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    Jenny Nguyen Mr. Martin English 1C Period 4 18 April‚ 2013 The Treatment of Women in the Great Depression The world’s most life corrupting stock market crash that occurred between 1929 to 1945 was the most largest economy slump America had to over come in history. As the crash erupted‚ it spilled to not only America‚ but also nearly half of the world and changed everyone’s life that happened to have gotten caught into it. The endless percentage drops of the unemployment rates and

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    is common knowledge that the Great Depression was one of the most challenging eras to ever cross the United States. Most were unemployed and struggled to support their families‚ while the wealthy were virtually unaffected. In began as a result of the stock market crashing on October 1929 and lasted ten years until 1939. By 1933‚ fifteen million Americans were unemployed and several of the country’s banks had collapsed. It is common knowledge that the Great Depression was one of the most challenging

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    The whole world was affected tremendously by the great depression‚ but Canada was one of the hardest hit nations. Exports being a large part of Canada’s income‚ it was because of the damage done to world trade that Canada suffered so greatly. At the height of the depression‚ in 1933‚ 30% of the labour force was unemployed and 20% of all Canadians were dependent on government relief for survival. Did the government do enough to fix this? Most people certainly didn’t think so. The relief that the government

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    “Disney Dollars”
1930[->0]      In the 1930s‚ in the depths of the Depression‚ a new kind of economics began to emerge from an unlikely source: a cartoon character named Mickey Mouse and his animated friends. Mickey was the creation of a young Los Angeles-based artist named Walt Disney. Along with partner Ub Iwerks‚ Disney had bounced around Hollywood and New York with some fits and starts‚ but no real major successes. Then in 1928 the two artists tried a new mouse character in place of an earlier

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    Effects of Global warming Global warming or “greenhouse effect” is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface‚ which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes‚ both natural and human. In common usage‚ “global warming” often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. The atmosphere consists of several “greenhouse gases”‚

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    Beginning with the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24‚ 1929‚ the Great Depression was a time in United States history that continued for a much longer period than panics the country had experienced before. Although the unemployment rate vacillated for the following decade‚ it was highest in the recession of 1937. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the man the people of the United States called upon in order to pick up the copious economic and social problems left behind by Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt

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    is viewed as the beginning of the Great Depession in US. After the collapse of the stock market‚ more banks failed and were unable to give depositors the money from their accounts. AS a result‚ people panicked and withdrew their money from those banks that were still in

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    D.B.Q. During the time of the Great Depression there were major changes throughout America‚ it helped change the role of the government to help the people. When looking at the Great Depression one must look at the effects of the New Deal policy it helped the American people and changed the role of the of the government during this time period. As a result of these successful policies it assisted the American people by giving them jobs and it expanded the government into a bureaucracy. There

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    slump being the Great Depression of the 1930’s and the Great Recession. Both‚ the Great Depression and the Great Recession‚ are characterized by bank failures‚ unemployment‚ economic decline‚ stock market crashes‚ price changes‚ and the Feds. They are both fallouts of the same economic phenomenon and are only different in a few minor respects. There were many reasons that caused the downturns. Before I began my research‚ I thought that the stock market crash caused the Depression‚ and nothing else

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    Nevertheless‚ people shouldn’t rely on classroom lessons. History should be done on ones own to assure our patriotic country justice. Dull people nowadays dislike history‚ due to believing that it doesn’t pertain to them today. I’ve noticed people who complain about history are the same people who can’t locate New York City on the map‚ or better yet the east coast states. If one doesn’t know history‚ then they don’t know anything. They are a petal that doesn’t know it’s

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