1930s

Gangster archetypes: the gangster, the best friend, the canarian, the moll, the mother are some of the key factors that a gangster movie is made out of. This is, according to Hughes, something that any gangster film has to have in order to be a gangster film (215). All these archetypes are carefully defined and are not prone to significant changes which could be regarded as being in sync with the changes in the society. Still, some of thearchetypes did get some alterations, and most visably did…

experienced it firsthand. That being the case, I found it most fitting to learn about mob life in New York during the 1930’s from a man who lived it: Mr. Billy Bathgate. Billy was merely a teenager when he got roped into probably one of the most exhilarating, nerve-racking incidents anyone could ever encounter; he was part of a mob. Billy recalls so many vivid memories about the 1930’s because of his experience with Dutch Schultz, the infamous mob leader. However, not only was I able to learn…

The green revolution occurred between the 1930’s and the late 1960’s. Monsanto was at the top of the list of “corporate totalitarians” that benefited from the depletion and deterioration of our natural resources. The term refers to the increase of agricultural production worldwide, particularly in developing countries. To guarantee this increase in production, concerned parties relied on modern irrigation projects, dangerous chemical herbicides and pesticides, synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and…

Discrimination in the 1930’s Throughout history, African Americans have struggled with equal rights since the beginning of the United States of America. They were treated as if they were less than the Europeans. Jim Crow laws are the laws that allow African Americans to be treated in this way. Many court cases were fought to reverse the treatment of Blacks in everyday life. The civil rights movement was started in the 1950s to change the way African Americans were viewed. TREATMENT OF…

Russia from 1880 to 1930 was a very dangerous place to live in for the Jews and any other nationality in that matter. The most hated nationality was the Jews in that time period. They were hated because the Russians blamed the Jews for all the problems in Russia such at the time. The Jews were massacred and were treated like animals. The Russians czars were completely fine with these negative activities against the Jews. The police would not do anything about the massacres. The only thing the…

The Great Depression of the 1930’s is an event in United States history that is forever remembered for the catastrophic effect it had on the American peoples’ financial, social, and psychological well being of the time. The vast and complicated nature of the economic downturn would take years to recover from, and is still being analyzed by historians and economists to this very day; as time has passed, the debate among experts on what caused the disaster has yet to settle. Just as the…

The Irish were poor and could not afford the payment. This sparked a draft riot in New York City. The rioters burned down government buildings and fought with the troops. Most of the rioters consisted mostly of the Irish. In the 1950s, Chinese immigrants left their home country in the hopes of becoming rich and sending money back to their families or maybe returning to China after becoming wealthy. The main reason was the economic hardships because of the influence the British had over China.…

In the 1930s, Dr. Ingle and his team set up a series of experiments in order to better understand the working relationship between the pituitary and adrenal glands. They hypothesized that the release of cortin from the adrenal cortex was regulated by the anterior lobe of the pituitary. At the time, it was established that treating animals with high doses of cortin caused the adrenal cortex to regress, and that the same effect was also observed when mice were hypophysectomized. Dr. Ingle…

In the 1930’s the world was recovering from one of the worst depressions in economic history and rebuilding from the devastating effects of World War I. The Nazi party used this to their advantage in rebuilding themselves into a world power which was unforeseen by the rest of the nations at this time. They utilized many tactics to get to that point and one of the famous examples is the Nazi propaganda, which could be seen all over Germany. This propaganda was in the form of posters, articles,…

L. Doss’ article “Images of American Women in the 1930s: Reginald Marsh and Paramount Picture” discusses the stark dissimilarity between the lives and characters of women in Hollywood films and American women struggling through the Great Depression. Reginald Marsh’s painting Paramount Picture illustrates the stark disparity between the depictions of women in movies and in real life during the Great Depression. The women in the films of the 1930s were portrayed as unattainably perfect women or as…