1932

disturbing detail of inhumane practice that degraded humanity. In fact, the people would have probably found the ideas of mass reproduction in assembly lines and orgy ceremonies much more unrealistic and impossible than readers of 2015. The people of 1932, although they lived in a time of bustling business, did not possess the advanced technology, science, and declined morality of an explicit culture compared to 2015. During the conversation, Mond describes “happy, hard-working, goods-consuming…

As the 1930’s approached the nation, the Great Depression rattled not only the economy, but had created apparent separated affects between classes of Americans, and some of this divide persisted into the Second World War. The effects of both events affected everyone from African Americans, to Jews, and wageworkers to labor Unions. Above any other groups, ethnic groups and immigrants endured significant hardships due to white hostility. With an increasing want for government provision from…

In 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group….” The Ukrainian Famine, which lasted from 1932-1933 was a famine in the Soviet controlled Republic of Ukraine, in which more than 7 million people perished and died from starvation. This famine, also known as the Holodomor, was true to the meaning; people were not being sacrificed for a cause, instead they were dying for no reason…

Born August 5rd 1903, in Cheyenne, Wyoming was Rensis Likert to George and Cornelia Likert. His father was an engineer for Union Pacific Railroads and that is what initially got Likert interested in that line of work. That interest is what leads him to studying civil engineering when he entered the University of Michigan in 1922. It was a few years later when he took a course in Sociology that opened his eyes to what he truly loved to study and that was people, specifically people in the…

taught. The way you educate someone can have a change for the good or worse on their society. Alphonse Daudet (1840-1932) was a French writer who wrote about the impact of Germany on their education system and the town’s sense of unity in The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian. American missionary and author of Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers, Arthur Henderson Smith (1845-1932), stated how in China, only one twin was allowed to become educated while the other becomes “wild”. In…

The case was decided by the US Supreme Court on November 7, 1932. The case was decided by a 7-2 vote in the US Supreme Court. The majority decision was written by Justice George Sutherland where counsel was denied and that there wasn’t a fair trial by a jury where their race was excluded. The 7 votes in the case…

On October 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed and created chaos around the world; this event was known as Black Tuesday. After the crash, most of the countries went into a depression economically. This Great Depression forced most countries around the world to change the political, social and economic system in order to fight and overcome the depression. The Great Depression lasted until the end of 1930s in some countries and in others it lasted until the middle of the 1940s.…

The concept of Socialist Realism originated in the former USSR, and appeared as a result of the Communist party’s intention to control all aspects of cultural life in Russia and in other countries in the Soviet Union (Reyland, 2001). In 1932, the Communist party took total control over art and music and put demands and limitations on creative artists to produce works that displayed an imposed reality rather than abstract themes and subjects (Huseynova, 2016). Cooperation with the new…

Looking at the State of the Union Addresses written by Herbert Hoover in 1932 and Harry Truman in 1947, both Presidents give similar reports on the economy. In Hoover’s 1932 letter to Congress (Presidents have the option to write a letter or give a speech), he is optimistic about the future of the economy but concedes it is in dire straights at the present moment. He informs…

totally failed, and seeing Hoover’s luxury, the people living in poverty almost turned communist. Hoover received a lot of criticism, and the people lost faith in Hoover’s political party, the Republicans. The results were shown in the election of 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, won over Hoover by a landslide. Congress passed the 20th Amendment in order to get rid of Hoover as fast as possible, and Franklin Roosevelt came to power the January of the following year. Franklin Roosevelt…