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  • Name Joad And The Exodus To California
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    The Grapes of Wrath, chronicles the Joad's family exodus from Oklahoma to California in search for a brighter, economic future. The name Joad and the exodus to California is parallel to the Biblical story of Exodus and the character Job, but at the time was depicting the Okie Exodus. The Okies were farmers whose topsoil blew away due to dust storms and were forced to migrate along Route 66 to California in search of work. The Okies were resented for migrating in large numbers to areas in the Wes...
  • Pull Theory Any Migration
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    Many thanks to Peter Migration Migration is the movement of people It is classified by such indices as Distance travelled Reason for travel Period of time of travel Volume of migrants Consequences of migration include Increased understanding between people of different cultures Increased animosity between people of different cultures Changes in numbers of people at the destination and origin Creation of ghettoes in urban areas Inter-marriages Ravenstein's Laws of Migration Ravenstein came up wit...
  • Joad Family From Oklahoma To California
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    In the 1930's, drought and horrific dust storms turned the once-fertile agricultural lands of mid-America into virtual dust bowls and wastelands. Thousands of destitute farmers packed their families and belongings into and onto their cars and left their homes in search of agricultural work in central California. Their plight and the politics of that day are told in the novel 'The Grapes of Wrath. ' Published in 1939 by California writer John Steinbeck, the book won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. In hi...
  • Migrants Form Within Host States
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    "What are the major causes and significance of international migration in global society?" Formative Essays Y MiahDynamics of Change in International Relations Formative Essay "What are the major causes and significance of international migration in the global society?" The Oxford dictionary defines the act of migrating as meaning: "to move to settle to a new area in order to find work". 1 This seems to be presupposing that the primary motivation of migrants is employment. However, as I will go ...
  • Novel As A Universal Family
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    Years... Born: 1902 Died: 1968 Wrote: He wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1930's and released it in 1939. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Nationality: He was an American author who lived in Salinas, California. He was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as a fruit picker, but then moved to New York. He didn't like it in New York so he moved back and became an author. Style: John Steinbeck's style is to write about something that he knows first hand. He likes to have all the details b...
  • Affluent People Stereotype The Migrants
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    Stereotyping and Its Effects Stereotyping, brought on by the existence of a class system, has many positive effects in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. This class system, made up of migrants and affluent people, is present due to the fact that many of the affluent people stereotype the migrants as poor, uneducated, and easily agitated human beings. Thus, this sets a boundary between the educated individuals and migrants. At first, most migrants ignore the effects stereotyping has on them. But t...
  • Australian Migrants
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    Australia entered World War two as a result of Britain entering the conflict between Germany and Europe when Poland asked for support. Britain threatened Adolph Hitler that by attacking Poland Britain would declare war on Germany. Consequently, Germany invaded Poland and Britain declared War with Germany. The Allied Powers which consisted of Australia, Britain, USA and the Soviet Union eventually won World War two against the Axis Powers which consisted of Germany, Italy and Japan which were all...

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