The Mexico of the 1930s was primed for change. While the Great Depression threatened never to end and political instability seemed to run in a ravenous cycle‚ Mexico still smoldered through the 1930s‚ in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Though the Revolution had blitzed through the country‚ leaving death and deepened social turmoil‚ one could posit that a majority of the occurrences of the mayhem were those meant to inspire positive societal change. For example‚ under Francisco Madero‚ the
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Black Blizzard In 1930 there was lots of bad dust storms in the south west‚ creating one of the worst natural disasters in history. These storms ruined land‚ buried roads‚ ruined car engines‚ gave people dust pneumonia‚ and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay. In 1900-1930 families started buying land and moving to the plains. They would farm cash crops on the land but it was
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Reconfiguring the Turkish Nation in the 1930s* SONER ÇAGAPTAY** This article studies Turkish nationalism during the 1930s. In this decade of Kemalism par excellence or High Kemalism‚ the rise of ethnicist nationalism in Turkey was accompanied by the ascent of the “Turkish History Thesis.” The article presents an analysis of Turkish nationalism in this era through Ankara’s population resettlement policies. Consequently‚ it examines Turkish nationalism in the 1930s through the interaction between the
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prize along with short-lived international fame. Today’s “me-era” entertainment is known as reality television. In contrast with today’s entertainment‚ in the 1930s it was known as depression-era entertainment. Depression-era entertainment was known as the dance marathon; however‚ dance marathons began years before the depression. By the early 1930s‚ dance marathons had evolved into a perverted human effort of survival of the fittest--Darwinism at its best. Although dance marathons were originally an
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During the 1930’s the Soviet Union found itself in a incredibly difficult position. Following Lenin’s death in 1925 Stalin was able to consolidate his power base and break with Kamenev and Zinoviev. And by then end of the decade he emerged as the supreme leader. In 1928 Stalin introduces his first Five-Year Plan‚ the “revolution from above” to help develop the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had fallen behind‚ Stalin remarked‚ “We are fifty to one-hundred years behind the advanced countries.... we
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in the 1940s‚ the second wave of migration caused Los Angeles’s population to skyrocket from 63‚700 to 350‚000 by the year 1960. This mass-migration caused many demographic problems in the new racially diverse city. The first sign of lingering segregation was that Blacks and Hispanics were still not allowed to buy real estate in certain areas of the city‚ even though it was illegal. This caused a completely uneven distribution of race across the city. Another factor in this problem was new house
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In his story‚ Bradbury uses the changing symbolism of the bones to represent the difficulty of change for Mr. Bittering. Mr. Bittering was reluctant to stay on Mars and wasn’t prepared to deal with the change that moving would bring. Mr. Bittering started to notice subtle differences in his wife‚ children‚ and food‚ especially when he started to “[feel] his bones shifting and shaping‚ melting like gold (6)”. His bones are a structure that Mr. Bittering relies on to protect and hold him‚ but they
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Yonkers had ’’illegally and intentionally’’ segregated the city’s public schools and public housing along racial lines. According to the‚ Judge Leonard B. Sand of Federal District Court in Manhattan said that in his 600 page decision that the segregation that existed in the Yonkers schools resulted from actions taken since 1949 by city and school officials(Williams 1). Moreover‚ he said that these included the deliberate placement of publicly financed and subsidized housing projects were build in
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government and the president. It took the great attitude of the citizens‚ the election of President Roosevelt‚‚ and a World War II to drag America out of the Great Depression. During the Great depression of 1930s most Americans citizen were at their lowest. People were in poverty‚ bankrupt‚ homeless‚ By 1930‚ 4 million Americans looking for work could not find
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humans. This type of disaster comes from our negligence‚ human error‚ and even intent. One disaster that stands out in history is the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Some speculate that this was a natural disaster while others say it was a technical disaster. But none the less‚ it was a major disaster that
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