The grass was very rich and fertile and the grass was the main source of food for the giant buffaloes that roamed the land. ... As the dust storms got worse the ranchers who owned the land started to see their profits disappear and so they then decided to leave the area and they sold the land to crop farmers. But the grass in that region had never been farm land before so when you combined the drought, the heat and the wind it made for a very bad situation. ... I believe that the author Timothy Eagan did a great job in explaining to me the reader the different issues that were involved in the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During my great grandpa's illness, he had to sell all the land, except for 100 acres, for the needed income. ... At night he would have bad dreams of war and the sound of thunder terrified him. ... She dreaded it because she knew there was the possibility of having bad news in the mail. ... She just did not know if it was good or bad. ... I was amazed that her family owned nineteen hundred acres, which was a lot of land for back then, and still is today. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This was called the Dust Bowl, in where farmers were not able to produce any more crops due to the dust that occupied the land. ... The drought was bad and hard to deal with but the dust was worse and even harder to deal with since there were so many around them. ... Nobody had any money and the farmers did not have land. The dust filled up all of the land and ruined the previous harvests. ... Farmers had no land to farm and people died of illnesses. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Situations occurred that made the bad economic times worse. ... As situations got worse, some farmers stayed behind on their farms but many started to leave their land and wander across Canada looking for work. ... The Great Depression also destroyed millions of acres of rich prairie land, which was central to the western Canadian economy. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But they dream of saving up enough money to someday get a place of their own where they "won't have to answer to no one" and "live off the land". ... BAD POINT IN THE BOOK The bad point in the book is Georges personality that gives the book a tragic and sad ending. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Situations occurred that made the bad economic times worse. ... As situations got worse, some farmers stayed behind on their farms but many started to leave their land and wander across Canada looking for work. ... The Great Depression also destroyed millions of acres of rich prairie land, which was central to the western Canadian economy. ...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King wrote this essay in 2011, for this book. dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability and achievement, regardless of social class or circum­stances of birth" (1931). ... For New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, our economic problems are the result of bad policy decisions that have led to the rapid migration of American jobs overseas, the degradation of the American education system, and continuous costly wars. ...

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It would pay farmers not to plant on part of their land and not to kill off excess livestock, essentially paying them to produce less. ... Over the course of the depression many sharecroppers, because conditions were so bad, would pack up all of their belongings and head west to reestablish themselves there. ...

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