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    New Historicism and The Grapes of Wrath The Great Depression is well-known as a time period when American's lives were challenged and changed for the worst. During the 1930s, the downturn of the economy caused many people to lose their jobs and lack a steady income. Without a job, families either lost their homes or were forced off of them. This provoked families to roam the country in hopes of coming across a paying job; However, no matter where families explored to, finding a job was difficult

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    Lyra is an innocent, tomboyish girl who constantly gets into mischief with her daemon, Pan, and her friends. She is oblivious to the good and bad going on around her until her Uncle, Lord Asriel, arrives and shows her evidence of the discovery of Dust in the far North which represents original sin. From then on, Lyra is exposed to the evil going on in her world. Children are disappearing around her. They are being kidnapped by Gobblers, and she later learns that the children are being severed

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    then half of the country banks were broke.The president during that time helped lower the worse of the effects taking in place at that time.The president Franklin D. Roosevelt couldn’t save the economy fast enough to pull them out of The Great Depression. To pull the economy out

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    what “Mother Earth” which resulted in most of his paintings. He was known to paint landscape paintings. In his painting the Drouth Stricken Area, he incorporated the idea of the Dust Bowl and what it was like into his artwork. He strongly believed Texans in particular were at fault and disrespected nature which caused the Dust Bowl. The Great Depression itself was the main idea in most of his artwork.

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    Alena Calma PCS181 Birth of a Star Why should we be interested in stars? We should be interested in stars because they produce the factors such as light and energy that stirs and heats the gas and dust in space and makes life on planets like Earth possible. “To be a star, an object has to have at least about one tenth the mass of the Sun. Any self-gravitating cloud that attempts to become a star with less material would never develop the pressures and temperatures in its interior needed for

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    Arsenic Research Paper

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    hazardous wastes sites and formal agriculture area have high level of arsenics. Other sources are occupation place, pesticides used in past, and the arsenic-treated wood. These sources of arsenic can relate to the area's water or soil. If the arsenic flow out from these sources into the water or soil, many people including the infant may have chance to expose the arsenic. That's why there is no source of arsenic exposure that would not be a cause of concern. 3.

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    Many Dust Storms in the 1930s had Jurassic effects on the Farmers. Immediately they had to move and abandoned everything that they had known.This eventually affected them these were some of the reasons for The Great Depression. This made Farmers to adapt and, change their lifestyle in just a couple of minutes such as, losing farms, not being able to support their own family, owing bank money, and having to move to a different state. I had researched five different farmers from the 1930’s. They

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    Bear Creek Montana Mine

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    Could you imagine dying from no air?!! Bear Creek Montana suffered one of the worst mine explosions in US history. Out of the 77 workers that went in to the mine that morning only three came out alive. Some people believe that there were a lot of people at fault. however, evidence clearly proves (will clearly show) that it was all James Freeman’s fault. Freeman down played how gassy the mine was. Gassy mines are dangerous because they explode. According to the novel Goodbye Wife’s and Daughters by

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    goods in the yards and set fire to them.They stood and watched them burning, and then frantically they loaded up the cars and drove away, drove in the dust.” (pg. 460). To further elaborate, they searched for a new home to leave the massive cloud of dust roaming upon the Joad family’s older house, in which forcing them to burn their goods. Then, the dust eroded, and in 2009, Sullenberger took the sky on Flight 1549. “Against the Odds” is an informative text by Pearson Realize about how Sully Sullenberger

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    In the article,“Sahara dust only ‘partly responsible’ for UK’s worst pollution event in 10 years” by John Vidal, reveals the issues that are being caused by major pollution; it was not only the Saharan dust but other effects as well. In the UK an event occurred for two weeks in March and April of 2014; the pollution was raised extremely so where it was dangerous for people to leave their homes at times. This damaging incident interfered with people’s lives it was not a quick thing that was over and

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