...smartest in each of our classes. I recently read several novels that depict what I learned from childhood. Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, Janet Fitch’s White Oleander, and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust are all novels that illustrate the theme that unfortunate childhood experiences do not always equate to an inferior or desolate adulthood. In Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse writes about a girl named Billie Jo that lived on a farm during the Dust Bowl. She writes “The dirt blew down so thick it scratched my eyes and stung my tender skin, it plugged my nose and filled inside my mouth”(Hesse 143). Hesse illustrates how Billie Jo grew up having to deal with things like dust flooding into her house. She explains how Billie Jo lived in poverty on a dying farm during the harsh and dry Dust Bowl. The reader see that Billie Jo is struggling for life and is not hopeful for a new and better life at all. Hesse then starts shining a hopeful light into Billie Jo’s life. She writes “It was the kindest kind of rain that fell . . . softened its stubborn pride, and eased it back to life”(Hesse 177). Hesse indicates th. The rain is used to symbolize that Billie Jo’s life was getting better and that she was not going to have a hard time any longer. Hesse shows that even though Billie Jo had lived through the rough Dust Bowl and still saw the hopeful rain come at the end. Janet Fitch in her novel White Oleander writes figuratively to tell the reader her thoughts. Fitch writes “How it was that the earth...
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...Out of The Dust Selected book report. Out of the dust is a book about a small family with a newborn on the way that lives in a small town in Oklahoma. The town in full of dust which creates a big problem for the farmers in the town by taking the profits from the wheats on the fields. Most farmers during this time would try to redo their whole crop fields but her father didn’t have enough money in the family to do so so he tried taking out loans from the government. Which during that time wasn’t uncommon in local families. In the Spring of April 1934 banks closed because they didn’t have enough money to go around and some families like Billie’s was smart enough to go to the banks beforehand to receive all of their money. Where they lived in Oklahoma there was no rain nothing but dust and dirt and even more dust. The dust storms where the worst part of living there for Billie Jo’s family. Every day the dust would blow in and seep into their home all over the food and furniture and over the piano that Billie Jo played with her mother long ago....
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...In the historical novel, Out of the Dust, written by Karen Smith. The readers are introduced to a family living through the struggles of the dust bowl. Billy JO who is fourteen years old and the protagonist of this novel. According to the novel, Billy JO was a long-legged girl with a wide mouth and cheekbones like bicycle handles. Her dad got a redheaded, freckle-faced,narrow-hipped girl with a fondness for apples and a hunger for playing fierce piano( page 3 ). Additionally, she lives in a panhandled shack .She lives with her dad who is a farmer,and he is dogmatic on the outside and soft on the inside, he relishes his wife and he really wanted another child who was a boy. Also, she lives with her mother who is pregnant after 14 years. She is really beautiful and her husband loves her. She also loves to play her piano and she loves to teach piano. Her mother did not appreciate the way Billie JO's music teacher taught her, it...
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...For my historical fiction book talk, I read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. This book took place in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. The book states “But the entire Oklahoma Panhandle is so dry, everything is going up in flames” (Hesse 156). This book takes place in the 1930’s. The novel explains “January 1934” (Hesse 7). There were dry wheat fields and apple trees. For example, the book says “I walk with Daddy around the farm and see that the pond is holding its own, it will keep Ma’s apple trees alive, nourish her garden, help grass around it grow, enough to lie in and dream if I feel like it. . . As long as the dust doesn’t crush the winter wheat, we’ll have something to show in the spring” (Hesse 219). The ground is almost always covered with the thick blanket of dust from the dust storms. The book points out “I was sulking in the car beside my father when heaven’s shadow crept across the plains, a black cloud. . . More birds tumbled from the sky frantically keeping ahead of the dust. We watched as the storm swallowed the light. The sky turned from blue to black, night descended in an instant and the dust was on us. The wind screamed. The blowing...
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...In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, the main character Billie Jo learns that life is too short to hold grudges. Forgiving causes Billie Jo have better appreciation for things she didn’t value before. The challenges Billie Jo faces provide many opportunities for her to forgive the wrongdoings of herself and others. Billie Jo’s first major challenge begins when a fire starts in her home. The fire occurs when Billie Jo’s mother mistakes a pail of kerosene for water. Billie Jo’s mother and soon to be baby brother died in this fire. After the incident, her father took the emergency money and went out drinking. He leaves Billie Jo to care for her dying mother on her own. In addition, Billie Jo’s scarred hands from the fire make it challenging...
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...The Dust Bowl, also known as the dirty thirties, lasted a decade. It started in 1931 and lasted until 1939. The Dust Bowl happened to come when America was already suffering from the Great Depression. It is said to be one of the worst environmental disasters in history. In this research paper you will learn about life before, during and after the Dust Bowl. People came to the plains in search of a new beginning. Some people came to claim a homestead. A homestead is a piece of farming land with a house on it. What drove them to the plains was the Great Depression. It was an economic crisis where the stock market had crashed. During the Great Depression the U.S.’s business activity was low. Dust storms were created in Oklahoma, Colorado,...
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...Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was from 1930 to 1936. The dust was over 10,000 ft in the air and killed lots of people and animals only 2 dozen survived. Some were killed, while others even took their own lives, or just severely blistered, or injured but there was those that did survive. Most all of their livestock was killed by people and the dust. How did they keep the dust out? The Dust Bowl affected many people and their livestock. To try and keep the dust out people put rags in the windows, but hardly anything worked. It was exhausting for people trying to keep the dust out. Even during the night they would wake up covered in dust. It was almost impossible keeping anything...
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...and I am married but my wife died because she breathed in so much dust it ruined her organs and she got diseases and died.In the 1930’s the medical care is not that good. I am now left with my 1 little boy, and His name is Cornicle, He is currently 6 . My son and I live in Kansas in Kansas city.My current job right now is a farmer.My wife's job used to be a teacher. My house doesn't have much and it is very small. It is atrocious but it is just enough for me and my son to live in. I was on my way to my wife's grave stone to visit her one more time before the dust storm hits. As I was on my way home the dust storm hit and my car got trapped and then the dust piled up so it wouldn’t move no matter what and I am currently trapped...
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...The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was seen as the storm that almost got rid of the Midwest. In the documentary people had felt that the Dust Bowl should be belonging on the list of the top ten environmental disasters. This storm torn thousands of Americans from their home and put on to the roads. The air itself could kill you, the dust storms made it hard for people to survive with the storm destroying everything in its path. As the Dust Bowl progressed it continue to destroy thousands of fields, animals as well taking a fair share toll out on the citizens. But before the Dust Bowl had even hit if you had asked them what they thought was going to be happening in the next year they would have never guessed the disastrous event that was ended up...
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...here Let us tell you a story about tragic deaths and sadness during the dust of the Dust Bowl. One time, long ago, Americain humans lost faith in their economy. They panicked and altogether sold 16 million shares in stock which resulted in a crash of the stock market and the economy collapsing. People had good lives… Until the crash. This was known as Black Thursday, the event that kicked off The Great Depression. During this tragic event, some humans were so depressed that they committed suicide. They would jump off of buildings and die when they hit the ground. However, the suicides were only 2% of deaths during The Great Depression. Overall, during the great depression mortality rates dropped due to improved Sanitation and less automobile accidents...
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...Imagine yourself having to work on a farm with different storms of dust daily. Now imagine having plenty of your belongings covered in piles and piles of dust and grime. When going back to the “dirty 30s,” as people call them, you had to experience all of this. Tons and tons of debris covered all sorts of items which caused a large number of people to die. The Dust Bowl storms were extremely powerful storms of dust that ravaged the farming and grazing lands, mainly in the Great Plains throughout the 1930s. This ruined and affected a fair amount of people's daily lives, health, and fears throughout the years. It affects their physical, personal, and finally, emotional life in many different ways depending on your spot in society. The Dust Bowl...
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...farmers kept plowing and planting with gradually dreary outcomes. In the years 1930 and 1931, Oklahoma and Texas panhandles were known as the wealthiest states in the country. For plains farmers, the era opened with prosperity and growth. In the summer of 1931, the farmers challenged the most difficult eight years of their lives. The rain was finally over. It took a thousand years for Nature to build an inch of topsoil on the Southern Plains, but it took only minutes for one good blow to sweep it all away. The water level of lakes dropped by five feet or more and the wind picked up the dry soil that had nothing to hold it down. Black clouds of dust started to splotch out the sun. There are some places where dust glided like snow, making the sky dark for days, covering well-sealed homes with thick layers of dust on everything. Dust storms overcame entire towns. The main...
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...Daniel xxxxxxxxx Professor xxxxx History 102 5/17/2015 The Dust Bowl During the 1930’s our country was going through some tough times economically which was known as the “Great Depression”. To make things worse the farmland of America was experiencing what became known as the dust bowl. The Dust Bowl lasted for about a decade and it significantly impacted the southern plains. The northern plains were not hit as hard, but they still experienced major drought, strong winds and saw a big decline in their agricultural industry. The Dust Bowl is also responsible for many Americans leaving and moving from the southern plains. For nearly 10 years a yellowish brown dust from the southern plains and a black wall of dust from the northern plains swept through the heart of our country. This made everyday life in this region extremely difficult. Simple acts such as breathing, eating, and even talking while walking were no longer so simple. Mothers were forced to make their children wear dust mask to and from school, wet sheets were hung in front of windows in an effort to stop the dirt from entering their homes. Many farmers were defeated and slowly watched all their crops blow away (About the Dust Bowl). It was best stated by John Steinbeck in the novel “The Grapes of Wrath” “And then the dispossessed were drawn west from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand...
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...Dust Bowls 1930s and 1940s Introduction The dust bowls of the ‘dirty thirties’[1] hurt and helped our nation. They cost us not only currency, but in lives, land, and social instability. Years before, the world has just gotten out of a huge economically depression, and right around the corner, another World War would insure. Beginning of the Events The Great Depression did wonders and caused a lot of problems for the American republic, and the rest of the world. This caused farmers to rush west for the land that became available. This, in turn, caused a great increase in wheat. The price of wheat increased and that meant more profit was made. The land practices became crude, and the same plant planted in the same place ruined...
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...Reference Manual on Best Management Practices for PM-10 and Fugitive Dust Control BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES For Maricopa County, Arizona Rule 310 Written by Zbigniew D. Czupak Dr. Edward Kavazanjian, P.E. Arizona State University Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Sponsored by 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Arizona Pavements, Materials, and Transportation Conference steering committee for preparation of this Reference Manual. The authors would also like to thank Amanda McGennis of the Phoenix Chapter of the Association of General Contractors and Cameron Flowers of Kitchell Engineering for their technical assistance in manual preparation, including their review comments on the document and many of the pictures used in the document. 2 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE Application Control Method Watering Paved Roads p. 19 Unpaved Roads p. 20 Construction Entrances p.21 As needed (excessive watering increases track out, requires catch basins) Staging Areas p.23 Storage Piles p.24 Disturbed Flat and Sloped Surfaces p.26-28 Water to form visible crust Weed Abatement p.29 Use prior and during weeding Demolition/Blasting p.30-32 Backfilling p.33 Stacking, Loading, Unloading p.34 Use prior and during Trenching, Excavating p.35 Pre-wet, maintain moisture content Expensive, Can mix with water Hauling p.36-37 - Periodic reapplication Polymer...
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