GKE TASK 1 Western Governors University For the first of my two environmental/geography factors contributed to both the expansion and development of the United States‚ I have chosen the gold rush. The reason I have chosen this as one of my two choices is because I use to live in Grass Valley‚ California very close to Sutter’s Mill. As a child I would visit Sutter’s Mill often. Even now the town has retained the western feel of the gold rush
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Causes of the Great Depression Sara Andrews English Comp. 1301 Throughout the 1920s‚ new industries and new methods of production led to wealth and prosperity in America. America was able to use its great supply of raw materials to produce steel‚ chemicals‚ glass‚ and machinery that became the foundation of an enormous boom in consumer goods. However‚ this great prosperity ended in the fall of 1929‚ which marked the beginning of an era known as the Great Depression (Carrol). The Great Depression
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the bankruptcy even easier to occur. Everything in the United States at that time was affected by the Great Depression. Unfortunately the farmers were affected as well on that time because both a drought and horrendous dust storm took place. As a result of them "The Dust Bowl" happened. It was on an area of Oklahoma and other prairie states of the US affected by severe soil erosion in the early 1930s.That left the farmers with no crops. Everyone was losing his job by that time. Herbert Hoover
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The California Dream There are multiple interpretations and visions of the California Dream‚ each with their own variations and ideals that suit the individual. The dust bowl era brought numerous Southwestern migrants to California in search of their dream of prosperity as well as opportunity‚ while white middle class families saw their California Dream as living in harmony and peace in suburbia‚ in their modest homes‚ with manicured yards. The books American Exodus by James Gregory and Holy Land
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Steinbeck describes is once again reinforced when he states”the petals drop from the fruit trees and carpet the earth with pink and white”(346). Through this description‚ Steinbeck contrasts the state between the regular spring scenery with the desperate Dust Bowl that is
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ensure that they remain in the upper class. Many of the upper class seem to live in California where there is land and opportunity‚ while much of the lower class consists of "dust-bowl" farmers who have been forced to leave their land and travel to California in search of work. The land owners in California are afraid that these dust-bowl farmers will eventually take over their property and make it their own‚ so they are doing everything in their power to ensure that the poor farmers are
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occasions one person was lucky enough to have a job. The one person with the job had the responsibility of providing food for the rest of the family on an extremely low budget. The migrants in The Grapes of Wrath or from a region referred to as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl suffered because of farm price droppings and this caused owners to fire workers. The workers were forced to migrate down to California in hopes of finding a job along with all the other thousand workers searching for a job. During this
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Cited: Bonnifield‚ Paul. “1930 ’s Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl Men‚ Dirt and Depression. 5 Oct. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2010. Kelly‚ Martin. “Top 5 Causes of the Great Depression.” About.com:American History‚ 2010. Web. 4 Nov. 2010. Kelly‚ Martin. “What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.” About.com:American
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districts in Illinois. It once provided coal during World War II. On March 25‚ 1947‚ the mine exploded. According to the investigative findings of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Mine Safety and Health Administration‚ a build-up of charge ignited coal dust caused the explosion (Martin‚ 2000). A brief chronology of events leading up to the mine disaster is necessary to understand where Illinois public administration officials failed. Many things come to mind when trying to ascertain why the tragedy occurred
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When reading a novel‚ its important to take into consideration the time it was written. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck‚ takes place during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. This novel clearly shows all the hardships the people faced during this period in history. It could be said that the novel shows the human condition in a negative way‚ and is too pessimistic. However‚ through all the hardships‚ hope still finds a way into the Joads lives. The three major signs of hope in Grapes of Wrath
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