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The Aleuts are both round and flat characters. They are round characters as they face a man vs. society conflict as they have been trying to find a way back home for 11 years. “They told me they were going to sit on that wooden bench until their boat came back” (Alexie 13). They show signs of flatness because they did not change throughout the story. There are no fundamental character changes and complexities for the Aleuts. They were depressed from the very beginning and from what Jackson…

The Great Depression of the 1930’s: a dismal time that most people associate with the stock market crash, severe unemployment, poverty, the Dust Bowl, creation of the New Deal, and the less distinguished Second New Deal, under the courageous President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There has been many disagreements about the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act, which are key programs in the Second New Deal. The main arguments against the WPA are that it hired lazy people, spent…

Melt up period. The euphoria of the market began in 1921. Investors and non-investors turned to buy shares without measure. There was no need to choose them. They were all worthy, and they all went up in price like foam. Between 1921 and 1929, prices, expressed regarding the Dow Jones index rose by 460%, from 68 to 380 points. A spectacular climb. Similar to the one we are currently living. Melt Down period. Between 1929 and 1932, prices plummeted approximately 90%. Nevertheless, this percentage…

The Great Depression is often considered to be the “defining moment” in the twentieth-century history of the United States. Its most lasting effect was a transformation of the role of the federal government in the economy. The long contraction and painfully slow recovery led many in the American population to accept and even call for a vastly expanded role for government, though most businesses resented the growing federal control of their activities. The federal government took over…

The great depression was an economic slump that contributed to the loss of jobs,homes, and families. It was how that later presidents help America get out of the economic slump that was remarkable or not. Both presidents, Hoover and Roosevelt responsed differently to the panic of America The effects of the great depression were detrimental and effected all across the world, yet mostly america. Also, the great depression lead up to the new deal and later started the second world war. Stock…

It was a amalgamation of droughts and farming conditions that spearheaded the coming storm. Crops and grasses that had once held soil in its place disappeared and made it easy for wind storms to lift the top soil until everything was covered in a copious layer of silt. Not only, had the winds displaced the top soil, but they had had also displaced many families as well. While, countless farmers had been suffering along for decades, the dust bowl buried them financially. Under those circumstances…

economy of America, but also the American people of every race. The Great Depression took place from 1929- 1939. One of the main reasons of what led to the Great Depression was the crash of the stock market. The crash itself propelled and drove Wall Street workers straight into a major fear and nightmare that was thought and imagined to never come. Throughout the years that came “Consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was set in the 1920’s, a time of mixed fortune where a select few made millions while the common people in society were very unfortunate. As people started to value wealth on the dawn of the Great Depression, the poor became poorer and the rich disregarded their existence. Social classes became even more separated as the newly rich fought with the old money for power. The thirst for opportunity was still present, but the traditional American Dream was…

The Dust Bowl Benton Berger The dust bowl was a drastic time for “the breadbasket of the USA” (Western U.S.A.) The dust bowl was the result of farmers trying to get the most money possible and not using correct farming practices. Many people had to abandon homes and farmland. The dust bowl started when farmers were trying to make more money, caused many things for people, and had a bad outcome on the land for a long time. The beginning of the dust bowl may have been in the 1930s but one cause…

Fighting in the First World War was very beneficial to the United States as a nation. It led to a boom in the american economy, a stronger military, and more worldwide recognition. World War One led the United States another step toward being the super-power it is today. The most prominent and obvious way that World War One benefited the United States was it caused a boom in american economy. As the allies started to run out of supplies, they began to look for other nations to trade with for…