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    Mental Illnesses Throughout our country’s existence there have been ups and downs‚ but after all the challenges our country always come out stronger. The Great Depression occurred when the stock-market crashed. It affected the working-class‚ the poor‚ and the elderly worse than anybody else. After the stock market crashed‚ the economy went declining and the income between 1929 and 1932 was cut by one-half. Mental illnesses (also called mental disorders) are health conditions involving changes in

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    being shaped by social‚ political and geographical calamities: internally‚ by the Great Depression in 1929‚ the establishment of Popular Front in the mid 1930s; externally‚ by the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the outbreak of WW2 in 1939; geographically‚ New York was described as an “open country”. Above all‚ they were the important factors which led to the development of Abstract Expressionism. The Great Depression in 1929 after the WW1 was the first event that assume the new urgency of turning

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    In past sorrows‚ wage rates normally fell 9-10 percent amid a one-to two-year constriction; these falling wages made it feasible for a bigger number of laborers than generally to keep their employments. Be that as it may‚ in the Great Depression‚ fabricating firms kept wage rates almost consistent into 1931‚ something observers considered very irregular. With falling costs and consistent wage rates‚ genuine time-based compensations climbed strongly in 1930 and 1931. In spite of the fact that some

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    Minimum wage was introduced during the time of the Great Depression by President Roosevelt. Citizens in states which have a higher minimum wage say that states with a lower minimum wage cannot live off of such a small wage‚ and that a higher minimum wage will create higher economy growth and more jobs and minimum wage is causing a significant gap between upper classes and lower classes. Businesses say that it will be difficult to pay their workers more and that they would have to layoff workers and

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    Great Depression Impact "The American People in Hard Times" Employment African Americas Minorities Women Most ppl saw unemployment/poverty as signs of personal failures Men= ashamed of being jobless Relief eventually collapsed Thousands sifted through garbage cans for scraps of food or waited outside restaurants Nearly 2 million men (few women) road freight trains living as nomads Farm income declined 60% 1/3 of farmers lost their land “Dust Bowl”- worst drought in nations’ history

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    know that God has a plan for them and they should trust in Him with all of their needs. Unfortunately‚ some of those who don’t know God have resorted to taking their own lives because they felt like there was no one listening to them. In the Great Depression‚ so many people felt like no one was listening to them or hearing them and felt like they needed to die. In World War I and World War II‚ families started to become depressed when their family

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    The Great Depression The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States‚ the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929‚ which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years‚ consumer spending and investment dropped‚ causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies

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    Intro to American Cinema The Great Train Robbery The main characters in the film The Great Train Robbery(1999) were slick‚ good-looking criminals. They were very good at what they did and were well-known in the underworld. The main characters involved were Bryan Field‚ Fred Forman‚ Gordon Goody‚ Master Edwards‚ Charlie Wilson‚ Roy Jones‚ Bruce Reynolds‚ and Ronnie Biggs. This included Bruce Reynolds being chief planner‚ who worked among the trains‚ while the mastermind of the plan was Bryan field

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    Cummings 1/28/13 English- Research Project The Great Depression The daily life of men and women during the great depression was very challenging‚ as everyone felt indifferent for the struggle and reality of it all. The roles of the men and women were very different as well. The relationships of families conformed to the current conditions of work and hard times that the depression brought. Throughout the Great Depression‚ people seemed to change how they thought about themselves

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    “Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling‚ not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in depth… all in all just to make some easy quick money.” (Rogers) Because of the great depression people had hardly any money‚ and coming up with money was one of the more difficult tasks; therefore‚ coming up with new inventions or technology was one of the more positive ways to make money during the Great Depression. Throughout the 1930s‚ many people desired jobs but few if

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