Jennifer Dibert

3/6/14

Directions: Write an essay based on the question asked below. Use the documents provided to answer the question and prior knowledge of the time period. Scores will be based on how you use the evidence to answer the question. Question: Compare the 1920s and the 1990s from what society looked like and what economics was like from the documents below and prior knowledge? What are some similarities and differences?

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Part of Warren G. Harding Inaugural Address March 4,1921
The forward course of the business cycle is unmistakable. Peoples are turning form destruction to production. Industry has sensed the changed order and out own people are turning to resume their normal, onward way. The call is for productive American to go on. I know that Congress and the Administration will favor every wise Government policy to aid the resumption and encourage continued progress. I would like to acclaim an era of good feeling amid dependable prosperity and all the blessings which attend.

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Part of Stuart Chase book Why Business Prosperity Came. Chapter 3 Prosperity: Fact or Myth?, 1929
Prosperity, from the businessmans point of view, has certainly been with us-at least with part of us-for the past eight years. The price structure has been stable; corporation earning have been increasing. Productivity per man has made phenomenal gains; national income, both in total and per capita, grows greater every year.

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Part of William Clinton Inaugural Address January 20, 1993
Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues. Raised in unrivalled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among our own people. We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their freedom, and when millions of poor children cannot even image the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are people who want to do better, and so I say to all of you here, let us resolve to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the people. Let us put aside

personal advantage, so that we can feel the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays." Let us give this Capitol back to the people to whom it belongs.

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The American with Disabilities Act of 1990
(b) PURPOSE- It is the purpose of this Act-(1) to provide a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities; (2) to provide clear, strong, consistent, enforceable standards addressing discrimination against individuals with disabilities; (3) to ensure that the Federal Government plays a central role in enforcing the standards established in this Act on behalf of individuals with disabilities; and (4) to invoke the sweep of congressional authority, including the power to enforce the fourteenth amendment and to regulate commerce, in order to address the major areas of discrimination faced day-to-day by people with disabilities.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. As used in this Act: (1) AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES- The term `auxiliary aids and services' includes-(A) qualified interpreters or other effective methods of making aurally delivered materials available to individuals with hearing impairments; (B) qualified readers, taped texts, or other effective methods of making visually delivered materials available to individuals with visual impairments; (C) acquisition or modification of equipment or devices; and (D) other similar services and actions.

(2) DISABILITY- The term `disability' means, with respect to an individual-(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment.