Research Paper Topics GoW
You will spend about a week intensely researching one topic that is relevant to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
You can pick from the topics below:
1. farm subsidies
2. fight for 15/minimum wage laws
3. the California secessionist movement
4. undocumented workers
5. DACA
6. small/organic farms
7. any union related topic: union busting/union organizing
8. UFW: (united farmworkers union)
9. Salinas Valley irrigation systems
10. any historical examination of different migrant groups in California: Filipino, Mexican, Japanese,
11. Growth of agribusiness and decline of family farm.
12. Dodd-Frank and Consumer Protection Bureau with respect to lending and foreclosure practices
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