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    temperature rises above 86º F. An extended heat wave in north Queensland could kill off a large part of its population².   Another species affected by global warming are the coral reefs. If we do not protect the coral reefs‚ they might join the group of endemic species to. The report‚ by the Australian Institute

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    lay-offs occurred and other companies collapsed into bankruptcy. This collapse was not as sharp as that in the United States‚ but was the second sharpest collapse in the world. Canada did have some advantages over other countries‚ especially its extremely stable banking system that had no failures during the entire depression‚ compared to over 9‚000 small banks that collapsed in the United States. Canada was hurt badly because of its reliance and other commodities‚ whose prices fell by over 50%‚ and because

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    Last‚ R.B. Bennet the conservative Prime Minister of Canada had an all right but not perfect solution to the Great Depression. Bennet believed the cause of the Great Depression was business problems. Specifically he believed that Canada needed to stop sending out its resources to other countries and then buy back the finished product. To solve the Depression he wanted Canada to raise its tariffs. By raising Canada’s tariffs‚ finished products from other countries will become too expensive. This will

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    The Great Depression The Great Depression caused the poor to become poorer and the rich were not affected as much. Some of the rich misunderstood people because of their economic situation. Great Depression was one of the most stark economic situations the world had seen. It all started during mid 1900’s and lasted till 1939. The effects of the Great Depression were seen all over the whole world with high unemployment‚ low production and deflation. Some examples of effects were‚ Stock Market Crashes

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    Did the New Deal Prolong the Great Depression? Yes: Burton W. Folsom‚ Jr. * The Cabinet head had personal connections with the President. Made him bias towards FDR’s ideas * Unemployment was higher in 1939 than in 1931 after hoover left office * Govt went from running a surplus to a deficit * Seven Years of trade deficits cursed American GDP over the span of the New Deal * Welfare and Social Security kept lazy people lazy and made hard working people take pay cuts *

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    The Great Depression The next blow to aggregate demand occurred in the fall of 1930‚ when the first of four waves of banking panics gripped the United States (Romer‚ 2015). Millions of Americans lost their jobs during Herbert Hoover’s time as president. Many didn’t work for only a year‚ some longer than that. The time people spent unemployed lasted as long as more than four years during this crisis. It wasn’t until World War Two that America once again saw a rise in the employment rate. People

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    and the house of cards fell. The Great Depression began‚ marking the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States of America. The economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed. Henry Ford had to close several factories in Detroit in 1931‚ putting 75‚000 people of their jobs. By 1933‚ 25% of the American public was unemployed. Tariffs‚ war debt‚ crisis in farmland‚ accessible credit and an unequal distribution of income promoted the Great Depression. Tariffs and extreme war debt policies

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    prospered. In the 1920’s the problems that led to the Great Depression were dispersed over a time of maldistribution of wealth‚ and what was called a bull market. A bull market is a stock market that is based on speculation. Speculation was a system of borrowing money to buy stocks and selling for a profit. Speculation only worked if the stock market was on the rise though. To this day people who have not been properly educated about the Great Depression believe that President Hoover was the cause.

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    Impact from Great Depression Subsequently after the roaring twenties‚ a period of economic boom‚ the United States entered an era of darkness. It was as if the US was a wet sponge‚ and someone wrung the water out of the sponge‚ leaving it dry‚ and defeated. This era of hardships and economic troubles was called the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover‚ main president for the duration of the Great Depression did little to no use in calming this political epidemic. Americans were lost and

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    Causes of the Great Depression Meghan Driscoll Period 7 10/29/12 Many economists believe that our economy works in ten year cycles where there are highs and lows. After the period of economic prosperity in the twenties‚ it was probable that the stock market would go through a period of self-correction. However‚ a multitude of events‚ both domestically and internationally‚ Washington policies and enactments‚ and natural disasters‚ led our country into the worst

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