Boxcar

It is completely mind-blowing to realize that the Dust Bowl actually happened in the United States not too long ago! The hardships that these families endured while living there, like losing their family farms and many of their belongings, is heart-breaking. What is even sadder is that the banks and government acted like they didn’t know who was to blame for the evicting! The social and economic issues of the 1930s were very problematic and the programs of the New Deal attempted to help get…

Department of Housing and Urban Development gave an estimate in 1984 of “111,000 persons can be housed in emergency shelters nationwide on any given night”, (Caton, 1990, p.111). Some shelters however have restrictions were they do not allow single adult women, women and children and single adult men. This is primarily due to communal sleeping and bath accommodations and inadequate staff to monitor a two sex situation. Another program that I looked into was Halfway Houses, where residents are…

Imagine living in a post-apocalyptic world where living in constant fear of zombies has become a new normal. Every little move that is made or every noise that is made can depend on life or death. Everything someone worked hard for would be destroyed and there would be no where to go for help. Would this push someone over the edge or would this push them to keep trying to survive? This is what The Walking Dead is all about. The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series created…

Author/Speaker How does the author or speaker (narrator) let us know that he/she is credible and trustworthy? Does the author come across as knowledgeable? How do you know this? Does the speaker’s reputation convey a certain authority? Explain. In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, the narrator speaks in first person. He claims he was there and asserts that the events told in the story are true. In the first paragraph he affirms this by saying, “One guy I knew really was shot in…

Polish born Jews were kicked from Germany on Hitler's command. They were ordered to leave their homes in a single night, and were only allowed one suitcase per person to store their belongings. The Jews were taken from their homes and thrown into boxcars, piled on top of each other. When they arrived at a concentration camp they were still not informed of what was going on or what was going to happen to them. They were pulled out of the cars, women holding their children, brothers and sister…

stillborn due to her malnutrition and stress she experienced during the trip. However, despite all of this, she was still able to pick herself up and contribute a piece of herself to help someone in need. To clarify, while the family is stranded in a boxcar in the middle of California, they meet a dying man and his son sitting alone. Since Rose of had just given birth, her body was able to breastfeed and without a baby to do so, the milk has to go somewhere. As a result, she willing begins to…

* Phony War * Period between 1939- 1940 * there was very little combat as both sides built up their armies and arsenals * Axis * Alliance between Germany, Italy and later Japan * The 'Blitz' * in September of 1940, bombings of London and other major cities occurred in what the British called `the Blitz` * Italian Campaign, 1943 * in July 1943, Canadian, British, and American forces launched an assault on the Italian island of Sicily * by…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…