The Great Depression was an economic downfall that was during the 1930’s. In the previous decade people lived in prosperity and believed it would continue. Many thing accounted for the overall cause of the Great Depression‚ like over optimism and buying on margin‚ but the main cause was speculation. Speculation is investment in stocks in the hope to gain‚ but with the risk of loss. In the 1920’s the stock market was booming.The way of buying a portion of a company became a way to make easy money
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Social Structure of the 1930 ’s Daphne Du Maurier uses her own reflections in Rebecca to criticize the social structure of the 1930 ’s. The settings throughout the book are taken directly from Daphne ’s memories as a young child and adult portraying the high social class environment. Important characters and their actions can easily relate back to Daphne ’s relationship with certain individuals in her life. The characters everyday routines show Daphne ’s social views on the stereotyped British
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Before the 1930’s 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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The Chess Game of 1930’s 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 1930’s 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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Many people probably wouldn’t have made it through the 1930’s 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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The 1930’s 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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Take a moment and think of living in America during the Great Depression and Consumers borrowing on margin causes the stock market to crash on October 24‚ 1929. unstoppable‚ authorities could not apprehend them. Bonnie and Clyde killed anyone who challenged them even police officers. Citizens have become unemployed and two years later Bonnie and Clyde emerges in 1932 along with their gang. What would you do if you lived in fear of the most dangerous couple in America on the run from the law. The
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Unfair treatment between the rich and the poor played a huge part in not only The New York Draft Riot but also the Watts riot. Racism also a great deal had a deal in the tragedies that spread all throughout New York City and Los Angeles. New York Draft Riot is one of America’s most devastating riots. It began as a mild rally against the national draft‚ but turn took a worse as it focused more on the racial and social struggle. In the text‚ The Gangs Of New York‚ Asbury gives a very in depth description
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Not To Kill a Mockingbird Life in the Southern states during the 1930’s was full of racism and bigotry. Whites were seen as being superior over African-Americans and African-Americans were treated as less than equals. Since the 1930’s‚ society has made numerous strides to improve the racial inequality of the past and to bridge the gap between the two races. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird revisits the South in the 1930’s. The language used helps to make the novel more realistic. To Kill
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which is still around today. The game has changed slightly since its beginning but it is not a whole different game. Baseball hasn’t changed much and it doesn’t have to because it is just as exciting as it was when it became popular in the ’20’s and ’30’s. For the Olympics every 2 years the same magic is there today as there has always been. The game of hockey became a professional sport way back in 1890. But in 1920 was when the National Hockey League came on to the scene. The same excitement‚
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