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considered their acceptable behavior. New immigration laws were passed, American citizens saw immigrants as a threat to their jobs and culture. Minorities were also discriminated in the 1920s, when their parents were threaten to be deported. During the Great Depression, farmers lost everything when the dust bowl occurred, it was difficult to find jobs without being differentiate and two different presidents changed lives either in a good way or a bad way. To begin with,…

Black Blizzard is about dust storms that were ravaging areas of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The Dust storms were extremely loud, over 7,000 feet tall they turned the sky black and they killed lots of animals. The areas mentioned were hit by hundreds of the storms. The storms destroyed land and crops, forcing people to move. Together these storms made one of the worst natural disasters. From 1900-1930 it was popular to buy plots of land and farm there. Crops were already…

The plot took place during the Great Depression. A man named Jimmy Braddock was struggling to pay the bills and take care of his wife and kids. He had no job because he was injured. He was even forced to go on public relief. His career seemed to be over. The only thing he cared about was his family. In order to help his family, he returned to the ring. No one thought he had a chance but he kept winning. Then he did what was least expected and versed the heavyweight champ Max Baer,who is known…

migrant workers can be hard. During The Great Depression, there were job crisis and food shortages and that affected all U.S. workers making some people migrant workers so they can try to earn money to support their families. Because of the Dust Bowl, many people had to abandon their homes because of failed farmes. The Dust Bowl started as a seven year drought and lead to dust storms. Migrant workers now have to work extremely hard and they don't have great housing. Most migrant workers became…

In 19th century France, many civilians born from unfortunate circumstances live the rest of their lives struggling to find the meanings of life and feelings of contentment. Money, food, and shelter are scarce. Communities are torn apart by these hardships and everyone is left empty inside. Eventually, it is discovered that love alone has the power to fill the gaping holes within their hearts. In the novel Les Miserables, Victor Hugo suggests devoting one’s life to love results in feelings of…

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST The Importance of Being Earnest is one of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known plays and is known for its witty humour and the mocking of the Victorian society. Satirizing of the Victorian views on marriage and the morals and standards of the upper class creates humour in The Importance of Being Earnest. This is supported by stylistic devices and wordplays. The characters in The Importance of Being Earnest, especially Lady Bracknell, mock the snobbism of the upper class…

I. Introduction a) Imagine being in the Midwest and then seeing a giant dust cloud. b) General info about Dust Bow. c) Because the Midwest became a failing region, many dreams were crushed. d) In the 1930's better known as "the dirty thirties", the dust bowl effected thousands of farmers and their families in the Southwest/Midwest. II. Body A)When the Midwest was a thriving community, people as far as New York came in hope of a better life, but soon turned downhill. 1) Land produced abundant…

government attempted to “lure” farmers to the South and to farm as much land as they wanted. The government would put up signs of farmers with potatoes the size of cars and cabbage to large to carry, this got farmers excited because this was during the great depression and they saw it as a way to help their family. The invention of tractors that would farm and plow land also caused tons of damage towards the Dust Bowl. Instead of farmers being able to plow one acre a day with a horse they could…

involvement in poverty outreach was present, but very minimal. For the most part, the government left churches and volunteer agencies as the primary source of aid to the poor. Congress did contribute to several programs to help those in need, and many states had already generated their own welfare programs, but there were no programs that the federal government itself had initiated at this point. One example of these programs was called the Civil War Pension Program, and it provided aid to…

On April 20, 1931, construction of America's savior of the Great Depression began. That day began one of America’s greatest engineering achievements and that has forever amazed the world with it’s ingenious ingenuity and structure of design. The Hoover Dam was by far the greatest achievement of mankind during the turn of the twentieth century. Due to the Dam’s concave structure, it gives off an arch-gravity design that allows the water of the Hoover Dam to become divided in an ingenious way. The…