(background document‚ Dust bowl mini-q)Many of the farmers stayed‚ but some left. The farmers made profit during the war‚ but what it high must come down. What caused the conditions that lead to the terrible dust storms in the southern plains during the 1930’s? The dust bowl was caused by 3 main factors mechanization‚ grass lost on the prairies and a long lasting drought. The modernization of mechanization made to harvesting products to quickly easier leading to the dust bowl. The average of harvest in
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The Chess Game of 1930’s America in The Big Sleep In Raymond Chandler’s novel The Big Sleep‚ Philip Marlowe represents the shred of chivalry that remains in a world of corruption. Set and written in 1930’s America‚ the economic devastation of the Great Depression has a significant influence on the book’s plot that revolves around profit-seeking crime and organized corruption. Marlowe’s work as a private detective brings him face to face with seedy criminals of every sort‚ and each corresponds
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“Scorched earth. Abandoned farms. Skies black with dust. Houses buried under great dunes of earth. Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended‚ images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide” (Wesson.) That is what a normal day during the 1930’s was like. Back then people farmed to get their profit‚ especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People’s lives revolved around farming. If they didn’t get their crops planted on time‚ there wouldn’t be food
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How did the cinema affect the lives of women and children in 1930’s? Labelled the ‘golden age of Hollywood’ the 1930’s was arguably a decade of turmoil. This led to many people attending the cinema to escape from reality. Among adults‚ women tended to go to the cinema more often than their husbands‚ and this finding was echoed by rowntree‚ who found that 75 per cent of cinema-goers in New York during the late 1930’s were women[1]. With large numbers of children attending these types of pictures
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Annotated Bibliography: American Education in the 1930’s Bondi ‚ Victor. "The Depression and Education (1930 ’s)." American Decades . Galenet ‚ 16 Dec. 2007. Web. 7 May 2013. . In his article‚ Victor Bondi explains how the depression effected education‚ and includes important and stunning facts about American education during the 1930 ’s. He explains how education as a whole went from a big increase to a huge decline. For example between 1930-1935 sales on textbooks decreased nationwide by over
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lawyers name is Atticus Finch. Atticus Finch is not just an ordinary father. He teaches his children things no parent of the 1930s‚ or even the modern time period‚ would think of doing. His style parenting‚ compared to modern day parenting and parenting in the 1930s‚ is unique and is not traditionally the way a parent wants to raise their child. The parenting styles of the 1930’s are very different then the style’s now‚ especially that of Atticus Finch‚ who raises his children in a very distinct and
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jerkline is a single rein that runs to the lead animal in the team of mules or horses. The skinner controls the jerkline. • Ranch Hand- A hired hand on a ranch. Info on: • Life working on farms/ranches in the 1930’s America. If you were a farmer in the Midwest and Southwest during the 1930s‚ you had seemingly everything against you--from the Great Depression to dust storms and drought‚ according to Robin A. Fanslow with the Library of Congress. This trifecta of poor circumstances pushed many farmers
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make it any better.” a famous quote said by Walt Disney‚ a man filled with joy and hope that the world can become anything we want. The 1930’s were tough considering that the Great Depression occurred along with the Dust Bowl‚ both events that ruined many people’s lives during the 1930’s. Walt Disney and Franklin D. roosevelt were two amazing people in the 1930’s whose dreams were to help get the people of the time back in order and and to help them forget about their worries. The photocopier and
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Common Citizen in the Great Depression War‚ starvation‚ charges of corruption‚ mass migration‚ and desperation are often the subject of intense contemporary and historical scrutiny whenever and wherever they occur. The Great Depression of the 1930s‚ in America‚ contained all these elements and therefore left an indelible imprint on the minds of those who lived and struggled through it‚ and‚ in turn‚ on the minds of a significant number of historians who have studied its ramifications ever since
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Marginalisation Essay- How Steinbeck explores the theme of Marginalisation in the Novella ‘Of Mice and men’? Steinbeck presents the theme of marginalisation through various characters in order to explore attitudes towards groups of people in the 1930s. Throughout the novel we slowly begin to realise how Crooks had been marginalised for his race. Firstly‚ Steinbeck portrays Crooks as a marginalised African American. He is pushed to the edge due to his colour and disability. Steinbeck introduces
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