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    If you could work at your dream job, what would that look like for you? My dream job would be something that didn’t require me to keep a schedule. Obviously I would like to make a ton of money, but I’ve never really been the type of person that wanted to provide a lifestyle that I couldn’t really participate in. Like a doctor or a lawyer has to work insane hours, and although they are paid well, they can’t really enjoy life because they’re working all the time. I think I would enjoy being an author. Giving lectures at colleges and symposiums would be kinda cool. Or maybe a motivational speaker, that would be fun. But, to answer the question directly, my dream job would be . . . a business investor. Like, I would invest in other people’s ideas and businesses and then make a profit. I wouldn’t have to manage anything or run a company of my own, I would just profit off of the labors of others. With that, I could enjoy life and do whatever I wanted to do. I think that would be…

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    In 2009 Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as president and he became the first african american and first president to be born outside of U.S and in his first year as president he won the Nobel peace prize which showed that he was destined for greatness as president. Many people will say that Obama has done nothing in his 8 years in office but this essay will argue that during Obama`s eight years in office he has had a great impact on America and the world. Obama helped america and the world…

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    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” (Dickens 1). Charles Dickens describes the time period of the novel A Tale of Two Cities using only superlatives, as people lived in extreme wealth or extreme poverty, with nothing inbetween. In England, unfair law and order wrought mass crime upon the people. Depending on the jury’s mood on a given day, they could sentenced the accused to minor punishment, such as branding, or drawing…

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    The Great Depression and the Recession of 2008 were both memorable events in US history. These events both dealt with financial issues within the US government, within stock markets and the home market. The Great Depression took place in October 29, 1929. Later on, another disaster hit in December, 2007 called the Recession of 2008. Both of these events were caused by bad financial status but they are also different including the work issues and values, presidents and the duration and finally…

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    United States has one of the best and stable economy in the world, but all economies have its ups and downs. Well from late-2007 through mid-2009 USA experienced one of the worst if not the worst recession in its history. Many people compared it to the Great Depression and were saying we will be in another depression. Well the government and the Federal Reserve were doing almost everything in their power to prevent that. They succeeded in keeping us out of a depression and took us out of the…

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    American history, the Great Depression. The Dust Bowl was the area of parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico in the 1930s that experienced strong dust storms and lack of water, causing a drought. Although many factors can be accounted for the causes of the Dust Bowl, the main reason is farmers excessively cultivated and plowed their land, exposing topsoil. The strong wind picked up this topsoil and created strong dust storms; decimating homes, schools, and buildings. Also commonly…

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    The Devastating Dust Bowl Would you sell your farm if the only weather were dust? Would you stay and try to farm, with no water? The Dust Bowl is a natural disaster that only happened once. There were only a few unlucky enough to witness it. The Dust Bowl started with a drought, but the effects were much worse, so make sure to bring a handkerchief! To begin with, The Dust Bowl started in 1931 and ended in 1939.1 A combination of things caused it, the most frequently known one being…

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    Joanne Samcea's Analysis

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    Mills was an American sociologist who believed that “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both ” (Mills, 2000). He contemplated that an individual’s life experience could be explained by the large-scale social forces that governed the society. This idea of the awareness of the relationship between experiences and the wider society was coined the sociological imagination. By using the sociological imagination, one can contextualize…

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    opened up America’s job market and allowed for more jobs to be created. This meant more jobs in factories that produced things, transportation industry like trains and railroads. And since more and more people had…

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    The New Deal Success or Failure “It is hard to fail, but is worse never to have tried to succeed” Theodore Roosevelt. During the great depression the country pass for one of the worst economic moments in the history, and the president Franklin D. Roosevelt, make the economy work again, with multiple ideas to get out of the bad situation, help the people to have food to eat, this group of ideas is called the new deal. That’s why i think this initiative is a success in the History of our…

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