Wait a second!
More handpicked essays just for you.
The importance of photojournalism
History of the women's movement
History of the women's movement
Don’t take our word for it - see why 10 million students trust us with their essay needs.
More handpicked essays just for you.
The importance of photojournalism
History of the women's movement
History of the women's movement
Don’t take our word for it - see why 10 million students trust us with their essay needs.
In out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo is my favorite character because of the optimism she maintains to have while she struggles to survive a harsh life. Having grown up in the bleak area of the Oklahoma Panhandle, during the great depression, Billie Jo and her family encounter many economical problems. Near the middle of the story, Billie Jo’s father is thinking about quitting farming because of the drought and the severe dust storm, which unfortunately tears apart all of his crops. Billie Jo assures her father, “‘The farm won’t fail,’ I tell him.
Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 30’s written by Donald Worster and published in 1979, is an informative text on the Great Plains during the Great Depression. Donald Worster is a credible author because he not only earned a Ph.D. from Yale in environmental history, but he also had previously written a book on the environment and the economy. This book was written well and Worster did a good job of revealing how people and how they live have effected the areas environment. He spoke of places including, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and many more.
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in 1930s, By Donald S. Worster. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. vi-290.
Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix was born an raised in Hampden, Maine in 1802. She gave America a new insight on how the mentally ill should be treated and demonstrated the appropriate way to care for others by her call for a reform. Dix was very courageous, she took risks despite the consequences. She was described by most people as the greatest humanitarian, and the most useful and distinguished person in America. This woman changed history by turning America’s views of the mentally ill from cruel and not appearing to have a proper place in the world, into something completely different.
The Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low is an incredible piece of documentation about the struggles and hardships that were faced during the infamous Dust Bowl. In this diary, Low dives deep into many different subjects of struggle and change, and it is truly fascinating. In today's society, people take everything for granted. The survivors and witnesses of these horrible years are people that everyone should look up to as an example. In our world, eating the same food, or sleeping in an uncomfortable way is unbearable, but those problems were the least of the concerns of these people.
Dorothea Lynde Dix Dorothea Dix is well known for her efforts to reform insane asylums and because of her dedication to changing the lives of help themselves who are in need of assistance, such as the mentally ill and the imprisoned. “She was a leading figure in those national and international movements that challenged the idea that people with mental disturbances could not be cured or helped.” Throughout her years of improving and changing of the prison conditions and the mentally ill, Dorothea Dix has made significant changes through her efforts and can be seen all over the U.S, Canada, and many European Countries. Dorothea Dix was born in a small town of Hampden, Maine in 1802. Dorothea Lynde Dix´s parents were Joseph and Mary Dix.
The article What we learned from the Dust Bowl: lessons in science, policy, and adaptation, provides an insight on the effects of Harvest Gypsies’ publication. The article names the Dust Bowl era “the worst hard time.” This article has an emphasis on not only human hardships but also on how the dust bowl climate contributed to the era and the hardships associated with it. I found the connection between climate and migrant workers to be an interesting comparison. The article explains that during the worst years of the Great Depression, large areas of the North American Great Plains experienced severe, multi-year droughts that led to soil erosion, dust storms, farm abandonments, personal hardships, and distress migration on scales not previously seen.
“ The story highlights a very real and relatable experience about a family driven out of their home due to economic hardship and drought. Also known as “The Dirty Thirties,” the Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major agricultural damage to the American west—especially the Oklahoma panhandle area, Kansas, and northern Texas. Farming methods at the time contributed to the severity of the problem. The arrival of farmers to the Great Plains created conditions for significant soil erosion during naturally occurring periods of cool sea surface water temperatures that regulate precipitation. “ http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/legacy/ 3.
Donald Worster is an environmental historian and his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s helped to define the environmental history movement as it was the first environmental history book published. He breaks the stereotype of how the Dust Bowl was viewed by writing it from an environmental standpoint instead of writing a social history by focusing solely on the people and their experiences. How it helped to define the environmental history movement is that it opened up this avenue for others to write about environmental issues. He is also an anti-capitalist and this book combines his interest in the environment with the effect that capitalism has on the environment.
Taking a Stand for the mentally ill Thesis Dorothea Dix took a stand by recognizing the importance of establishing mental institutions. Her philosophy saved mentally unstable people from the harsh treatments they once received in jails Background The conditions that the mentally ill lived under in the mid-19th century were unfitting. Unstable individuals were imprisoned and mistreated. People who suffered from insanity were treated worse than criminals.
The American Identity Activists such as Betty Friedan, Harvey Milk, Dorothea Dix, have shown throughout history the defiance in America. The defiance and perseverance in the behavior of the people has given America the title of being “the land of the free.” Defiance and perseverance are the main characteristics of the American Identity; activist are continuing to achieve making this country how it will one day be free for every individual. One of the many activists throughout history that have made an impact on the American Identity is Betty Friedan.
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland beginning the Second World War. The 1940s was nothing but war and violence. Germany invaded Poland, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor bringing the U.S into the fight, Germany betrayed the Soviet Union and invaded Russia, U-Boat warfare occurred in the Atlantic, and the U.S opened a Western Front in France. All these played a part in the raging Second World War that claimed over 60 million lives. World War II is an important part of history because new strategies and tactics were introduced, such as new technology and the era of nuclear weapons.
The Dust Bowl, beginning in the 1930s, added to the struggle of American farmers as lands out west in states such as Oklahoma and Kansas were over-plowed, causing the topsoil to become uprooted, creating massive dust storms. These dust storms left the land unusable to farm, displacing many Americans in the agricultural industry. Steinbeck’s The Harvest Gypsies displays the struggles these farmers faced when moving west to California, hoping to find some sort of work. Many displaced farmers lived in squatters’ camps, temporary dwellings for those looking for work. Steinbeck described these camps as having awful living conditions, saying that “From a distance it looks like a city dump, and well it may, for the city dumps are the sources for the material of which it is built.”
She said that they has been living on frozen vegetables from surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed.'' She also sold her tire from her car to buy food for her and her children. Her children seem very shy and scared because they would huddled around their mother. I agree with Dorothea taking a photograph of the woman and her children one it could be use to get attention to help them and with the food and clothes as well to have charities
“Anne Frank was born in the women’s clinic in Frankfurt on June 12, 1929, at 7:30 in the morning, just as the weak rays of the early-summer sun were beginning to seep through the hazy cloud cover over the city” (Müller 13). It is no secret that Anne Frank had a truly difficult and brief life, yet most people do not know the extent of the suffering that she had no choice but to tolerate. Not only was she forced to live in secrecy in an attic above her father’s business for twenty-five months, but she was also caught and then tortured at Westerbork transit concentration camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. In 1945, Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz, being the only Frank family member to survive the Holocaust. Ultimately, he decided to publish his daughter’s diary that he received, and the diary is now known in America as Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl.