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    California migrants (edsitement). Chapter One shows the transition into the Dust Bowl and the farmers’ responses to these changes. Chapter 29 shows the changes caused by the California winter rains and the migrants’ responses to these changes. Steinbeck uses parallelism and inversion in his first and last intercalary chapters in order to emphasize the cyclical nature of the problems and the resilience of migrants during the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck introduces in Chapter One the initial problems faced by farmers

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    Sabrina Chiodo Nosic‚ Z CHC2O1 April 2nd 2015 1920s and 1930s Scrapbook Activity Roaring 20s 1) Five new products that emerged during the 1920s are upright electric toaster‚ dishwasher‚ table lamp‚ hair dryer‚ and egg cooker. These products are all electrical and technology-based. 2) a) Five examples of slang from the 1920s are cat’s meow (very sharp)‚ all wet (out to lunch)‚ dogs (shoes)‚ bunk (nonsense)‚ spiffy (fashionable). b) Three examples of these slang words used in sentences are‚ “You’re

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    References: Steinbeck‚ John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking‚ 1939. Print. Woolf‚ Virginia. A Room of One ’s Own. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ 1989. Print. Mumford and Sons. Dust Bowl Dance. N.d. CD.

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    his lager message. In the novel’s opening pages Steinbeck laces the text with recurring words‚ illustrating the setting and tone. He repeats words like “red country”‚ “dust”‚ “boiling”‚ and “raw stinging” to make the reader feel as if they are in the scorched and dust covered setting of Oklahoma in the midst of the Dust Bowl. He also utilizes recurring words like “pale”‚ “dark”‚ and “grey” as a sort of way to engrain into the reader’s minds with the depressing and utterly tragic tone the introduction

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    Steinbeck conveys these two themes through setting and characterization. Steinbeck opens the novel by describing the dust bowl in Oklahoma and the "men and women huddled in their houses‚ and they tied their handkerchiefs over their noses when they went out‚ and wore goggles to protect their eyes." (pg 3) Steinbeck made it clear that the families in Oklahoma were suffering; the dust bowl would soon force them to leave their homes and set out to the West. In chapter nineteen‚ the readers learn that California

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    Steinbeck. He symbolized every character and objects happening in the story to describe the experience of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. So here are the parallels between the Turtle and human struggling during The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Turtle was on a journey. This is like what people living on the Great Plains did. The environment in the Turtle and the Dust bowl was both arduous and painful. The highway was edged with a mat of tangled‚ broken dry grass. There were

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    Out Of the Dust Bowl By: Odalis Palacios Some of the Music during the Dust Bowl was "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "Dust Bowl Blues" were left out due to length. All tracks were recorded at RCA Victor studios in Camden‚ New Jersey on April 26‚ 1940‚ except "Dust Can’t Kill Me" and "Dust Pneumonia Blues" which were recorded on May 3.which were on ‘’The Dust Bowl Ballads’’.  Some of the celebrities during the Dust Bowl were John Maynard Keynes who was a British economist who believed that deficit spending

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    Americans had during the dust bowl in the Great Depression. The great depression began in the United States soon after the stock market crash in October 1929‚ which sent Wall Street into a panic. For the next ten years the consumer spending dropped causing sharp declines in industrial production and so raising a considerable amount of homelessness and unemployment. In the Great Depression‚ events such as dust bowl‚ also known as the Dirty Thirties‚ was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged

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    caused these impacts on farmers was the Dust Bowl‚ their lose of money‚ and Discrimination. During The Great Depression the Dust Bowl started and affected many of the rural poor people. Farmers were making an abundance of crops so they cut dawn all the trees to make even more. This did not help the farmers but destroy their farms. An abundance of top soil was pushed up and created a big black cloud started to head towards the farms and soon the Dust Bowl started. In the book Grapes Of Wrath by John

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    are The Dust Bowl‚ World War 1‚ and the Stock Market Crash. These three major points put millions of people in a sad place‚ A place nobody wanted to be at. Everyone wanted to believe it was a dream. Doing their best to raise their children. Caused a whole lot of damage to the crops‚ getting around to places‚ and especially losing loved ones. This was all happing in Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas. For eight years people prayed for it to rain‚ for the dust to be

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