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the nations, but in a good number of countries it started in 1929 but lasted until the late 1930s. In the U.S., the world’s deadliest economic downturn began soon after the crash of the stock market of October 1929. The stock market crash sent Wall Street into a panic and also wiped out millions of investors. This day was called “Black Thursday” in the history of the United States. The New York stock market crashed because individuals that had the stock wanted to sell them, and no one was…

Stand up comedy is bigger than it ever has been before. Which means there are more comedians we have access to than ever before. It’s a lot easier for new talent to find a voice than ever before. Information is a lot easier to find, and since social media has consumed our culture it’s a lot easier to find out about someone you’ve never met before, and it’s a lot easier to share as well to make yourself feel some sort of importance. So in this age of self expression and exposure, more and more…

The Great Railroad Strike started on July 17, 1877 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Employers cut pay for workers because of the debt the country was in from fighting in the Civil War. Many workers did not support this. Railroad companies stopped working and started striking. Workers stopped all trains and blocked any traffic from coming to the stations. Federal troops were called in to stop the strike, but they were unsuccessful. The strike spread to Baltimore, Maryland. This went from peaceful…

socioeconomic issues that had arisen from the lower class, and the negligence that had allowed for the issue of alcoholism to grow. A close first glance on William Hogarth’s Gin Lane reveals a dramatized, but horrific scene of an urban street in England.…

During the end of the nineteenth century, Vienna became anti-Semitist. According to the doctoral thesis by Jeralyn Lambourne: “The Jews became an object of hatred after the stock market collapse in 1873, because many of them had been speculators in the market and were blamed for the crash.” Strauss took the opportunity by having a Jewish “stock” character Dr. Blind, Eisenstein lawyer. In Die Fledermaus, Dr. Blind is a timid person that stutters occasionally. He is one of the few characters in…

The decade of 1920, also known as the Roaring Twenties, were years of excitement and innovation. During these times, many new technologies and lifestyles were introduced to not only the upper class, but also to the rest of society, thus allowing the average citizen access to all these novelties. The president who promised Americans improved lives was Calvin Coolidge. With Calvin Coolidge running the country, it seemed as if he eliminated poverty in total in which citizens prospered with the…

The Jungle is centered around a Lithuanian family that comes to the United States in hopes for a better life. However, the family soon falls into a great depression in which it seems they can’t escape. Each person becomes affected by the horrible working conditions of the factories they work in and because they are so poor, they barely have enough to even survive. One day they became even worse off than before when Ona’s brother, Jonas disappeared. ...[T]he income of the family was cut down…

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck follows a fictional family of tenant farmers during the Great Depression, the Joads, who are evicted from their Oklahoma land and forced to migrate west. Steinbeck’s powerful defense of the working poor as well as his indictment of the socio-economic system of 1930s America made the novel was highly controversial upon its 1939 release– many considered it communist or socialist propaganda. Despite that, Eleanor Roosevelt promoted the novel, and her support…

The Great Depression of the 1930's deeply affected the Braddock family and millions of others following the stock market crash. The Braddock family posses a story of overcoming difficult obstacles. Jimmy Braddock, the heavyweight championships, experienced some bad luck for a while and had his boxing license taken away. As a result, he struggled to place food on the table for his family. The kids were starting to become sick and Mae, Jimmy's wife, started to become hopeless. The Great Depression…

The Great Depression is a time period in history in which the United States was faced with tragic economical crisis. It began in 1929 while President Herbert Hoover was in office. There is not one major cause of the Great Depression. During this blacks were moving from the south for a better way of life and more job opportunities in factories, this is called the Great Migration. Socialism v.s. Communism, socialist believed that everyone should depend upon the government while communist believe…