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Chapter 15 Part 4 Pages 510-514
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Terms to Know Gone With the Wind Orson Wells Grant Wood Richard Wright The Grapes of Wrath
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Entertainment in the 30s Radio and the movies provided an escape from grim reality during the Great Depression 90% of American families had a radio 62% of Americans went to a movie at least once a week
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Popular films Gone With the Wind The Wizard of Oz Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Comedies the Marx Brothers and Duck Soup
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Gone eith the Wind http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you+t ube+gone+with+the+wind+i+don't+give+a+da mn&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=E805AA 37FDB6F5CD5F9CE805AA37FDB6F5CD5F9C
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Duck Soup http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=You% 20tube%20Duck%20Soup&qs=n&form=QBVR &pq=you%20tube%20duck%20soup&sc=2- 18&sp=- 1&sk=#view=detail&mid=C973B556C92582BC BA1DC973B556C92582BCBA1D
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War of the Worlds http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Orson +Welles+War+of+the+World%27s+Radio+Broa dcast&Form=VQFRVP#view=detail&mid=0E08 ED258B66611439310E08ED258B6661143931 http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Orson +Welles+War+of+the+World%27s+Radio+Broa dcast&Form=VQFRVP#view=detail&mid=0E08 ED258B66611439310E08ED258B6661143931
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Radio Dramas Variety Shows The Lone Ranger, Superman, The Green Lantern, News analysis Orson Wells and War of the World on Mercury Theater Presents Oct 30, 1938
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The Arts Art, Music, Literature Mostly serious and somber WPA paid artists to paint murals on government buildings, Schools, Etc.
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American Gothic Grand Wood
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Diego Rivera
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Rivera Many murals displaying the dignity of the American worker Detroit Institute of the Arts
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Music Woody Guthrie Portraed the suffering of those victims of the Dust Bowl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS 2aE&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS 2aE&feature=player_embedded
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Writers Saul Bellow Richard Wright Native Son Thornton WilderOur Town John SteinbeckGrapes of Wrath
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