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    The Great Depression Dbq

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    The Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted almost 10 years; It was a time period when the America had the most severe economic. The majority of American left their home with dream to earn money to support their family; even teenagers left school to get a chance to work in order to find a better life on their own. People who found a work during the Great Depression would have a bad living condition provided. The owner housed them with a shanty, barn, or even an open field. However, the wage…

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    this openly with the population “Our greatest Primary task is to put people to work. This problem can be solved in part by the government creating jobs and treating the task as we would treat the emergency of war”. He promoted the ideals Relief, Recovery and Reform to help the unemployed, rebuild the economy and create a fairer and more just society. The aim of the New Deal was for the government to create Alphabet Agencies that would disburse money into providing jobs for the poor and…

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    put our resources towards the most famous war in all of history ("Great"). Aside from the National War Labor Board, this also set light on those coming home after and during World War Two, so the Servicemen's Readjustments Act was created. The SRA or Servicemen's Readjustments Act was a social program founded in 1944, a year before the war ended, had created loans for houses, businesses, health benefits for new and returning veterans, and provided loans for education ("Great"). Once the New Deal…

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    1. What is the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII)? (p. 289) a. The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) is the average abundance of originally present species across a broad range of species, relative to abundance in an undisturbed habitat. 2. What four pressure variables were investigated? (p. 290) a. The four pressure variables that this paper focused on were land use, land-use intensity, human population density, and proximity to the nearest road. 3. The “average local abundance of…

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    Bruning F. Donald. “The Conservation Role of Captive Propagation in Zoos.” 10.2 (1987): 225-258. JSTOR. Web. 19 Apr. 2016. The point of this article is to explain the contrasting organizations that are involved with endangered animals, and zoos. The first part of the article is spent describing what the different organizations do to help. The second part of the article describes all of the differing endangered birds, and what zoos and people could be doing to save endangered animals. The author…

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    The 1920’s were a time when American culture exploded and ultimately transformed America from a young country to a world power. The American values of individualism and democracy were neither completely enhanced or diminished by modernity because while many strides were made to improve these qualities, the pre-World War I sentiment of reform was destroyed. All of the destruction caused by World War I scared the American people enough to halt the era of reformation and actually did diminish…

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    Humans have utilized cannabis since 2700 B.C. Over the last few decades, marijuana has been used for textiles, medicine, and recreational use. Society tends to correlate marijuana with lazy, unproductive, and food munching individuals suffering from a drug addiction, but the public opinion has changed in recent years. This shift in opinion is due to the fact that scientific research has disproven many of the myths created by reefer madness in the 1960s. The legal use of marijuana recreationally…

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    Mysterious Marijuana When it comes to marijuana, majority often have a negative perspective on the substance, but is this really the case? If so, why have other countries begun to legalize marijuana? The decision on whether to legalize this drug has become a heated debate over the years. Moreover, with today 's media-rich culture, it is not a surprise to find endless aspects on cannabis as our uncertainty and ambivalent attitude slowly radiates towards the substance. However, the contention…

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    reporting violence acts that young kid have committed from killing someone to robbing someone and then we hear from Doctors to Politicians who want to link these acts of violence to these extremely violence video games or movies. Just like the 2012 movie theater, killing of 12 people and injuring 70 others viewing the Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises” where James Holmes committed this crime and then appeared in Court looking like the “Joker” with red-orange hair. Many more acts of violence…

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    American customs ' duties so he decided to enforce taxes to earn additional earnings. The first tax taking into place was the Revenue Act better known as the Sugar Act in 1764. The duties Colonists had to pay on molasses was lowered but began to tax sugar and other goods imported to the colonies. There were also stricter penalties for smuggling. (Keene, pg. 104) This Sugar Act put into place affected the American 's beliefs in…

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