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    The Great Depression started in 1929 and lasted for almost ten years. It was a very long‚ and tough ten years for everyone around in America. From the rich people to the poor people‚ everybody had it hard‚ but some had it harder than others. Even though it was over 80 years ago‚ people never forgot about the hard times they went through. There may have been lots of other economic depressions in the past that America has overcome‚ but this time‚ Americans’ lives changed forever. The Great Depression

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    The Great Depression struck the United States in 1929‚ caused by overproduction and weak banks. Overproduction was caused by people manufacturing more than people could buy‚ this forced wages to drop‚ closed businesses and allowed debts to rise. Banks became weak because they gave loans to unsteady sources and gave loans to people who invested in the stock market‚ yet when the stock market crashed‚ the investors could not pay back their loan and took on debt. This forced banks to close and fire workers

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    The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn which started in October of 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. It began in the United States and quickly spread to Europe and every part of the world‚ with devastating effects in both industrialized countries and producers of raw materials. International trade declined sharply‚ as did personal incomes‚ tax revenues‚ prices and profits. Cities all around the world were hit hard‚ especially those based on heavy industry. Unemployment and

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    What are rural values. cities and metropolises were rare up until five hundred years ago. Neighbors are also a big part of country life. One might feel comfortable that he knows and is well known by his neighbors maybe as a sense of protection. Honesty is also another stereotypical trait portrayed by rural people‚ possibly due to fewer obstacles and variables city people have to deal with. Rural people might appear to be friendlier than city people‚ most likely because of less contact with people

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    I was ten years old‚ when the effects of the Great Depression finally hit my family. My family had been doing good compared to the other families that I knew‚ but in 1934‚ my life changed for the worse. The clothing company that my father and mother had been working for was struggling and every month more and more workers were getting fired. The company didn’t need as many workers‚ because they didn’t sell as many clothes as they did before. Then one day my mother and father came home weeping‚ when

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    (both indirect and direct references and quotations). 3. Their Eyes Were Watching God is concerned with issues of speech and how speech is both a mechanism of control and a vehicle of liberation. Yet Janie remains silent during key moments in her life. Discuss the role of silence in the book and how that role changes throughout the novel. (use specific sentences to the text (both indirect and direct references and quotations). 4. In what ways does Janie both fit and defy gender stereotypes in the

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    Great Depression DBQ Great Depression DBQ During the early 1930s‚ the United States has fallen into a great depression. Banks have fallen and unemployment is at an all-time low. Nearly 40% of nonfarm workers were unemployed during the beginning of his presidency. Now a new inaugurated president has decided to take these issues into his own hands and issued a New Deal that promised relief‚ reform and recovery to the fallen nation. FDR’s New Deal was effective because he issued

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    The Great Depression in the United States was the worst and the longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world‚ lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. The Great Depression saw rapid decline in the production and sale of goods and a sudden‚ severe rise in unemployment. Businesses and banks closed their doors‚ stock market crashed (Document 2)‚ people lost their jobs‚ homes‚ and savings‚ and many depended on charity to survive. Natural calamities‚ such as the dust

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    The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the world. After the stock market crash of 1929‚ the American economy plummeted. This was devastating for many families. Thousands of people were out of their jobs‚ and left to starve on the streets. Many were forced to simplify their wardrobes‚ problems in the education systems arose‚ and the banking system was destroyed. People turned to the government to help them out of their problems. Hoover and FDR

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    downfalls in america’s economy‚ but there was one that vanquished them all‚ the great depression. Millions of people‚ rich or poor‚ were affected in different ways. Families searching in the trash for food‚ and farmers killing their sheep because they don’t make profit due to the price for shipping them. Those are two examples of many in which the great depression affected some. The first main cause of the great depression was economic reasoning. Document L states how there was a weak banking structure

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