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The Great Depression is known as the most difficult time Americans have had to face individually and as a country. The two presidents that served in office through it, Hoover and Roosevelt, took different approaches in resolving the country’s problems and came out with different results. It was a time of disagreement among the American people and brought a lifetime of hardships to many. However, the government actions taken during this decade in American’s history has shaped much of how our…

During the 1920’s America was hit with a time of poverty and despair, later to be known as the Great Depression. It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly caused this worldwide depression but there were many contributing factors, such as the lack of diversification, the poor credit structure of the economy, and the unstable international debt structure. Economists argue that if the government implemented more structure these causes could have been avoided, but no amount of government support could have…

What goes up, must always come down. Jay Gatsby learns this lesson the hard way. The The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, represents the 1920s stock market through the green light’s symbolism, the condition of Gatsby’s house, and the life of Jay Gatsby/James Gatz. The book traces the steady climb to an ultimate peak, then dramatic plummet of the stock market during that time period. Born into a poverty stricken family, Jay Gatsby works hard to swiftly increase his standard of living. Before…

Food insecurity was a big problem during the Great Depression and is still a big problem today. Food insecurity is not knowing when or where your next meal is coming from. During the Great Depression, almost half the kids were without food, shelter, and medical care. In 2014, sixteen million children are living in child poverty. There were many causes for food insecurity during the Great Depression. One of the causes was when the stock market crashed and stocks became worthless. When the…

The CCC: Saving America’s Economy Since 1933 The Great Depression was one of the largest national crises in American history. Leaving a stunning fifty percent of the nation unemployed, many citizens went daily without food or means to provide for their families. In order to provide jobs for citizens, the government established many programs to help support the unemployed. One such program was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Formed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, the CCC was an…

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…