What do Adolf Hitler, women’s hairstyles, television, and the Olympics have in common? They were all big parts of the 1930s. It was a time of amazing accomplishments, style, and new and amazing inventions. It was also a time of political unrest and tragedies. Some of the styles, people, life, events, and inventions that took place in the 1930s have continued to impact our lives into the twenty-first century.
There are many people from the 1930s who have contributed to well known events. “Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany then granted dictatorial powers by Germany’s Enabling Law” (Dvorak and Paul 2). Germans could not have known what would happen after Hitler was granted dictatorial powers. Appointing Hitler as the Chancellor of
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“Hair was smooth, soft, and feminine” (Turudich 244). Many girls preferred and liked looking more feminine, especially in this time period. Women might have been expected look that way, so it was popular to style their hair more feminine. For many people, “Hair was often shoulder length, straight at top, but softly curled or waved toward the bottom” (Turudich 24). Soft hairstyles appeared to be very popular back in this time and was worn by many girls. Short hair also seemed to be a favored way to have hair styled and was seen on many women. “As the decade wore on, waves became looser and fluffier” (Turudich 24). As years go by styles can change, and what might have been popular then is not anymore. Women were tired of styling their hair so much so they went to a looser look. The style changed and “Braids of hair around the head became very popular along with various other more conventionally feminine styles” (Turudich 24). They found other ways to style their hair that they thought looked nice, so many began to style their hair in braids. Style changed again and “Towards the later part of the decade, slightly longer hair would be worn piled up on the head in a mass of curls” (Turudich 24). The style had changed a lot and the way women wore their hair became very different from the beginning of the decade. As the years went on, girls were introduced to many ways to style their hair and this …show more content…
“According to the U.S. Department of Labor figures, the average middle class family in 1935 had an annual income of $1,348 of which it spent 35 percent on food, 33 percent on housing, but 0.4 percent on taxes” (Westin 2). Life was very different in the 30s because incomes today are much larger than this. This may have been why families were so poor; they didn’t make much money. “In the 1930s, as part of an effort to attract adolescents who found little practical value in the classical liberal education offered in American High Schools, urban districts added vocational and business courses to the curriculum” (Lindenmeyer 115). Kids did not find education valuable and only wanted to learn about important information that would help them with jobs. They did not think that a classical liberal education was valuable or worth their time and money. “Throughout the 1930s the unemployment rate of sixteen-to-twenty-year-olds climbed to twice that of adults” (Westin 81). Unemployment in this age group may have been high because they were uneducated. Unemployment was also high because employers did not have enough money to employ inexperienced workers. “House and public facilities were segregated and job discrimination was widespread” (“Civil Engineering” 2). Even though the 1930s was a long time after the Civil War, many people still discriminated blacks. Some people might have thought that if whites and blacks were separate,
On August 3, 1979, a female was assaulted and raped in her apartment. Victor Burnette, 19 years old, was brought in as a suspect and the female said that he was the perpetrator. Burnette was convicted based on pubic hairs found at the scene. He spent seven years in prison and was released on parole in ’87. Two decades later, Burnette asked to have his case reworked using DNA analysis and was found to be not guilty. The serologist who worked his case was Mary Jane Burton. By the time Burnette cleared his name, at least five other people had been exonerated from their convictions due to Burton’s evidence. (“Victor”) Hair analysis has been a part of forensic science since the beginning. However, some have begun to question the reliability of
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Everyone faces varying degrees of peer pressure at least once in their lifetime, but what matters is how one reacts. In Bad Haircut—a collection of short stories—the author, Tom Perrotta, examines the effect of peer pressure on the main character, Buddy, in a comical yet informative light. Buddy faces peer pressure consistently and ends up associating with the wrong people, due to a lack of backbone. Yet Buddy is different and a better person than those who he associates with because he is compassionate and able to recognize that he is a follower; therein lies the irony that only the reader sees Buddy’s merit while the other characters only see the results of his friends’ poor judgment.
The 1930’s was dominated by the Great Depression. There was not much time of money for people to spend on entertainment, but there were a few pin pricks of light. People, especially kids, went to the movie theater. They could spend ...
During the 1920’s, America was a prosperous nation going through the “Big Boom” and loving every second of it. However, this fortune didn’t last long, because with the 1930’s came a period of serious economic recession, a period called the Great Depression. By 1933, a quarter of the nation’s workers (about 40 million) were without jobs. The weekly income rate dropped from $24.76 per week in 1929 to $16.65 per week in 1933 (McElvaine, 8). After President Hoover failed to rectify the recession situation, Franklin D. Roosevelt began his term with the hopeful New Deal. In two installments, Roosevelt hoped to relieve short term suffering with the first, and redistribution of money amongst the poor with the second. Throughout these years of the depression, many Americans spoke their minds through pen and paper. Many criticized Hoover’s policies of the early Depression and praised the Roosevelts’ efforts. Each opinion about the causes and solutions of the Great Depression are based upon economic, racial and social standing in America.
