... been raised there. The area in which they lived was acutely dusty. Dust storms often would be so severe that citizens were forced to remain in their homes. As a result of one such storm, all crops of corn were destroyed and the farmers were left in financial despair. The bankers, having seen ... this, took advantage of the given situation and foreclosed people's homes. At the time poverty was so severe that prison was a welcoming sanctuary. Fraudulent signs of hope were merely miles away in sunny California, a place of ... One of the most glamorous camps of all was known as Weedpatch. T...

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... down on your hands and knees(Steinbeck 48). The couple had couldn't afford a home so they had to live in a boiler where getting in was very unpleasant. Since jobs and homes were lost many people in Cannery Row had to use the resources like a boiler to make a home. Furthermore, some characters in Cannery Row had to live in other things like ... a large pipe. Steinbeck states, "then it was that Mr. Malloy looks to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters(48). Some people living on Cannery Row live is pipes as homes. By people living in pipes and boiler shows the suffering of the Grea...

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... revolutionizing values and ideals it is no wonder they made as big an impact on the society and decade as they did. This uprise of the younger generation can be held accountable for their part in the conflicts of the 20's. With women winning the right to vote many politicians realized they had to appeal to women as well as men ... younger generation. With both women and men smoking, tobacco industries began producing sexier ads that featured flappers to promote their products. The Freudian doctrine brought the word sex into many homes of the younger generation. This would help to bring ...

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... million people who depended on their support for the necessities of life. Black worker, the last hired and the first fired, had an unemployment rate of 35 percent. Employees who held on to their jobs took cuts in pay. Between 1929 and 1933, the average earnings of workers in manufacturing fell from $25 per week to less than $17. The income ... to dramatize the low pay they received for their products. During the 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression, 32.000 businesses failed. Untold number of people lost their homes because they could not keep up mortgage payments. In the South a...

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... the country trying to recover for the next decade. The first major cause of the depression was an unequal distribution of wealth among the American citizens. A mere .1 percent of Americans held a whopping 42 percent of the nations wealth. An illustration would be if there were only 1,000 people left in the world and there was only 1000 dollars left but money ... and many families lost their entire life's savings. The American people now felt the punishment for their unwise spending earlier in the decade. Many families were forced to evacuate their homes because they couldn't pay their r...

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... , and purchasing power" which helped keep a healthy economy. Truman also passes the GI bill in 1944. The GI Bill enabled veterans to claim unemployment, receive low interest loans to purchase homes and funded them for education and job training. This helped to stabilize the American economy until the next war prevented the depression. World War II also had a major impact on ... because they believed that an increase in Jewish Immigrants would give America more economic problems. President Roosevelt created a rescue Board and let some Jewish Immigrants in to America but still held a Quota...

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... possible again in the Dust Bowl; consequently, farmers have learned many valuable lessons from this dilemma. The European settlers who first arrived at the Great Plains found hardy grasslands that held the fine-grained soil in place in spite of the long recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains. A large number of the travelers settled down in this area and built farms ... dry and denuded soil and created clouds of dust that could be seen hundreds of miles away. These dust storms and sandstorms battered the settlers and buried their roads and homes in sand. The worst storm of al...

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