Carlos Espinoza July 11, 2012 Politics of Katrina What Went Wrong During Katrina: Political View. On August 29th, 2005, the city of New Orleans suffered one the worst natural disaster in the history of our nation. State, local and federal authorities failed to heed the warnings of Hurricane Katrina’s intensity. The disorganized response reflected communication failures and weak leadership at all levels of government. According to a report published by Time Magazine, the authors wrote, “is a litany of mistakes, misjudgments, lapses and absurdities all cascading together.
Carson – Silent Spring RA Final Draft The 1960s were a tumultuous time, full of change not only in America, but throughout the world. Many environmental movements were present during this time of mass demonstration in America. One notable environmental argument was that against pesticide use. In this excerpt from noted biologist Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, the author uses various rhetorical terms to both denounce and vilify the use of parathion, a pesticide, declaring that the environmental effects are far more destructive, widespread, and detrimental than was previously thought. Through her use of evocative diction, Carson is able to illustrate the widespread effects that parathion can have in language that is both strong and easy to understand for the reader.
A Lack of Response Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler is a collection of poems written in response to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, a category five hurricane, which obliterated New Orleans in 2005 and left both the city and her people in ruins. Throughout the collection Smith personifies Katrina, revealing and embodying the damage, loss, and neglect that ensues in her wake. Her poems, such as “Man on the TV Say”, “Inconvenient”, and “What to Tweak” discuss the societal and political overtones which only serve to augment Katrina’s devastation. These poems exemplify how socioeconomic disparities and poorly veiled racism combined with political incompetence and a general sense of unawareness became the true tragedy of this situation. “Man on the TV Say” and “Inconvenient” embody the socioeconomic disparities present in New Orleans and reveal why so many were unable to flee, despite the mandated evacuations.
FEMA: Learning the Hard Way Student Name ESOL 400 Mary Warden Last Name 1 FEMA: Learning The Hard Way In August 29, 2005, one of the most devastating natural disasters struck the United States. Hurricane Katrina made an enormous damage to the people living in the Gulf Coast. The hurricane left an unimaginable suffering to people physically, psychologically, and financially. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), whose role was to prepare and organize actions necessary to warn and help people in national emergency situations, seemed to be disorganized delaying the help people needed in this particular situation. Hence, FEMA’s lack of preparation and organization led to a greater damage and suffering to people.
The Moral Blindness of a Post-Modern Society in “Killings” In Andre Dubus’s short story “Killings,” Dubus emphasizes the idea that there are significant amounts of moral blindness in a post-modern society. He uses not only personal relationships, like those between Frank, Mary Ann, and Richard, but also society as a whole to show how this idea of moral blindness affects everyone. Dubus uses the idea of moral blindness in the story like a crack in a windshield; it starts out small, but as the crack continues to grow, it becomes more dangerous for everyone in the car. No person in this post-modern society is safe from becoming morally blind, but Dubus makes a point to show that nature is unscathed by this pandemic, and is the only morally straight element in this story. Dubus uses the love triangle between Frank, Mary Ann, and Richard to create the idea that love can be a factor in moral blindness.
When the world has a natural disaster, it is one of the most frightening and dangerous things around and can cause many negative outcomes. In the article “Recent Tornadoes and the Broken Window Fallacy,” by Julie Borowski June 02, 2011, it explains how horrible tornadoes in the Midwest and Massachusetts have caused hundreds of deaths and infrastructure, homes and businesses to be demolished. These events are devastating but nothing can be done to stop them since nature will take its course whether we like it or not. Julie Borowski mentions the broken window fallacy and how it relates to this topic. The brief summary of this policy is if something is destroyed by a natural or man-made disaster, then it is a boost to the economy because someone has to get paid in order to fix the destruction.
The south had them erupting because of the segregation that was still an accepted practice in that area. Other parts of the nation had them because of the Viet Nam conflict and all that it represented by way of government lies and the loss of innocent lives. Innocence was destroyed during this era, as the younger generation pulled back the curtain of the Wizard and saw that it was only a man dressed as the American government. Once the untruths became evident, the grass root movement to change the nation took hold and social protest became a way of life for the American people." (J. Baldwin) "The 1950s and the 1960s had very distinct and indelible influences on present day America.
Hoover’s most destructive and wrong move was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff that, although good intentioned, decimated foreign trade. But Hoover’s attempt were half-hearted because “his own philosophy, now hardened into dogma, set strict limits on action by the federal government, and he refused to set his philosophy aside even to meet the unprecedented emergency” (T&S 818). When Roosevelt came into office he had to fix a legacy of broken promises and failed legislature by the federal government. Although the New Deal was unprecedented in the amount of legislature it passed, it had many sources that had been building for the last years. Progressivism had been growing the last decades, as it had roots deep in American society, and the New Deal shared many aspects with Progressive ideals.
What's interesting about the extinction thesis is that the social observers of its time fit into their notions of how races become ascendant in the world. Hoffman later compared rates of death and disease between African Americans and whites and found enormous disparities. But he ignored the dangerous effects of poverty and social disregard on health. Hoffman concluded that African Americans were naturally unwell and as such attempts to improve their housing, health and education would be useless. Their extinction was inevitable and will be forever encoded in their
“Is Globalization and Free Trade a positive contribution to the global society?” - After research and reading “African Americans and Social Security” and “The Opposite of Insurance” (Article 4.7 & 4.8) 1. Introduction “Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.” (Herbert Hoover c. 1933) The two article that I want to