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Expansion...the action of becoming larger or more extensive. When looking back to the 1800s, we can see Westward Expansion as a great part of our American History. Manifest Destiny paved the way for many of the decisions society made during this day and age. It was believed that it was our nation's God-given right to expand to into westward lands. With the modernization of the Transcontinental Railroad, we as a nation were able to fulfill our ¨destiny.¨ In that came great accomplishments along

effects of the Dust Bowl through families that were in the plains. Then to the end of the book, things are starting to turn around when Franklin D. Roosevelt visits the Great Plains. Timothy Egan’s thesis is that from the beginning, the whole United States starts to tip the balance of the Great Plains, which led to the Dust Bowl, and the people hitting rock bottom; however, two opposite ideas come together with faith that the Great Plains can be rebalance. Egan writes in an inspiring tone that gives

In the book, Out of the Dust, written by Karen Hesse, readers can experience the many emotions of a teenage girl coming of age in the harsh climate of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. The novel is historical fiction, written in first person and free verse poetry. The main character, Billie Jo writes of her turbulent time from the ages of 13 to 14 years, in the form of journal entries. Each entry is titled and broken down into seasons rather than specific dates. There are several themes repeated

Families migrated to California or cities to find work that often didn't exist by the time they got there. Many ended up homeless or in “Hoovervilles," named after President Herbert Hoover. By 1940, as many as 2.5 million people had left the Great Plains, 200,000 of them moving to California in hopes of better jobs and a better life. Many Dust Bowl residents packed what little they had and left without finishing whatever business they had left in their towns. Because of this, many banks and businesses

increased the prices of crops bolstering the expansion of the agricultural frontier and the clearance of grassland areas in the Great Plains. Moreover, with the Great Depression the prices of raw materials dramatically declined, demanding even a greater use of land by farmers with the aim of balancing incomes and living expenses. One of the features of the Great Plains is its extreme weather conditions, presenting severe drought episodes. In the beginning of the 30s decade, the merge among the local

irrigation systems living in large numbers, where the settlements in the Great Plains region, lived a nomadic lifestyle being dependent on buffalo as their life source. In essence, the environment where the Native population settled led to diversity among the tribes because each tribe had to adapt to their unique environment in order to survive. The southwest settements lived a stationary life, where those in the Great Plains migrated as they followed their cattle. Additionally, not only did their environment

This study was conducted at Auburn University’s Deer Research Facility in conjunction with other ongoing research projects. Auburn University’s Deer Research Facility was on the Piedmont Agricultural Research Substation (32° 49' 50" N, 85° 38' 45" W) in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, which was in the Piedmont physiographic region. The 174-ha of land enclosed by a 2.6-m high-tensile steel fence was representative of the wildlife habitat found throughout the state of Alabama. Elevation ranged between

It had been 30 years since Antarctica had melted and society in the mainland was beginning to break down. Buildings lay dry and burned down, except for some places which got tropical storms almost daily. Minnesota had been washed out, all the rivers flooding. The buildings lay abandoned, sinking into the swampy marsh that the state had become, along with Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. All this had been the result of the Great Lakes spilling over into the land because of rainfall. Living here was

as being “a land of dreams” (31). Dreams are seen as happy and being “so beautiful” (Arnold 32); consequently, just like dreams, they don’t always come true. Arnold brings his audience back to reality by professing how “we are here as on a darkling plain” (35). By reflecting the darkness of reality, Arnold illuminates how love still might not be enough to go through these “confused alarms of struggle” (36). In conclusion, throughout “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold uses imagery, symbolism, and metaphor

The name “Dust Bowl” is very fitting because of the multiple dust storms that blew through the Great Plains during the 1930s. This also shows that everyone viewed the Great Plains as a dusty and treacherous place to live. In addition, “About 40 big storms swept through the Dust Bowl in 1935, with dust often reducing visibility to less than a mile” (Lookingbill 1). This