One in eight women develop clinical depression in a lifetime. ... Although one in four recognize a change in their eating habits as a sign of depression, only 16% recognize irritability as a sign of depression. ... She still had to face the root cause of her depression. ... Jennifer states that laughter is the great healer for her. ... Many of these women were likely suffering from depression. ...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Its purpose was to overcome the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression. ... The AF of L was a division of many craft unions, sanctioned by the teamsters that had great political influence in during the depression. ...

• Word Count: 8719
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

Race and the CCC The Civilian Conservation Corps was Roosevelt's first recovery attempt to help the "forgotten man" after the Great Depression. ... The government at the time had provided these jobs through the CCC with the hopes of helping the unemployed and their families during the depression, not to further consent segregation. ...

• Word Count: 311
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance brought many great changes. ... Unfortunately, he watched Harlem decline with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... The Great Depression marked the end of the Harlem Renaissance. Thousands of people were out of their jobs; it was a sad and dangerous place to live, after the depression. The impact of the "Great Depression" upon African-Americans was devastating. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When the great depression struck black people were blamed for white people losing their jobs and money. This of course was absurd, much like over in Germany where Jewish people were blamed for losing the war, the great depression and any other problems Hitler could think of. ...

• Word Count: 513
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• Grade Level: High School

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Setting) The setting is important in the story because the whole story grows out of the particular back ground. The place where the novel is set is a county called Maycomb, an imaginary county in Southern Alabama in the United States. In Maycomb, most peopl...

• Word Count: 486
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• Grade Level: High School

No one has ever said that life is easy, especially those that lived during the 1930's and 40's in an era known as The Great Depression. During the depression, life was an on going struggle for all. ...

• Word Count: 546
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• Grade Level: High School

He recollects just how farm life was in the 30's and 40's during the depression, and how the farmers in the south treated their neighbors both white and black. ... All in all it is a great book that broadened my view of life on the farms during the depression....

• Word Count: 554
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• Grade Level: High School

This movement, including the further growth between 1920 and 1930, is referred to as the "Great Migration."Blacks left the South in astonishing numbers for many reasons: depression in the agricultural southern economy; the World War I industrial boom in the North; growing oppression in the South. ... They were also pushed out of the South by a severe depression that took place between 1914 and 1915, forcing black farmers to lose their lands and their jobs. ... Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer, the pleasure-seeker, the curious, the adventurous, the enterprising, the ambitio...

• Word Count: 2437
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• Grade Level: High School

In the 1930, actual events that were happening in the country included the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the combination of the unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade. ... These market crashes, combined with the unequal distribution of wealth, caused the Great Depression. A theme that is affecting the United States today was also a predictor of the Great Depression. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, the party didn't last into the next decade and the country fell into a deep depression. ... On top of the financial difficulties the depression brought, widespread racism re-surfaced in the North. ... The line about Louis Armstrong refers to the great jazz trumpet player, the first black man to be recognized as a successful jazz artist by a white audience. ... Its tone reeks of depression and self-pity, "On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted my song Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along."" ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The effects of the Depression are present and 2 visible in the story. ... The effects of the Great Depression are evident in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It is set in the nineteen-thirties at the height of the Depression and the state 5 of the people of Maycomb live in demonstrates that. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many people of other skin colors and races were segregated. ... During the Great Depression, people were all treated differently based on their race. ... (Steinbeck, 81) Crooks has a great deal of intelligence, but his color "reminds" him of his place in society. ...

• Word Count: 994
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• Grade Level: High School

It took the American democracy several years to enforce equality among whites and blacks. Several authors such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen confronted this situation of the incomplete American dream with literature that proposed the irony of its society. These works focuse...

• Word Count: 548
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• Grade Level: High School

The great depression of the 1930s increased the economic pressure on all sectors of life. ... a riot in Harlem in 1935 "set off in part by the growing economic hardship of the Depression and mounting tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem who profited from that community "shattered the notion of Harlem as the "Mecca- of the New Negro. ... The use of nature for this purpose draws characters/speakers to life and adds great depth to his works. ...

• Word Count: 1518
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The introduction to these very radical politics so early in life had a great impact on his writings and social activism (Berry 10). ... The onset of the 1930s and the Great Depression only fueled Hughes" commitment towards his radical issues and racial equalities (Berry 27). ... Langston Hughes was a great man in Black rights history. ... Since Hughes was never married and considered a homosexual, he can only leave behind his great legacy, a legacy that consists of his activism in the Harlem Renaissance, his political activism, and his numerous literary works. Langston Hughes helped shap...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The war ended a decade-long depression for whites, and a century-long depression for blacks. ... This migration was steady through the 1920s and even during the Great Depression did not slow dramatically. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," contains many examples of prejudice and discrimination towards women, children, people of dark skin, and family backgrounds. The novel is mainly about the discrimination in a trial of a black man accused of rape. Discrimination is stated in the dictionar...

• Word Count: 778
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, takes place during the Great Depression. While the town of Maycomb struggles with this downfall, they have a greater battle to face, discrimination. Lee presents the acts of prejudice and exhibits the tragic consequences that fall upon those involve...

• Word Count: 612
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• Grade Level: High School

Strengths of a Woman Through the Looking Glass with Maya Angelou's Poem "Phenomenal Woman". As we go through life, we have many experiences such as reading poetry. It may not be fun all the time, but it is one of those things that, whether we can admit it or not, is a good experience for all of us...

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In order to save her ancestry, a black woman named Dana is sent back into time repeatedly to save her great-great-grandfather Rufus who ironically is a white southern slave-owner, confused, spoiled, and a rapist with a remarkable gift for self-destruction. ... "Violence, exhaustion, and alienation often left African slaves to profound depression and occasionally to self destruction"(Joyner, 175). ...

• Word Count: 1157
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One of the factors contributing to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of African Americans to northern cities, such as, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1926. ... Hughes continued writing through the 190s and the 1940s, speaking for the poor and homeless black people who suffered during the Great Depression. ...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

In order to save her ancestry, a black woman named Dana is sent back into time repeatedly to save her great-great-grandfather Rufus who ironically is a white southern slave-owner, confused, spoiled, and a rapist with a remarkable gift for self-destruction. ... "Violence, exhaustion, and alienation often left African slaves to profound depression and occasionally to self destruction"(Joyner, 175). ...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Woodruff worked through the depths of the Great Depression in order to find a teaching job that would influence the poor students of Atlanta. ... During this time he also produced several great works of art. ... Hale Aspacio Woodruff arose from the depths of society to prove that he had what it takes to become great. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It reflected her commitment to the civil rights movement and the depression she had gone through college. In her earlier days Walker was on the edge of committing suicide but overcame all her depression and stress. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School