THIS PHOTO, ... SHOWS A DESTITUTE WOMAN WITH HER CHILDREN, WAS TAKEN IN 1936 BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER DOROTHEA LANGE., ONLY THREE OF THE WOMAN´S SEVEN CHILDREN, ... AGES RANGED FROM A FEW MONTHS TO TEN YEARS, CAN BE SEEN IN THE PHOTO., THE WOMAN, ... WAS 32 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, AND HER CHILDREN BECAME THE SUBJECTS OF THE PHOTO, ... LATER CAME TO BE KNOWN AS "MIGRANT MOTHER.", THE CAMP ... THEY WERE STAYING WAS LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA, AND AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THIS PHOTO IN THE NEWSPAPERS, THE US GOVERNMENT WAS PROMPTED TO DELIVER FOOD AID TO THE CAMP, IN ... SEVERAL THOUSAND HUNGRY PEOPLE WERE LIVING IN SQUALID CONDITIONS., ... WAS IRONIC WAS THE FACT THAT THE WOMAN AND HER FAMILY ... HAD CAUSED THE GOVERNMENT TO REACT WERE NO LONGER AT THE CAMP. THEY HAD MOVED ON., LANGE´S PHOTO, ... BECAME A DEFINING IMAGE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE US, WAS, IN A SENSE, A MYSTERY., FOR DECADES, NO ONE KNEW ... HAD BECOME OF THIS WOMAN AND HER FAMILY., WHY? WELL, BECAUSE THE WOMAN ... LANGE HAD TALKED TO AND PHOTOGRAPHED HAD NEVER TOLD HER NAME. LANGE HAD NEVER ASKED HER FOR IT, EITHER., IN THE LATE 70´S, A REPORTER TRACKED DOWN THE "MYSTERY" WOMAN, ... LAST NAME WAS THEN THOMPSON, AT HER CALIFORNIA HOME., THOMPSON WAS CRITICAL OF LANGE, ... HAD DIED IN 1965, SAYING SHE HAD FELT EXPLOITED AND WISHED THE PHOTO HAD NEVER BEEN TAKEN., ... SHE AND HER CHILDREN, SOME OF .. WERE STILL ALIVE, ALSO REGRETTED WAS THAT NONE OF THEM HAD MADE ANY MONEY FROM THE IMAGE., IT SEEMS STILL UNFAIR THAT "MIGRANT MOTHER", ... IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC PHOTOS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, WAS ABLE TO HELP SO MANY PEOPLE, YET DID NOTHING FOR THE WOMAN ... FACE WAS ABLE TO EXPRESS SO MUCH., IN 1998, 15 YEARS AFTER THOMPSON DIED AT THE AGE OF 80, A PRINT OF THE IMAGE, ... HAD BEEN SIGNED BY LANGE, SOLD FOR $244,500 AT AUCTION..

C1.- RELATIVE CLAUSES: DEFINING AND NON-DEFINING.

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