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    The Great Depression,Dust Bowl The Great Depression was one of the darkest times for americans in history,but the midwest got its harder

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    Explanation = Quote The dust storm was a hard decade for most people. People struggling to survive in the dark dust flying around, making everyone sick and causing people to get serious diseases. My opinion is that, The Dust Bowl negatively affected people who lived there in a personal way. The reasons are that diseases spread around and dust was everywhere, life was hard during the Dust Bowl, and it was a depressing, stressful time for people in the Dust Bowl and it was the worst man-made

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    It was 1934, darkness hit the United States. Dust storms came from all over striking as far as New York, Boston, and Chicago. Ships stop on the dock confused on what is going on. People are dying and nobody knows what to do. These deadly dust storms are known as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was given its name after the series of dust storms that started in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico, a 150,000-square-mile area. This all started due to the little rainfall, light soil, and high

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    The Effects of the Dust Bowl Did you know that during the great depression there were about one hundred million acres of land affected by the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl appeared along with the great depression. At the time there was dust blowing everywhere along the northern states. The majority of the communities moved to California. At the time it was rigid to live in the area, the population no only did they experience the great depression but furthermore the amount of dirt that was piled on their

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    The Dust Bowl, as the majority of the people know it, was a period of time in the great plains, during the 1930’s, where some of the most severe sand storms known took place. The dust bowl lasted for about a decade and it affected New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. The Dust bowl lasted from 1931 to 1939. When the Drought hit the great plains, around one third of the farmers left. The dust storms caused many problems for many people, but especially the farmers that depended on the success of

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    of the Famers During the Dust Bowl “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people”, stated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (1) Have you ever heard of the Dust Bowl? The Dust Bowl took place in the 1930s. In the Great Plains of the United States. It covered parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. The blowing dust caused hardships for many

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    The Dust Bowl negatively affected people in an economic way. The Dust Bowl made it extremely hard to grow and raise crops. The Dust Bowl majorly damaged homes and it farms. The dust covered many important and or valuable machines. Economic problems caused farmers and their families to go hungry and poor. The Dust Bowl made it extremely hard to grow and raise crops. “The Dust Bowl covered a huge amount of farmland which was the main cash source for the farmers living in Oklahoma.” The reason why farming

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    The dust bowl was a long period of time of severe dust storms that created major damage in the ecology and agriculture. During the 1930’s there was a severe drought and failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion. During the drought of the 1930’s all the dry soil turned into dust which the strong winds blew away in huge clouds that sometimes made the sky turn black. The “black blizzard” or “black rollers” traveled across the country reaching as far as the east coast and hitting

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    repetition of the word “dust”. “Dust” was mentioned in the story a total of 18 times, and according to my wonderful English teacher Mrs. Garrard, nothing is written, “just because” or by mere “coincidence”. Therefore, Faulkner obviously had a reason behind his consistent reiteration of “dust”. Dust was first mentioned in Section 3, in the following line: The sparse lights, insect-swirled, glared in rigid and violent suspension in the lifeless air. The day had died in a pall of dust; above the darkened

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    Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, the Dust Bowl. It all started when hopeful farmers and ranchers moved to this once fertile area in mass. These people overworked the soil, and didn’t have proper farming techniques, leading to disaster. An area that used to be covered in semi-arid grasslands and fertile soil, was then ruined by drought; between 1930 and 1934, rainfall dropped by 27.5% in the dust bowl area. Because

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