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    How does Stienbeck explore different attitudes to women in the novel? ‘Of-Mice-and-Men’ was written by Steinbeck in the 1930’s towards the end of the depression where millions of people were financially ruined and had lost everything. This crisis was added to by a series of droughts which caused crops to fail and lots of farmers were unable to cover bank loans used to buy their farms and had to sell up to cover debts. One third of America’s population were unemployed and there was then no dole

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    Life in the 1930’s shown in Cinderella Man In Ron Howard’s film‚ Cinderella Man‚ the story of the famous boxer James J. Braddock is told during his career in the late 1920’s and 1930’s during the Great Depression. Jim is a fierce boxer during the 1920’s and is very successful‚ but as the years go by Jim begins to wash up and lose his luck in the ring. He suffers an injury and loses his job as a professional boxer right as the economy begins to plunge as the country enters the Great Depression.

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    In the 1930’s‚ President Herbert Hoover strongly believed that in order to maintain a healthy economy‚ the citizens must invest into it and act in the interest of the country as a whole and not individually. Even before the great collapse‚ farmers acted in their

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     the  77   Champs  Elysées.     This  is  a  1.685  square  meters  building  in  one  of  the  most  famous  streets  in  Paris‚   France  and  Europe.  Built  in  1930  this  building  has  6  offices  floors‚  1  retail  unit   ground  floor  and  is  situated  in  the

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    Individual blame can cover up a much larger‚ societal issue In the excerpt from Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed‚ How They Fail‚ authors Fances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward use the Great Depression of the 1930’s to illustrate how people respond to crisis. In the beginning of the economic depression when workers were being laid off‚ “official denials helped to confuse the unemployed and to make them ashamed of their plight” (Piven and Cloward 290) In reality‚ the issue expanded far beyond

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    Compare and Contrasting Images Rural life has changed in major ways over the time period of 1930 to 1935. American Gothic and Rural Rehabilitation Client are two different forms of art in this time period. In these pictures their clothing is very different. American Gothic is well dressed and in the Rural Rehabilitation Client they were dressed very unprofessional. American Gothic is a painting and that depicts the hard working farmer. In the picture the man is well dressed and is holding a pitchfork

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    A man named Avis D. Carlson wrote in a New Republican article “The impact is like a shovelful of sand flung against the face (The Dust Bowl of the 1930s). By “impact” Avis was referring to “Black Sunday” in the “Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl was made up of parts of Colorado‚ Oklahoma‚ Kansas‚ and Texas. The Dust Bowl was an area of the Great Plains that was devastated by depression and drought. The area was 150‚000 square miles‚ had little grass and soil‚ and‚ unfortunately‚ had abundant winds. “Black

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    potentially economical and ecological quagmire from taking place. One viable solution is to introduce superabsorbent polymers into the soil used for agriculture‚ which can drastically reduce the chances of another major drought like the one in the 1930s. Today I will be sharing with you what super absorbent polymers are‚ how they support the soil and plants‚ and how they can be

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    answer. 1. A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s Author’s Purpose: to entertain Explain Your Answer: Write a sentence or two. Because it is a story and wants to entertain. 2. A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s Author’s Purpose: to inform Explain Your Answer: Write a sentence or two. It is giving an idea or information about great

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    cheap land‚ farmers engulfed the Southern Plains and began to plow the land to grow wheat‚ not taking into consideration the climate and soil or ecology of the land; and there was the biggest mistake made in the Dust Bowl. During the drought of the 1930s‚ the soil was turned into dust and the wind blew the dust in huge clouds‚ which would sometimes cause the sky to blacken‚ giving it the name “black blizzard.” Dust storms mostly affected areas of Texas‚

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