Jack Morgenson Mrs. Stirtz English II Period 3 14th December 2010 Of Mice and Men Is accomplishing your dream difficult or a long way from completion? For George and Lennie, their dream was both very difficult and very long from completion. In the story, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters George and Lennie undergo countless hardships to earn money and get by during the Great Depression. They are both working to save up for their own farm and “live off the fat of the land”. This is their American Dream.
Harvest of Shame is a television documentary that emphasized the difficulty the American migrant agricultural worker face in a time of change. Edward Murrow, a broadcast journalist, presented it on CBS as another installment of “CBS Reports.” The Program premiered November 25th, 1960, the day after Thanksgiving. The documentary shines a light on the common migrant workers of all race groups struggling to live day to day. He directly addressed their harsh lifestyle, constant travel, low wages, and the adversity laid upon their entire families. Harvest of Shame repeatedly uses
Bryson and Katz’s trip had a very rough start because they weren’t used to the extremely heavy packs and very long distances. Also, Katz told Bryson that he walked everywhere but on the trail he would be roughly 30 minutes behind Bryson! Katz’s attitude was sarcastic, annoyed, and cranky which didn’t seem like a good person to be hiking with for weeks on end. The men quickly learn the endurance you need to face the woods and they have many situations where the long hiking days and uncomfortable nights got to them. For example, they met a woman named Mary Ellen who made part of their trip rather unpleasing.
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?
Clara Nielsen US History 3.11.2015 Civil Concentration Corps Before the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) were started our country was in a great depression. People had almost no money and couldn’t afford some of the necessities of life. All around the world there was fires, smoke, floods, drought, erosion, and to top it off the dust bowl. It was very difficult to find good soil. The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s.
Topsoil was carried by the ton barren fields, across, hundreds of miles of plains in the driest regions of the country. For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life — breathing, eating a meal, taking a walk — were no longer simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school, women hung wet sheets over windows in a futile attempt to stop the dirt, farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away.
I was always helping my brothers move cattle, kid goats, or vaccinate the elk. I never had time to be afraid or disgusted by these animals. But then going to a school in a small town, with most people from the city, I was the odd one out. Sharing what we did over the weekends was the time I thought I would be judged because I didn’t go shopping with my mom or go to the movies with my best friends. I was up at 5:00 A.M. to drive the tractor down the road and feed my cattle a hay bale.
English 30: The Painted Door May 1, 2012 The Painted Door: Reading Notes * Prairie and depression based story. Sinclair Ross portrays the harsh life of the farmers during extreme hardship in a hostile environment. Based on struggle to survive on powerful external forces. Considered realist through his vivid images and evocative diction. * The conversation between Ann and John, based on short conversation, there is tension and conflict.
COLD. The north wind brisked up, just as the morning slowly turned into a more depressing gray afternoon, bringing rain so cold it turned to ice that stuck to everything and anything it touched. The bare branches of the trees along O'Halla Street were sheathed in a radiant armor which drug them down and froze them into place. A single tear gently caressed my cheek as I stood in the now vacant bedroom-a place, which used to be my own-for what seemed like hours, knowing I'd never see the familiar surroundings of my Chesapeake home again. Home.
Many things show that this era was incorrectly labeled. Such as, the agriculturalists had hard times, a geographical line had to be drawn to divide the people, and disunion came to play. One of the conflicts, seen during the era of good feelings is that agriculturalists had hard times. You can see this for what John Randolph had mentioned, “The agriculturalists bear the whole brunt of the war and taxation, and remained poor, while the others run in the ring of pleasure, and fatten upon them.” (Document A) By saying this, Randolph meant that the agriculturalists, such as farmers, were taking on most of the effects of the war and taxation. This caused them to sty poor and some to become even more so poor.