need help in, but Lingo claims that the book did not give justice to this action. The Grapes of Wrath is an important literature work that shows the worst effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s consistently changing economic and social aspects life. There is a lot of movement happening to find work and a good place for families to settle. The people in each place they settled treat them differently. There are some willing to give them…

During the Great Depression of 1930s people across the country were remarkably effected. In “Diggin In” by Robert J. Hastings he portrays the difficulty and the stressful life that the American families had to endure. In addition, in Karen Hesse's poem “Debts” she portrays the hardship of a struggling family hoping to grow food. As well as, in Public Broadcasting Service “New Deal” and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address speech both address the hardship of what the…

Amid the Depression years, changes in yield and in the value level showed an in number positive relationship in each nation, proposing a critical part for total interest stuns. Despite the fact that there is undoubtedly numerous components influenced total interest in different nations at different times, my center here will be on the vital pretended by fiscal stuns. For a long time, the chief verbal confrontation about the reasons for the Great Depression in the United States was over the…

The 1930s was a bleak time period for Canada. The Great Depression had a devastating impact on the country, spreading across the provinces and bringing hardship to big cities and towns alike. No social, racial, or economic class was excluded. Farmers, bankers, bricklayers, clergymen, and autoworkers were affected indiscriminately. Between the years 1929 and 1939, many banks and businesses all over the world collapsed. Millions of people, including thousands of Canadians, lost their life savings,…

American story is historical references. The United States has an incredibly rich history, which can be incorporated into fictional works in a variety of different ways. For example, in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the Great Depression of the 1930s is referenced. Steinbeck writes, “We can’t take less share of the crop-we’re half starved now. The kids…

Jim Hoover was born on September 22, 1937. In the 1930s the Great Depression started when everyone was selling stocks and it crashed. People lost their jobs and their houses and they became homeless. Some of the homeless people jumped on trains and asked farmers for handouts and some of the people lived in camps called Hooverville. There was a drought in the Oklahoma and the mid-west. The dust bowl displayed farmers and they were hit by the drought and they moved west to California. Finally the…