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The stunning fashion of the 1930s corresponded with the glamour of Hollywood.... he United States (US) encountered the great depression and its effects between 1929 and 1941 and was going through a difficult phase of international politics; the advent of World War II (WWII) was gaining momentum.... This essay "The Representation of Women in Films in the 1930s" discusses how the films relied on the unrealistic and exaggerated portrayals of sexual relationships and romance to appeal to the audience....
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Essay
The unions had made strides through the ability to organize in the 1930s and the war effort of the 1940s.... The essay tells about labor history of the United States, economic depression's positive role in worker solidarity, the Cold War's effect on union gains, movement alliances during the 1960s, labor history's continuing presence, business's exploitation of internal union divisions.... It was the direct connection between the union and the working class that was able to mobilize the unions during the depression....
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The paper "Examining the Relationship between capitalism and Democracy" discusses that there were similarities between the economic situation in the Weimar Republic in its last years and Russia during the early 1990s.... Generally speaking, outlined below is an evaluation of the link between capitalism and liberal democracy, which examines how liberal economic, philosophical, and political thought changed from the Eighteenth century onwards.... To a large extent, both capitalism and liberal democracy were the inadvertent outcomes of profound economic, political, and social changes from the Fifteenth century onwards....
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No matter what metric is analyzed, the great depression was an extremely difficult time.... The researcher of this essay "Cubism and Fauvism" aims to analyze the differentials in definition between these two approaches to artistic representation.... A perfect example of Cubism in the art would be Pablo Picasso's work; specifically “Seated Nude”....
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This paper "capitalism: Economic and Social Change in Europe" discusses capitalism as a distinctive means of organizing human existence.... In the advent of globalization, where not only goods are exported, imported – traded – but ideologies and cultures as well, capitalism is spreading like wildfire.... The 'collapse of Communism' in the late 1980s and 1990s seemed to confirm what many people have long believed: that capitalism is the natural condition of humanity, that it conforms to the laws of nature and basic human inclinations, and that any deviation from those natural laws and inclinations can only come to grief....
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This paper "the great depression and the American Film Industry" focuses on the fact that the great depression was a major global economic downturn in the early 1930s.... The duration of the great depression varied from one nation to the next.... he great depression disrupted existing social structures.... For many nations, it kicked off in 1930 and lasted through the late 1930s or mid-1940.... At the peak of the depression, approximately 25 per cent of working Americans were out of jobs....
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he great depression of the 1930s was an economic catastrophe that severely affected most nations of the world, and Australia was not immune.... The credit crunch after the sub-prime problem has literally put the global economy on the verge of depression which is on the lines of the 1930s.... The two variables under the scanner here are the Great Depression that raged the world economy from the period of the late 1920s to the decade of the 1930s and how it has been argued that it was in fact men like Hitler and Mussolini in combination with the aggressive ambitions of Japan leading to World War II were actually responsible for bringing the world out of one big problem only to be plunged into another....
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At this time, the world economy was experiencing the longest cyclical crisis since the great depression.... During this period, capitalism which has been stabilizing in the 1950s and 1960s was being challenged by the rise of industrial militancy.... Social democracy seems to be an alternative to capitalism in the wake of Keynesianism and the welfare state (Hayford, 2001)....
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