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Schedule
Feb 11 - Turnittin and APA Citation Cover Page
Feb 6 - APA Citations in text
Project due - Feb 13
Topics
Choose one of the following categories or subjects for the research paper.
What happened during Roosevelt’s 100 Days?
What was Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy?
What kind of first lady was Eleanor Roosevelt?
Discuss the importance and impact of radio during the 1930’s?
What were some of the more popular movies during the 1930s?
Describe popular music during the 1930s?
Describe the Bonus Army and what happened to it?
What was the New Deal?
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
What happened during the Dust Bowl?
Describe some of the more prominent Criminals during the 1930s.
Describe some popular sports during the 1930s.
General Resources
During the Depression, poor children felt bad "among their more fortunate friends and classmates" (Freedman, 2005, p. 39).
According to Freedman (2005), a quarter of all Americans lived on farms.
Freedman (2005) discussed how kids jumped on passing trains: "It was no trick for a swift, skinny kid to grab the run of a ladder on a slow-moving freight, then climb up on top or swing into an empty boxcar, going who knows where." (p. 72)
APA Citation Format - Examples of Reference List and In-Text
Garchik's Non-sensical Reference Examples
Book
Freedman, R. (2005). Children of the Great Depression. New York, NY: Clarion Books.
During the Depression, poor children felt bad "among their more fortunate friends and classmates" (Freedman, 2005, p. 39).
Current Biography
"Eleanor Roosevelt" (1940). In M. Block (Ed.), Current biography: Who's new and why 1940 (pp. 691-693).
New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company
Sixty-eight percent of Americans in 1930 approve of Eleanor Roosevelt (Block, 1940).
Website
Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2016). Children and the Great Depression. Digital History (2016). Retrieved from
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/children_depression/depression_children_menu.cfm
Unemployment jumped to 12.5 million by 1932 (Mintz & McNeil, 2016).
Britannica Online
Romert, C. D. & Pells, R. H. (2017, October 27). Encyclopædia Britannica.
Retrieved from https://britannica.com/event/Great-Depression
People sheltered in Hoovervilles, "where homeless families sought refuge in shelters cobbled together from salvaged wood, cardboard, and tin" (Romer & Pells, 2017, para , 2018 para 35).
http://tinyurl.com/OHSDep