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    March 3‚ 2012 Dear Diary‚ I’m so upset!! I don’t even know where to begin! To start off‚ I think I completely failed my geometry quiz‚ which I know I should’ve studied more for...my dad’s not gonna be happy about that. :( Then‚ we had a pop quiz in history on the reading homework from last night‚ and I completely forgot most of what I read‚ which made me even more upset because I actually did the reading! But what really made me mad was the note that Sarah slipped into my locker during

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    The Dust Bowl By Madison Caesar 5-14-2013 The dust bowl was a period of severe dust storms that causes damage to prairie lands from 1930 to 1936‚ some areas until 1940. Whoever thought before this that dust could kill Americans and affect their life’s forever. This historical event will be a moment in time that will be in our memories forever because it is an event to learn from and never forget. The main states that were affected by the dust bowl were Colorado‚ Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas

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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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    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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    The American people showed great determination during the Dust Bowl‚ by migrating to find new jobs. The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms that started in 1934 due to a long drought‚ high heat‚ farming practices‚ and high winds (“Dust” 466). These dust storms battered the Great Plains‚ which run from South Dakota to Texas‚ creating “dust pneumonia” for the people who lived there (“Dust” 466‚ 467). Many people living in the Great Plain during this time decided to migrate to California‚ desperate

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    What Caused 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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    Why Is The Dust Bowl Bad

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    The in Great Depression and the Dust Bowl occurred in the same time period. When the stock market crashed 1929 the years weren’t as bad. But then when the Dust bowl hit the Midwestern America. The Great Depression was before the Dust Bowl had occurred. When people from the midwestern area had such a hard time growing crops and earning a living. For the people who once lived in the fastest growing country everything went downhill from that point. Many people from the area that was so great for

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    is so much dirt and dust outside‚ it goes so high in the air and I am terrified and my siblings are all crying. My parents gather all of us‚ and we all put towels on all doors and windows so no dust gets in. Me and my brother see all the animals and people running away from the dust storm. Momma grabbed my brother‚ sister‚ and dad. She gave us all wet towels to put on our faces. I can still taste the dirt. We all huddled in the middle of

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    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 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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