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- 361: The National Debt
- ... 1919, at the end of the World War 1, the debt skyrocketed to 25.5 billion. When the Wall Street fell apart in 1929, the United States fell into something that was called the Great Depression. It started in 1930 and lasted until 1940. During this depression, President Franklin Roosevelt came in. He brought in projects known as Entitlements. Some of them were known as; WPA. TVA. and CCC. Then social welfare was born and social security began. This is what put our country into debt. Then came war, the end of the depression, and the Eisenhower times. The debt kept on growing so new president Lyndon Johnson developed new social welfare programs- Medicare, and Medicaid. The U.S. Government came up with the gold standard and stopped ...
- 362: The Catcher in the Rye Summary and Analysis
- ... is an American novel written by J.D. Salenger, and is about a dysfunctional teenager named Holden Caulfield. Holden spends most of the book roaming the streets of New Yourk City. Holden suffers from mental depression and is on a course toward a mental breakdown. He becomes delusional and finds himself walking the streets talking to his dead brother. Holden is in search of peace away from the ugliness of the ... is on his way to say good-by to old Spencer, his history teacher. Spencer is a depressing old man suffering from grippe. While talking with Mr. Spencer, Holden shows his first signs of his depression. After an unpleasant evening with his arrogant roommate Stradlater and their pimply faced next-door neighbor, Ackley, he decides to leave Pencey for good and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning to his parents' Manhattan apartment. In New York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and depression brought on by the ugliness of the adult world; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother, Allie's death. Holdens sexual confusion further complicates his increasingly haphazardness lifestyle. He ...
- 363: The Effects of Divorce
- ... parents 10 and 15 years after the divorce, she found that diminished parenting continued permanently, disrupting the child-rearing functions of the family. The role of the child becomes one of warding off the serious depression that threatens the parents and holding the parent together. Wallerstein calls these children the "overburden child". They accounted for 15 percent of the children in her study. Many become angry at being trapped by the ... also identified the "sleeper effect" as another long term implication of divorce. It is a delayed reaction to an event that happened many years earlier, (p.60). She saw many young women with acute, delayed depression which she defines as the sleeper effect and warns of it's danger. It occurs when many young women are about to make decisions that have long term implications for their lives. Due to the ... be true of only preschool children and even though the development of masculine sex roles is slowed it is not long-term. Social and emotional functioning includes interaction with peers, emotional states of fear, anxiety, depression and capacity to cope with stress or frustration. The majority of studies show the social-emotional functioning of children of divorce is less than intact families, ( A & J Skolnick p. 351). On the average ...
- 364: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... the author should become suspect.16 Edgar Allan Poe may have very well suffered from disorders. His nervous system was weak, he had a dual nature that tormented him, he suffered form fits of black depression. He was drawn to the themes of death and disease for more than literary reasons. His own personal illnesses may have caused him to see his own death approaching, while his case of depression is certain to only worsen his attitude. 17 Poe s personal problems also led him to a neurotic compulsion toward drink and self-destruction that may have also led him to have been sexually abnormal ... for as long as man exists. Poe is the genius that young children are taught of. He is an icon that America can always claim as her own. Whether Poe wrote of death because of depression, disease, personal losses, insanity, or simply because he may have been the only man bold enough to face the one thing that everyone fears, he interlaced it into his tales to provide us with ...
- 365: Alcohol
- ... your own vomit after an alcohol overdose. Death by asphyxiation occurs when alcohol depresses the body's reflexes to the point that you cant vomit right. Another thing that comes along with binge drinking is depression and suicide. You get depressed so you drink and since alcohol is a depressant it brings you down even more it brings you to the state of hopelessness. The toxic effects of alcohol can manipulate you brains neuro-transmitters, which are responsible for mood and judgement. This can plung you into deeper depression and bring thought about suicide. It can also bring a cycle of drinking: the more you drink the more depressed you become, and that makes you want to drink more. Alcohol induced depression and hopelessness are characterized by self-pity, social withdrawal, self reproah,a sence of guilt,and a retardation of normal mental processes. FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME FETAL ALCOHOL EFFECTS Fetal alcohol syndrome is a group ...
