Farmer had seen a lot in Haiti, but this case impacted him more deeply than anything he had ever seen there. The man, whom Farmer called Chouchou Louis to protect his family, had made a disparaging remark about the road of the country. Unbeknownst to him, inside the truck he was riding was a soldier dressed in plain clothes. At the next checkpoint, he was taken inside an official building and beaten severely. They let him go, but his name was added to their blacklist.
The Cambodian Genocide Imagine you were forced out of your house and were taken to the countryside to do backbreaking, agricultural work. If you were caught conversing without permission, you would’ve been arrested, taken to prison, then executed. Van Nath, a survivor from the Cambodian genocide recalled this event by telling Christiane Amanpour, the Chief International Correspondent of CNN, “I thought that was the end of my life. In my room people kept dying, one or two everyday “ (1). Like Van, the lives of many other people changed drastically because of this genocide as well as the United States because according to the Holocaust Museum of Houston,” The Khmer Rouge used the United States’ actions to recruit followers and as an excuse
They also drove out to more rural areas within Napa County to review damage to historic buildings. The team members filled out FEMA's “Combined Building and Site Condition Assessment" forms (developed by the National Park Service), talked to homeowners, photographed damaged buildings, and passed out informational flyers with helpful links to disaster recovery resources, historic structure evaluation following an earthquake, and preservation emergency response and protection strategies. Since the earthquake hit, the community had experienced many aftershocks, and some residents and business owners are still unable to occupy their buildings due the level of damage caused by the earthquake. With well over 600 historic buildings and structures on the red- and yellow-tagged lists, they are
The Buffalo Creek Flood killed many people in the February of 1972. After the flood, Pittston not only didn’t admit the responsibility, but also claimed it as a natural disaster, called it “an act of god,” and later on claimed and blamed that the Buffalo Mining Company was a separate division altogether and that Pittston couldn’t be responsible for its actions. Furthermore, since Pittston rushed to settle the survivors with only 4000 dollars for the survivors from the flood, the survivors are angry with that. So it triggered the survivors to look for a law firm that is Arnold & Porter, and to represent them and seek for justice. After the flood, many people lose everything, and they had no choice but to accept these offers because they couldn’t wait until the lawsuit to follow through, not even guarantee that they will be compensated or win lawsuits.
The idea of a corpse laying on a street and thought to be acceptable for a city is spine-chilling. Dan Barry, portrays this daunting image in a reader’s head very well in the article “Hurricane Katrina: The Corpse on Union Street”. He goes into detail of how everything functioned in the aftermath of a city that was hit by a devastating hurricane. The city is haunted by the absence of its people and their once proudly “sweetly blown jazz”. People are murdered and their corpse lay there for days.
This left the remaining buildings gutted to the third and fourth story. Gambling barges became effective torpedoes, destroying buildings as they were washed up to 500feet inland by the waves and storm surges. New Orleans On Monday, 29 August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans knocked out all power and submerged the low lying city in um to 6 feet (2 meters) of rising water. Katrina tore part of the roof of the roof of a stadium, where many sought refuge. At this point in it's journey Katrina was a category 2 hurricane and brought winds of of 105 miles per hour or 170 kilometres hour.
Less than ten minutes of being on I-75 South, a mile long car crash occurred. In total there were three deaths and many injured. The family I knew had three children in the car with them, Hannah Greenwood, 10, Aiden Hicks, 7, and Gabrielle Greenwood, 9, and they were all unconscious that morning. Two of those deaths were from the family I knew. Aiden died from impact of a pick-up truck slamming into the side of the car and Gabrielle who passed from head injuries.
The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew were said to attempt to retake control of the plane. 2,999 people were estimated as dead, and a massive 6, 291+ were considered injured. On this date, 9/11, I was 11 years old in the 5th grade of grammar school. At that time I never went to New York before, but it to me is a massive city with a lot of pride and tradition. The though of the actions that were taking on this day by terrorists shocked me as a kid and
Whites were met with retaliation from blacks because blacks had been, “transformed by their experiences during the war.” Historian and Author, Cameron McWhirter shares many different outbreaks of violence during 1919, in his book Red Summer. The first outbreak of violence and rioting was the Jenkins County riot in Georgia. This riot started on Sunday April 13, 1919. It involved a black farmer named Joe Ruffin, who attended a festival at the Carswell Grove Baptist Church. On his way home from the festival Ruffin sees his friend Edmund Scott, in the back of a police car hand cuffed and being taken to jail.
Three days later a rally was held in Chicago’s Haymarket. To protest the violence by police the previous day, due to inclement weather only a few 100 people showed up and when police moved in to disperse the crowd someone detonated a bomb and seven police were killed and 60 injured many by bullets from their fellow officers. ( J. Silverman How Unions