... to tell Pa that because of those handbills his wife and children starved. But before Pa could get too down Casy tells him that they will have better luck. After traveling through New Mexico and Arizona, the Joads finally stop in California. Here they find a river and bathe, while Noah, Tom's older brother, decides he wants to live off the fish of the river and just walks off ... . Ivy and Sairy decide to not travel with the Joads ... any longer because Sairy has an illness. During a routine agricultural check, an officer tells Ma that he needs to unload the vehicle, but Ma implies that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... useful public works projects. In 1938, Roosevelt made the PWA a division of the Federal Works Agency and the PWA was liquidated in the 1940's. Another program that was put into place was the Tennessee Valley Authority. The purpose of the TVA was to integrate development of the Tennessee River Basin, an area of about 41,000 square miles that covers parts of seven states. The TVA took the problems presented by devastating floods, badly eroded lands ... , the NYA's activities ceased. Also during these "Second Hundred Days" the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act were st...

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... Americans that the suffering of these displaced families was completely unnecessary and that America could have easily provided for these people (O'Connor, p67). A controversial quote in Chapter twenty-five shows Steinbeck's message clearly, "Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the river and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people ... from fishing them out. ... There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation ... and children... must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange." (Steinbeck, 1939, p477...

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... one of the last writers to dream of writing the "Great American Novel". Of Mice and Men concerns itself with the story of Lennie Small and George Milton, two poor workers in the Salinas River Valley. The main theme of the book is the fear of loneliness and the need to dream that all men innately have. It is very similar to the bond which the Joad family has in The Grapes of Wrath. However, the Joads are a family of evicted ... to John Steinbeck in that he wrote an adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath as a song titled "Tom Joad". His impact on the folk music genre still can be seen today, a...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... wheat. In one of the areas in America hit hardest by the Depression, the Tennessee River Valley, an act named after the valley was formed to create a "planned economy." The Tennessee River was to be dammed up in several places to prevent flooding in the area, create jobs in building the dams, and to provide large amounts of inexpensive hydroelectric power. Low-cost housing, lots of cheap nitrates, restoration of eroded soil, improved ... Deal Administration and the Great Depression, and remains one of the legacies of Roosevelt. The National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Rel...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate