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Lecture 11 was about the dust bowl. We watched two different movies about the dust bowl and one more was how even though it was a war cause to plant more wheat cause wheat would win the war. Well then once the war was over and the dust bowl happened it seemed like it was all the farmers fault for plowing up so much ground so they had to live with the dust bowl. But then the other movie that we watched depicted the farmers as it wasn't their fault it was just a fact of mother nature and that we need to help the farmers out because they were just stuck in a sticky situation and that once it was over that they would be the pit of our economy again. When I was in high school I remember reading a book about the dust bowl and after watching these movies it put it into more of a perspective of how the sand came in every nook and cranny and that as you had to go on with your daily chores the sand smarted your face. It reminds me now a days when its really windy at our place and we just ended up getting done with the digging of our Fields then the sand just whips around the barn yard and hits you in the face and you get all dirty and gritty feeling. But I know its nothing to what the dust bowl was back then but it gives you a little taste.