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America was dealing with many hardships and experiencing a difficult time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected into office. The Great Depression was in full effect and many people had no money, no job and little amounts of food. President Roosevelt had a plan called the New Deal to help fix these problems caused by the Great Depression. The New Deal was a series of government programs that was designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930’s to improve the conditions of people suffering…

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck shows the failure of a Market structure pertaining to pure competition. This market structure is when you have a market of firms that sell similar products or services that has a set market price at which people are willing to pay. In the first part of this book, we find that the wheat farmers are in a pure competition, and because of that they move to Oklahoma to try and make more money which fails when they try to strip the land and in the process cause…

The Great Depression will be forever marked as one of the darkest periods of American history. Millions of Americans lost their jobs, and seemingly no hope existed for the future of the country. The claims of the causes of the Great Depression vary, but they all root from one fundamental flaw: the weakness in the American Economy. They many flaws of the American Economy made an eventual crash very predictable. The great stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression. Rather, it merely…

Analyzing “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is an extraordinary short story written by James Thurber in 1939. While no one is sure why Thurber wrote this fun and exciting short story, but the way he portrayed a guy who does not fit in with the world, and how he finds his happy place by dreaming grabs reader’s attention. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, is a great way for the reader to escape life the same way Walter did. During James Thurber’s…

The Roman Empire was a dominate force in its prime, but it wasn’t able to last forever. Barbarian invasions in the fifth century and many other factors put an end to the effective government of the Roman Empire. The Huns and other barbarian groups ravaged the fragmented empire. The empire had too much land to control and they were spending too much money on the military. Eventually they ran out of supplies and couldn’t off fight the invaders. The fall of the Western Roman Empire had massive…

Pollock battled acute alcoholism. He worked for the WPA during the Great Depression. His work became highly publicized (Life). He enjoyed the work of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco (American Decades). At one time, he was a “communist of sorts” (Sylvester 398). Diego Rivera was affiliated with the communist party. (Block) Orozco, while not a communist, was friends with many. (Wye 125) Pollock was a proponent of Abstract Expressionism, and his untraditional art style made him the subject of…

The 1920s were prosperous years for America. The economy had been in good shape since the beginning of industrialization, which took place at the end of the 19th century. Life seemed to be great to the ordinary person, but in toward the end of the “Roaring 20’s”, America started to go downhill. America entered the Great Depression, and this was a time of poverty and helplessness. Many believe that the stock market crash of 1929 is the main contributor to this depression. While this may have…

After the notorious Economic Boom that occurred in the 1920s, a horrific Great Depression followed in 1929. The occurrence of this widespread throughout America that caused endless hungry and poverty. Then a presidential election was held in 1932 that FDR won in a landslide Franklin Roosevelt proposed a ‘New Deal’ that consists of 3R’s (Relief, Recovery and Reform). The New Deal was divided into two. The New Deal that focused on relief and recovery. The Second New Deal that focused on reform.…

‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinback in 1937, when the American society is still recovering from the Great Depression. Through his minor characters, Steinback shows the fall of the American Dream, with prevalent discrimination, a lack of hope and low social mobility in the post-depression American society. First, Steinback’s minor characters and their dreams reflect the post-depression society’s lack of hope. When Lennie and Candy visit Crooks and talk about their dream, Crooks…

As told by Barry Eichengreen in his journal article, “Viewpoint: Understanding the Great Depression,” the main cause of the Great Depression is the money problems they are having, and this is in effect of the crops not growing. The people had to move to where the money is or could be obtained. Therefore, there is a major migration across many different borders. The people do not have the money to stay where they are. They must go to where people said the jobs would be. The major area for this is…