- 366: Of Mice and Men: Mini-Critique
- ... hundred copies. Steinbeck returned to California, living in migrant worker camps to furnish inspiration for writing novels that described the problems and stresses of the times. Of Mice and Men takes place during the great depression in the Salinas Valley, California. It is a story about two farm-hands, George Milton and his large retarded friend, Lennie Small. George and Lennie are on their way to a farm that has harvesting ... Part of Steinbeck's greatness lies in his ability to capture [the] tone of basic reality." Of Mice and Men is based solely on the events that transpired in the Salinas Valley during the great depression. The story accurately shows what life was like among most people just trying to survive. John Steinbeck actually lived as a migrant worker during the depression, this is how he managed to so truthfully portray the lives of the people who were simply striving to make their lives better. Works Cited Hart, James D. "Steinbeck, John" The Oxford Companion to ...
- 367: 1929 Stock Market Crash
- ... control the stock market. These kinds of statements encouraged investors to believe that the market would continue to be strong, which could be one of the causes of the crash. (1929
) The Crash and The Depression After the crash, production fell nearly 50% from the business cycle peak in August 1929 to March 1933. Meanwhile, the overall price level of stocks dropped by about 1/3. Many people blamed the crash for the economic collapse. Some people held responsible, fairly or not, were President Hoover, brokers, bankers, and businesspersons. The cause of the depression cannot be linked to one individual or even a group of people. It is also unlikely that the crash of the market would have been large enough to lead the US economy into the depression by itself and to sustain the downward spiral in business activity. (1929
) Why People Invested in the Stock Market During 1929, people invested in the stock market for five major reasons. The first was ...
- 368: The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
- The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle Pregnancy and childbirth are very emotional times in a woman's life and many women suffer from the "baby blues." The innocent nickname for postpartum depression is deceptive because it down plays the severity of this condition. Although she was not formally diagnosed with postpartum depression, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) developed a severe depression after the birth of her only child (Kennedy et. al. 424). Unfortunately, she was treated by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who forbade her to write and prescribed only bed rest and quiet for recovery ( ...
- 369: The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression of Women in Society
- ... ultimate fall into dementia. By being forced to be her own company, she is confined within her mind. Likewise, part of the narrator's mental confinement stems from her recognition of her physical confinement. The depression the narrator has experienced associated with child bearing is mentally confining as well. Specifically, she cannot control her emotions or manage her guilt over her inability to care for her child. These structures of confinement ... most men had over women in the late nineteenth century. He decides everything on her behalf, including what room she will stay in and who she will be allowed to see. He diagnoses her postpartum depression as a "temporary nervous depression--a slight hysterical tendency" and in doing so, diminishes her complaints and demeans her individuality. His prescribed treatment is worse than the disease; every hour is scheduled, she is forbidden to write, told what ...
- 370: The Great Gatsby As A Metaphor
- ... party was no longer there. In American society the party is over when the Stock market crash takes place, and ends with the sponsor of the party, United States during the Roaring Twenties. The "Great Depression" is in the book, after Gatsby dies, and when the real Gatsby is what counts, his father comes to scene, and the only people that go to the funeral are the people that know who he really is. The party of material exaggeration, buying whatever you wanted if you had the money, trying to achieve happiness through material means, was over. The "Great Depression" hadn't yet happened however, and the book forebodes it, at least to a certain extent. Since, the party symbolized the American society in the Roaring twenties, the diversity of colors, music, people, and in ... it saw the American decadence because of this lavishness and bad use of resources during a decade, before it happened. In conclusion, the clichι "The party was over" is a prophetic vision of the "Great Depression", which portrays the death of a society that is a metaphor to the tragedy of the Great Jay Gatsby, Believing that happiness can be attained with wealth and power.
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