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    Celina October 17‚ 2013 Dust Bowl The Dirty Thirties You cross dusty roads Coughing and plugging your nose The yellow-ish brown haze Is coming your way Nowhere to hide No one to lean beside You’re all alone With your aching bones Beginning in the 1930’s‚ and causing terror ever since‚ the Dust Bowl has been one of the worst times in our history. Many farms in the American Great Plains Region were destroyed because of the drought and dust storms. “It was this giant wall coming towards

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    plowing year after year and the lack of rainfall‚ the soil was quickly losing its fertility. With unfertile‚ dry land‚ the wheat crop started dying‚ and then blowing away with wind. Due to the improper farming‚ along with a long drought‚ dust storms made life in the Dust Bowl very burdensome. During the 1930’s‚ the Great Plains was plagued with a drought‚ a long period of dryness‚ which brought demise to many of the farmers in the region. This horrible drought started in 1930‚ a year that saw heavy rains

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    Dust Bowl Would you enjoy eating a bowl of dust? That doesn’t sound appealing‚ does it? Well‚ the people in the driest regions of the plains had to in the 1930’s. This was the time of the Dirty Thirties. Tough time for them. The Dirty Thirties was also the time of the Dust Bowl. What was the Dust Bowl you may ask. According to History.com‚ “The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought.” The Dust Bowl occurred in the 150‚000 square-mile area surrounding

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    going to the store and not being able to see your hand 5 feet away.The Dust Bowl was a devastating event that took place in the midwest. It affected millions of people in 8 years. The Dust Bowl is an area of land where vegetation has been lost and became dust and eroded. The Dust Bowl was located in Kansas‚ Texas‚ Oklahoma‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. Over 650 million tons of topsoil blew away leaving piles of dust in houses. The Dust Bowl started in 1931 and ended in 1939. It lasted 8 years and caused

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    The Psychological Affects of the Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was an added devastation accompanying the Great Depression. It lasted from 1930 to 1939 and is sometimes referred to as the “Dirty Thirties”. (Bonnifield) Lack of crop rotation and a heavy drought caused this trying time in American history. Over one third of the United States was swallowed up by dust storms with the concentration of storms being located in northern Texas‚ the panhandle of Oklahoma‚ the entire western half of Kansas

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    Case: Sugar Dust Explosion and Fire at Imperial Sugar Company 1. What factors/hazards could have caused the incident? Conduct a 4M (Man‚ Machine‚ Material‚ and Method) analysis on the possible causes. MAN * No officer level position responsible for workplace safety * Negligence of people in-charge to report or provide action to sugar spillage and dust control * Unorganized linkage between the heads/people concerned with safety * Minimal training of the HR director on occupational

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    The Dust Bowl happened between the years of 1931 and 1939. The Dust Bowl was a period of time where 150‚000-square-miles of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle and parts of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico had little rainfall‚ light soil‚ and high winds‚ causing devastating effects on the land and people that lived there. There have been many discoveries and advances that can help prevent a future “Dust Bowl”‚ but the US could experience the Dust Bowl again. We have come a long way from the Dust Bowl

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    How did the dust bowl affect citizens? People couldn’t even do the simplest things. Everyone was affected by this natural disaster. Because it was the start of the great depression and they couldn’t have prevented it. For eight years dust blew across the southern plains nonstop in the 1930s. Everyone was deeply affected. Modern American Poetry explains‚ “ The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains” (Modern American Poetry). Even the

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    techniques with them when they homesteaded the area.” The Dust Bowl‚ also called "The Dirty Thirties"‚ was made conceivable by World War I (WWI) and The Great Depression. Wheat was anything but difficult to develop and it brought on a popularity amongst everyone. Little was realized that the abuse of the area would bring upon the best impact behind the significance of saving nature and its significance of deliberately utilizing the area. The dust storms were brought on by a mix of natural components

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    In “Scrubbing Up Dust”‚ Billie Jo sees a boy‚ Jim Martin‚ scrubbing dust. As she walks home‚ she realizes that her house is a mess and she thinks about what her mom would have done and how the job now falls to her since her mom is dead. In the poem there was a hyperbole declares that the cleaning is‚ “knuckle-breaking work” (110. Hesse) and her hands aren’t meant for that. There was a simile in the poem stating that her mom would “break that mud like the farmers break sod” (109). On page 110 there

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