In the 1920s and 1930s, segregation was a massive thing for everyone. Minorities were looked down upon mainly because of their different skin color and culture, as people from all over the world started to come to America because of its freedom that it offered. They did receive many of the rights that was said to be given, nor much respect, especially from caucasians. They were mostly slaves, workers or farmers for caucasians. Although they would work as hard as they can, they wouldn’t receive fair pay. In the result of that, they were never able to live the life of a middle-class citizen. They were always low on money. Also, taxes would bug them as it would rise only for the lower-class...
For many people in the 1930’s living conditions were not as adequate as they needed to be. The stock market had just crashed in 1928, and the US was in the midst of the Great Depression. Many people suffered from lack of money, and many others suffered from lack of food. One group of people who suffered greatly during this time period were the southern share croppers. Factors that caused the substandard living conditions of the southern share croppers in the 1930’s include lack of education, poor health care, and inadequate living facilities. The first factor that caused the substandard living conditions of the southern share croppers was their lack of education. There were several reasons the share croppers didn’t get the education they needed. One main reason was because many children didn’t go to school. Harold Walker writes that Southern cotton states ranked lower in rate of attendance for each student enrolled than any of the other states in the nation (4). A factor that contributed to this was their excessive mobility, which inhibited many children from going to school (Corder 27). It is common knowledge that any child who constantly moves around will not be able to attend school on a regular basis, and even if they go to a school when they get a chance they will be so far behind they would have a difficult time catching up. Another factor that impeded on a child’s attendance at school was the fact that they never went to school when there was cotton to be picked (Walker 8). This may not seem like a large task, but some times it could take weeks to pick all the cotton. These few weeks that a child spent picking cotton was valuable learning time, and missing it could put a child too far behind to catch up. Another reason share croppers didn’t get the education they needed was because many southern rural schools had short terms (Gentry 21). Because of this teachers would not be able to cover all of the material that they needed to cover, or they would have to rush through the material they did cover. A final reason the education of the southern cotton states was not as good as other states was because their teachers were not as good. This was reflected in the fact that the salaries of Southern teachers were not as high as the salaries of other teachers (Mckeon 98).
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Some existing Literature on Natural Hair The existing literature on ethnic and racial studies among African-Americans has focused on issues pertaining to beauty and body politics especially on natural hair. Spellers and Moffitt assert that the body politics that one assumes, guides how one relates to a particular political ideology in a particular society. Black natural hair is considered as a way by which the true identity of African women can be understood (Jacobs-Huey). It is a symbol of power among black women; it influences how people are treated by others.
The 1930’s were a decade plagued by the colossus economic downturn known as the Great Depression. With unemployment levels surpassing 20%, people did anything to earn money. This included riding the rail lines in order to look for work in other cities. In the American South, the problems of economic downturn and the problems of racial tension met in 1931 during the court case of the Scottsboro Boys.
The 1930s was a bad time for public schooling, because with the Great Depression occurring at the same time, most kids could not afford the necessary clothes, shoes, textbooks, or supplies (American Cultural History). For example in To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter Cunningham’s family was so poor they had to pay with goods rather than actual money and because of that I bet they did not have proper school supplies. In today’s society, the school systems make sure kids can get what they need, through fee waivers or charities giving out supplies. Another example of the hard times i...
The 1930s was a time of not only political turmoil abroad, but of economic chaos on the home-front as well. After President Herbert C. Hoover's Presidency took the blame for launching the ...
There have been musicals, documentaries, researches, panel discussions and even talk shows about hair, hair qualities and hairstyles, even Oprah Gail Winfrey chose hair for the magazine's September 2013 theme. According to Adlman (2013), Oprah Winfrey in a video interview said,
Do you know what it’s like to live in a cardboard home, starve, and raise a family in poverty? Unfortunately, most Americans in the 1930s went through this on a day-to-day basis. In 1929 the stock market crashed. Many people lost their life savings; they invested everything they owned in a failing stock market. The country was falling, everyone needed strong leadership and help from the government.
During the Great Depression receiving an education was becoming more and more difficult for southerners. From not being able to afford the required supplies needed, to not being able to pay the tutions, many people found it nearly impossible to attend school. The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee shows how the lack of education in society during the Great Depression affected Southerners lives, not allowing them to change their futures for the better.