1. The Charity Organization Society was based on the scientific movement of organizations. Workers believed that charitable work needed more definition and organization and that charity should focus more on individual needs rather than those of the entire population. Focusing on individual needs was intended to improve relief operations by making resources more efficient. They also intended to eliminate public outdoor rescues. With the promotion of greater organization and efficiency, new charitable societies were born. Trattner states that these new demands for organization and efficiency spread so rapidly “that within 6 years 25 cities had such organizations and by the end of the century approximately 138 existed” (Trattner, 1999). The organizations did not award aid personally, yet they served as a resource to streamline the aid transaction for applicants: maintaining applicants' requests, records of aid provided to them, and directing those deserving or unworthy to the appropriate agencies (Trattner, 1999). Their goal was to eradicate fraud and duplicity in services while maintaining efficiency and addressing poverty. The charity movement intended to deal with poverty through “friendly visitors” who would examine each case and define the cause of the poverty, while also ensuring that remedies overlap. These “friendly visitors” and their investigations formed the cornerstone of the Charity Organization Society's (COS) treatment; giving help without investigation was like giving medicine without diagnosis (Trattner, 1999). Within the COS there was a heavy reliance on "friendly visitors" to effectively assign services and determine which service... middle of paper.... ..mp in California a crowd of children crowded around Tommy's mother as she made the soup and told everyone they could eat some and go get their plates. This was something no one had really done for the Joads, but they seemed to feel it was important to help those like them. Another scene that depicted cultural awareness was when they met the police officer at the gas station who explained to them that he was from Indiana, where they were from, and informed them to leave that town and go to transit camp a few miles away so why didn't they get the ticket. This was something the officer might not have shared if they were not from the same region. After being displaced from their home, the Joads lost their home, grandfather, grandmother and son. In addition to these things they also lost part of their dignity but never their spirit.