I personally enjoyed reading this book and I learned a lot about the different challenges that the dust bowls created for the people who lived in the region. Also after reading this book it wasn't hard for me to see that it was also a very scary and uninviting place to live as well. 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 Dust Bowls and he did a great job in explaining the different struggles of the people who lived in the region and who had to endure the dust storms and the bad effects that thes...

• Word Count: 1393
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A) Introduction: Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, was a book of moral reflection and great insight. ... They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs [and] their hopes" (Brokaw XIX). ... He then went to work for the city of Chicago working various jobs until he retired in 1985. ... They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. ... G) Your reaction: I was surprised by how this book was written. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For my theme paper, I chose option C, which required reading another book by one of the authors that we have already read a novel by in order to provide an analysis of the book and the author. ... The first chapter did a tremendous job in establishing the relationship between George and Lenny. ... Although he does not do much work on the ranch, he can do small odd jobs around the farm. ... Later on in the book, the men all agree that the best thing for the dog is to shoot it. ... This book demonstrates how a male friendship would ideally be. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Today we have jobs that are disappearing for good. ... One third of all households have had a member who lost a job, and almost half o f all individuals had a friend or relative who lost a job. ... I feel that Steinbech wrote this book for a reason, and that was to make us aware of the situations that happened back then. ... Steinbeck uses many symbols throughout his book to make points, from the turtle to the rain at the end. ... Today we face problems with employment, people are loosing jobs, and are being forced to take any job that comes their way. ...

• Word Count: 1597
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• Grade Level: High School

Today we have jobs that are disappearing for good. ... One third of all households have had a member who lost a job, and almost half o f all individuals had a friend or relative who lost a job. ... I feel that Steinbech wrote this book for a reason, and that was to make us aware of the situations that happened back then. ... Steinbeck uses many symbols throughout his book to make points, from the turtle to the rain at the end. ... Today we face problems with employment, people are loosing jobs, and are being forced to take any job that comes their way. ...

• Word Count: 1596
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• Grade Level: High School

The two men travel from town to town and job to job to just get by and survive. ... GOOD POINT IN THE BOOK The good point in the book is how close George and Lennie really are. ... BAD POINT IN THE BOOK The bad point in the book is Georges personality that gives the book a tragic and sad ending. ... I recommend this book to everybody that struggles with a friendship. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He ended up dropping out of Stanford and joining the underpaid laborers for a job (Green). ... He tells the story of their lives, which is a background to his job during college as a laborer (Hughes 78). ... It was a direct book from his life. ... His book, The Sea of Cortez was written while on a marine biology project with his friend, Ed Ricketts. ... For a national book award for fiction, to a Nobel prize in literature (Tuttleton). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Elizabeth was quoted in the book as saying, "For the first time in her life she needed charity... There was one problem though, "there were no jobs to be found." (75) At this point in time it was hard to find a job for anyone, let alone a school teacher like Elizabeth. ... His job entailed scouring the city, rain or shine, trying to sell five cent papers to people walking down the street. ... Even though he hated the job, he kept it to please his mother. ... In his book, Russell, talks about the age and way some of his relatives and neighbors had died. ...

• Word Count: 1814
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• Grade Level: High School

This novel is about two lower class farm hands that travel from town to town attempting to find a steady job. ... Steinbeck was able to relate to these characters because before he found success as an author, he traveled across America from California to New York looking for jobs (O'Connor, pp25-31). ... Steinbeck believed that a book (the Bible) was much realer than experience (O'Connor, p16). ... Throughout the entirety of the book, there are numerous references to God, Jesus, Moses, and Biblical stories. ... It is apparent that this novel reflects John Steinbeck's passion and...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the book "The FDR Years" by William E. ... With such programs as the CCC (employing single males from the ages of 17-28 to do community labor like road building), the FERA (used $250 million to aid the unemployed, elderly, and sick), the AAA (paid farmers to grow less), the NIRA (set up price controls), the WPA (creating as many job as possible), and others, Franklin Roosevelt became one of the most successful leader this country has ever had. ... Even tough many of the programs gave jobs to the poor and needy, many of these programs failed to work, "the New Deal left many problems unsolve...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Adults during this time are trying to find jobs, and when they found a job they most likely have to travel, causing them to leave their family and feel some type of loneliness. ... In Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men he shows throughout the book that loneliness can drive people sick if they're different from others, and the negative power loneliness had on people; Steinbeck shows this through the characters Crooks, Candy, and Curley's Wife. ​... I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.... During the Great Depression many people became lonely...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Grapes of Wrath: A True Depiction of a Terrible Depression The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's drove many farmers west in search for jobs and put many others on the streets. ... Improvements in mechanics and the arrival of new inventions eliminated many jobs in the factories and prior to the loss of jobs people felt no need to be cautious with their money leaving them broke. When depression hit and money began to lose its value businesses folded, banks closed, factories had to shut down and jobs became harder and harder to find (Palmer 2). ... The unemployment r...

