Dust jacket

previous decade. Accompanying the drought were strong winds, that would lift the topsoil up into the atmosphere. The combination of the wind and topsoil caused massive dust storms that would blacken the sky, and turn day into night.Thus, ushering in a time that would later become known as the Dust Bowl. Ken Burns documentary “The Dust Bowl” puts it best by saying, “It was a decade-long natural catastrophe of Biblical proportions—encompassing 100 million acres in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas,…

the environment and the rate of soil erosion until the Midwest dust bowl incident of the 1930’s, which at that time was too late ("Dust Bowl", 2016). The soil conservation act, created in 1935 paved the way for soil and water control programs, and other conservation…

In Dubious Wrath In Dubious Battle, published in 1936, was written by American author John Steinbeck. The story was given in the context of 1930s, when The Dust Bowl, Okie Migration and The Great Depression took place. Steinbeck was horrified by the workers’ plight as he had many direct contacts with labor organizers, strikers and communists. In the book of In Dubious Battle, Steinbeck depicts how desperate the labors look for solutions to their economic misery under the time of the Great…

and they are hated” (Steinbeck, pg.20). They came across to outsiders as ignorant and dirty and a threat to the crops if they refused to work. Prior to migrating, they were farmers that ended up losing their land and homes due to the Dust Bowl; a series of dust storms in the United States caused…

In a plot which is twisted throughout the whole story, the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, published in 1937, stuns its readers by taking them on a journey to the 1920s, where there was a severe economic depression in America, where hundreds of thousands became unemployed. The story is mainly told from the perspective of two ranch men, George and Lennie, to which the latter has caused the duo trouble due to the his lack of mental capability. Although George and Lennie are the…

Marketing Act to help stop them from going bankrupt, but they had to pay back the loans. Then comes the Dust Bowl, as known as the Dirty Thirties, which made a huge impact to the Great Depression. It was a severe dust storm that caused a lot of damage to the prairies of the U.S. Millions of acres were affected by the dust bowl and farmers had lost their properties. Because of the continuous dust storms, about 100 million acres of farmland didn’t have enough topsoil to grow crops. Poor practice…

Destroyed Dreams Dreams, although often cut off are necessary to keep the hopes of people alive to fight against the hardships of the social perils of life. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a powerful depiction of life during the Great Depression in rural America. Life during 1930’s America was tough, and hope was the only escape from hard reality. To most people, Lennie and George’s futures seem grim, but we discover how resilient they are and that they refuse to give up. Candy joins in…

Money is not an Option During the 1930’s when To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place there was a depression everywhere in the country. Great dust storms ravaged land across the great plains. This put an end to almost all agriculture in the region. People starving, many people had very little to eat. The stock market crashed. A lot of banks closed. The main point of the story is that there is a african american man that must go on trial for crime he may not have committed. The trial…

One Rainy Sunday Rainy days have a set vibe based on the day of the week. Rainy Mondays are exhausting, rainy Tuesdays are monotonous, and rainy Wednesdays are relieving. But rainy Sundays are perhaps the strangest of them all, a simultaneous state of serenity and sorrow. And this rainy Sunday was no different. It had only been a short while after we had moved to Round Rock from Dallas, and it felt like an eternity and a short second all at once. As familiar I felt with my friends’ faces, I…

In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck takes readers back to the great depression. During this time, around the 1930s, people had to go from farm to farm to make enough money to survive. Many people traveled from job to job alone, never making friends or having the chance to talk to anyone. Steinbeck’s characters show how this affected them and how they wanted to make friends, and get out of the isolation people had put them in. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck claims that isolation can…