1930s fashion At the beginning of the 1930s more than 15 million americans were unemployed.(“The Great Depression”) The fashion in the thirties was a completely different story. They showed themselves to be fancy and elegant.The 1930s was a time we struggled and had a significant social change. The 1930s was a somewhat “depressing” era of time. In 1929 the stock market crashed which led to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many Americans went into debt and by the time 1931 arrived nearly
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Martin Luther King His experiences as a teenager living in America As a child‚ Martin’s encounters with racial discrimination were mild but influential. When Martin was in high school‚ he attended a speech contest in‚ where he took second prize. But‚ on the long bus ride back: the bus was separated‚ and the black people had to stand so that the white people could sit. Another example is that one day‚ Martin and his father went to buy some new shoes. The clerk told them to go to the back of the
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Two Souls with Different Destiny Growing up‚ I didn’t know who I really was. People thought that just because I’m a "Chicana"‚"Mexicana" that I didnt belong here.Throughout my life‚ I have been keep away from my culture from my people‚but most of all‚ I have been keep away from myself. People should be proud of who they are and where they come from accept their skins‚ our way of speaking because we are all the same. We should all be treated equally no matter were we come from. Through out
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describing how blacks live and are treated harshly. The court case of Tom Robinson‚ which is the main part of the story is a metaphor that Harper Lee has created of the situation in the 1960 ’s. Things were not stable at the time and Tom ’s case is just one example of the racial discrimination the blacks were facing during this time. The racial tension in the 1930s was so serious that even when blacks did do well‚ they were still mocked. An example is when Aunt Alexandra said‚ “Jem ’s growing up now
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The 1930s provided women with more opportunities for women in education and work. Women graduated high school at a slightly higher rate than men did. Female high school graduates increased 20% throughout the 1930s; double than that of the 1920s. However‚ more men continued to graduate college than women (7%); there were less female college graduates in the 1930s than in the 1920s. Even though not as many women were getting college diplomas‚ businesses were hiring twice as many women than men. According
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Women of the 1930s 22/09/12 Of mice and men topic Back in the 1930 women were known as second class citizens. They didn’t have the same rights that men had. Doing any other job than being a house wife was really frowned upon. Men would go out and work for the money whilst women would look after the children and clean the home. Also during this time women had to cover up their legs and arms as men could get the wrong
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During the age of Imperialism‚ racial divisions were at an all time high between the Europeans‚ “The White Man”. And‚ literally anybody else of another race at the time. However‚ racial tensions were quite particularly tense between Whites and Blacks. For the not so first time‚ Europeans were expunging resources out of Africa. And using the natives to do it for them. And an insightful look into the tensions of the time can be observed in two literary works from the time period‚ “White Man’s Burden”
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HIST104: Abortion in the 1930s. The economic situation during the 1930s drove some potential mothers to undergo illegal abortions. Opinions on this issue differed‚ as illustrated by these three documents. Doris Gordon‚ in her newspaper report Evil of Abortion’‚ argues that it is a woman’s duty to reproduce. She feels that the increase in illegal abortions has been contributed to by the advertising of contraceptives‚ high wages for women and lack of supervision of children by parents who
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Gender Discrimination Laws on woman’s rights have changed a lot since the 1900’s. Women weren’t allowed to vote‚ get an education‚ and have high authority in jobs. Now‚ women are allowed to do all of these things and more. But have things really changed‚ or are they just more hidden? There are three ways in which women are discriminated against: in the workplace‚ television‚ and in politics. According to Napoleon Bonaparte “Nature intended women to be our slaves they are our property. Woman are
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policy of appeasement is one in which both Britain and France and many other nations took towards Nazi Germany and its expansionist aims during the late 1930s‚ it is one of the most controversial and criticized foreign policies in history (Gelernter D 2002:22). This paper argues that the appeasement policy was for most nations around the world in the 1930s a less challenging way to deal with the problem of Hitler. Nowadays it is a common view that if Britain and France would have taken a harder line against
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