The event I chose to learn more about was Oklahoma NW Oklahoma Wildfire Outbreak. My family’s home burned down when I was a junior in high school so I can readily relate to fire disasters. Our home fire‚ however‚ was electrical and not a natural disaster. Our house had to be completely redone and we were out of our home for six months. I cannot imagine having the stress of knowing that your house was in the path of the fire. The Oklahoma Wildfire Outbreak occurred on March 6‚ 2017 and was declared
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“The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew”‚ said Robert Burns‚ in the poem “To a Mouse”. In this book Steinbeck uses foreshadowing a lot for upcoming events that will shock you. This book is about 2 friends that have a huge farm dream and a lot of things happen in this story to make that big plan go askew. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to indicate the deaths of the farm dream‚ Curley’s wife dying‚ and Lennie. For one‚ John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing by giving us huge hints about the
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Collectivisation caused a lot of suffering in the countryside and had devastating effects for people who worked on collective farms‚ with the amount of resources that the state was demanding during the famine it becomes clear that they did not care for agronomists living conditions. A.Nove‚ Source 4‚ clearly shows that the peak amount of cattle was 70.5 million in 1968 and that sharply fell to 38.4 by 1933 before recovering‚ giving weight to the argument because clearly people where struggling to
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You’ve probably heard of "fair trade coffee‚" but may not be quite clear on what it actually is. It refers more to a practice than a type of coffee‚ and the emphasis is definitely on the word "fair." Before fair trade was introduced‚ the big â�� very‚ very big â�� business of coffee was all about the huge corporations‚ and maximizing their profits. This meant that most of the billions of dollars made from coffee growing went mostly into those corporations’ pockets‚ but was also funneled to the
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Why was the fall of Rome such an important. Tribes of fierce Germanic warriors began to attack Rome’s northern borders. The Persians then invaded the east. For almost 200 years the Romans defended themselves against these attacks. People that lived near the northern border began to abandon their land. Then the Germanic farmers began to farm the land and they ignored the Roman leaders. Disease swept through the empire killing many people. The Roman government was forced to increase the taxes. They
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Steinbeck travelled America and designed a view of society of 1960s’ throughout Travels with Charley As Chaplin’s Tramp roamed the world with the pleasure of wanderlust deep-rooted in his mind‚ returning on the road after every stop all the time‚ similarly John Steinbeck returned home from his European journeys with the intentions to criss-cross his homeland to get to know the nature of the people the country was settled by. Steinbeck felt he lost the connection with the country and the people
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Book Review: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis follows the life of first time author‚ J.D. Vance and his experiences growing up in the Hillbilly culture of Jackson‚ Kentucky and Middletown‚ Ohio. As Vance takes you through the journey of his childhood in the Rust Belt of America and the lives of the Appalachian hillbillies in his family tree‚ the book also discusses a common theme: “How much of our
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The pumpkin queen Cadet Ramirez Exploration of space B2 Utah Military Academy The pumpkin queen Sarah Frey is known as the pumpkin queen because she grows the most jack pumpkins in the united states (The big orange ones for halloween). Just this fall she shipped 5 million pumpkins. She says if it hadn’t been so hot and humid she would’ve shipped more. Eat not carve Sarah frey believes you shouldn’t just carve pumpkins for entertainment and decoration but eat them. She is now using more
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In John Steinbeck ’s novel The Grapes of Wrath‚ Jim Casy is depicted as a philosophical‚ Christ-like teacher who triumphs over the evils of society. A literal interpretation of Emerson ’s philosophy gave birth to Casy ’s new doctrine of Love. As he evolves from a preacher of the old to a practitioner of the new‚ some believe that Jim Casy demonstrates remarkable similarities to Jesus Christ. These similarities are impressed upon not only Tom Joad‚ but also an entire group of oppressed workers that
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If there is a creative work that has shaped my moral and social world view‚ it is John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. Its portrayal‚ through the deeply proud and human Joad family‚ of the plight of so many during such a difficult time in America suggests a set of core attitudes by which an honorable people can cope with all sorts of difficulties‚ including the sort that America and the world struggle with today. Using scenes of great power and feeling‚ Steinbeck suggests that a healthy society must
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