Can you imagine waking up in the morning and its pitch black outside? Would you be able to stand the dirt and the little rocks hitting your face everyday? Could you stand to inhale the dirt while you took a breath? What about eating the dirt that falls into your food? In the 1930’s in the Southern Plains‚ these people went through the worst‚ horrible experience of dust storms for nearly a decade. No sunrays will hit inside your house giving the warmth‚ just a big pitch-black cloud covering the whole
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The Dust Bowl was a devastating destruction of homes‚ farms‚ and families in the mid-western states. The Dust Bowl was a catastrophic event that occurred in Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and Kansas. It was a major event in history that caused people to pass away and get deadly sick. The Dust Bowl was a destruction of major crops‚ families‚ and houses. The Dust Bowl was an event that lasted longer than a decade! The Dust Bowl‚ also known as the Dirty Thirties‚ was a period of severe dust storms that greatly hurt
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What if you were to wake up‚ your mouth is dry and you’re lost in the middle of an arid desert. Would you continue the endless journey through the endless nothingness and be a survivor or give up on all your ambitions of a brighter future. Well if you give up that’s ok today because Salva didn’t because he was a survivor. In the book A Long Walk To Water written by Linda Sue Park which is based on a true story. Salva is in school when some Sudan rebels open fire and Salva is told one thing and that
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that where the Dust Bowl affected Atticus because he had to leave his farming job from the crops that were dried out. With no crops to work out on Atticus had to provide for his family‚ and he had to be able to feed his family. The Dust Bowl was a big drought that made Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and in some parts of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. This took place in 1934 right in the middle of the Great Depression. The people who were affected were people were the people
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The Joad family’s farm is taken by the bank because of the drought and they decide to travel west to California. Shortly after their departure Grandpa Joad‚ a bitter man who didn’t want to leave his home‚ passes away. Many people have the same idea as the Joad family‚ and during their travels they meet Ivy and Sairy Wilson and invite them to ride in the truck since their car broke down. Sairy is very sick and doesn’t make it passed the California border. As they near California they hear that there
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The documentary begins with the wedding of two Cambodian people. Moon‚ the bride‚ works in health care. She supports her family and pays for her brother and sister’s education. She met her husband Bunsan through her work. Their families are both very poor‚ so they had to pay for their wedding with help from their friends. Every weekend Moon goes back to her village to help her family with their rice field. It is hard to support a family with a rice field. Even worse‚ companies are buying many of
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I live out in the middle of nowhere‚ four other houses coexist out by me‚ and we each happen to be at least five acres apart from each other. However‚ we all share a road to progress onto our properties. For over 20 years this road has been a dirt road. We all have managed‚ became accustom to‚ and enjoyed living on a dirt road. But‚ one of the neighbors past away and his son sold his land to a real estate company‚ in which‚ disliked dirt road and paid the impact fees to have the county come out and
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Black Blizzard In 1930 there was lots of bad dust storms in the south west‚ creating one of the worst natural disasters in history. These storms ruined land‚ buried roads‚ ruined car engines‚ gave people dust pneumonia‚ and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay. In 1900-1930 families started buying land and moving to the plains. They would farm cash crops on the land but it was
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Of Mice and Men Thematic Essay The book Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck and takes place during the Great Depression. Throughout the book we follow the two main characters‚ George and Lennie. George is shown to have much power over Lennie. These two and many other characters struggle with obtaining‚ holding‚ or keeping “under control” the amount of power they have or want. In Steinbeck’s novel‚ the theme that seems to be most present is that‚ although people seek power‚ they often misuse
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In the Dust During the dust bowl era tenant farmers would sit and watch their crops fail again and again. The dust bowl is known as the most economically devastating natural disaster in the United States. Severe drought and wicked dust storms would ruin crops causing farmers to become poor‚ and no matter what they did their land would continuously be destroyed. The constant failure and mass destruction of farms caused more and more farmers to become unemployed. The calamitous Dust Bowl was a main
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