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Pollock battled acute alcoholism. He worked for the WPA during the Great Depression. His work became highly publicized (Life). He enjoyed the work of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco (American Decades). At one time, he was a “communist of sorts” (Sylvester 398). Diego Rivera was affiliated with the communist party. (Block) Orozco, while not a communist, was friends with many. (Wye 125) Pollock was a proponent of Abstract Expressionism, and his untraditional art style made him the subject of…

The 1920s were prosperous years for America. The economy had been in good shape since the beginning of industrialization, which took place at the end of the 19th century. Life seemed to be great to the ordinary person, but in toward the end of the “Roaring 20’s”, America started to go downhill. America entered the Great Depression, and this was a time of poverty and helplessness. Many believe that the stock market crash of 1929 is the main contributor to this depression. While this may have…

After the notorious Economic Boom that occurred in the 1920s, a horrific Great Depression followed in 1929. The occurrence of this widespread throughout America that caused endless hungry and poverty. Then a presidential election was held in 1932 that FDR won in a landslide Franklin Roosevelt proposed a ‘New Deal’ that consists of 3R’s (Relief, Recovery and Reform). The New Deal was divided into two. The New Deal that focused on relief and recovery. The Second New Deal that focused on reform.…

‘Of Mice and Men’ is written by John Steinback in 1937, when the American society is still recovering from the Great Depression. Through his minor characters, Steinback shows the fall of the American Dream, with prevalent discrimination, a lack of hope and low social mobility in the post-depression American society. First, Steinback’s minor characters and their dreams reflect the post-depression society’s lack of hope. When Lennie and Candy visit Crooks and talk about their dream, Crooks…

As told by Barry Eichengreen in his journal article, “Viewpoint: Understanding the Great Depression,” the main cause of the Great Depression is the money problems they are having, and this is in effect of the crops not growing. The people had to move to where the money is or could be obtained. Therefore, there is a major migration across many different borders. The people do not have the money to stay where they are. They must go to where people said the jobs would be. The major area for this is…

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…