ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to express our gratitude to our Health‚ Safety and Environment lecturer‚ Assoc Prof Dr Mohd Azmuddin bin Abdullah for allowing us to learn more about safety in the workplace environment. All the thing that we have been lectured on will be a valuable asset for our own safety in the future while working in our own respective workplace. All the tips and advices given by him will be used to its full extent to make our project as perfect as possible. We also want to thanks
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to fathom; one should also know that the residents of the southern plains states had to deal with more than just depression. Ongoing droughts saw to it that crops failed year after year during these times causing dust storms to become quite ubiquitous. This was better known as the Dust Bowl. The Grapes of Wrath is a fictional story that casts and outlines as much truth about the Great Depression as Uncle Tom’s Cabin exposed the deplorable realities of slavery in the e1800’s. John Steinbeck’s book
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New Mexico‚ and Colorado during the major drought in the 1930’s. The disaster‚ known as the Dust Bowl‚ is largely regarded as a human caused problem. Egan‚ who is a national correspondent on environmental issues for the New York Times‚ expertly incorporates historical facts from the time with real accounts from those who stayed. Although Egan sees farming as the direct cause of the drought‚ winds‚ and dust‚ he portrays his characters as hardy entrepreneurs who were duped onto unsustainable
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The Dustbowl of America in the 1930’s The Dust Bowl of North America was a disaster in the early 1930’s when huge parts of the Midwestern and Western farmlands of America became wastelands. This happened due to a series of dry years‚ which agreed‚ with the extension of agriculture in unsuitable lands. Droughts and dust storms caused by poor labor practice troubled farms and ranches of the Great Plains; causing a great migration of its people to other‚ more fertile‚ lands. The problem had become
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people made it through all of the hard times. They did their best to keep a roof over their head and their families together. The main causes of The Great Depression were uneven distribution of wealth‚ the stock market crash‚ bank failures‚ and The Dust Bowl. Uneven distribution of wealth was the biggest cause of the depression. More money would be handed out to the wealthy‚ and very little was handed out to the poor. Farmers spent the money they had on new farming equipment‚ and would not share
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Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath follows the Joad family‚ mainly Tom Joad‚ as they live through the Dust bowl. With corporate monsters and the struggle of living through this perilous time‚ the family does their best to survive. There are 4 main types of analytical lenses that can be used to look at Steinbeck’s work‚ including the archetypal‚ gender‚ marxist‚ and historical lenses. Archetypal deals with character types and their narrative design. Gender deals with the roles and stereotypes applied
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Steinbeck’s Symbols With the use of narrative language‚ John Steinbeck recounts the events associated with a time in history when America stood on the brink of despair‚ the Great Depression. As the Joad family embarks on a journey of survival‚ in The Grapes of Wrath‚ Steinbeck shows the perseverance of the American spirit and the breakdown of the American Dream. Throughout the Joad family’s journey a substantial amount of time is spent on the grueling Route 66. The Route was the link between
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The 1920’s was practically the spending period for America‚ we had just gotten out of a war and the citizens thought they could buy all these luxuries (refrigerators or radios for example) and say they’ll pay the bank back‚ but never really did. According to PBS.org; on October 24‚ 1929 the stock market had crashed‚ leaving all the rich people broke and the poor people dead broke. When March of 1930 came around already more than 3.2 million people were unemployed. While business owners were hit hard
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Dust Bowl? Now-a-days many farmers struggle with drought. In the 1930s the same was true. Farmers are currently fearing that having this huge drought will affect their economic living. If a drought happens than a farmer’s plantation could lose its crops‚ animals‚ and amazing soil. Three supporters of those ideas are Romm‚ who knows a lot about energy efficiency; MeManus‚ who is the associate state climatologist for Oklahoma; and Foley‚ who is the director of the Institute on the Environment at
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JOURNAL ENTRY TWO Connection (Family) As the Joads ride on their journey to California‚ they travel as a whole‚ one unit‚ one family. And on one night they camp off the side of the road‚ and run into the Wilson’s‚ creating and merging into one large family‚ with one goal in mind‚ reaching California. But as the days of traveling continue‚ the family struggles to stay intact due to obstacles such as the staggering heat‚ lack of money‚ automobile breaking down‚ doubts brought upon by people who
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