Hoover Dam

During the start of the Great Depression, President Hoover was very conservative, and wanted to resist on passing social reforms. He wanted to continue the idea of “laissez-faire” although the majority of the American people were asking for solutions. In response to the suffering poor Americans, Hoover asked “business leaders to promise to maintain investments and employment.” However, that was not very effective because he was only asking for volunteerism, when many business leaders were also…

In 1932 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president by a large margin over Herbert Hoover. FDR brought his plan of the New Deal to try and reverse the effects of the crash on the United States. In Roosevelt’s run for the presidency, he pledged that he would help “the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” In his Inaugural Address, he said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” which brought hope to the beaten down American. As president, he championed the…

The Condit Dam, constructed along the White Salmon River in South Central Washington, was created in order to power the Crown Willamette Paper Company nearby. Unfortunately, the salmon that inhabited the river were unable to pass through the dam, leading to its destruction nearly one hundred years later. As a result of its removal, the salmon were able to repopulate the river and thrive in the reestablished environment. Although there were complications with the design of the dam, its initial…

The op-ed piece from the New York Times, “Tear Down Deadbeat Dams” by Yvon Chouinard, and the Outsiders magazine article “Blow Up” by Bruce Barcott both argue that the construction of dams has been extremely harmful to the natural world. Even though they are similar in idea and argument, the ways they communicate their message differ. I will analyze: FINISH “Blow Up” is structured very much like a story in that Barcott gives the reader a sequence of events; we dammed and we dammed and we dammed…

• Research the past proposal for the Traveston Dam and answer the following questions 1. Outline the development / Proposal 2. Examine the positives and negatives for this development 3. Make a decision on whether you would have allowed this development to proceed 1. The development was to make a dam to store more water to help Queensland in the drought. The proposal was formed in 2006 and was stopped in November of 2009. The dam would have affected major transport including the Bruce Highway.…

The dam we are planning to build will not only help the environment it will slow down global warming and grow more crops for human consumption. This dam can also be used for irrigation purposes like growing crops for humans and animals alike. You can also use this water as clean drinking water. The salmon population will maintain similar to what was before because ninety-seven percent still survive. It will slow down global warming by not having us burn coal for energy creating greenhouse gases…

environmental activists. In it, self-appointed guardians of the Colorado River become so incensed by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam that they conspire to detonate the massive 710- foot concrete structure. Although the dam remains intact, the sentiment behind removing the dam has since resurfaced. Both Lake Powell, the reservoir formed by the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead, located 300 miles downstream, has been full since 1999. And the lack of water means the cities of the Southwest…

animal besides humans that can build a dam, the beaver. The beaver is a very exceptional mammal because it can create, modify, and control its habitat. Beavers typically inhabit the northern hemisphere, but have also been introduced in South America’s Tierra del Fuego (Cavendish). Beavers are the second largest rodents in the world and have many similar relatives such as the nutria (Cavendish). The main characteristic of a beaver’s habitat is its dam. A dam allows the beaver to control the…

People needed jobs so he created the New Deal. The New Deal focused on fixing the economy, by creating jobs. Using public labor to create a series of dams “Created thousands of jobs for the unemployed” (Foner) which helped them get back on their feet. He believed in Keynesian economics, that the more the Federal Government puts into the economy, the more it flourishes. Another important element that…

Security being two of ones that would last (Divine 757). The TVA was conceived as a regional economic development agency which would take on projects to modernize impoverished rural parts of Tennessee and its six surrounding states. The agency constructed dams, helped with flood control, and provided electricity. Even though it was criticized for damaging the environment and taking on expensive projects, the TVA did succeed in raising the standard of living of people previously living in…