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WPA: Work Pays America! Founded in 1935, the “Works Progress Administration” (WPA), which is now known as the “Works Projects Administration”, was an important New Deal reform program. It was considered as a key to resolve economic crises and the rise of unemployment; these factors led to this reform movement. The WPA was successful when it came to producing projects that shaped the country such as construction and art projects; however, the WPA was not that effective to decrease the rate of…

Many people know Martha Stewart as an esteemed and established homemaker, television host, and popular cookbook author, however most people do not know that she went to jail for receiving illicit information about stocks and was charged with securities fraud, making false statements, and obstruction of justice. Martha Stewart became a stockbroker, and soon after she opened a gourmet take-out kitchen that soon turned into a wealthy company. Although Martha Stewart was a successful business women…

In the mind of Herbert Hoover, the government should not intervene in economic activities. When the Great Depression hit, this ideology was still active. Hoover tried to soothe the souls of the American people by putting up pictures of a man in a tux eating five full course meals a day in order to create a facade to encourage people to live like before. That man indeed was Herbert Hoover. That totally failed, and seeing Hoover’s luxury, the people living in poverty almost turned communist.…

Imagine being so poor you sell your children, your living on the streets. That's how life was for people during The Great Depression. Life during The Great Depression was challenging time for many. A lot of children couldn’t even go to school because they needed to get jobs to help with the income of money for their family. Most children were malnourished. It all started when the stock markets crashed then became a lot worse when the banks all closed and lost of their clients’ money. Life was…

Modern macroeconomics emerged in the climate of a decade (1929-1939) of high unemployment and stagnant production throughout the world economy known as the Great Depression. These were years of human misery on a scale that is hard to imagine today (Parkin, 2010). This essay will be centered on South Africa’s current situation and that of the USA during the Great Depression, but more emphasis will be placed on South Africa’s current situation. Initially, a comparison between the two countries…

After the end of the war in 1970, the Vietnamese economy declined because of the destruction resulted from the war. Infrastructures were destroyed such roads, bridges, ports, electricity, water supply, schools, hospitals, etc. These essential things had to be repair primarily. The country lacked of human resource because many people died and disabilities by war. Furthermore, Vietnam is an agricultural country to do farming on the land, unfortunately, the land used to be a battle ground were…

There were multiple supporting causes that lead up to the crash of the stock market. The Great Depression was the largest low point that U.S economy and the worlds economy have ever seen. This time in history had the highest number of unemployed ever seen in the United States. Ben Bernanke said in 2002 that the Great Depression was the “worst economic disaster in American history”. The Depression wasn’t just cause by the stock market crash of 1929. During the 1920’s or the Roaring 20s’…

This crash had a lot of effects on the supply and demand of products. Stocks were bought and sold on stock exchanges, and the most noted for was the New York Exchange, on Wall Street. Throughout the twenties stock prices more than quadrupled in value (PBS). Investors were convinced that stocks were a keen way to become rich, and took it upon themselves to invest money in the market. That’s why many people in America were affected directly by the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Around 1932…

It has been argued that the stock market crash of 1929 was the worst financial crises that the United States has ever seen. Prior to the crash during the 1920s society as a whole was experiencing some of the most prosperous times that had ever been seen throughout the history of the United States. The era definitely earned its nickname the Roaring Twenties. Throughout these well-to-do times, there was a wealth of money, optimism, and excitement. However, all good things must come to an end. It…

Going by the definition of Wikipedia which says that the role of a Business Analyst (BA) is that of “someone who analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology”, one can infer that the role of a BA is, at the lowest level, problem assessment and analysis as well as solution initiator. The BA’s role currently transcends beyond accessing and identifying…