and anticipating the tragic end by suggesting that Yerma not get pregnant because John is not fertile and it is he who does not conform to the "rules of society". The choirs also represent the situation of women in particular in Spain during the 1930s. This is in terms of their biological‚ child bearer‚ wife and a woman who wants to fulfill. Lorca
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John Steinbeck is the author of ‘Of Mice And Men’ and he was born in Salinas‚ California in 1902 just over a hundred years ago. Some of his most famous books was written in the 1930’s and the 1940’s and are set in California. Most of his works focus on lives and problems of working people‚ often times these people were immigrants who went to California looking for work or a better life. Of Mice And Men is set in the farmland of the Salinas valley‚ the same valley where Steinbeck was born. As a
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trip to water to rinse the grit from our lips.And then back to back to bed with washcloths over our noses. We try to lie still‚ because every turn stirs the dust on the blanket. After a while‚ if we are good sleepers‚ we forget.”(Doc. A) It was the 1930s‚ farms are dying‚ people are leaving‚ and you are left with a choice do you stay or do you leave? The government is offering 320 free acres of land to anyone who can survive three years. Three years of what though? Three years of blinding‚ choking
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The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl is the name given to the awful dust storms which caused major damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday‚ April 14‚ 1935. There were lots of dust storms leading up to that day. In 1932‚ 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933‚ there were 38 storms. By 1934‚ it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935‚ there had been weeks
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unemployment figures * Harriet represents the general public’s feelings of isolationism Slide 4 A lot of the themes in “Broken Glass” also stem from the Depression. For example Miller’s central theme of the play is based around the message of the 1930s agitprop (Agitation and Propoganda) scheme. “people should not only protest but do
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Black Blizzard is a dry tidal wave that would be 7‚000 feet high and destroy everything. You and your parents would take wet towels are cram them into the bottoms of the doors and the bottoms of the windows to keep dust out. Your parents would also give you a wet towel to put over your face so you wouldn’t inhale the dust. Then you would sit in the middle of the room huddled with your family all together. Oklahoma‚Texas‚Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Colorado were the worst Natural disaster spots in American
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before and after. Then the children had terrible role models‚ they started dropping out of school to work‚ and families started to change the way they lived‚ but it also drew families closer together. Women had a higher average of children in the 1930s than women in the 1910s and 1960s. “Women born in 1935 had an average of three children per woman‚ compared with an average of 2.4 for those born in 1910 and those born in 1960‚” (Consumer Health News). The reason that might be the why in 1960s woman
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“Far better is it to dare mighty things‚ to win glorious triumphs‚ even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much‚ because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” In the words of Theodore Roosevelt‚ it is better to experience the sufferings and joys of life than to live without knowing both victory and defeat‚ it can relate to all of us‚ each and every one. Stating that all of life’s battles are checkered with many
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‘Of Mice and Men’ is a novel that was published by John Steinbeck in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The Great Depression brought many rural‚ poor and migrant workers to the Great Plains states‚ such as California‚ which is where Steinbeck sets the whole novel. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 forced banks to foreclose on mortgages and collect debts. Unable to pay their debts many farmers lost their property and were forced to find other work. Steinbeck uses animal imagery on migrant characters
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In 1919‚ America was on a crash course to intoxication. Many people were worried about the American People’s future. Many men and women joined forces to help prevent this. They created many organizations to push congress to pass the 18th Amendment. Once it was passed things were downhill from there. That is why Prohibition had a large effect on America because of the passing of the 18th Amendment‚ crimes during Prohibition‚ and the 21st Amendment. Many people wanted Prohibition. They pushed congress
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