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"Of Mice and Men is set during the early 1930s Great Depression, in the Central Valley of California, a few miles south of Soledad by the Salinas River. Coupled with The Great Depression, which greatly affected all walks of life during that time in America - banks running out of money and millions of people out of work everywhere--was the some six years without rain that turned [the section of the Great Plains that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma,and northeastern New Mexico,] into what history has dubbed the 'Dust Bowl.' Most farmers in that area had no choice but to sell or forfeit their farms to the banks and migrate to more fertile lands on the West Coast in hopes of restarting a better life.
Two such characters in Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie, are among those migrant farm workers, who have lived from one seasonal farming job to the next. They are poor and lonely, having very little, except their dreams, each other, and hope for a better future." |
Part I: Understanding the Dust Bowl of the 1930's
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Causes - human and environmental
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The Dust Bowl Legacy The Discovery Channel video http://wn.com/hurricane_katrina_aftermath_in_the_shadow_|_retro_report_ |_the_new_york_times Drought in the Dust Bowl Years National Drought Mitigation Center NASA Explains the Dust Bowl Drought The Great Plowup PBS "Unless something is done," a government report predicted, "the western plains will be as arid as the Arabian desert." |
Effect - individuals and families
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The Dust Bowl: Environmental Catastrophe PBS video
http://video.pbs.org/video/2284399360/ "As the Great Depression sets in, farmers on the Great Plains begin to feel its effects. A combination of natural and made-made factors begins to turn the profitable farming land into a vast wasteland. The effect of these factors on individuals and families is documented." Dust Pneumonia Steelton-Highspire School District The Storms: Living through the Dust Bowl Gale |
Effect - migration the answer for some
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Early Dust Bowl Migrants PBS American Masters video
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365305937/ Mass Exodus from the Plains PBS American Experience In 1935, photographer Dorothea Lange was assigned the job of using her camera to document the growing number of homeless Dust Bowl refugees migrating to California. The Migrant Experience Library of Congress "After struggling to make it to California, many found themselves turned away at its borders. Those who did crossover into California found that the available labor pool was vastly disproportionate to the number of job openings that could be filled." |
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Effect - a new American way
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Radio interview with John Steinbeck audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sJZpeBw6YE Coping and Recovering National Drought Mitigation Center Before the 1930s drought, federal aid had generally been withheld in emergency situations in favor of individual and self-reliant approaches." Dust Bowl 1931-1939: Relief through the New Deal Gale World History in Context |
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Natural Disasters Today - A comparison - Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina Aftermath: In the Shadow The New York Times video
http://wn.com/hurricane_katrina_aftermath_in_the_shadow_|_retro_report_|_the_new_york_times Disasters and Forced Migration in the 21st Century - Katrina Perspectives from Social Science
Disasters are, in fact, increasing in impact and scope through the combined effects of economic, social, demographic, ideological and technological factors." |
Part 2: Sharing your knowledge of the Dust Bowl through an infographic
Crash Course in Inforgraphics - Tips for making an infographic with style and clarity
by Bryce Bladon and Etienne Poulin
by Bryce Bladon and Etienne Poulin
