Discuss the relationship between escapism and american entertainment during the 1930s?

It made reality easier to cope in a society whose economy was enduring recession (The Great Depression was taking place)

Explanation:

As the conditions for life , work and other significant areas of human life get low expectati, many topics in the entertainment industry (such as the Hollywood movies of the Wizard of OZ, among others) provide psychological escapes in that people can relieve the stress and anxiety as potrayed in the life and sublimated through the fictional characters and plot.

They also include magazines, radio and other ways of portraying images to the people appareantly have been sucessfull as the Life magazine still continues to reproduce it in todays circumstances.

the assassination of president lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the u.s. after the civil war. the first reaction to lincoln’s death was disbelief. then it quickly changed to grief. abraham lincoln’s death created an outpouring of grief from citizens in both the north and the south.

explanation:

lincoln was the first u.s. president to be assassinated. president abraham lincoln, america’s civil war leader, was assassinated just five days after confederate general robert e. lee surrendered his army at appomattox court house, ending the four-year war between the states. on the evening of april 14, 1865, lincoln was attending a performance of our american cousin at ford’s theatre in washington, d.c. john wilkes booth – a 26-year old actor, confederate sympathizer, and white supremacist – slipped into the presidential box and shot lincoln in the head. john wilkes booth and his conspirators had initially planned to kidnap lincoln to save the confederate states. but as the confederacy faltered, booth’s thoughts turned to murder. booth may have decided to act on his hatred after lincoln endorsed giving the right to vote to african-american men who had served in the union army.

it was douglas macarthur..