...This is about what people think when they think the Great Depression was hard for the people that lived through it. The Great Depression was when everyone didn’t have money so they had to make of it what they had. Other people may say it was easy for people and they just had to work more. So the Great Depression was hard for everyone who lived through it so this is about it. One reason was the Mine where everyone worked shut down so almost everyone was out of a job. The mine shut down because the Great Depression took all the money from everything so they had to shut it down. They also didn’t have money for supplies to mine. They couldn’t afford support beam for safety so it eventually shut down. They didn’t have the money to keep...
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...civil war hero, after the civil war he dedicated his life to study law to become a lawyer. He was a quiet reserved man, and had an incredible quality of persuading people. McKinley was charismatic and many Americans around the country went to the white house to see him. He was elected in 1987 and led the country out of the worst depression they have passed. In 1900 was election year, and because of the good growing economy and good administrative results people wanted him to run for presidency again. However, his wife Ida Saxton was very sick and he did not know if she would be able to be with him in a new mandate. She was a very beautiful, strong woman when they met. McKinley fell in love with her very quickly. Rapidly after they got married, Ida Saxton had their first baby girl. Then, she was pregnant again of her second baby. During labor of the second child, she had convulsions that affected her second baby lifespan. Shortly, after six months her baby died and her life changed forever. She kept having convulsions, which doctors diagnosed as being epilepsy. Years later, her first daughter also died. As a consequence, Ida Saxton went to a deep depression. Even though she was very sick, she kept by McKinley side. She accompanied him all the events that he needed to present. The United State was the most prosperous country in the world. People were happy and if they were not prosperous yet, they would keep working on it to make their dreams come true. In the winter, the northern...
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...This story was about Mexican men who came to AZ to work in the mines. Before the Mexicans arrived to AZ they were promised great jobs and wages but none of that occurred. They weren’t considered human beings to the Americans; the Mexicans were used for hard labor. In Clifton Morenci Arizona mining copper made them one of the richest mining districts in the U.S... Thousands of Mexican workers came to the United States because they were promised a better life. Among the first to arrive was David Valasquez he was a courageous man that left Mexico with nothing but his bags and false word from the United States. Along with David, most of the miners came from the Northern Mexican states of Sonora and Chiwawa. These miners have been mining for generations and were brought to Clifton Morencia where the population grew from 200 to 10,000. Copper was was a big necessity in Az. It was used for telephone lines, telegraph sevices, and power plants. The working conditions for the Mexican workers were beyond horrible. They used candles for light and spent 12 hours a day underground. They worked 4,000 feet below the surface and in a maze that tunnels 100 miles long. The work areas were cramped, the air was thin and the temperature was 104 degrees which is extremely hot! The Mexican workers were accustomed to these harsh conditions when it came to mining, but they weren’t prepared for the way they were going to be treated all because they were Mexican. Mexicans were assigned the worst...
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...The Great Depression me Institutional Affiliation Date The Great Depression Duignan, B. (2013). The Great Depression. New York: Rosen Pub. The book highlights information concerning the great depression. The author argues that the great was a period that was characterized by severe hardship which affected every person. The time did affect not only the poor but also the rich. It was also marked with various changes in the world politics. The book stresses that the primary cause of the great depression was the 1929 market crash. The writer argues that the U.S was the most troubled nation in the world. It changed the country’s popular culture and its government institutions. It also affected other industrialized states as they suffered a decline in the wholesale prices. The book states that various moves that were made so as to deal with the issue of Great Depression. For instance, one of the moves was the devaluation the States currency. The first state to recover was Britain as it was forced off the gold standard early. The book underlines the causes of the great depression and its impacts. The source also offers information concerning the significant steps that were taken by different countries in dealing with the issue. The book provides clear information about the Great Depression. The author divides the book into various sections where he starts off by giving a short introduction to the topic. It helps a reader to have...
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...Connor Wallace GS1140 Wednesday Unit 2 research paper 1 Problem and solution Depression is something everyone can go through. Some people get depressed more than others due to serious amounts of stress. I have experienced a certain amount of stress that has led me to be depressed and has led me to think about doing unimaginable things. A friend of mine was depressed to the point of almost trying to commit suicide again. I however didn’t agree with his course of action so I talked to him and got him to relax. I told him there are plenty of solutions to keep yourself happy and to stay away from depression. My solutions consisted of hanging out with your friends, Playing games or watch your favorite shows or to have happy thoughts. If I ever get depressed I typically go straight to my friends. Having friends around helps because they do anything to make people happy. Talking to our friends makes us forget about the depression we go through and makes us think about others for a change. Thinking about others can lead to changes in action upon depression such as suicide. If you think about what your friends might go through if you die you most likely won’t commit to such course of action. You’ll choose to live on for them and start doing all you can to make yourself happy. Usually when I’m down in the blues ill tend to play some video games or watch anime. Games and anime keep me distracted from what goes on in reality and keeps my attention on what’s going on in the show...
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...I worked at Panera for a little over a year, as a waiter (what they called a food runner/dining room server), cashier, line worker (I made sandwiches), and dishwasher. For some odd reason though, I found dishwashing therapeutic in an odd sort of way. There is a certain rhythm that I followed whenever I worked as a dishwasher. It was the same rhythm, no matter how tired, or bored I was. This helped to make the shifts go by faster, and gave me more time to think about my life. I would listen to my classical music in the back of the house and just think. The dishwasher, with its rhythmic cycles, swirling water and dish detergent around the dishes, cleansing them of grime, just as it did my thoughts. I, unfortunately, have clinical depression and anxiety. I may not seem like it on the outside, but I have a lot going on in this big head of mine. Self-demoting thoughts like, “you’re not good enough”, “you will never make it”, and “why do you even try? Just stay as a dishwasher” would swallow my mind in a wave of dark feelings during the day. Walking through the day, let alone the week, was rough. I would arrive at work feeling as if I wouldn’t even make it through my shift. I would walk to the back drudgingly, wanting to just fall on my face. Alas, I would put on my apron, and walk to my dishwasher. Radio, fork antenna and all, set to 101.1 WRR, I would get to work. Around the time I was working at Panera, my home life was very unsteady. A lot of the time, I would look forward...
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...Co-workers and friends would be the second people to consider. We will also approach them the same by being careful with our words. With the co-workers we want to assure them that this was a freak accident and that before the mine is back up and operating again that there will be more safety measures in place. Some potential needs to be provided to the families of the miners in receiving a message about this event would be to address them very carefully. Once you distinguish what has happened you must assure them that everything will be ok. You must explain to them the process that is being taken to safely retrieve the miners out. We will give the family members specific lines to call to help them deal with the stress and depression. We will also offer any sort of compensation that is needed to help them live while the miners are trapped. Some potential needs to be provided to the company’s employees of the mine in receiving a message about this event would be to address them very carefully. Assure them that everything is being done in order to retrieve their co-workers. An investigation is being placed to determine the cause of the accident and how it could have been avoided. There will also be another investigation throughout the mine in order to promote the safety of the...
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...play a role" A. Overview * Defining Disability in Cambodia - Cambodia has one of the highest rates of disability in the developing world. -The main causes of disability are due to illnesses, diseases, and accidents. -The causes of disability from mine are relatively in the low percentage. -Approximately 3 people are killed or injured by mines in Cambodia each day however traffic accidents are significantly responsible for the causes of disability. * Table of Disabled people in Cambodia * Disability and Poverty - National Poverty Reduction Strategy states that 36% of the population in Cambodia live below the poverty line of US $0.40-0.63. -Disability and poverty are closely intertwined, the victims of mine are usually poor people that have to live near and enter mine affected areas to collect food or firewood. -They also use less safe methods of transport and work in risky environments. -Lack of access to basic health care leads to infections, illnesses and injuries that often result in permanent disability because the wounds were left untreated. -Untreated common childhood ear infections are a major cause of permanent hearing loss in children -Psycho-social mental health problems such as depression and anxiety due to being in poverty can also be disabling. -Malnourishment is a major cause of developmental delay and long -term intellectual disability. Iron deficiency can reduce intelligence and Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood...
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...Adult Depression and BPS Name University Professor Unit Date Discuss BPS factors contributing to depression in adulthood, and BPS ways of managing it The biopsychosocial model was first pioneered by a cardiologist by the name Dr. George Engel and has been embraced today by the mental health specialists. This model depicts that the biological, social factors and physiological factors are all vital and rely on each other to promote health or cause a disease. What affects the body will also often affect the mind. Wellness or a state of illness is not entirely based on an individual’s physical state but also on the person’s psychological and social status too. These elements that can contribute to depression in adulthood include; biological, psychological and social factors (Melchert, 2011). Biological factors can make one to be prone to depression in adulthood. This is the reason because some people are more susceptible to depression as compared to others because of their biological factors and their hereditary genes which put them at a higher chance of becoming depressed in the future. Children also can inherit depression symptoms from their parents. Psychological factors are also part of the BPS model (Melchert, 2011). The factors that influence depression include poor coping skills, impaired emotional intelligence and judgment problems. The symptoms can occur as a result of past experiences of being subjected to numerous negative life events or life stress...
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...marriage, their daughter Olive and Richard’s dad Edwin. The criteria I used to make my determination was both visual and by listening to Frank’s story as the movie progressed. Visually, you could see that Frank had a bandage on each wrist which would indicate that he tried to commit suicide. The definition of depression is feeling sad and hopeless over a period of time. A person may feel unimportant and are often unable to live in a normal way. People often feel worthless and guilty and are very fatigued with loss of energy. Most people feel sad or low at some point in their life but to be diagnosed with clinical depression, you have to feel depressed most of the day with loss of interest and must be ongoing every day for two weeks. These are all characteristics that seemed to affect Uncle Frank in the movie. There are numerous treatment options for depression. The most common types of treatment are antidepressant medication and counseling. Both are very effective for most people. Do not get discouraged if this does not work for you. What might work for one person does not automatically mean it will work for you. If you are diagnosed with severe depression, you may be required for a hospital stay or you may need to participate in outpatient treatment until your symptoms...
