... high of twenty-five percent of the labor force was jobless. The unemployment rate continued to stay in the double digits until 1940 when World War II supplied jobs for the masses (Samuelson 1). Unfortunately, for many the only hopes for survival were rumors of prosperous lands in the west. ... conditions would seem unbearable by the standards held today but was left to be the last option for many such as the Joads during the depression. Without the benefits taken for granted today such as Social Security, Welfare, Medicare and other federal relief programs they showed utmost determinatio...

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... Storms also happened during a very bleak time for the United States because the country was going thru the great depression as well as dealing with the looming threat of World War II. I feel like that the dust bowls were even harder for the people to deal with from a psychological ... standpoint because the country was suffering thru a great depression and also dealing with an upcoming war and then you add the devastating dust storms to go along with the high temperatures, the wind and drought and you had a ... recipe for disaster. Also in my opinion this was a huge humanitarian disast...

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... photographer who captured American life with her personal and revealing style. She documented the change of life in the depression, especially among ethnic groups and workers neglected by the war. Lange's early work documented displaced farm families and emigrant workers during the Great Depression, trying to escape the dust bowl as they migrated West. "Her concern for people, her appreciation of the ... ordinary, and the striking empathy she showed for her subjects made her unique among photographers of her day." Lange's documentary style achieved its fullest expression with photograph...

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... all it could from the earth while giving next to nothing back. The Dust Bowl existed, in its full quintessence, concurrently with the Great Depression during the 1930's. Worster sets out in an attempt to show that these two cataclysms existed simultaneously not by coincidence, but by the same ... . Again though, Worster claims these attempts were not enough, calling men like Gray "problem-solvers, often bogged down in the immediate issues of Depression America and did not give enough attention to the broader issues, nor did they talk boldly enough about the dimensions of change."(pg. 196...

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... that is incontrovertibly accurate in terms of history, and finally and most importantly, a good book. It gives its reader the experience that is second only to actually experiencing the great depression, living in the dust bowl, and suffering from unemployment for years in the 1930's....

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... be an important factor in shaping his fiction (Millichap 3153). He grew up in a frustrated modern America and witnessed the most notable failure of the American dream in the Great Depression (Millichap 3152). During this decadent period, many of Steinbeck's writings of! fered detailed accounts of social problems, particularly the plight of migrant agricultural workers in California's fertile valley (Millichap 3157 ... ...

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