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Friday, January 14th

The area of the dust bowl was rich with prarie grass and stuff but then it was settled and the farmers pulled up the grass and the dust settled on top of the dirt and it was like a blizzard but with dust.  Farmers couldn't farm, and animals died beca

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Friday, January 14th

Blog discussion.

       First Bruns told us about the Hobo language. They used symbols to communicate to each other sometimes and to warn each other about things.

       Sarah talked about the Dust Bowl. She said it lasted about as long as the Great De

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Friday, January 14

Hopefully finishing blog discussions today, but that probably won't happen because Mr. Bruns loves to talk.

 

Dust Bowl-

Great Plains. People settled in grassland, farmed and tore up grass, nothing to hold ground down. No rain, high wind, led to severe

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Friday January 14, 2011

Today we learned the hobo language. The Dust Bowl lasted about as long as the Depression. The storms were very bad and caused sand drifts. Okies were people from Oklahoma. Men were embarrassed and shamed because they lost their jobs and maybe even th
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Todaywe are continuing on our blog discussions for the second day!

 

1928 Election-

Herbert Hoover and Al Smith. In the south, they were democrats (Smith) and wanted to keep slavery. So they voted for Smith. Republicans (Hoover) helped the African Ameri

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Friday January 14th

Well today we talked about the hobo language. Dust Bowl: Overfarming leads to bad farm ground. Roots from grasses and trees are gone, nothing to hold ground down. Dust storms. Farmers lost jobs, migrated to bigger cities (Okies). Dust storms settled
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Friay January 14

Toay my computer sucks cause my normal one won't work an so I am using this piece of crap that oes not have a d key and so I miss about half of the d's in adition to my f's g's and one's and two's.  K so women are not considere equal even in today be
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FRIDAY 14th

Today we began by talking about the 10th anniversary of wikipedia, MLK day, and green enchiladas. Secondly, we talked about some good old hobo language.

 

Then, Sarah started talking about the Dust Bowl. Basically, it wasa time of massive dust storms t

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Friday 14

The class started by Saarah talking about dust. Somethin like that. People had to wear masks to go outside. That would suck a little bit.  These dust storms were also known as Black... Black somethin i forgot what he said. Q. Black Blizzards thats wh

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Friday January 14th

Bank and business failure-By 1933, 11,000 of the nation's 25,000 banks failed, because they only carried so much money.. when people got scared, they wanted all their money out of the bank, but the bank didn't have enough for everybody. Banks used th
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January 14,2011

 The Dust Bowl:

The dust bowl started taking place in the great plains.  The reason the dust bowl occured was because it was very dry. Government started asking farmers to plant, for the homeless.  Once they started to plant and plow the field it beca

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January 14, 2011

This morning we started by talking about how Monday is the day that Mr. Bruns will start grading our websites. Also, Monday is the 10 year anniversary of wikipedia. We learned a little of the "hobo langauge." :P We then started our blog discussion.

 

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Jan. 14 daily blog 2011

Today Mr. Bruns went over what we talked about this week and had us keep talking about our assigned blogs. We talked about this today:

 

The Dust Bowl: The Dust Bowl was a region where many dust storms happened and happened in the Great  Plains. It was

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January 14, 2010

dust bowl- started in great plains where dust blew around and blew across the country; govt asked farmers to plant more crops in WWI, started tilling and planting, if you dont treat it well the soil will become like a desert, if theres no rain it wil

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jan 14th

We started class by talking about wikipedia. Now we are going over the yesterday and the day befores blog.

 

Jordan is talking about the Dust  Bowl. The dust was literally blowing across the United States. The dust started because of world war one so t

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Friday, January 14

Today, we did blog discussions again....We also reviewed what we talked about yesterday..

 

*The Dust Bowl: a sensation sweeping the nation...the great plains had numerous dust storms that were occuring...it happened because the earth was very dry and

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1/14/2011

Today, we did more blog discussions. I was able to talk about the Dust Bowl. Mr. Bruns told me that in WW1 the government asked the farmers to plant more crops, so they were tilling up the soil, so all of the soil was loose. A little bit of wind and

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Today we did more blog discussions!!!


The Dust Bowl:
-Region in the midwest where many dust storms were formed (great plains) and swept across the United States.
-1935-1940
-Worst hit areas were South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
-Farmers

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friday january 14

Today we reviewed what we talked about yesterday and the grading of our websites. We also did blog decussions.

 

Dust Bowl-

The Dust Bowl was a giant dust storm in the great plains. It was the heaviest in western kansas and oklahoma. I was caused by the

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Friday Janurary 14, 2011

Blog disscustions again... mr.bruns keeps saying the word hobo...  dudst bowl- on the great plane, there were many dust storms showing up and blowing dust. high winds, drouts, rain. over 100 million top soil had been ripped out of its place because o
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