... can be defined in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America was shaken by Stock Market Crash of 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped in with his New Deal in hopes of bringing the US into more prosperous times. He promised to fix the American economy, provide jobs, and help the needy. As America was restored, culture grew quickly. ... favorite. Other popular movies of the time were musicals and dance films. The highest grossing musical film of the 30s was James Whale's Showboat. This entertaining version of Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein's mu...

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... of blacks in Harlem doubled, as did the black populations in many other northern cities. 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. The black migration to New York City and other Northern cities ... . There you get music, food, and refreshments for a quarter to a dollar. This money would go to help pay the host's rent. You can find invit...

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... very quickly after that marriage Ernest fell in unrequited love with Adriana Ivancich. However things did not last because she was only 19 years old. Depression ran in the Hemingway family. Ernest's father became very depressed and committed suicide. As the saying goes, "like father, like son," Ernest also became very depressed and committed suicide. Around 1946 Ernest started his serious occurrences of ... in bullfighting, and, in 1935 Green Hills of Africa based on his African safari trip. Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing were also finished during the 1930's with his collecti...

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... as 6th in the world. Banking, agriculture and manufacturing are the main sources of income for the state. Manufacturing played a big role in the economy for the state in the earlier years of its development. In the early 1900's Pennsylvania provided 60% of the United States steel, by 1960 Pennsylvania only provided 24%. The Great Depression in the 1930's had the states unemployment rate at 37%. During the 1940's federal aid and the need for munitions ... in textile mills, leather making, lumbering, ship building, publishing and tobacco and paper manufacturing. During the early 1900's Pe...

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... De Stijl. In July 1919, he returned to Paris; there he exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the group after van Doesburg reintroduced diagonal elements into his work around 1925. In 1930, Mondrian showed with Cercle et Carré and in 1931 joined Abstraction-Création. World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and ... then to settle in New York in October 1940. In New York, he joined American Abstract Artists and continued to publish texts on Neo-Plasticism. His late style evolved significantly in response to the ... Gallery, New York. Mondrian died February 1,...

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... . Jazz was a flourishing art form that Hughes often liked to write about. It is easy to see why most of his poems of this period (1921-1930) would be cheerful. Unfortunately, the party didn't last into the next decade and the country fell into a deep depression. The period between 1931 and 1940 was a dark period for Hughes and for African-Americans in general. On top of ... frustration. "White Man! White Man! Let Louis Armstrong play it And you copyright it And make the money. You are the smart guy, White Man! You got everything!- It intensity makes the reader anxious just from reading i...

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... until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. More than a literary movement and more than a social revolt against racism, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique ... Vachel Lindsay, who liked his poems and promoted them. In 1926 Hughes published his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, about Harlem life. Hughes continued writi...

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Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904 in The Bronx, New York. As A child, she had dreamt of becoming a great biologist. She studied Herpetology (the study of reptiles) in high school and had hopes to become good enough to go on an expedition. She attended many universities where she began to pursue her degree in ... married, on February 27, 1939. They eventually divorced in 1942. Margaret was a woman of many firsts. She was the first woman photojournalist for the magazine Fortune in 1929. In 1930, she was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. Henry Luce hir...

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... as well as morals. As a result of this industrial revolution, out of the woodwork came a humble yet driven man, Henry Ford. Between the five-dollar/day plan, his policies on administrating the company, and his relations with his customers. By the mid twenties Ford had the world's most successful automobile company, but their great reputation would soon decline. Fords $5/day plan for all employees signified ... be denied. It was common knowledge in fact that Henry Ford was prejudice. He wrote an article in the Dearborn Independent expressing his ideas that Jews were the cause of many peop...

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