Nineteen Thirty One Analysis

The United States of America is known for many things and accomplishments, one of these accomplishments would be the longest standing constitution still in use. This is quite impressive but, how did the constitution set up such a successful government? In the discussion there will be an evaluation of how the government was original set up and what key changes have been made over time; then go into great detail about the function, power, and make up of each of the three main branches of the government: the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judiciary branch; finally we shall discuss how these branches interact and balance each other out. This will hopefully bring a deeper understanding and insight to the workings and processes of the American government.

In 1931, the United States was in the middle of the Great Depression. After the black market crash the

In the 1930’s a whole new nightmare had occured. The Great Depression into play losing all their money. During this economic crisis a lot of things happened, some even tried to solve these predicaments.

And lastly, people began to show interest in the stock market, which generated money for them, making citizens feel good about their actions. Concluding, the economy in the 1920s was far more superior than of 1930s. The economy in 1930s was rather ungrateful compared to that of 1920s. During ‘30s, there was a steady increase in the rate of unemployment, banks were failing, and people had less to spend due to their low income (document 6). Along with this, farmers and poor people went almost unrecognized and suppressed under the pressure of mortgages and loans (document 7).

In the 1930s, several economic, political, and environmental factors caused Americans to lose hope of a future beyond the extreme circumstances in which they had to survive. America prospered during the roaring ‘20s, but the stock market crash of October 1929 set off a devastating chain of events; banks and factories closed and one out of every four Americans found himself unemployed. The sudden economic collapse began the era of the Great Depression, in which millions were jobless by 1933 and countless others wandered the country in search of work, food and shelter. “The core of the problem was the immense disparity between the country’s productive capacity and the ability of the people to consume” (Nelson). The economic downturn coupled

Following an era of economical prosperity, the Great Depression, otherwise known as the ugliest sister of the 1900’s family, which lasted an entire decade from 1929 to 1939, began on a fateful day with the New York Stock Exchange abruptly crashed and was unable to recover quickly. This occurrence, of course, had an unforgivable effect on the economy, leading to one of the most memorable and significant eras in American history. Not only affecting the economy domestically, internationally trading was burdened by the limp leg that was the United States. Socially, people were struggling to regain their balance after a main income source –agriculture- was swept away by the Dust Bowl, only worsening the drawn out effects of the initial Wall Street crash. Politically, the US faced severe turmoil with presidency of Herbert Hoover due to a lack of action to prevent economic decay and promote domestic and foreign recovery. Needless to say, after one presidential term, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected into office and soon passed the New Deal, a highlight in his presidential career. However, due to the previous president, there were several critics about the nature and efficacy of such a policy. The Great Depression was a time of discussion and criticism of political policy and the nature and efficacy of said policy in dominating the backfire of grand economical proportions within the United States alone.

With works in every known medium, from every part of the world, throughout all points in history, exploring the vast collection of the Museum of Modern Art was an overwhelming experience. The objects in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts are an important historical collection, reflecting the development of a number of art forms in Western Europe. The department's holdings covered sculpture in many sizes, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, jewelry, and tapestries. The gallery attracted my appreciation of the realistic qualities of the human body often portrayed in sculpture.

The 1930’s were certainly a marked departure from the 1920s. The nation plummeted into the worst economic depression in its history and the social and cultural consequences were huge. One of the most interesting developments is the changing relationship between intellectuals and the broader public in those years. Many American writers like Zora Nealle Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway grew skeptical and weary of the general public during the 1920s, but during the Great Depression, were moved by the hardship they witnessed, the nation began to empathize with and work through the struggles of ordinary Americans. If the 1920s was marked by cultural division and by the disillusionment of intellectuals, than the thirties were marked by economic despair and by the discovery of the virtuous “common man” by the nation’s intellectuals. The period of the 1920s and 1930s is arguably the richest period in intellectual life of the nation and for that reason alone people should have some familiarity with it. The parallels between the cultural debates of that era: over immigration, religion, the role of the federal government, and the meaning of the American Dream. An understanding of the time between World War I and World War II years will enhance the understanding of the cultural, political, and economic debates of the present.

Life socially in the 1930’s was particularly vigorous. Everyone slowly stopped buying excess goods that they did not need. The extra money was spent to pay off buy-here pay-later loans or invested into the Stock Market. Although the nation did not know the uncertainty of the

By 1930, round about 4 million Americans looking for work could not find and the unemployment increased and the country’s industrial production had dropped by half. Food schemes and homeless people became more common in America’s towns and cities. Farmers who have been struggling due to drought and falling food prices couldn’t afford to harvest their crops and farmers were forced to leave them rotting in the fields, meanwhile there were people suffering from starvation

When World War I ended on November 11, 1918, President Warren G. Harding proposed “a return to normalcy”. This promised a return of the United States prewar mentality, without the thought of war contaminating the minds of the American people. With this in mind, the 1920s began- but Americans in the 1930s witnessed dramatic changes in their lives from the 1920s. The 1920s was a period of prosperity and economic success, while the 1930s was a time of economic downfall. The economy fluctuated between times of great prosperity and times of undoubtable depression. Following these economic downturns was a period of rigorous attempts to recover from severe economic loss. It did not take long for this economic hardship to lead to some more

Few Americans in the first months of 1929 saw any reason to question the strength and stability of the nation's economy. Most agreed with their new president that the booming prosperity of the years just past would not only continue but increase, and that dramatic social progress would follow in its wake. "We in America today," Herbert Hoover had proclaimed in August 1928, "are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us."1

I read an article out of TIME Magazine. This article was written on October 5, 1931. It tells of how pay in many different industries would be decreasing by an average of 10%. This was crushing to many people and experts were very unsure how this event would unfold within the following months. “The long averted, much-discussed

In October 1929, the stock market in the United States crashed. The life Americans once experienced during the early part of the 1920’s quickly faded away. By the year 1933 it was recorded that at least 25% or 13 million people in the labor force was unemployed. As the newly elected president, Theodore

‘Imagine you were in charge of a museum’s collecting policy. What would you chose to collect and how would you justify these decisions?’