| Developmental Disability | Migrant Workers | Vigilantism | John Steinbeck |
Questions on Developmental Disability
1. What is developmental disability?
*http://www.ddrcco.com/dddef.asp
*http://williamshaffer.org/dd-def/developmental-disabilities-def.htm
What terms were formerly used for it?
*http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=10352&cn=208
*http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=10353&cn=208
2. What is mental illness?
*http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Mental_Illness/About_
Mental_Illness.htm
*http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/mo/g/mental_illness.htm
3. How were the retarded and mentally ill formerly treated?
*http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&docId=
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*http://www.nmha.org/index.cfm?objectId=DA2F000D-1372-4D20-C8882D19A97973AA
4. How are they viewed by the public?
*http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=10350&cn=208
*http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter1/sec1.html#roots_stigma
5. How would such disabled people be treated if they had committed a crime?
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1. Define and describe a migrant worker.
*http://www.answers.com/topic/migrant-worker
*http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0833129.html
2. Why was it difficult to organize migrant workers into a union?*http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?contentSet=GSRC&docType=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=IPS&docId=EJ2111500104&user
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3. What were some of the problems migrant workers faced?
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*http://www.answers.com/topic/migrant-worker
4. Why were so many migrant workers in California during the 1930s?
*http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html
5. How are the lives of migrant workers different today?
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1. What is vigilantism? Give examples of some groups.
*http://law.jrank.org/pages/11129/Vigilantism.html
*http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000235471
2. How and why did vigilante groups come about?
*http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMD0344-0-5943&artno=0000264330&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=vigilantism&title=Lynching&res=
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3. How do some people support the actions of vigilante groups? Why?
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4. Why are some people opposed to vigilante groups? Give some examples.
*http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=J0E027515002309&site=ehost-live
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5. Describe some examples of current vigilante behavior.
*http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=7199964&site=ehost-live
*http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=3552151&site=ehost-live
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1. Describe where Steinbeck was born and raised.
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2. What types of jobs did Steinbeck have?
*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi./johnstei.htm
3. How did these jobs influence his writing?
*http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMD0344-0-5943&artno=0000276521&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Steinbeck%2C%20John%20%281902%2D1968%29&title=Steinbeck%2C%20John&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=Y
4. What other books did he wirte? What subjects did he write about?
*http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=39033761&site=ehost-live
*http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMD0344-0-5943&artno=0000073867&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&title=Steinbeck%2C%20John%20Ernst%20%281902%2D1968%29&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=Y
5. Describe the time period during which he wrote.
*http://decades.sirs.com/decadesweb/decades/do/decade?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BTOPIC%3B0000017812
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