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...they had been in the previous decades. It was for difficult for Blacks to make a living during the Great Depression. Living conditions were unreal and most people lived in extreme poverty. While these conditions affected all segments of society, African Americans were far worst off. Most of the country's Black population lived in rural areas and worked on farms owned by white landowners. For African-Americans, the depression was hard to distinguish when poverty was always a way of life. Living conditions became more horrendous when some landowners lost their properties during the Depression. However, there were many African-Americans who continued to make their living doing hard manual labor or working in dangerous areas such as in foundries, while others worked as domestic servants for whites. A smaller number worked for the railroads, steel mills, coal mines and school boards. There were some African-Americans who made fairly reasonable living operating small businesses. Around this time, the government began to get involved with the social statuses of African Americans. At the start of the decade and throughout most of his first term, neither President Franklin Roosevelt nor the Congress paid much attention to the suffering of blacks. The President did not want to anger the Southern Senators who controlled the Senate and who could block his efforts to end the Depression. However by the end first term, the president's thinking began to change, thanks to the efforts of his wife...
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... Can one not wrap themselves up with unhappiness on their birthday? The lone thing which they know can keep them warm and safe. Can one not feel lonely?, or grief?. Can one not celebrate sorrow?, heartache? And anguish? No. It is my birthday. I must be happy. I must shake off my depression and attempt to enjoy and revel in the astronomical splendor of the day; or at the very least, pretend to. And what is it, which I’m being asked to celebrate? What is so exceptional about a birthday? A day I cannot even remember. A day with no memorable significance. A day of ‘what’ and ‘how’, but no ‘why’. A day, stripped of its conventional festivity, holds no sense, and no memory which I can take to my grave. What should I celebrate then? Is it the celebration of the culmination of nine months, and more, of struggle which my parents braved?; the sacrifices they made and the pain my mother endured?; the ‘happiness’ which ‘they’ felt when they heard me cry for the first time?; The only time my tears brought a smile to their face. Then why am ‘I’ being celebrated? My adolescent birthday plans have rarely included them. The wishes, the gifts, the celebrations, the fiesta; it has always been about me. When it never was, and never will be. On the last occasion, I spent the day locking myself up in my room. Distancing myself from all calls and refusing every opportunity of merriment. The next day I had my board examination. When I returned from that chemistry exam, I spent...
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...There are many people being diagnosed with depression, mood and anxiety disorders each year. What causes this? What symptoms would indicate a mood disorder? What are some treatment methods for such disorders? In this essay I will be discussing unipolar and bipolar disorders in detail; what is the difference between them, available treatment methods for individuals who suffer from these illnesses and signs and symptoms that might possibly happen. According to R.J Comer, (Fundamentals of abnormal psychology, 2005, 4th ed. Chapter 7) Unipolar is described as an individual who has “no history of mania and returns to a normal or nearly normal mood when their depression lifts. Bipolar is described as individuals who experience periods of mania that alternates with periods of depression.” Any kind of anxiety, stress, and/or depression can alternate a person’s ability to function in normal daily activities. Meaning an individual may or may not be able to get out of bed, go into public, or interact with others. What are the causes of such disorders? It could be that a person has been through a traumatic event in their life such as, a disaster, losing a job, divorce, rape, or substance abuse, etc. When such life’s events happen a person can withdraw themselves almost as if they have lost their way and cannot figure out how to deal with such crisis, that things just keep building up on top of each other and never truly heal the root cause. This cycle can go on allowing for the individual...
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...An american dream is a idea based off one’s opinion to be all around content and not wanting more in life. Throughout the generations since our founding fathers created the Declaration of Independence and saying that all men are created equal and have the “inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ”. So I believe that the american dream for anyone has not been able to be established by our founding fathers based on sexism, racism and depression. In the book of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck sexism has thoroughly been displayed throughout the story. “So that’s what Curley picks for a wife” (Steinbeck 17). When Steinbeck states that Curley “picks” his wife he shows her more as a object than a human being. Also in Of Mice and Men a character says, “Wait’ll you see Curley’s wife” (Steinbeck 15). Curley’s wife is still being treated as a sexual object not a women. Curley’s wife even says “I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a...
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...The Great Depression The Great Depression was the most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. “http://www.britannica.com” It preceded the decade of World War II. North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas were affected. This economic drop started in 1929 and went on till about 1939. “http://www.britannica.com” President Herbert Hoover was in office at the start of the depression. It is said that the Great Depression began with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices in the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. “http://www.english.illinois.edu” This is also known as Black Tuesday. ”http://topics.nytimes.com” Some call it Black Wednesday or Black Thursday, because it ran over a three day span. The following three years the stock market prices continued to decrease. Towards the end of 1932 the market had dropped about 20 percent of what it was in 1929. “http://www.english.illinois.edu” This decline hurt thousands of individual investors, forcing them to close. Not only did this collapse affect individual investors, but it strained banks and other financial institutions. This strain forced thousands of banks in the United States to close. “http://www.topics.nytimes.com” During this depression unemployment rates rose up to 25 percent. Other countries rose up higher reaching 33 percent. Cities that depended on heavy industries were hit harder and in some countries it halted them. In the mid 1930’s some economies...
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