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    bankruptcy in 1918. People thought the United States’s future faced limited opportunity. It was the longest and darkest economic depression in American history. Then signs of recovery began to show in the early 1930s. The American economy lost more than $30 billion on October 24‚ 1929 also known as Black Tuesday. All major European countries were near bankruptcy after WW1 ended but United States and Japan were financially in good shape. The United States was making more product and made less demand causing

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    Before the 1930s or the first set of "talking picture films‚" all films were completely silent. Usually‚ they had some form of text card that would flash upon the screen explaining what had happened in the previous scene. To keep the film from just being a projected book‚ the film would be accompanied with anything from full orchestras to a pianist. A correctly timed note or a special tone would almost give a sense of depth to a two-dimensional image. Not only this‚ but the music had a second purpose

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    Class-Based Discrimination Class relations also had a strong influence on anti-alcohol beliefs. The economic elite tended to be strong supporters of Prohibition. Many believed that alcohol was a force resulting in an unstable and disorderly society‚ including influential tycoons like John D. Rockefeller.21 The elite also saw the variety of economic gains they believed they could achieve from Prohibition‚ with potentially greater efficiency‚ fewer industrial accidents and as such less worker’s compensation

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    A lot has been done since 1950 to combat discrimination against Black people in the U.S. Legislative and judicial action have been taken aimed at racial equality. Integration becomes a widely accepted goal; the civil rights movement grows; attention shifts to affirmative action. However‚ some political and social factors have hindered change. ?De facto? segregation and social barriers were used to sustain segregation. I. Work towards racial equality. A) Legislative actions. 1. 1964 ? Title II

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    The Chess Game of 1930s America in The Big Sleep In Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep‚ Philip Marlowe represents the shred of chivalry that remains in a world of corruption. Set and written in 1930s America‚ the economic devastation of the Great Depression has a significant influence on the book’s plot that revolves around profit-seeking crime and organized corruption. Marlowe’s work as a private detective brings him face to face with seedy criminals of every sort‚ and each corresponds

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    whites‚ whites would intimidate the blacks that would wanted to vote. During this time it was a struggle to have equal opportunity to employment‚ housing and education. Not only racism was a problem but people who were gay were not respected either‚ it was often rude or inappropriate to have two men or two women show affection to one another in public. Many of these problems were solved in the civil rights movements of the 1950s. Today problems between the blacks

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    if the articles they read that involved blacks are about racism or about something else. The novel "Black Boy" has many racial issues. Some of the issues that are in the novel are the same issues we have to face today. Over many years the question of how racism has gotten worse or improved still lingers in the minds of many people. In the novel "Black Boy"‚ by Richard Wright he was faced many challenges that have to do with racism. In the novel‚ "Black Boy" Richard grew up a confused child who

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    “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over‚” former president of the United States Jimmy Carter stated. Is it really over? Or are we just deceiving ourselves for comfort in our so-called land of the free country? In‚ “Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination‚” Deborah L. Rhode talks about the bias upon race‚ age‚ sex‚ and other matters. Rhode can teach readers about prejudice in our country for obesity‚ religion‚ and stereotype. The restaurant Hooters is

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    The 1930s was an era that the whole world would not forget because it was a decade of great hopelessness around the whole world. Two of the Americans presidents witnessed this era. The first American president who witnessed the great depression is Herbert Hoover

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    Many people probably wouldn’t have made it through the 1930s without music. The people who listened to the music said it was their way of life (Microsoft music). Music helped people forget about all the bad and horrible things going on around them‚ it let them escape their day to day troubles if just for a little while. The kind of music most people listened to was the high beat "Swing". Swing was said to have been born in 1938 when Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers recorded "George

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