Herbert Marcuse

As America began to recover from the Civil War, the country was jolted into a second industrial revolution. The Homestead Act encouraged thousands to move to the West and Great Plains and take up farming. Railroads connected the country, making America linked like never before. America was quickly becoming the world’s biggest industrial juggernaut as all corners of the nation became occupied with people looking for their own slice of the American Dream. Most of them however, never saw those…

The depression hit both America and Australia very hard. To recover from the depression American president, Franklin Roosevelt, developed the New deal policy. Australia, in regards to recovering from the depression, did not have an effective policy in place until 1932, by which time Australia had already felt the effects of the depression more so than other countries. Unemployment in Australia peaked at 30 %, however, unemployment in American peaked at 25%. In America, there was a wave of…

think it is the role of the U.S. government to intervene just like how Franklin Delano Roosevelt did, because without his help, support, and effort, the Great Depression wouldn't have been resolved in the future. If the government stand back like Herbert Hoover, then there will be many people suffering and needing…

Everybody has different strengths and imperfections that make them unique. Some traits that make me unique are my cooperation and independence, the fact that I can be very demanding, my athleticism and my impatience. A lot of people may have some qualities in common, but everybody is their own unique individual. Throughout your life you will start developing and/or losing different qualities that will alter who you are as a person. There are also some qualities that you have as a child that will…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s bombastic stance on immigration reform has his supporters excited while his opposition views his pledge to build a wall on the US-Mexico border as idle chatter to gain publicity. Most think that Trump’s pledge is just to build a wall, but it involves many other aspects of immigration reform such as; tripling the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, finning and deporting people who over stay their visas, making e-verify…

Imagine how people lived during the Great Depression. Two dissimilar documents will be compared and contrasted, the first document is, “President FD Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address”. The other documents are four photographs taken during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. When comparing the two different types of documents; President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address and four photographs, there are some differences in tone, but both types of documents are similar in some ways…

Banks were feeling the impact of the depression as well, nearly half of the banks in the country were failing. The government had to find a way to help save the country from drowning. President Herbert Hoover rejected the capitalist’s suggestions of keeping the trend of the government playing a small role in the economy. He wanted the government to intervene “fostering a spirit of teamwork that encouraged Americans to work together as a nation as…

The United States entered the twentieth century as a burgeoning economic superpower that had yet to assert itself politically on the international stage. Reluctant to enter World War I (WWI), the United States had, by the war’s end, assumed a lead role negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. President Woodrow Wilson hoped to use the negotiations to promote American ideals of democracy and free trade while securing a lasting peace. However, instead of fostering global economic and political…

into the Great Depression. The Great Depression left millions of Americans unemployed, homeless or living in poverty, unable to support their families, and the permanent feeling of hopelessness. The 31st President of the United States, President Herbert Hoover failed to help the United States out of the Great Depression. However, his successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was determined to end the Great Depression with his policies called the New Deal. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration was…

During the 1920’s America had experienced an economic growth in which not only did it made the Nation rich but the people were able to obtain more luxuries such as cars, jewelry, events, and even afford buying a house. By the time it had become popular for people to possess items of high value and even value them more than anything. The time during this period was suitable; People were earning more money and consuming more, which also meant that people were investing great amounts of money into…