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  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    It was the economic crisis the world had never seen. When The Great Depression of October 29 1929 hit Canada and the world, it hit hard. The economy dropped like a stone. Unemployed single men were sent to relief camps and the numbers of unemployed reached the tens of thousands across Canada. Even though The Great Depression hit suddenly, when the stock market did crash the signs were there. Anybody who had been paying attention

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    Essay Length: 620 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    TRANSPORTATION (AUTOMOBILE) The United States had 725 miles of paved roads in 1909. By 1930, American cars were driving along in a nation that included 100,000 miles of roads, tunnels, bridges, and multi-lane highways. Vacationers could now take their own transportation anywhere. Along new highways appeared businesses that appealed to motorists: diners, campgrounds, and tourist cabins. Drive-in restaurants also had their beginning in the 1920s. In Dallas a fast food place sold barbecued pork sandwiches

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    Essay Length: 544 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Edward
  • Post Partum Depression

    Post Partum Depression

    Postpartum depression is a serious illness that affects many women. PPD is divided into three levels. The first and least severe of these levels is commonly called “baby blues” and occurs in anywhere from 40-85% of postpartum women. “These symptoms peak between postpartum days 3 and 5, and typically resolve spontaneously within 24 to 72 hours. The primary treatment is supportive care and reassurance about the transient nature of the condition.”(www.obgyn.net.) In the clinical setting

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    Essay Length: 1,359 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • How Animal Research Has Advanced the Understanding of Depression

    How Animal Research Has Advanced the Understanding of Depression

    Animal models have made numerous progresses in the last century. This type of research has made a difference in the way we look at psychological issues such as depression. This paper is a review of the literature on animal models of depression. The issue of what advances have been made will be explored. The effects of serotonin on many issues have been studied. In this paper stress, learning, memory, brain derived neurotrophic factor, ovarian

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    Essay Length: 2,396 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Reasons for Great Depression

    Reasons for Great Depression

    The Great Depression of 1929 was mostly due to international factors rather than domestic factors. However, when over viewing the prime causes of the Great Depression one must distinguish five- the conclusion of World War I, the decline of international trade due to high tariffs, monetary policies (in particular the gold standard), the slowing of the American economy in 1929, and the stock market crash. Clarence L. Barber in his Origins of the Great Depression

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Depression

    Depression

    Though most Americans are aware of the Great Depression of 1929, which may well be "the most serious problem facing our free enterprise economic system", few know of the many Americans who lost their homes, life savings and jobs. Americans faced vast problems during the eleven years of depression’s span. The paper primarily focuses on what life was like for farmers during the time of the Depression. By the 1930's, thirteen million workers lost their

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    Essay Length: 741 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Affluent Adolescents, Depression, and Drug Use: The Role of Adults in Their Lives.

    Affluent Adolescents, Depression, and Drug Use: The Role of Adults in Their Lives.

    Affluent Adolescents, Depression, and Drug Use: The Role of Adults in Their Lives. Are affluent suburban adolescents at greater risk for depression and drug use than both middle-class and lower-class youth? “Contrary to popular belief, money does not necessarily make one less at risk for mental illness (Czechzentmehayli, 1999).” (Bogard, 2005). It actually seems that more and more high-class teens are depressed or using drugs on a daily basis than ever before. Although many people

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Top
  • Anti-Depressants or Sugar Pills?

    Anti-Depressants or Sugar Pills?

    "Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat" For years, scientists have been trying to see which works better, the anti-depressant or the placebo (a.k.a: sugar pill). After many studies and prescriptions, sugar pills work just as well, if not better, than anti- depressants do. Placebos help scientists realize if there is a difference between really feeling better, or patients believing that they feel better. Some doctors and psychiatrists disagree on why the sugar

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    Essay Length: 400 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Postpartum Depression: A Woman’s Cry

    Postpartum Depression: A Woman’s Cry

    Postpartum depression affects over ten to twenty percent of women causing then to doubt their natural abilities to raise their children. According to Evelyn S. Miller-Jacoby, “ postpartum depression is any psychiatric disorder in which childbirth is one of the interacting casual agents, a necessary but not sufficient cause.”. Depression affects twice as many men and is more common in women during childbirth age. (aboutourkids.com) The time after childbirth is an especially vulnerable time for

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Bred
  • Irving Fisher’s Analysis of the Great Depression

    Irving Fisher’s Analysis of the Great Depression

    Irving Fisher’s Analysis of the Great Depression My proposition is to take an in depth examination of Irving Fisher’s views on the origin of the Great Depression, his debt deflation theory and the policy measures he advocated. Only days prior to the stock market crash, Fisher predicted that the shares were in fact not overvalued and their increases were due to new profit opportunities created by new technological advances and increases in productivity. As the

