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- 141: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... 1945), 32d president of the United States (1933-45); elected for an unprecedented four terms, he was one of the 20th century's most skillful political leaders. His New Deal program, a response to the Great Depression, utilized the federal government as an instrument of social and economic change in contrast to its traditionally passive role. Then, in World War II, he led the Allies in their defeat of the Axis powers ... upstate farmers. His greatest struggle—for control of the Saint Lawrence River waterpower resource by the state rather than private utilities—aimed at providing cheaper electricity for the rural consumer. With the outbreak of the Great Depression, he identified himself with the urban relief cause by appointing Harry Hopkins to head the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. As the depression deepened, he assembled the “Brains Trust,” a group of faculty members ...
- 142: The Great Gatsby: Life in the 1920s
- The Great Gatsby: Life in the 1920s “The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is a portrayal of life in the 1920’s. Fitzgerald told the story in first person, which help give the story a realistic account of the characters. The use of first person made the story easier to follow and helped structure the plot. “The Great Gastby” is an interesting novel because the story line is good, the characters are likeable people, and it gives an overview of a different generation. One of the most important parts of the story ...
- 143: Angel Island
- ... known as the "Mountain of Gold or Gold Mountain." Gold Mountain was more of a myth than a fact the American advertisements proclaimed it to be. Advertisements spoke in propaganda of untold riches and stories: great pay, good food, large houses, and most of all, that the Chinamen were welcome. Unfortunately, the Chinese immigrant's dream was shattered when he went searched for Gold Mountain, but found himself washing someone else ... more. There were less than a hundred people from China by 1853; however, the large influxes began in 1854, where thirteen-thousand immigrants traveled by ship in search of gold. It was not until these great influxes that Americans started to notice their Far East counterparts. While a mere thousand Chinese immigrated annually, which irritated American workers because of the competition for jobs, eight-hundred-thousand Europeans came to the U ... taxes were doubled. What was ironic about the law and taxes were that they were against everything the American Dream had stood for and the idea America has tried to promote for other races. "A great army laying siege to Nature in her strongest citadel. The rugged mountains looked like stupendous ant-hills. They swarmed with Celestials shoveling, wheeling, carting, drilling, and blasting rocks and earth."6 Once mining became ...
- 144: FDRs Influence As President
- ... claims can be backed up by the overwhelming support that he received from his citizens throughout his four terms in office. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began a new era in American history by ending the Great Depression that the country had fallen into in 1929. His social reforms gave people a new perspective on government. Government was not only expected to protect the people from foreign invaders, but to protect against poverty ... nationwide radio address, outlining a program to meet the economic problems of the nation. He coined the term "forgotten man" to mean all of those who had been hard hit by the evils of the depression. These radio addresses were the start to what he called the "fireside chats". Overall, Roosevelt was the most energetic and dynamic candidate, and he was nominated by the party on the fourth ballot. Although ...
- 145: Mi Familia
- ... too many of these immigrants have been tragically abused by the system that was designed to welcome them and protect them. The time period that this movie takes place was after the Revolution and the Great Depression had just begun. The great depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. History. The depression began in 1929 and lasted for about a decade. The main cause for the great depression was the combination of the ...
- 146: Madness In Yellow Wallpaper
- ... can be examined in the context of modern understanding. “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written in first person and first published in 1892 in the January edition of the New England Magazine, depicts the downward spiral of depression, loss of control and competence, and feelings of worthlessness which lead to greater depression and the possibility of schizophrenia. This paper will explore two possible causes of the main character’s madness. These causes are the subjugating treatment inflicted upon her by her husband, and the idea that the ... I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hysterical tendency -- what is one to do?" (671). The doctors seem completely unable to admit that there might be more to her condition than just stress and a slight nervous disorder even ...
- 147: Emile Durkheim & Anomie Or Strain Theory
- ... in it, without clear rules to help guide them. Changing conditions in society as well as adjustment of life leads to dissatisfaction, conflict, and deviance. Durkheim observed that social periods of disruption, such as economic depression lead to increased levels of anomie and higher rates of crime, suicide, and deviance. Durkheim believed that sudden change caused a state of anomie. The system breaks down, either during a great prosperity or a great depression, anomie is the same result (Durkheim). Robert K. Merton, borrowed Durkheim’s concept of anomie to form his own theory, called Strain Theory. It differs somewhat from Durkheim’s in that Merton argued ...
- 148: Comparisons of Classical and Keynesian thought.
- ... only real school of thought from 1776 to the 1930's. The Classical thought is one that had its origins in Britain and with British's economists. As early as Adam Smith and until the great depression, most all economists were Classical economics. As a whole they believed that the self-correcting mechanisms of a market economy would continually guide the economy toward full output and full employment. Market prices would adjust ... to restore the economy to full employment and that if a slow down or recession was to occur that it would most certainly be short lived. A working economic example of this would be the Great Depression, experienced in the 1930's. The stock market crash, bank failures and a decade of unemployment averaging 20% to a high of 25% (1933) caused sever problems. This was a crisis not only ...
- 149: Great Issues In Western Civili
- Great Issues in Western Civilization A great issue can be defined in many ways; one way is how it effects people and how many people it effects. Of course it is based on the fact that it is great; and it wouldn’t be great unless people were affected by it. Then the question is what is an issue, and what makes an issue. First of all, every issue has to have more ...
- 150: Constantinopolis
- ... This led to the development of space frames, which are simply trusses or other elements arrayed three-dimensionally. Advances in the art of analyzing structural behavior resulted from the demand in the 19th century for great civil engineering structures: dams, bridges, and tunnels. It is now possible to enclose space with suspension structures-the obverse of vaulting, in that materials are in tension-or pneumatic structures, the skins of which are ... and excavated until the late 19th and 20th centuries. See Mesopotamian Art and Architecture. Early Persian architecture-influenced by the Greeks, with whom the Persians were at war in the 5th century BC-left the great royal compound of Persepolis (518-460 BC), created by Darius the Great, and several nearby rock-cut tombs, all north of Shìraz in Iran. See Iranian Art and Architecture. Egypt The urban culture of Egypt also developed very early. Its political history was more stable, however, ...
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