Living out in the Streets 1. Introduction * People who are homeless are not social inadequate. They are people without homes. * Besides Hawaii being a favorite residency and vacation spot for many people‚ the islands also have a large homeless population * Currently‚ more than 6‚000 people live on the streets in the entire state. * The number of homeless people increases by 61 percent since the year 2000 and about 11.5 percent are living in poverty * 3 major causes that
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On October 29‚ 1929‚ Wall Street investor traded 16 million shares one the New York Exchange. Billion of dollars were lost‚ thousands of investors became poor. After that day‚ Black Tuesday‚ America spiraled downward marking the beginning of the Great Depression that lasted for
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Faces of Poverty In the United States‚ the Great Depression started soon after the stock market crash of October 1929‚ which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. Over the next few years spending and investment stopped causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. Times
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Economic Situation Reality The Economic situation is the movie Atlas Shrugged is an event we should think about. In the movie the Economy is plummeting and the government is very hands on in fixing the government‚ with its rules and regulations against successful businesses such as Rearden Steel and Taggart Transcontinental. In Atlas Shrugged the United States Economy is plummeting. The country is lacking the supply of oil and the prices of gas reach up near Forty Dollars. Americans walk
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Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. This would be the first time trading stocks was done in an organized fashion instead of at random like it was done prior. This location deemed successful for 30 years before it was moved to its permanent location on Wall Street in New York City. The stock market remained successful until it crashed on Black Tuesday in 1929. This crash resulted in the loss of billions of dollars and marked the beginning of the great depression. The great depression would last for about
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At a time when the United States and Europe were still recovering from the effects of World War I‚ Americans‚ unfortunately‚ were not allowed much of a reprieve from their misery. On October 24‚ 1929‚ the official crash of the stock market on Wall Street occurred. Widespread speculation rather than true investment and buying on margin were major factors in the cause of this day‚ now called “Black Thursday.” Along with the Great Stock Market Crash‚ overproduction compared to a reduced demand and
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Many of us in this day and age are familiar with the Social Security Act of 1935 as the roots still bury deep in American history. It was on August 14‚ 1935‚ an important day in time‚ when former President Franklin D. Roosevelt drafted his signature to carry out the Social Security Act (FDR Signs Social Security Act‚ History). In President Roosevelt’s very own words‚ "We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life‚ but
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stimulate the same sort of emotions within the viewer. Her photo‚ “Ghost Child”‚ exemplifies the intensity of emotions within the migrants. On a superficial level‚ the photo depicts a migrant girl with tattered clothes standing against a crumpled metal wall‚ glaring into the camera. That glare she gives as she tilts her head towards the camera is the most striking part of the picture‚ and Lange makes us focus on it by contrasting her bright pale
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What conditions and events led to the Great Depression? The question of a country’s economic affairs is quite a delicate issue. By definition‚ the economy is regarded as the prevailing conditions in a country with regards to the country’s cash flows‚ and the production and consumption of different commodities. On this premise‚ there are usually three economic states that a country might experience. These are economic stability‚ economic boom‚ or economic depression. Economic stability is whereby
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nationalist consist of the church‚ army monarchists‚ landowners and employers.on the other side the Republicans consist of workers‚ socialists and peasants. Economically the country was hit pretty hard by the great depression which was caused by the Wall Street crash in 1929. Thanks to that the government that was in power (military dictatorship). The country was so divided that the army decided to take control of power and removed the new republic by force in 1936‚ therefore‚ a civil war began. Now I
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