... act of independence of her life. She announced that she intended to travel the world, paying her way as a photographer. # Dorothea Lange started out as an independent portrait photographer in San Francisco. Bored with studio work, she turned her lens to the breadlines and waterfront strikes on the city's streets as the Great Depression took hold in the 1930s. Shocked by the ... . Dorothea Lange's 1932 White Angel Breadline is one of the great photographs in this world. In the midst of the Depression, 14 million people were unemployed. Near Lange's studio in San Francisco was a breadline ...

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... of Dusseldorf. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, "nourishing" his impression of the California countryside and its people (Lisca 32). He made occasional exciting trips to San Francisco with his family and more frequent trips to the Monterey peninsula (Fontenrose 2). In 1918, he became ill with pneumonia and almost died, but he was able to recover. After graduating ... returned to California in 1926 (Fontenrose 3). For the next three years, periods of temporary employment alternated with periods devoted entirely to writing; and he moved from place to place, to S...

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... prosperity that they had experienced in the early 1920's as the United States fell into the worst depression in it's history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while campaigning for the presidency in San Francisco, gave a speech before the Commonwealth Club where he strongly stated, "The government should assume the function of economic regulation only as a last resort, to be tried only when private initiative ... , leaving many people's portfolios empty and many others jobless. The difference between today and the 1929 stock market crash was simply what Roosevelt told the people in his speech ...

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... , New Mexico, and Kansas (Hamilton 35). Steinbeck lived through other tragedies too. He lived through the Hindenburg helium ship exploding and erupting in flames, and he lived through the horrific San Francisco earthquake (Hinds 66). Steinbeck lived in the time in which the German Nazi party gained huge popularity in parliament and Hitler was extremely popular and had gained massive power. He ... ...

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... in New York City and actually took a class taught by Clarence White, another famous photographer. After being an apprentice for several studios in New York City, she moved out to San Francisco in 1918 and started her own successful portrait studio. There she met her first husband, famous painter Maynard Dixon and had two sons named Daniel and John. When the effects ... ...

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... is a proud but lonely African-American who also works on the ranch. All of these stock characters are flat. This story was written in the 1930's, taking place south of San Francisco. It opens with the two traveling ranch hands, George and Lennie, on their way to a new job at a California ranch. It is while they are traveling that the reader learns ... ...

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... the Works Progress Administration (WPA). At first, WPA was ridiculed, but soon developed a good reputation by helping rebuild the country. Some of these things include: a zoo in Washington D.C., fairgrounds in San Francisco, Boulder Dam in Colorado, Lincoln Tunnel in New York, 250,000 miles of street repairs, and 150,000 sanitary outhouses. In times of emergency they were called into action along ... ...

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... to find a new life during this difficult era. The entire nation was in ruins and felt the impact. This novel was inspired by a series of articles he wrote for the San Francisco News. The 30's was a period of Depression. The stock market crash destroyed the economy, affecting all Americans. Many businesses were forced to shut down and banks closed down with the ... ...

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... our simple request of having a racial equality clause included in the League of Nations Covenant. In 1905, California passed anti-Japanese legislation. In the following year, the school board in San Francisco even ordered Japanese and other Asian children to attend segregated schools. In 1924, America passed the Japanese Exclusion Act to shut off Japanese immigration into the US. With this series ... ...

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