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    The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s‚ forced many families to move to different parts of the country‚ devastated the livelihoods of farmers; the relief was The New Deal. "Dust Bowl" was a term born in the hard times from the people who lived in the drought-stricken region during the great depression. The "Dust Bowl Days" also known as the "Dirty Thirties" took their toll on the people of this region of the country with the many extremes of weather: blizzards‚ tornadoes‚ floods‚ droughts‚ and dirt storms

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    How Technology has Affected Families” Computer and Internet Literacy Reference Page • Winner‚ L. (1993). How technology reweaves the fabric of society. The Chronicle of Higher Education‚ 39(48)‚ B1-B1. • Abernethy‚ Michael D. “Study Explores How Internet‚ Technology Affect Young People.” McClathy -Tribute Business News. 05 Mar 2012:n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 02 Apr 2012 • Grunwald Associates (2012). Medical Literacy Clearing house “Infographics from the State Of The News Media

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    John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas‚ families‚ tribes‚ dusted out‚ tractored out. Carloads‚ caravans‚ homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains‚ hungry and restless – restless as ants‚ scurrying to find work to do – to lift‚ to push‚ to pull‚ to pick‚ to cut – anything

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    Abstract When a family decides to have a child‚ everything changes. That child becomes a number one priority. In order for a child to lead a healthy‚ functional life‚ a family needs to be strong and functional. When a family becomes dysfunctional‚ the most effected is the children. The children forget their children and act out which makes them difficult to live with. If a dysfunctional family‚ let alone the children‚ knew that therapy and help was available to them‚ more families would become healthy

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    that technology has affected families in many ways. Some people could see technology in a positive way‚ and others can see technology in a negative way. I would like to share some information on how technology has affected families now and days. After reading this research paper I hope you have a better understanding on how technology has had an impact on families. It is up to you to determine how technology has affected your family. It is astonishing how much of technology

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    What Caused The Dust Bowl? ““A trip to water to rinse the grit from our lips.And then back to back to bed with washcloths over our noses. We try to lie still‚ because every turn stirs the dust on the blanket. After a while‚ if we are good sleepers‚ we forget.””(Doc. A) It was the 1930’s‚ farms are dying‚ people are leaving‚ and you are left with a choice do you stay or do you leave? The government is offering 320 free acres of land to anyone who can survive three years. Three years of what though

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    The 1930’s were a decade of great change politically‚ economically‚ and socially. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl wore raw the nerves of the people‚ and our true strength was shown. From it arose John Steinbeck‚ a storyteller of the Okies and their hardships. His books‚ especially The Grapes of Wrath‚ are reflections of what really went on in the 1930’s. John Steinbeck did not write about what he had previously read‚ he instead wrote what he experienced through his travels with the migrant

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    My journey began 10 years ago‚ when my family moved to the United States. Family friends that already made the move from Bulgaria to America‚ tried to explain what it would be like on the other side of the ocean but failed to do so. Coming to America affected my family and me in some bad ways and some good ways. I missed my extended family and friends still to this day. The people I used to see every day were not near anymore. After a few months the everyday Skype’s went from once a day to once

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    black with dust. Houses buried under great dunes of earth. Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended‚ images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide” (Wesson.) That is what a normal day during the 1930’s was like. Back then people farmed to get their profit‚ especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People’s lives revolved around farming. If they didn’t get their crops planted on time‚ there wouldn’t be food on the table for the family. But “When

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    #1 Federal Governments Role in the Dust Bowl The infamous Dust Bowl of the 1930s was one of the most horrific and devastating environmental crises to hit twentieth century North America. The Dust Bowl was a period of unyielding dust storms which inevitably caused major agricultural‚ ecological and irreversible damage to the American and Canadian prairie lands. The Dust Bowl lasted from 1930 to 1936‚ in some areas the drought lasted until 1940. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was mostly a man-made

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