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    Flint is the largest city and county seat of Genesee County, Michigan. Located along the Flint River, 66 miles northwest of Detroit. Flint has a population of 102,434 according to the 2010 census, from a high point in the mid-1950s of nearly 200,000 people. Flint’s primary economic resource was dependent on automobile manufacturing, through GM’s Buick and Chevrolet divisions, both of which were founded in Flint. However, by the late 1980s the city sank into a deep economic depression and GM closed

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    Often referred to as the ‘Dirty Thirties’, was the Great Depression in Canada. Starting October 29, 1929, the New York stock markets decreased value caused many citizens in Canada to lose their jobs, homes, and other belongings. Over five years, the national spending in Canada fell 42 percent and 30 percent of eligible working Canadians were without a job until 1939, when it dropped to 12 percent. The four western provinces; British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba were impacted most

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    Body 1 The Pikes Peak gold rush attracted people from all over the U.S. as well as from many different countries. During the Pike's Peak gold rush the state of Colorado was the center of the Euro American culture. Thousands of people from many different countries in Europe came to the Pikes Peak to get rich and follow the American dream, as the author of (article 3) explains, “ The Colorado gold rush created the nucleus of Euro America” (3). This shows how thousand of immigrants came to America to

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    Life Was No Longer Real

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    5. What did Roosevelt mean when he said that for too many Americans during the Depression, "life was no longer free, liberty no longer real"? Roosevelt proclaimed that, for too many Americans during the Depression, “life was no longer free, liberty no longer real”. This is due to the fact that the Depression disabled Americans, as implied by Roosevelt when we stated “…men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness” (Foner 818). Prior to the Depression, the economy was controlled by tyrants

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    Consequences After discovering errors in its accounting and the failure to set aside enough reseveres for customer refunds, Groupon. Inc announced revision of its first financial results posted as a public company in April 2012, which resulted in a cut to its 2011 fourth-quarter revenue of $14.3 million. In addition, this revision has reduced its fourth quarter operating income by $30 million, net income by $22.6 million, and earnings per share by $0.04, due to an increase of operating expenses after

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    Therefore, Coolidge lost the election to Herbert Hoover which was only in office for a few months before the nation fell into the Great Depression. There is still controversy amongst scholars today debating what ultimately caused the stock market crash in 1929.

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    The stock market crash affected New York’s economic, social, and political life in negative ways. Life became difficult for New Yorkers as jobs declined and people had no money. Rising stock prices led to risky investment practices and when the stock market crashed, banks were in trouble. On October 24, a day that is now known as Black Thursday, the market plummeted further. The following week, on October 29, a day that was later called Black Tuesday, prices took the steepest dive yet. On that day

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    It was a block Monday, an aching day for the financial markets in the US, sequentially for the entire US economy, even in the global economy. The markets at that day were bleeding, all stock market indexes’ screens were filled with red scaring color. Dow Jones lost 1.2 trillion dollars in its market value which was the worst single day losses since this index has been founded in 1869. This deterioration occurred on other stock market’s indexes: Standard & Poor's 500, NYSE Composite and NASDAQ Stock

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    The Road to Rock Bottom The Road to Rock Bottom is one of the most touching movies that I have watched this year. The movie tell the story the difficulties that sharecroppers, farmers, and farm workers before especially during the beginning of The Great Depression. I noted that this movie largely dwells on the distressing environmental factors such as drought and how they affected sharecroppers, migrant laborers, and farmers. I also noted that during this time, farmers greatly suffered as a result

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    dramatically increase in value. but for the economy so many Americans invested so much money into the stock markets it started to inflate in price. Which it worried shareholders, but the shareholders heard rumors that the stock markets were going to crash. Many were afraid that the stocks would be worthless. As stocks climbed in price many Americans believed that they could obtain a lot of money even if they only had one or two stocks. But unfortunately, for many potential investors, these people did

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