Research/Connector Ch. 10-13

Chapter 10: 
"The Winning of Barbara Worth"
- a 1926 American Western silent film derived from the novel equally titled, "The Winning of Barbara Worth," by Harold Bell Wright. The film is about
 an engineer who competes with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter while building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community.
Rose of Sharon
-Rose of Sharon outside of the novel, The Grapes of Wrath,can represent two different flowers, but for the most part it is recognized as South Korea's national flower. 
-Also, in the United States, Rose of Sharon is associated as the official flower of Phi Beta Chi, a national Lutheran-based Greek social letter sorority. 
-In Canada, Rose of Sharon is a charity that focuses on helping pregnant and parenting young women under the age of 25. 
-In the novel, Rose of Sharon is a major character: The oldest daughter in the Joad family, she is Tom Joad's sister. Throughout the novel, her character is portrayed as fragile due to her pregnancy.
Chapter 12:
Highway 66
-"Route 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66)