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Group Member Name: Victor

1.  Title Discrimination at work.

2.  Summary:
How your boss can

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

4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath

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Group Member Name: Josh

1.  Down on the Farm

2.  This article discusses how in 1930 there were 6.3 million farms in America while there are only 2.2 million today.

3. This research shows that the industry is taking over the smaller family owned farms in America and discusses the issues that these smaller farms face because of this.

4.  Shows the industry overtaking the average farmer just as it is discussed in Grapes of Wrath.

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

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Steinbeck uses diction to describe the greed of humans and, more specifically, how greediness led farming to become more about money than the food. This is important as it helps to call attention to the greed of the industry.

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John Steinbeck uses similes and metaphors throughout The Grapes of Wrath to create a sense of "US vs Them" between the owners of the farms and the workers. This is important as it helps to demonstrate how the workers were being treated at the time and how they felt about it.

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Group Member Name:
Matt
1.  Title

1. Low Wages

2.  Summary
This article discusses how farmers receive such little pay only from 15-18,000$ a year.
3. Implications of Research (Why is it important?)
This research is important because it shows how growers and farmers only receive 2% of the total profit from the farm products.
4.  Connection to The Grapes of Wrath

The "slaves" make very little money i the grapes of wrath just like farmers do today, while the owners and the retailers in "Low Wages" make 98% of the money

http://nfwm.org/education-center/farm-worker-issues/low-wages/

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Nick
1.  Meet the '4%': Small number of farms dominates US

2.  This article discusses how different races are treated as farmers.  Large farms with over $1 million in sales account for only 4 percent of all farms, but 66 percent of all sales. That's up considerably from 1 percent of all farms and 50 percent of all sales a decade ago

3. This research shows how large farms are the main source of profit and how the US government is favoring large farmers and small farms are not getting much help.

4.  This shows how  the large farms are taking over industry and the US gov is helping

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/06/state-of-american-farming-big-producers-dominate-food-production.html

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Steinbeck reminds us that the foundation of America was built around the theft of land and greed, connecting the establishment of America to the overtaking of average farmers by the industry.

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The owners of the farms become taken over by greed. They began to focus more on the money rather than selling their food, which is the purpose of their farms in the first place.

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The author calls the two social classes as the "Californians" and the "barbarians," where the Californians are the high status and the barbarians are the low status. The Californians are so fixed in so many interesting and needless things while the barbarians only care for their needs---food and land.

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The "slave" workers are slaving away on high intensive crops. They obviously aren't making as much money as they deserve as they are being compared to slaves. They are also being compared to bugs; as they have to crawl. This gives us a sense of US vs THEM as the workers are working extremely hard and not making much money while the owners are doing nothing and are making all the money

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This passage creates a sense of "Us vs THEM" between the owners of the farms and the workers on them by comparing the workers to slaves. They are underpaid and treated very poorly by the owners.

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"Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they took the land--stole Sutter's land, Guerrero's land, took the grants and broke them up and growled and quarreled over them, those frantic hungry men; and they guarded with guns the land they had stolen" (Steinbeck 1).

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"There's thirsty thousan' acres, out west of here. Layin' there. Jesus, what i could do with that, with five acres of that! Why, hell, Id have ever'thing to eat."

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"Then such a farmer really became a storekeeper, and kept a store. He paid the men, and sold them food, and took the money back. And after a while he did not pay the men at all, and saved bookkeeping" (Steinbeck 3).

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"A man may stand to use a scythe, a plow, a pitchfork; but he must crawl like a bug between the rows of lettuce, he must bend his back and pull his long bag between the cotton rows, he must go on his knees like a penitent across a cauliflower patch" (Steinbeck 2)

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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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"And all the time the farms grew larger and the owners fewer. And there were pitifully few farmers on the land any more. And the imported serfs were beaten and frightened and starved until some went home again, and some grew fierce and were killed or driven from the country" (Steinbeck 2).

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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?