The stock market is how companies raise money to grow larger. ... Coolidge would do nothing to control how the money was being spent by business. ... Others though had cleverly planned for the crash and had kept their money out and were ready to pick up some real bargains. ... The government did not want to spend any money to help the economy pick up. ... I think it is somewhat odd that a terrible event such as a war is the reason for such a good thing to happen for the economy to pick up and had the United States working at full power. ...

• Word Count: 1618
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

With the men at war women developed their own sports teams and even competed for money In 1928 Women first competed. 1929 saw the start of the great depression and the Wall Street stock market collapse. ... Women were not included at all in the first one hundred years of sport in Australia. By the 1890's Women were playing sports such as golf and tennis. ... Finally with today's air travel being commonplace sport has opened up to international competition. ... This has led to the need for strategies to be developed so that teams have an insight into how other teams play. ...

• Word Count: 1917
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The stories of these men and women were unlike any I had ever read before. "These men and women came of an age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over the land like a plague. ... "I remember being in the foxhole and...I was lining up my aim on a German. ... Many men at the time felt that women were not as strong as men and shouldn't be in the war. ... G) Your reaction: I was surprised by how this book was written. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

" This statement really shows how much Tommo respects everything that Charlie does. ... For instance he does do things like fight with a boy who has been picking on Tommo and cares for Tommo at war and again stands up for him, which it sometimes seems to be all that Charlie does. ... No matter what though he always seems to make up for his cowardice with courageous acts. ... For most men signing up for war, they did it for the country but Tommo singed up in fear of being known as a coward. In the town an old women teased him saying, "Y'ain't a coward, are you? ...

• Word Count: 1526
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School