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RESEARCH DATABASES (not limited to these, but find a reliable source)

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RESEARCH DATABASES (not limited to these, but find a reliable source)

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Global Issues in Context

American History

U.S. History in Context

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1.  Title

2.  Summary

3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?)

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath

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Group Member Name: Tyler

1.  Down on the Farm

2.  Examines the struggle that small family farms are having in an ever industrialized world.

3. Gives a real world example of the problems that small farms face, especially when it comes to the profitability of farming in today's day in age.

4.  Much like the characters in "Grapes Of Wrath", the people in this article are being overtaken by mechanized farming.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/08/small-farms-big-business-family-farms-struggle-against-industrial-agriculture/

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Via his writing in "The Grapes Of Wrath," John Steinbeck criticizes the ever-growing sentiment in the farming industry that profits are the most important part of the business, yearning to hearken back to a time where a farmer's main goal was to feed people.

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1.  Title

2.  Summary

3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?)

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath

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Group Member Name: Kristina

1. "U.S. Farmers, Who Once Fed the World, Are Overtaken by New Powers"

2.  Bumper soybean and wheat harvests in Brazil and Russia push down global prices, imperiling America’s growers.

3. American farmers’ fates are inextricably tied to the broader economy. Farmers produce three-quarters of the nation’s food. U.S. taxpayers are tied to farming through the billions spent each year by the government to help insure farmers against crop shortfalls or lost income.

4. Similar to the characters in "Grapes of Wrath", the farmers in this article are under the danger to loose their jobs due to the other countries' success. In the book, the Californians are about to be overcomed by the Okies.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-farmers-who-once-fed-the-world-overtaken-by-new-world-powers-1492700574

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The quote compares the migrants to ants. Both ants and migrant men want to work and need to work. An ant’s purpose in life is to work for and provide for its colony. Similarly, all the migrant men want to do is provide for their families, so they push, pull, lift, and scurry just like the ants.

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Although the majority of people are in need of food and shelter and are willing to do what they have to to deal with it, the

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Even though the Californians are plentiful, they still don't like the Okies because they have nothing to gain from them, and they know how easily the Okies could take them down if they wanted to. The Okies have little to nothing, and the Californians just want to keep taking everything they can get their hands on without loosing anything. Since they also know how easily the Okies could take things from them if they revolted, the Californians and all of the workers in the more white collar jobs have a deep contempt for the Okies because of their own greed.

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An example of how people with more money treat people with less money as if they are very insignificant.
This is the same kind of reaction the Southerners had towards the idea of emancipating slaves in the 1800s: They argued the slaves would not know what to do with their freedom.

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With this quote, Steinbeck is talking about how the purpose of farming has been distorted. No longer do farmers do the sanctimonious job of feeding the world, but rather the main purpose of farming is for companies to turn a profit, disregarding food quality and the respect of workers on the farms

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The barbarians can be connected to the barbaric tribes, when they swept through lands and took over everyone in their path. The barbarians in Europe were hungry for land, just like the migrants in California. The Californians want many more things in the world than the migrants do, which makes it easier for the migrants to overcome them. Once the migrant workers come together for an uprising, they will be unstoppable just like the barbarians were in Europe because many people worked together towards one goal.

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They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless, restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do, to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut anything, any burden to bear, for food.

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And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spend for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered while the causes of revolt went on.

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"Okies--the owners hated them because the owners knew they were soft and the Okies strong, that they were fed and the Okies hungry; and perhaps the owners had heard from their grandfathers how easy it is to steal land from a soft man if you are fierce and hungry and armed. The owners hated them. And in the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to storekeeper's contempt, and all his admirations are exactly the opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to grain from them. They had nothing."

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"They farmed on paper; and they forgot the land, the smell, the feel of it, and remembered only that they owned it, remembered only what they gained and lost by it"

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They wouldn't know what to do with good wages. Why, look how they live
Why, look what they eat. And if they get funny, report them.

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"And while the Californians wanted many things, accumulation, social success, amusement, luxury, and a curious banking security, the new barbarians wanted only two things, land and food; and to them the two were one"

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1. Research contemporary examples of industry overtaking the average farmer.

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2. Research contemporary examples of industry supplanting morality/ethics.

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Essential Question #1

How and why does Steinbeck create a sense of "US vs THEM" in The Grapes of Wrath?

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Essential Question #2

How and why does Steinbeck establish this sense of HUMAN GREED throughout The Grapes of Wrath?