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Demythologizing the American Dream in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men [PDF]
Uirtus, 2022 Many twentieth century conventional American creative writers commonly believed that the American Dream can only be achieved through hard work. John Steinbeck goes against the tide as he demonstrates that taking for granted the achievability of the Dream
Ebony K. Agboh
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Taurog’s 1931 adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An Existential Reality of America in the 1860’s [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیAdaptation studies gained a renewed focus on the understanding of the mutations contained in the area of film adaptation namely by drawing on theorists like Linda Hutcheon and Robert Stam. This being the case, studying the film adaptation is to work as a
Asghar Moulavinafchi +2 more
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The Great Recession & the Great Depression [PDF]
Daedalus, 2010 In the depths of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes wrote that “[p]racticalmen, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”1 This acute observation is applicable to our current Great Recession as well. In fact, the newly discredited ideas are not all that different
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ECONOMIC FACTORS OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMPERIAL SYSTEM OF GREAT BRITAIN IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD.
Вестник Брянского государственного университета, 2021 The laws of the evolution of the British imperial system, which was the largest and one of the most complex state entities in the world history, seem to be an important object of study that requires a comprehensive analysis, taking into account the ...
Sagimbaev A.V.
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From great depression to great recession [PDF]
International Review of Economics & Finance, 2011 Abstract This paper presents an overview of the history of thought on the factor content of trade. It emphasizes that the conditions of factor price equalization do not hold. It describes a theory of destructive trade that is at the root of the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.
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Functional Diversity as Social Parable: El hijo de la novia (2001) and Anita (2009)
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2020 Functional diversity in Argentine cinema often functions as a symbolic instrument to affirm normality of majority society. However alterity of functional diversity can also serve as a touchstone to unmask a society in disintegration and affirm this way ...
Susanne Hartwig
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O.M.W. Sprague (the Man Who “Wrote the Book” on Financial Crises) meets the Great Depression
Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2022 When the Great Depression struck the United States, O.M.W. Sprague was America’s foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic.
Rockoff Hugh
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The Great Recession and the Great Depression [PDF]
, 2010 This paper discusses parallels between our current recession and the Great Depression for the intelligent general public. It stresses the role of economic models and ideas in public policy and argues that gold-standard mentality still holds sway today.
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Wieś poleska doby przemian lat trzydziestych XX wieku w ujęciu Józefa Obrębskiego
Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2019 The village in Polesie: Transformations of the 1930s in the view of Józef Obrębski The article deals with political and social themes of Józef Obrębski's texts, which were written in the second half of the 1930s and were devoted to Polesie.
Piotr Cichoracki
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Key Challenges Facing Modern Finance: Making the Financial Sector Serve Society
Финансы: теория и практика, 2020 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the broad issue of how to make the financial sector serve society, at least serve it better than it has until now.
J. E. Stiglitz
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