Out of the Dust

The Dust Bowl began on Thursday, April 18, 1935, it was a huge, black, cloud of dirt, piled up on the western horizon. This storm was enormous and deadly. The Dust Bowl affected Oklahoma, Texas, parts of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. These states were vulnerable to the dust storm for their lack of rainfall, light soil, and high winds. As a result, soil lacked the strong roots of grass in order to stay in place, this made it easier for high, hectic winds to get a hold of the soil. Years…

and enters your ducts, the moisture can encourage the growth of mold spores. Left uninhibited, mold and mildew can grow and cause or exacerbate either allergies or asthma in some people. The dryer air from your furnace could make your duct work dry out and allow the mold and mildew growths to partially detach. A good professional duct cleaning…

Dust city Dust city is a place where Henry lives and used to be crowded by fairies. Fairies used to live in an island floating in the sky called Eden and used to help the people called the Humain and the Animalia. The Humain lived on the floating island with the fairies and the Animalia lived below. Till something took place. All fairy's vanished one night and never came back. Some say They still live in Eden and they have forgotten about us and some say they all died. Some still believe that…

1930s, the American Dust Bowl was one of the worst environmental disasters that caused severe droughts and wind erosions. The Dust Bowl widely influenced soil productivity for farming, air quality in daily life, and human health in long term. It not only caused serious impacts on the environment of the United States, but also worsened the economic conditions after the Great Depression’s destructions in the late 1920s. The Dust Bowl took place on the Great Plains where severe dust storms and…

While working with wood there are health hazards that can come from dust in the air. Presently in any shop there should be some form of dust venting because if there is no venting several health hazards can be present such as, cancers, allergies, and skin irritants. While most industries have state of the art venting is it really enough to prevent what most employees and most health care professionals really fear when it comes to cancerous diseases and other health born issues. Whether working…

that is often overshadowed by the occurrence World Wars and Great Depression; the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was a massive drought centered on the states of Texas and Oklahoma caused by over tilling of farmland. Due to the farmland being over tilled, the vegetation that held the soil in place was no longer present, releasing immense amounts of dust into the air. Though it was technically a “natural disaster”, the Dust Bowl played an important role in helping shape America into the nation it is…

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, written by Donald Worster was first published in 1979 and more recently republished for its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2004. Worster is a professor at Kansas University, having earned his bachelors at Kansas University and his Ph.D. from Yale. Worster’s work largely focuses on environmental history and he has written several books on this topic. Worster’s novels have received numerous awards with Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s having…

Dust storms began, and the rain stopped. This only worsened the living conditions. The drought lasted for eight years, and the “Dust Bowl” destroyed many homes. The Dust Bowl caused many people to come sick and disease ridden, and many people died because of the storms. During the summer of 1931, a severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern…

thousands of small businesses closed their doors. Therefore, wWhen an envionmental crisis known as the Dust Bowl began in the 1930s, those living in farms were not keen on the idea of moving to larger cities, in fact, most people living in the Dust Bowl region chose not to move to other regions despite how destructive, dangerous, and common dust storms were. Avid Carlson described the scene during the Dust Bowl at night.…

of the Dust Bowl. Throughout the novel, you see several people’s stories and the ups and down they faced leading up to and during the Dust Bowl. You see how these families faced the challenges with their living arrangements, economic struggles, and family fatalities. The main objective of this novel is to show the importance of this historical event that changed the way every single family lived and to show the environmental ignorance people had that helped lead to the results of the Dust Bowl.…