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    The Dirty Thirties

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    The lower wind levels of the jet stream stopped blowing rainfall in from the Gulf of Mexico and caused a large drought across the Plains. The Government should put in a law stating that sea temperatures need to be recorded and related to the data of 1930. Although Jon Beilue states that there are a lot of factors could have been avoided in causing the Dust Bowl. Farming techniques of those in the early ‘30s were not as advanced of those now. The average farmer in the plains would have owned a Mold

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    also referred to as the original patent holder of the yo-yo‚ however yo-yos (Bandalores) had already been patented prior to the company’s existence. Duncan Between 1930 and 1932‚ Flores sold his interest in his yo-yo manufacturing companies for greater than $250‚000‚ to Donald F. Duncan‚ Sr.‚ which during the depression of the 1930s was a fortune. On this transaction Flores was quoted saying "I am more interested in teaching children to use the yo-yos than I am in manufacturing of yo-yos."[citation

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    memories of family life and the events leading to his departure from the Wingfield home. Tennessee Williams writes the story‚ set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. It deals with a Southern family living in a city tenement in St Louis‚ Missouri. The story reflects the values of the society and a family that belongs to the lower middle class in the late 1930s‚ a time of struggles and national conflicts. It depicts people who have lost their fortune and must work hard to survive‚ but who are

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    who utilized his books to write about the lives of the most downtrodden people of society during those times‚ used “The Grapes of Wrath‚” to depict and fixate on the lives of workers migrating from Oklahoma to California during the early part of the 1930s (Steinbeck-Introduction Section). In Steinbeck’s story “The Grapes of Wrath‚” he breaks the chapters down into three parts. Chapters one through eleven describes a terrible drought‚ called the Dust Bowel‚ which had ravaged an area of land known as

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    J. Ochoa Dust Bowl 2 The Dust Bowl is also known as the Dirty Thirties. The Dust Bowl was a terrible storm‚ which occurred in the 1930’s‚ it affected the mid western people. The Dust Bowl hit 150‚000-square-mile area‚ in Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and some sections of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. It rained very little‚ there were high winds which later turned into

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    The Great Depression

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    References: -Great Depression (1930’s) News- The New York Times -Farming in the 1930’s‚ (2003) -Taylor N. A‚ Short History of the Great Depression‚ (2008) -Modern American Poetry- About the Great Depression - The First 100 Days: Franklin Roosevelt Pioneered the 100-Day Concept‚ Kenneth T. Walsh (2009)

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    Essay On Family Life

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    have divorced families changed since the 1930s? Harper Lee wrote a book called To Kill a Mockingbird. This book is based off of the 1930s and is Historical Fiction. It includes many lessons and what happened between families‚ including divorce‚ from The Great Depression. In the 1930s many people did not have a lot of money so they could not pay for divorce. ("Making do: Family Life in the Depression."). If this did happen‚ many families were depressed. (The 1930s: Lifestyles and Social Trends: Overview)

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    Art as a Relief During the Depression Before the Great Depression‚ art consisted of modernized subjects and works that caused questions‚ while art produced during the Depression was more realistic and provided relief for American citizens. The Crash of 1929‚ affected everyone in America‚ whether they had money or not. During the Great Depression‚ art movements such as American Regionalism and Social Realism altered the way people looked and felt about art and gave people a certain relief from viewing

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    more positive ways to make money during the Great Depression. Throughout the 1930s‚ many people desired jobs but few if any were available. People had to reach drastic measures to get food and money‚ many people just invented stuff ranging from food‚ to cars‚ to technology in the cars‚ to even new machines. This was one of the better ways of making money for themselves. Many new foods were introduced to America in the 1930s such as spam‚

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    Farm Life Chores

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    Summary #1: Chores by Claudia Reinhardt and Bill Genzel‚ 2003 Families that lived in a farm in the 1930s‚ spent most of their time trying to raise their own food. An interviewer that lived in a southern farm in the 30s said on a daily routine in the farm the following words: "We were always busy. You had chores in those days to do... You came home from school‚ did your chores‚ helped with supper‚ get your lessons‚ and by that time it’s almost bedtime." Many chores had to be done daily‚ and some

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