The Great Depression was an economic crisis that put millions on the streets. The Great Depression happened when the stock market crashed as an effect‚ thousands of people lost their jobs‚ houses‚ cars‚ and more. The Great Depression lasted a long ten years from 1929 till 1939. The United States was in a place of financial despair and families were greatly affected by the struggling economy. Families were in desperate need of help during this time. The difficulties people had were things like‚ finding
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one of the leading causes of the 1920 economic boom. During this time‚ chain stores began to develop. One of the first chain stores‚ JCP Penny‚ is still around today. With chain stores and millennial malls coming to life‚ this would forever reform how people interact with businesses. In order to help people purchase new goods‚ a new system of “credit” was popularized (“Digital History”). A person could buy a product that they wouldn’t be
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Jackie Robinson the most famous baseball player became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947. Jackie was born in Cairo‚ Georgia‚ on January 31‚ 1919 and was the youngest of five children. He had a grandfather that was a slave‚ Jackie’s dad was a sharecropper and Mallie‚ Jackie’s mother‚ was a maid. Jackie had a tough childhood. His dad ran away from the family when Jackie was only an infant. After his father deserted ‚ jackie and his family moved to california to seek for a better
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Slavery was a practice in many countries in the 17th and 18th centuries‚ but its effects in human history was unique to the United States. Many factors played a part in the existence of slavery in colonial America; the most noticeable was the effect that it had on the personal and financial growth of the people and the nation. Capitalism‚ individualism and racism were the utmost noticeable factors during this most controversial period in American history. Other factors‚ although less discussed throughout
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The Industrial Revolution was a time of extensive and evolutional change. No longer was the main type of production up to the family and professional crafters‚ but instead up to factory owners and cheap labour. The needs of the family‚ the lord or the king were no longer the main reason to research or invent new technologies or weapons. Due to the rapid increase in production and science‚ technological changes brought to the militaries of Europe were greatly effected by the Industrial Revolution
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How the Enlightenment Affected the United States “[A]ll men [...] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights‚ that among these are Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (“Declaration of Independence”). Many may recognize this popular quote from the Declaration of Independence. What many may not know‚ however‚ is that Thomas Jefferson‚ the author of the Declaration of Independence‚ borrowed this idea of “Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” from John Locke‚ an Enlightenment
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THE TEMPEST AND COLONIALISM. There is much in the topical dressing of The Tempest which relates it to the colonial adventure of the plantation of Virginia and with the exotic Bermudas. Critical opinion has varied as to whether The Tempest is closely related to colonialism as undertaken in the Jacobean period; E.E. Stoll wrote in 1927 that ‘There is not a word in The Tempest about America… Nothing but the Bermudas‚ once barely mentioned as faraway places.’ On Stoll’s side we can say that the action
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Liberalism and colonialism: a critique of Locke and Mill Bhikhu Parekh Liberalism is both egalitarian and inegalitarian‚ it stresses both the unity of mankind and the hierarchy of cultures‚ it is both tolerant and intolerant‚ peaceful and violent‚ pragmatic and dogmatic‚ skeptical and self-righteous. Bhikhu Parekh examines the writing of John Locke and John Stuart Mill‚ two of greatest liberal philosophers. Locke state that the Indians had cultivated and lived on their land for centuries and
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Post Colonialism and The Tempest Background Information: In 1609 a fleet of nine ships set out from England‚ headed towards John Smith’s Virginia colony‚ the first English settlement in the New World. One of the nine ships was separated during a violent storm and ended up on Bermuda. These shipwrecked Europeans began colonizing the island and enslaving the native population. Shakespeare’s Tempest is based on this incident. For over a century‚ a number of critics have tried to interpret the
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For this paper‚ I have identified two trends that have lasting influence on the United States of America (USA). The social trend that I will be addressing is the impact of young women to the America’s culture. After the World War 2 (WWII)‚ Americans referred to the decade of the 1920s as the Roaring Twenties because of a varied of factors which include rapid social change‚ impact of technology on domestic life and the changes in social values. Women started to have more social freedoms and young
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