Dust explosion

In 1930s the great depression was a serious worldwide issue, when the horrifying weather destroyed all the crops and left the farmers wretched. Most farmers moved on and did some other labor. In Sinclair Ross’s “The lamp at noon” is set in the great depression time, about a farmer named Paul who has too much pride about his farming and strives to keep farming and maintaining the crops and land, but his wife Ellen opposes this and wants to move to her parents and work with her them. Yet his…

Americans also had to be careful with crossing rivers. During the late fall and winter, the temperatures of the water could cause a person to get sick, let alone die from the lack of medical care. Americans also had to be careful crossing rivers for their wagons and animals were so heavy. They had to be careful not to let animals drown. According to Shannon, more than half of the pioneers, along with their cattle drowned in 1844 when trying to cross the Columbia Gorge. Besides the weather not…

Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story Chavez Ravine is a documentary that uses interviews and pictures taken by Don Normark to explain the disappearance of a city due to political hypocrisy and greed. From interviews with the former interviews of this small village, life in this village was one of a kind, and they had never understood why the good intentions of development went awry. This Mexican-American village is promised to upgrade for better housing but instead the 300 families are forcefully…

ENVCUL Module 9 Discussion Assignment Question #6 When Donald Worster refers to the “tragedy of the laissez faire commons,” he is talking about the rapacious depletion of a resource that isn’t technically under ownership and the consequences that result from the exhaustion of said resource. The example Worster uses is the U.S.’s western ranching industry during the late 19th century, which boomed for a brief period but then quickly collapsed. Its demise was due to ranchers, not caring about…

The term “alienation” describes the event where an individual is excluded from a certain group or activity but should have rights to participation; one character in The Grapes of Wrath who faced alienation is Al Joad. In the novel, Al is described as a teenage boy who loves women and cars. Al, similar to the rest of the family, becomes classified as an Okie; according to the Californian landowners, Okies lack talent and drive. Al aspires to work in a garage to repair cars; consequently, his past…

Paragraph 1: Character speech In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses character speech to express how the Great Depression has affected the American Dream. One instance of character speech shows the importance of work. For instance, as George and Lennie are making their journey towards the ranch, George points out to Lennie, “think I’d let you carry your own work card?” (Steinbeck 5). Evidently, this example from George’s dialogue does not only show his hostility and short-temperedness, but further…

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt is a memoir about growing up in poverty in Ireland, and the need to make it to America to escape his inevitable miserable future in Limerick. Frank , the main character, has to cope with neglect his alcoholic father, dead siblings and friends, as well as the prejudice he faces as a poor lane boy. Marxism is defined by the power struggle that society faces as a whole. The obvious element of a power struggle demonstrated by McCourt, is the fact that his family is…

The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is about two disparate migrant workers, George and Lennie, who travel around California looking for work during the Great Depression. Lennie and George find themselves on a farm in California where they plan to work until they have enough money to buy the little plot of land that they want. They almost had enough money to buy it when things went very wrong. Lennie killed Curley’s wife, and George knew that they could not run away again. In…

In today's world, people have achieved so much but it was not always like this. businessmen, entrepreneurs, tycoons and ceo's were not always the leaders. This world used to be a difficult place for a lot of people, tribes ect. people were poor, barely had a place to live and died of diseases. Tribes would have to hunt, some tribes such as the osage tribe was forced to leave their land and exchange it for a smaller place. The osage tribe, were originated from missouri around 1673. they were an…

1. The impact of the development of agriculture did so create a void in the Native American community. They were harbored out of the land they occupied in order for settlers to expand and began harvesting. These Native Americans, in the process, lost their homes and lives fighting in this battle. Some were paid for the land they occupied but some were forced violently to remove themselves from the grounds. 2. The Hopi, Zuni , Pueblos, and Navajo indians some of those that emerged north of…