scholarly journals The Analysis of the Causes of Willy’s Death in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Yuhan Liu ◽  
Mingxia Gao
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Social Values ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
American Society ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a classic tragic work in contemporary America.  It discusses some social factors in Willy Loman’s death, such as the influence of the American Dream and the Great Depression. It also makes a detailed study on the flaws in the character of Willy Loman, some of which contribute to his own death, such as his misguided social values and his twisted relationship with his family. The paper aims at a further study on Willy Loman’s death and to put forward the author’s view on various causes of his death. Then it concludes that Willy’s death is the result of American society and his own character defect.

The End of “The Protestant Era”?

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Collis Greene
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Church History ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

More than fifty years after delivering the talk “The American Religious Depression, 1925–1935” to the American Society of Church History, Robert Handy is still the default authority on religion and the Great Depression. This is a tribute to his remarkable insights, but it is also an indication that the Depression merits more attention from historians of religion. A number of scholars have taken the religious history of the 1930s seriously. Yet we tend to think of the work of Joel Carpenter, Leo Ribuffo, Alan Brinkley, Beth Wenger, Kenneth Heineman, and others as primarily about fundamentalist institution-building, New Deal demagogues, or Jews and Catholics in New York and Pittsburgh, and only incidentally about the Great Depression.

scholarly journals The Ultimate Fox in Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes

2018 ◽  
Vol 214 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Instructor Marwa Ghazi Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Value ◽  
American Society ◽  
Moral Themes

         Lillian Hellman was an American playwright whose name was associated with the moral values of the early twentieth century. Her plays were remarkable for the moral themes that dealt with the evil. They were distinguished, as well, for the depiction of characters who are still alive in the American drama for their vivid personalities, effective roles and realistic portrayal. This paper studies Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes as a criticism of the American society in the early twentieth-century. Though America was a country built on hopes and dreams of freedom and happiness. During the Great Depression, happiness was certainly not present in many people's lives. The presence of alternate political ideas, decay of love and values increased life's problems, and considered a stress inducing factor were popular themes to be explored during the Great Depression. America, the land of promises, became an empty world revolving around money and material well-being and which turned the people bereft of love, and human values. Hellman’s play presents the real fox, represented by the political and material world, as the one responsible for the raise of new kind of people, the little foxes, and the decline of human value.

scholarly journals American cinema of the Great Depression. The «Social Restlessness Phase»

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Vladislavovich Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Private Interest ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gangster Film ◽  
American Society

The article overviews the American cinema of the 1930 in terms of the “cyclic conception” stating that the life of American society is subject to a distinctive algorhithm of public mood: “social restlessness” alternating with “private interest”. The author surveys gangster film, one of the dominating genres of the Depression cinema as exemplified by “The Pubic Enemy (1931, dir. William A. Wellman). The article also traces the links of the “social restlessness” films of the 1930s with the previous and subsequent phases stressing the problem of dividing each phase into stages: formation, prime and decline.

Union-Management Cooperation in the United States: Lessons from the 1920S

ILR Review ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford M. Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Stress ◽  
Intermediate Range ◽  
The Great Depression

This paper presents an analysis of several experiments in union-management cooperation that took place during the 1920s. The author examines the economic and social factors that influenced the formation, operation, and decline of these experiments. Although observers at that time hoped that union-management cooperation would be widely adopted, it extended only to industries suffering from declining markets for union-made products and failed to survive the Great Depression. When the author compares these early experiments to current cooperative endeavors, he concludes that unions and employers will voluntarily work together to improve productivity only within an intermediate range of economic stress.

The American Dream in the Great Depression

1978 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
John G. Cawelti ◽  
Charles R. Hearn
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Great Depression

scholarly journals The Managerial Apprenticeship of FDR’s Budget Director: Harold D. Smith and the Michigan Municipal League, 1928–1937

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-67
Author(s):  
Mordecai Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Nonprofit Management ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
American Society

Public administration history often notes the seminal role of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director (1939–1945), in the professionalization of the field and his principles for public budgeting. He was a cofounder of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and its second president (1940–1941). Smith came to Washington after a longer career in nonprofit management. This exploratory historical case study fills in a gap in the literature. Specifically, it examines his nonprofit management record at the Michigan Municipal League (1928–1937). He successfully grew the nonprofit in the teeth of the Great Depression. This success, among others, can be seen as providing two possible applications. First, his record suggests some commonalities between nonprofit management and public administration. Second, leading a nonprofit during the Great Depression may suggest applicable lessons for longer-term problems caused by COVID-19 regarding organizational management strategies during another severe economic contraction.

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