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During WW2

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War correspondent

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Book about government propaganda

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‘The moon is down’

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Characters

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Mythopoetic and archetypal

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Route 66

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Gave the road its name, ‘the mother road’

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Indian land

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1891- 9000 acres in Oklahoma

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Dust bowl

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1939-38 natural phenomena caused by severe drought

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Black Tuesday

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9000 banks fail, 2.3 million flee, 25% unemployment

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Farm

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Spreckels beet farm

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Mini series

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‘Harvest gypsies’ focussing on farmers lives

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‘Pack of lies’

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‘Associated farmers of California’

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Battle hymn of the republic

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Churchill MLK

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Biblical

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‘Great wine press of the wrath of god’

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Henry Ford

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Automobile started industrialisation

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Puritans

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Based on Calvin ‘elect’

Wanted to purify Catholic Church

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Statue of Liberty

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Emma Lazarus ‘glows worldwide open’

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Salad bowl theory

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Coexist together

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Professor Huntington

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Tomato soup- new flavour

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Civil war

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Uncle toms cabin

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Harriet Stowe god wrote through me’

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Vernacular

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Bans alcohol

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18th amendment

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Lost generation

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Artist out of ww1

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Declaration

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‘Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness’

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J Edgar Hoover

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Under surveillance

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife of president franklin, organised congressional hearings into reforming labour needs for migrant camps
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Transcendentalism
Mid 19th | Knowledge through intuition away from traditional religion and focus on human unity
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Realism
1880s After civil war Matter of fact
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Naturalism
Human attempt to change destiny Focus on lower class How people are controlled by environment Truth of hardship
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Modernism
``` Reaction of ww1 Industrialisation Rapid social change Reject custodian morality War undermined human faith in society American dream Class divide ```

English Lit- Grapes Of Wrath (3 decks)

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