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    Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The Great Depression is probably one of the most misunderstood events in American history. It is routinely cited, as proof that unregulated capitalism is not the best in the world, and that only a massive welfare state, huge amounts of economic regulation, and other interventions can save capitalism from itself. The Great Depression had important consequences and was a devastating event in America, however many good policies and programs became available as a result

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: July
  • Heterozygosity, Fitness and Inbreeding Depression in Natural Populations

    Heterozygosity, Fitness and Inbreeding Depression in Natural Populations

    Heterozygosity, fitness and inbreeding depression in natural populations Inbreeding is mating between close relatives and can depress components of reproductive fitness thus having detrimental effects on the populations survival, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. There are two principal theories for the mechanism of inbreeding depression. The partial dominance hypothesis (Charlesworth and Charlesworth, 1987) suggests that inbreeding increases the frequency of homozygous combinations of deleterious recessive alleles due to the increased chance of offspring inheriting

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    Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Depression

    Depression

    In recent years, we have heard of depression and the affects of the disorder, and what medications and theories help to prevent depression in adults. Many people are not aware that not only is depression diagnosed in adults, recently studies show that depression is diagnosed in adolescents. Not only adults become depressed. Children and teenagers also may have depression. Depression is defined as an illness when it persists. Childhood depression is one of the most

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The Great Depression The Great Depression is the worst economic period in the U.S history. This didn’t just affect the United States of American, but the entire industrialized world. Historians may say that the Great Depression started in the late 1929, but it really started years earlier. There are many reasons way the Great Depression came about. One of the main causes was the great unequal distribution of wealth throughout the county. This wealth was

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Yan
  • Adolescent Depression

    Adolescent Depression

    Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, 1995). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Janna
  • Treating Depression

    Treating Depression

    ARTICLE REVIEW: " TREATING DEPRESSION: PILLS OR TALK" Publisher: Scientific American Mind Date: January 2005 Author: Steven P. Holon, Micahel E. Thase, John C. Markowitz SUMMARY: "Medication has reduced depression for decades, but newer forms of psychotherapies are proving their worth." Medication or pills and antidepressants were once termed "magic bullet", because of its efficacy in treating depression. Some physicians also thought that psychotherapy alone is an ineffective way of fighting depression. But when combined

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression 5 The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn ever in U.S. History, and one which extended to practically the entire industrialized world. The Depression began late in 1929 and lasted for about ten years. Many economists have their theories as to what brought all of this about. It is generally accepted that the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Steve
  • Depression

    Depression

    Psychology Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, 1995). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Anna
  • A Teacher’s Guide to Understanding and Working with Students with Depression

    A Teacher’s Guide to Understanding and Working with Students with Depression

    A Teacher’s Guide to Understanding and Working with Students with Depression Introduction The position of depression as a disability is ambiguous. Though early definitions of emotional and behavioral disabilities included depression, more recent definitions seem to leave depression as a possible side effect of the primary emotional and behavioral disabilities (Gearheart 367). Our primary textbook lists depression and suicide under “Related Considerations” along with adolescence and Substance Abuse (413). Despite this apparent backpedaling, Gearheart, et

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Bred
  • Adolescent Depression and Suicide: Early Detection and Treatment the Key

    Adolescent Depression and Suicide: Early Detection and Treatment the Key

    Adolescent Depression and Suicide: Early Detection and Treatment the Key Only in the past two decades has depression in adolescents been taken seriously. Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Depression Makes Good Theatre

    Depression Makes Good Theatre

    The story of the Federal Theatre Project is quite the epic tale. It was a product of the Great Depression, born under the Works Progress Administration, part of the New Deal, to create jobs for unemployed theatre artists. The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) created jobs for actors, designers, stagehands, and directors. It provided theatrical productions across the United States for people at low or no cost to the theatergoer, many of who could no longer

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Steve
  • Depression

    Depression

    Depression has been around for a longer period of time than we can imagine. Depression has been considered to be the major psychiatric disease of the 20th century, affecting approximately eight million people in North America (http://www.ndmda.org). It is a matter of whether it is diagnosed and treated or left alone. This is a problem that can affect everyone whether they themselves are diagnosed or simply by knowing someone with depression. People with psychiatric

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Anna
  • Depression in Adolescents

    Depression in Adolescents

    Psychology Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, 1995). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    “Father, won’t we have anything to eat for dinner?” said a young boy in a poor household, after his parents lost everything. Aww, now that’s a sad story. The economic collapse of 1929, also known as the Great Depression, helped make most of the United States bankrupt. The Great Depression was the worst economic disaster in the entire history of the U.S. (Gusmorino). It put millions of people out of work, and made people homeless

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    Essay Length: 1,057 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U.S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920’s, many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; the main causes were the unequal distribution of wealth and extensive stock market speculation. Money was distributed unequally between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. This disproportion

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Fatih

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