40 Wall Street

Success mean’s accomplishing your goals. A successful person is the one who achieves his/her desired aims or attains prosperity. A successful person does not have to be wealthy. You can be successful if you achieved your goal that you had set for yourself. Outliers, is a book about twentieth century it offers a fascinating look at how people became successful. Malcom Gladwell is the author of Outliers. Gladwell’s main goal in Outliers is to help people understand how success happens. Gladwell…

“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it...”(Brown 40). People went through emotional turmoil throughout the Great Depression. The book The Boys in the Boat is by Daniel James Brown, and it is about a guy by the name of Joe Rantz. Joe Rantz had gone to college during the Great Depression, and he joined the rowing team in order to keep his scholarship. The book talks about how he survived the…

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression, when discrimination against African Americans was active, the stock market crashed, and asylums for the mentally ill were not sufficient. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the narrator named Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus, have multiple encounters with three characters dealing with common issues found in the 1930s. Tom Robinson is an African American man who was wrongly accused of…

Victims of their own Burning his soul with a smoke and talking to a squirrel? Obviously a sad guy! John T. McCutcheon’s old cartoon shows us a conversation between an old American man being asked by a squirrel the reason why he did not save any money for the future. He answers, seemingly with a sad tone: “I Did”. Moreover, he is said to be a victim of bank failure. The cartoon represents the effects of the Great Depression and how harsh it was to the American citizens by using pathos…

During the 1920’s everything in the United States was at an all-time high; the income of the nation increased from $61 billion to $87 Billion and factories started to use machines quickening the work pace and production value. The people also began to invest in the stock market which underwent rapid expansion and reached its peak during August of 1929. By the time anyone noticed what was happening, the stock market already started to decline and the unemployment rate started to rise; with…

During 1932, the Great Depression is at its peak. About a quarter of Americans were out of jobs and a multitude of people were starving on the streets. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected into the presidential office and proposes the innovative and revolutionary New Deal to solve the problems of the Great Depression. The New Deal proposes many programs to transform the role that the government had in its economy. It was often criticized for wasteful spending of government money, but those…

1. What caused the economic decline at the beginning of the thirteenth century? - The beginning of the thirteenth century was a turning point for the worst. A few components that started a famine would eventually turn into the Black Plaque. There was an overpopulation and little soil left to grow crops needed for survival. People began eating anything they could get their hands on, like rats. Adults may have not been a part of the biggest death rates, but they were not really producing…

The mural "Going to The Olympics, 1984" by Frank Romero, was made in 1984 and put in Hollywood Freeway (101) North between Alameda and San Pedro St. to symbolize his historic point of view of going to the Olympics. The picture had five cars in the order of the color of the Olympics rings from left to right, a blimp with the writing "A GOODYEAR" on it, an iron, two silhouettes of people fighting, a horse, a stamp, five hearts on top of each car, and four palm trees. The mural has been mostly…

The Development of Escapism: PYRZQXGL During the 1930’s, an era of economic instability called the Depression occurred. Many people lost their jobs, the rich became poor, and the poor became poorer. People finally came to realize that reality is imperfect. A source of happiness as conveyed in Frederick Buechner’s novel was escapism. Teddy’s urge to escape emerges within Frederick Buechner’s novella, The Wizard’s Tide: a story, to show that escapism provides only a temporary diversion from the…

There is no origin or clear set of elements that led to The Great Depression. Economist, political scientist and historians have suggested diverse explanations that place contrasting intensity on various elements and affairs. One thing remains fair, it was an interaction of a convoluted set of elements, some economical, political and social that led to The Great Depression. In this study I will concentrate on two aspects. • Economic impact of the great war – When the war began in August of 1914…