• Word Count: 1628
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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). ... Weak national real estate markets, sluggish job growth, and the slow recovery of liquid assets lost during the recession are obstacles to a full recovery. ... For example, providing money to businesses may encourage them to hire more people, thereby increasing job opportunities. ... She also points out that the creation of wealth and i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He had enough money to pay his rent but had very little left over for anything else, he became dependant on his eldest son to find employment, (who was fifteen) he did get a job as did his next oldest child. ... The older worker may be set in their ways and may not be willing to do the job the way the employer wanted them to do it, they may also demand a higher salary because of their years of experience. The younger worker on the other hand may have no or very limited experience in the job, however, employers would be more willing to hire them because they were usually fitter and healthier,...

• Word Count: 1787
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After losing their jobs and homes, people were left isolated and had to travel around moving from job to job earning what they could find. ... Curley's wife believes she has a higher authority than other people, but she is weak and lonely throughout this book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" George and Lennie, the journeying workers who came to the ranch one day with a dream of purchasing the small farm they will own as soon as they get the money together, like to think their new job will last at least long enough to get the money; but the reader knows from the start of the book that it will not last for Lennie is a half-witted giant with a passion for petting mice--or rabbits, or pups, or girls-and for killing them when they do not like it (Doren). John Steinbeck's father, John Ernst, got his son and his son's roommate (George Mors) impermanent jobs with a surve...

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You have no job, no money, no family, no hope. ... There are many qualities that make Ma a wonderful character, such as: the strength that she is able to instill throughout the novel, her leadership, she uses this to help keep the family together and her love, which she nourishes to her family, these examples are clear indicators that show how Steinbeck wanted to portray the women in this book. This can be confusing at times because his portrayal of women differs so drastically from book to book. ... The review of his masterpiece novel The Grapes of Wrath on Brothers judd.com gave the book an ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Early in the book, one of Scout's thoughts is "it was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first started to part company. ... Toward the centre of 3 part one of the book Scout is also observant that, "Jem was twelve. ... Atticus does a good job defending Tom Robinson during the trial. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It was very difficult to find a job at this time, because of this man-made catastrophe. ... Through the book, the reader is being told about the mice that Lennie killed, by petting them too hard. ... George and Lennie travel America in search of jobs. They wouldn't have to do this if Lennie didn't get them kicked out of every job they got. ... So whenever the two find a job, it is just pure luck. ...

• Word Count: 2390
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Also because of the depression, millions had lost their jobs and could not find work anywhere else. ... There were three main work schemes to provide jobs for the unemployed. ... However, these jobs were of little value. ... It gave jobs to about 2 million people and kept them busy on projects such as schools, roads, Dams, community schemes etc. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The K.H.S. history book by McDougal Littell agrees with this definition of the Great Depression by stating that there were countless causes to this great event that grasped the entire world. ... The CCC gave jobs to more than 2 million out-of-work young men (18 to 25) to build roads, trails, cabins, and campgrounds. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I quote Adam Smith from his book "The Wealth of Nations": "Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. ... If they can buy more, they support more jobs in the economy and the country grows richer. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The decade of the 1930s can be defined in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America was shaken by Stock Market Crash of 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped in with his New Deal in hopes of bringing the US into more prosperous times. He promised to ...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School