Distance doesn’t matter
When my thoughts
Always include you
Every time we see each other
We are gasping for air
After only being there
For half an hour
The comfort of your home
Always warm inside
From the brisk cold wind
Sneaking in from the outside
People in the 1920s went through a lot. Before the Dust Bowl people farmed, sold wheat, and earned a lot of money. But during the Dust Bowl they lost all their money. Once people lost their money, they migrated to California. They all had to migrate because of the winds. This all started when it got really humid. There was no water at all. It created a huge “dust bowl” for the people around, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado. All of the storms wiped everything clean dry. It gave people and animals dust pneumonia. They had to eat, drink and sleep with everything covered in dust. The dust storms hit the east coast and then the government finally decided to do something about it. About a decade later a miracle happened, rainfall. Many people were very excited to see that happen. The Dust Bowl happened because there was no rainfall for over a decade.
Graphic poetry is when you take pictures and put words to them. It could be a quote or something you’ve made up. I did mine on “young love.” A young couple that could represent a couple in high school.
Prohibition was the 18th Amendment that banned alcohol. This happened in 1920 and lasted a little over a decade until 1933. Most people agreed and helped pass the amendment because they didn’t believe in alcohol. There were a lot of effects to banning alcohol, most were bad.
There were a lot of causes to Prohibition. They include the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, crime, lack of production, and people wasting their money on alcohol. The Woman’s Temperance Union was a group of women that helped pass the amendment. They were completely against alcohol and didn’t want anything to do with it because they didn’t like how it made their husbands beat them. The waste of money on alcohol led to a lack of production. After work, men would go to a bar, or saloon of their choice and drink. The men wouldn’t come home until late at night, then would wake up late. This would lead to the lack of production; no work meant no products. When people would waste their money on alcohol they had no money for actual needed things. Another reason people wanted Prohibition was that people drinking caused a lot of crime. Fifty percent of crime was cause by alcohol. Drunk men would beat up their wives and children when they came home. But most of all it was unpatriotic to drink after WWI because much alcohol was made in Germany and they didn’t want anything to do with them after the war.
We call it the Spanish Flu, the Spanish call it the French Flu and the Germans call it the Blitzkatarrah, but what exactly to is it?The H1N1 virus killed thousands in 1918. They say it originated from pigs and later named it the Swine Flu. There were many deadly symptoms to this virus. Poet William Carlos Williams stated that “they’d be sick one day and gone the next” (Smith).
The H1N1 virus started in Haskell County, Kansas in 1918. It was also happening in India, Russia and China. It was happening world-wide or a “pandemic” some might say. The flu lasted around nine months but people were not taking it seriously.
There were many serious symptoms to this sickness. They include a drippy nose, 72 hour fever, sore joints and muscles. Others had worse symptoms like, filled lungs, bloody sputum, longer fever, black feet, skin turning blue and then even death.
Gazed into the pond
Someone looking back at me
But not the same face
–
Waves crashing on the shore
Sounds of waves crashing on rocks
White, blue water everywhere
–
Almost touches the sky
Reaching higher, higher to get there
Snow covered tops pilled high
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams fade away
life is like rain clouds
on a foggy day
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams display
life is as bright as the sun
on a hot summer day
Imperialists and anti-imperialists believed some of the same things, but they are actually very different. Imperialists wanted to keep expanding their land by taking over other “weaker” countries. While anti-imperialists wanted to keep to themselves.
Imperialists spread their power and influence over “weaker” nations. Theodore Roosevelt and President William Mckinley were some famous imperialists. Imperialists believed that they were civilizing the colonies that they took over. They also had a thirst for new markets to make more money. They wanted new, raw materials for factories which would create new jobs. Imperialists wanted to strengthen their military in order to conquer the “weaker” countries. Alfred T. Mahan urged the president for a better navy so they could conquer more countries. They would also get stronger military by taking over these counties because they would either make people join or people would volunteer, and our ports would also be all over the globe.
I was obsessing
over this thing.
That I,
was never loved.
He was there,
but wasn’t.
He said he loved,
but didn’t.
When we talked,
he just wasn’t there.
When all of a sudden,
he just disappeared.
When he came back around again,
I wasn’t prepared.
Even though I’ve been waiting,
after some time,
we tried to rebuild the trust,
that once was love.
But little did I know,
he was just going to
break my heart,
again.