Petroleum, also known as crude oil, was found in underground reservoirs and used to make gasoline, and therefore the global price of crude oil began to directly impact the cost of gas. The United States both imported and exported petroleum, though for many years the nation imported far more ...
The Depression caused many farmers to lose their farms. At the same time, years of over-cultivation and drought created the “Dust Bowl” in the Midwest, destroying agricultural production in a previously fertile region. Thousands of these farmers and other unemployed workers migrated to California...
Too many questions here to tackle in one comment (or one post!) but no I don’t write character bios. I DO spend a lot of time thinking about my characters at every stage in the writing process though. But that doesn’t mean you should or shouldn’t do the same, just what I do....
The fourth, still highly preliminary in outline, Defending the Defensible, will look into the economic arguments against capitalism, such as its alleged dependence on a reserve army of unemployed and its alleged destruction of the environment. 2 Das Kapital 1867, German edition, Band 23, 1962, ...
By 1930, the government found itself with growing number of unemployed wanting benefit payments, but had much less tax to pay them with. In March, 1930 the coalition government could not agree on how to handle the crisis and resigned. No coalition could be formed.As a solution,&...
The British looked at this railway plan of the Germans going right down to Baghdad and said “My God! You can put soldiers on rail cars and bring them down and threaten the oil lifeline of the British Navy.” This is a strategic move by the Germans. It also would make Germany independ...
However, having spent many years in the writing world now, I do think you can take Blake Snyder's fifteen beats a bit further. I've spent a long time developingThe Write Structureto do this, and while writing a feature film has its differences when it comes to certain details, like for...