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    The Great Depression was one of the America’s most trying events in history. President Hoover spent four years trying to solve the problem‚ he could not succeed. He promised the people that it would run it’s course‚ and then it would be over and the economy would bounce back. Over the next three years this could not have been more untrue. In the year 1930 there were about 4 million people without work‚ by 1931 that number became 6 million. Eventually‚ Hoover called the nations most prominent bankers

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    Have you ever wondered about the great depression? Or how they lived through it? The great depression started in the 1930’s. It lasted for nearly ten years. “The great depression put millions of people out of work.” It seared itself into memory of those who lived through it. 1930 was a work here and a work there. “No income meant they had to cut back on everything possible.” They kept their regular payments on two metropolitan life insurance policies. They had to stop ice and milk delivery also

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    to treat a life-taking heart problem in babies “blue babies”. Thomas was was young when he lost everything. Thomas was a hard working person who had lost everything during the great depression‚ but after that he still has doing his best. The year the great depression stroke everyone had nothing. He had no way to go college and he quit school to help his family and to save money for what the had lost. He did his best. Because Thomas lost his life savings do to the Great Depression‚ as he was

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    Great Depression and WWII Business leaders and economists told Americans it was their duty to buy stocks John J. Raskob • Chairman of the board of GM • Wrote an article stating that a person who invested $15 in a good common stock per month would have $80‚000 within 20 years Bull market of the 1920s • Stock prices increased at twice the rate of industrial production • Paper value outran real value 4 million Americans owned stocks • Had been lured

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    of the Great Depression. Hardships were suffering and the economy was falling apart. This puts many Americans out of jobs and they lost almost everything they owned. Since Herbert Hoover‚ the 31st President of the United States‚ did not help‚ he was the one to blame for the downfall in economy. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President‚ he promised that the people will get back on their feet. He created what was known as the “ New Deal”. This deal helped solved the Great Depression. The New

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    The Great Depression was a point of time in history where people thought everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Everyone was loosing their jobs‚ people were lining up in soup kitchens‚ and all the banks were running out of money. American was made up of immigrants‚ and those people had come to America to escape this kind of depression to have a better life. In the 1920’s people seriously believed that the stock market could go up and up forever. Also people were investing in things often

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    The Great Depression was one of the world’s largest impacts; which is what inspired me to write on this topic. So many people lost so much‚ & so many lives were destroyed. For ten years‚ a lot of families went through stress. Due to this‚ crimes were beginning to be committed. This shocking event began in October 1929. It happened to be the deepest and longest lasting ‘economic’ downturn in history. Bank failures were one out of the few reasons the Great Depression occurred. “The

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    Draft #3 7 March 2015 Poverty‚ don’t believe everything you hear! More than 16 million children in the United States – 22% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. We cross paths everyday with people struggling to pay bills and put food on the table and our completely oblivious to their struggles‚ because we do not see poverty unless it blatantly obvious. As Diana George says in "Changing the face of poverty‚" there are many aspects of poverty that are misrepresented

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    The Great Depression was a time of widespread poverty‚ unemployment‚ and homelessness lasting from 1929 to 1941. The events leading up to the Great Depression formed a snowball effect. During the Roaring 20s‚ the wealth was not being shared with the workers. Wages were not keeping up with rising prices‚ so workers were unable to pay for goods. As fewer products were being sold‚ factories had to let go of workers. All these factors caused a gap between the rich and the poor as the middle class fell

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    experience a depression‚ recession‚ or both at some point in time. A depression is much more severe than a recession. A recession leads to a depression. The best way to determine whether your country is going through a depression or recession is to look at the changes in the national gross product. When a country’s gross domestic product declines by more than ten percent‚ you are encountering a depression. In the United States‚ we experienced a the Great Depression during the 1930’s while the Great Recession

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