Great Depression Article Reviews Samples For Students

The period discussed in chapter 34 is characterized as “age of anxiety”-(1920s-late 1930s)-since it was the period after the great depression in Latin America as well as the end of the Great War. Anxiety ranged when political activists and intellectuals in the affected nations (Africa, Asia and Latin America) begun to challenge the economic and ideological underpinnings of neo-colonialism and European imperialism (Bentley and Herbert, 356-362). This gave anti-imperialists and nationalists’ movements the opportunity to prosper and gain momentum and support in these nations. The United States and European became disillusioned and pessimistic as their culture ...

Women in Breadlines

Meridel Lesueur was a journalist for a newspaper, The New Masses. She wrote the article “Women on the Breadlines” that was published in January, 1932 in The New Masses. One of the myths about the Great Depression has been that women were protected from the destitution and homelessness by fathers and husbands. Instead families were broken up when resources so low everyone could not be fed. Old resentments and jealousies led to lack of cooperation. Young women who wanted to have some freedom instead of supporting their parents and siblings rebelled. Some ran away from the rigid rules in their families ...

The economic crisis that hit the global economy in 2008 is often compared to the Great Depression. The crisis has caused hundreds of thousands of small tragedies, depriving people of homes and livelihoods. Knowing about the events that occurred in the last century, one could not help drawing an analogy with the current global financial crisis. All began in the United States, again everything started with the financial sector and then spread to the real economy, the stock market collapsed, consumer demand plummeted, unemployment increased drastically, money devalued. Although the past events are reminiscent of the current situation, are ...

Introduction
Huey Long was a Senator of the United States (US). At the time when he delivered his speech “Every Man a King” on radio, the US was in the midst of the Great Depression, characterized by a nationwide financial crisis triggered by the crashing of the stock market that sent the national economy plummeting to historically low levels. Long, a popular figure in the US Senate, has gained immense fame due to his policies and proposals aimed at solving the Great Depression. It is in said speech wherein he embodied his thoughts on the ...

Hallstead, Ted and Cobb, Clifford, “The Need for New Measurements of Progress,” in Mander, J., & Goldsmith, E. (1996). The case against the global economy: And for a turn toward the local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Short synopsis of the article: The authors seek to discover why people and politicians are still focused on the obsolete economic measurement, GDP. Beginning by discussing the economic boom of the 1990s, Hallstead and Clifford explain that while Allen Greenspan was assuring the media that the economy was in great shape many Americans were wondering why they were working longer hours with seemingly ...

An introductory code of target marketing is market segmentation. In application of this code, the exploit of demographic profiles has become a admired form of segmenting markets and discovering markets. Age, sex, and household income are specific cases of demographic variables that have been shown to be forecasters of attitudes and behaviour. Furthermore, generational cohort, described as a group of people united by a span of birth years characteristically 17-23 years in period, has been exploited as a widespread approach for sectioning markets based upon age. The generational cohort segments have been revealed to be exceptional with their form, character, views, and core values.

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Part A--Look up the definitions to, or find some information about, the following

before you start the reading (these can be informal notes):
Macadam— Broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar or bitumen.

Subsidy—

Flat fare—
Robert Moses—
Henry Ford—
Mass transit—
Horse cars—
Trolleys--
Hinterland--
FHA—
VA--

Mortgage--

Beltway—
Red-lining---
Edge city—
Lobbying interests--
1956 Interstate Highway Act--

Part B--Be prepared to answer the following in our class discussion:

Why is Henry Ford such an important figure in this history?
Henry Ford made the cars affordable to the millions of people. The new cars cheap and reliable and the assembly lines made the production much faster and more efficient. The ...

Summary of an Essay

The essay was written by Neil Maher in the year 2002. It mainly revolves on issues to do with the conservation of nature, from the reclamation of bare land to the preservation of the existing vegetation cover. He opens his writing with the story of young man in April 1963, who climbs without a shirt on a tall tree at the George Washington National forest. The young man prunes the branches of the tree from the top and then he uses the plant as mast to host the United States flag. This event and many more were at Camp Roosevelt (Neil ...