The Great Wars

The unemployment rate during the Great Depression reached a high of 24.9%! How do you solve such an issue? Well, the answer was certainly not Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Great Depression was a tragedy that started on October 29, 1929, and put millions of Americans out of work. Franklin Delano Roosevelt devised a plan to solve the problems of the Great Depression; this was called the New Deal. The New Deal provided American people with a series of social and economic programs that…

Herbert hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. He received eighty-seven honorary degrees; a world record during his lifetime. Hoover was nominated for the nobel peace prize five times. Herbert was raised by relatives in both Iowa and Organ. Born west of the mississippi, Hoover was the first U.S. president to come from that far west. Hoover became an orphan at the age of 9.…

Fitsgerald’s The Great Gatsby is set in the money, love, and party rush of the 1920s, where, after the war, God is no where to be found, and everyone’s true love is short dresses and alcohol. The Great Gatsby portrays several characteristics and struggles of the 1920s as described in Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen, which includes post war disillusionment, the upcoming of the nouveau riche, and business replacing God. The first wave of change throughout the nation during the 1920s was…

experiences in The Great Gatsby to make his novel seem realistic during the roaring twenties. Frances Scott Fitzgerald uses autobiographical elements in The Great Gatsby by using his life before the creation of the book, his social lifestyle, and his love experiences to influence the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life prior to the creation of The Great Gatsby parallels with many things in the novel. Fitzgerald uses…

In the years following World War II, the world was seemingly obsessed with a fundamental question: What role should government play in the economy? Socialism became the great experiment of the post-war period, with nations such as the Soviet Union embracing the idea whole heartedly and nations such as the United States outright rejecting it. Still, Capitalists too were now in a great divide. Should markets be free? Should governments intervene in times of economic instability in order to create…

The History behind The Great Gatsby Most of us have more or less positive thoughts about the 1920s. In reality though, this time period was full of depression and disillusionment. In the 20s, people were just getting back from The Great War. After hearing this amazing description of what their life would be like when they got back, everyone returned and were incredibly disappointed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Only Yesterday by Fredrick Lewis Allen, they both describe these…

The unemployment percentage during the Great Depression increased by a high of 24.9%. How can you solve an issue like this? Sadly, the solution wasn’t y Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Great Depression was a misfortune that occurred on October 29, 1929 and put innumerable of people out of labor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought upon an idea to resolve the complications of this Depression and this was called the New Deal. This Deal gave American people a succession of community and world wide…

Jim Hoover was born on September 22, 1937. In the 1930s the Great Depression started when everyone was selling stocks and it crashed. People lost their jobs and their houses and they became homeless. Some of the homeless people jumped on trains and asked farmers for handouts and some of the people lived in camps called Hooverville. There was a drought in the Oklahoma and the mid-west. The dust bowl displayed farmers and they were hit by the drought and they moved west to California. Finally the…

Philip II, The king of Macedonia. After Philip II was assassinated in 336 BC Alexander took over when he was only 20 years old. Before being the ruler of Macedonia he was a war leader at the age of 16. The Great Alexander was a villain because of the fact that he annihilated cities, killed thousands of people, and started many wars. Alexander destroyed and conquered umpteen cities during his control of power. For one, he ravaged the city of Thebes because they had defied against Alexander’s…

divided by the dominance of Sparta and Athens during the Peloponnesian War. “The Peloponnesian War pitted against each other two Greek states that were antithetical in nearly every respect.”(Hanson) Sparta was made of small settlements of and allies and became a military state. Athens had more citizens than Sparta whom had an army of about only 10,000 men. Both Athens and Sparta believed they had advantages over each other in the war between the two, which broke out in 431 B.C. Athenians planned…