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- 1061: FightClub
- ... there to feed their curiosity but that motive soon changes. More and more men gather to hear Tyler's philosophies. We are the Middle children of history, with no purpose or place. We have no great depression. Our war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We are a generation of me raised by women. Tyler speaks to people. He say's the things many have thought but never said, and he dose something about it. ...
- 1062: Themes Of Unity In The Grapes
- John Steinbeck s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, is a moving account of the social plight of Dustbowl farmers and is widely considered an American classic. The novel takes place during the depression of the 1930s in Oklahoma and all points west to California. Steinbeck uses the Joad family as a specific example of the general plight of the poor farmers. The Joads are forced off of their ... theme during his general chapters about the plight of the people. Steinbeck is clearly upset by the fact that the farms and land of California or controlled by too few people. He comments, And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, know this one fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away (Steinbeck 324). He also speculates that when a majority of people are hungry and ...
- 1063: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... were developed, many people in Southern rural areas became extremely poor. Some moved to the city; others stayed on the land to try to get whatever was possible out of it. Then, in 1929, the Great Depression hit the United States. The farmers seemed to suffer most because they depended entirely upon their land for a living. Their crops rotted, and they had little or no money for seed. But, in 1932 ... ran up, touched the house, and ran back. As the three children stared at the old house, they thought they saw an inside shutter move. Comment Many themes and plot-themes emerge in Chapter 1. Great emphasis is placed on the world of Scout, Jem, and Dill - a small world bounded by a few houses and composed of only a few people. From the limited knowledge of this small childish ...
- 1064: Death Of A Salesman: An Overview
- ... financial trouble, and the only remedy for the situation is to commit suicide. In the stage production of this tale, the specific lighting, set, and musical designs really give the story a strong undertow of depression. And logically the screen and stage productions both differ greatly in regards to the mood they set. Moreover the movie production can do many things that just cannot be done on stage, with reference to the setting of course. To generalize, the play gives us a good hard look at the great American Dream failing miserably. However the combination of both the stage and screen productions accurately depict the shortcomings of the capitalist society. Death of a Salesman specifically focuses on four characters, the first being the ... in the play,(on par with his luck) translates into Willy getting fired. As the plot unfolds we discover that Willy had a rich brother who recently died named Ben, whom Willy looked upon with great admiration for becoming extremely wealthy and the ripe old age of 21. However Willy also becomes very depressed when Ben leaves, the fact being that he re-realizes the meagerness of his own life, ...
- 1065: The Ice Storm
- ... with the realities of their lives, both individually and as families. The majority of the past and present studies of martial discontent decisively show that non-working married women are much more prone to anxiety, depression, and mental breakdowns than married men, married working women, or single women. ii. Elena Hood and Jane Carver are stereotypical suburban wives. Jane is portrayed as a sexual person, her first three appearances show her ... The kids knew it, the wives knew it, but didn t know how to express it. America was at a crossroads. Vietnam had shown the country that the US of A was not quite as great a power as many had believed. Nixon showed that maybe the fish does rot from the head down. Many lessons were learned in 1973, and some, like Mike Carver and the soldiers in Vietnam, lost their lives learning them. During the Depression and World War II, women s work became much more than tasks performed at home. The go where you want to go, do what you want to do mantra of the 60s showed women ...
- 1066: Birth Of Nazism
- ... With the loss of the war, came the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles. Within the treaty, many demands of Germany were made which nearly raped her of her economic capacities. Industries had suffered, causing great unemployment. With this unemployment came inflation as well. The hardships posed upon the country not only harmed her economically, but socially too. The state of the people was equally harsh. Stripped of any sign of ... not endured since the Thirty Years War. Everything familiar to Germany had been replaced by the Treaty of Versailles. This state was the "breeding ground" of Nazism, or National Socialism. At a time of severe depression, the ideas and promises of the National Socialists looked very promising. Many Germans lacked faith in the existing government and began to turn to political groups that called for extreme changes. Nazis had divined a ... work, Hitler made no secret of how he saw the future of the National Socialism, nor where he intended to take Germany. (Bullock, 1962). Nazism did not gain wide support throughout the nation until the Great Depression in 1929, which began with a worldwide business slump. Discontented Germans turned to Nazism in increasing numbers, drawn to it by the promises of economic help, political power, and national glory. Finally in ...
- 1067: Henry Ford
- ... to beat the competition which were General Motors and Chrysler. He was the president of the Ford Motor Company. He made a lot of money doing this. He lost a lot of business during the Great Depression. Before Ford could be wealthy, he needed a way to get wealthy. Fords experience with machinery led him to creating a car and a car company. This made him wealthy. Being wealthy during the Great Depression was a very good thing. In conclusion, Henry Ford was a person who made cars and was very rich. Making cars is what made Henry so rich.
- 1068: The New Deal
- The New Deal The Great Depression was a time when people needed someone to take charge and make something happen to better the economy. In 1932 a man named Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with a new strategy called the New Deal, which he and all Americans hoped would bring their country out of the worst depression it had ever seen. Along with this new deal, came what some would say was the third American revolution. A revolution involves some sort of change in the way people live, be it either ...
- 1069: Grapes Of Wrath: Jim Casey As A Christ Figure
- ... characters. However, the majority of each characters individuality happens to lie within what they symbolize in the microcosm of the Joad family and their acquaintances, which itself stands for the entire migrant population of the Great Depression era. One such character is that of Jim Casey, a former preacher and long-time friend of the Joads. In this story, Casey represents a latter-day Christ figure who longs to bring religious stability ... could no longer hold and wages plummet deeper, just as the upper class citizens began to regain the advantage over the oppressed Christian members of society. Aside from these occurrences in common, there lie a great deal of others. Steinbeck clearly presents Jim Casey as a definite Depression-era representation of Christ in the first portion of the story, while further evidence is present throughout the entire novel. The author ...
- 1070: American Exceptionalism
- ... most heavily in. What Lipset establishes as "egalitarianism" is the "equality of opportunity and respect," a principle that entails a lack of a monarchical or severely hierarchical social pyramid. Herbert Hoover, the president during the Depression in the late 1930's, propounded a theory like this in his philosophical book American Individualism. Consider this excerpt from his work: Our individualism differs from all others because it embraces these great ideals: that while we build our society upon the attainment of the individual, we shall safeguard to every individual an equality of opportunity to take that position in the community to which his intelligence, characters ... This war has taught me- I love my country and I'm not ashamed to admit it anymore. I am proud of the men of my generation. Brought up in false prosperity and then degrading depression, they have overcome these handicaps... In overcoming her notions of cynicism regarding the United States during the war, this woman turned herself over to patriotism, a genuine feeling of true American exceptionalism. In light ...
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