3 American History essays (For Nadia)
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FDRsNewDeal.docxRunning head: AMERICAN HISTORY 1
AMERICAN HISTORY 2
What was the impact of FDR’s New Deal on American society? Explain the New Deal's Social Security Act. How did it work? Why was it designed that way? How it fall short of helping specific groups of people? Who wanted to go further than the New Deal, and how(This question is not answered properly. It is asking if there any groups or people that wanted to do MORE than what the New Deal was going to do. Right before it says the New Deal didn’t help specific groups of people. Were there groups of people who wanted more done than what the New Deal was offering to do? However, what you answered is who were opposing the New Deal. How did World War II function as a kind of extension of the New Deal? How did the war mark the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement that bloomed after the Second World War?
Sex and The Single Girl
The impact of the FDR New Deal was a shift of the politics in the favor of the Democrats. The Democrats and the president used the deal as a political tool against their rivals. As such, they won and managed the government for 7 terms out of the nine terms during the time.
The New Deal’s Social Security Act provided for the compulsory payment for retirees and the unemployment. This was attempted to reduce the level of income discrepancy between the rich and the poor and raise the economic level of the people. The deal failed to help some people in that it never met their expectations. This is because most of the people wanted jobs in place of the free payments being offered to them. So, the new deal did not go well with some of the unemployed people. To them, getting a job and earning from it would be better and more satisfying as opposed to the free earning. The economists were also opposed to the new deal security act implementation Gurley, (1962). This is because they feared that it would lead to deeper levels of financial crisis. In this case, it was expected that the economy would be attempting to pay for work that has not been done. As such, there would be an imbalance between the efforts and the gains the country gets. The other group of people opposed to the new deal was the capitalists. The capitalists believed that one must give in something in order to take in return. They preferred that only the working would be paid and not every individual. They argued that people should not just be paid because they live, but because they work for it. Thus, the various groups aforementioned needed to go beyond the payment of the jobless. They feared and believed that such a system would cultivate for laziness among the people at the expense of the hard working citizens.
Indeed, the World War 2 functioned as an extension of the new deal. This is because the new deal attempted to attain the rights of all the people. In this case, the world war was aimed at gaining the strength for the oppressed. As a result, it was a fight for the poor to be able to earn in their country, even though they had no specific jobs Gurley, (1962). On the other hand, the end of the war marked the beginning of the fight for the human rights. This is because the war fought against the discrimination of the people. Since some of the struggles against discrimination worked, activists believed that human rights fight would also succeed in a similar way.
References
Gurley Brown, H. (1962). Sex and the single girl. New York: Geis.
