Released from an Oklahoma state prison after serving four years for a manslaughter conviction, Tom Joad makes his way back to his family’s farm in Oklahoma. He meets Jim Casy, a former preacher who has given up his calling out of a belief that all life is holy—even the parts that are typically thought to be sinful—and that sacredness consists simply in endeavoring to be an equal among the people. Jim accompanies Tom to his home, only to find it—and all the surrounding farms—deserted. Muley Graves, an old neighbor, wanders by and tells the men that everyone has been “tractored” off the land. Most families, he says, including his own, have headed to California to look for work.
Orth v. Diner’s Spot Restaurant, 2000 AHRC 6 (CanLII) The prohibited grounds of this case are mostly family status because Ms. Orth is being deprived of her job due to her pregnancy which brings along the fact that she may miss some days of work in the process. It can also be argued that Gender plays a role because most men do not have the worry of needing to miss time from work due to an incoming baby. This is a societal obstacle that only women must face. Ms Orth found out she was pregnant on September 5, 1994 and the next day told her supervisor. 4 months later on January 13, 1995 Patti was fired due to a “ shortage of hours”.
Review In the midst of the Great Depression, Tom Joad returns home to Oklahoma to see his family after four years of being in prison. Upon his arrival, Tom runs into an old friend by the name of Jim Casy who used to be a preacher, but had found a new meaning to life. The two travel together to the Joads’s house only to realize that there was nobody there. The Joads, just like many other families during the Dust Bowl, had been forced off of their farms. When Tom and Casy found the Joads, they were packing up their belongings to head out west.
The Joads and the other traveling families would soon change their mind when they see that California was a place of despair and poverty amongst migrant workers. While the other members of the Joad family felt the change in mood, Grandpa, Connie, and Rose of Sharon most outwardly shared their changed thoughts on California. Grandpa, who never reached California, was overenthusiastic about going at first, then after a night’s time changed his mind. Connie, with the high hopes of getting a job in radio, broke under the pressure of having a baby and a wife to take care of, and took off. Rose of Sharon, looking forward to starting anew in California with her husband and unborn baby, lost her passion for California when her husband left.
He is always looking back to the World War II, where he was before with his uncle Rocky. He is a very bad shape mentally after the war and he is trying to find a way to heal himself. But the memories overtake him and cause him distress. He lives on a farm alone and only few of his animals are alive because a terrible drought has come over the land. What is important?
The Grapes of Wrath · The Grapes of Wrath is a movie about families being pushed away from their homes and land during The Great Depression. In the beginning Tommy gets out of jail and returns to his home but none of his family is there. His family was forced off their land and left stranded. That is when they decided to go to California to find jobs. On the way to California the Grandpa dies.
At first his father would threaten him and then his father resorted to beatings. This attitude of his father’s served to drive Francis away from him and enforce his beliefs in God and his purpose in this life. During a huge turning point in Francis’ life, and in the midst of legal proceedings before the Bishop of Assisi, Francis renounced his father and laid aside even the garments he had received from him in front of the entire crowd. For the next couple of months Francis lived as a beggar in the region of Assisi. He wandered the countryside around his home-town alone for two years.
The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s. People survived off of beans, rice, corn, and milk. Many slaughtered the cattle for meat because there was no market. All around the world people were living in horrible living conditions and there were not many jobs for those in need. Over 25% of people were unemployed and houses were being foreclosed
Tiger woods is very rich but lonely because he didn’t have a wife. He was married to Elin Nordegren but after reports of abuse they got divorced. After a hard break up he stop golfing for a month or two so that tiger woods could regroup. Tiger Woods lost control of his car outside of his home and hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard on December 1, 2009. Tiger Woods had a drinking and cheating problem that made people lose their faith in him.
They don’t realize how bad it is hurting our environment along with burning a hole in our pockets. “My mom won’t let me out driving for a long period of time because she pays for the gas in my car” said Brian Raftry. “I have to work five days a week for six hours and the money that I make still isn’t enough to pay for the price of gas” Collin Wray stated. That is true. Most kids our age that are just learning how to drive need to pay for gas prices on their own with out their parents help.