I have never felt more impacted by a documentary in all of my life. Although I was aware that Hurricane Katrina had occurred, I was never fully touched by the devastation of the people. I feel that it is a movie that should be shown in classes. I definitely feel that it is such a large chunk of our history that should be added to our text books and even possibly integrated into the lesson plan for Advanced Placement classes for film analysis. I feel like most documentaries are redundant in their information and not personable on any level.
Knowing that there is no money to get by with at least the essentials in life, could lead to people doing things they feel they can control. Socioeconomic thoughts by people in poverty are well-known factors of African-American drug use. Many experts on substance abuse disorders agree that poverty and other socioeconomic factors have a great influence on the frequency of substance abuse in the African-American community. A 1992 study identified poverty, illiteracy, limited job opportunities, poor education, high availability of drugs, and stresses of the urban lifestyle as underpinnings of substance abuse in the black community
She shows it through Atticus, Tom Robinson and the Negro community and Arthur “Boo” Radley. Social inequality can happen to someone because of a choice they made like Atticus or because of his or her color like the Negroes in the book or even because you are antisocial like Arthur. The era of the story had a big affect on all the examples because in the thirties it was wrong for a white man to actually try to defend a black man and, it was expected that Negroes were bad people when they were not. With Arthur’s case it is different, his was because of the fact they lived in a small town where everyone was in each others’ business
Was there no sense of urgency to help those that were stranded? She is curious if all branches of the government thought the people of New Orleans were not worthy to be helped. Eliza Hubbard wondered why government and private agencies did not act in a swift manner. She writes “there have been lesser emergencies around the world where the United States deployed assistance immediately.” Author’s Inquiry The author is investigating if the outcome of hurricane Katrina is racially motivated. She brought up the question “if the scenario happened in a white, affluent area, would help have been deployed immediately?” She if referring to the fact that it took all levels of the government an extensive amount of time to help the people of New Orleans.
Separating the North and the South from each other, due to tension on disagreements of beliefs about the slaves, simply North wanting slavery abolished and believed it was injustice to humans and on many levels incorrect treatment to humans, simply calling them ‘slaves’ was wrong and disgusting. Whereas, the South believed that slavery had many benefits, one being that it fuelled the economy. Due to the division, the Civil War was bound to happen due to civil unrest. It can be viewed now as a positive and negative event. Positive, that the ending result of the war was that the slaves were freed and human rights were considered.
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
At 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, January 17, 1920 months, the United States of America became a dry nation. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited Americans from manufacturing, selling, or transporting alcoholic beverages, for the next 12 years, 10 months, and 18 days until its repeal on December 5, 1953. (The Prohibition Era, Louise Chipley Slavicek) Many people have different opinions on prohibition and how it shaped our nation, for better or worse. Some people believe it was a noble cause, and many believe it was a big mistake. Prohibition was a mistake because it took away people’s freedom of choice to decide for themselves whether to consume alcohol; people who want to consume alcohol will still be able to make it or purchase from illegal sources; alcohol made from illegal sources pose a threat to the health and safety of the consumer; leads to loss of taxes and jobs; and criminal organizations will profit from prohibition leading to increased illegal activities.
Why did the Government not provide assistance for a mandatory evacuation? Why did the Government react so slowly in getting aid to those in need? Why did the levees break? In Spike Lee's two part, four hour long, epic documentary, When The Levees Broke, Lee ventures to answer all of these questions. By using proponents of 1960s direct cinema, Lee never appears on film and captures life unaware in an attempt to reveal the truth about such a cataclysmic event.
First of all, Haiti economic in general is really bad and having the AID virus spread around ruined its reputation for tourist to come to visit. For example “Whatever you write, don’t hurt us any more than we have already been hurt.” (p.450) this quote means that the country of Haiti doesn’t want journalist to publish about the AID virus in Haiti. Since in Haiti there aren’t jobs available because of the economic prostitution increases. When prostitution increases the AID virus spreads and becomes an epidemic in society .Moreover because the economic in Haiti, there isn’t a lot of job out there, therefore prostitution comes in conclusion. Education is an important factor to help stopping the AID virus from spreading in Haiti.
“Racism in U.S. Welfare Policy: A Human Rights Issue” (75)  “poverty is regarded as a result of individual choices, behaviors, and failing- “personal responsibility”- not as a structural social dynamic.” (76) “Criminalizing Trends in the Welfare System” (85)  “At the same time that a rising number of women of color were being convicted on drug-related felony charges, the welfare rules in many states changed to exclude individuals with felony convictions from receiving various government benefits.” (86)  “These stereotypes hold not only that black women are to blame for failing to socialize their children and run their communities properly, but also that they are to blame for giving birth to the young men, and increasingly the young women, who often wind up in the criminal justice system. According to these views low income women of color embody and breed criminality.” (86)  “Finally, recent developments in welfare administration conflate poverty and crime, and manifest a widespread assumption that welfare recipients are latent criminals.”