Professor Sabir's Posse

Raymond Mai
English 201A
8-8:50

It was Hurricane Katrina fourth anniversary on Saturday. President Obama, swear to make sure turf wars and rep tape don't slow the recovery. He had sent 11 members of the Cabinet to look at the progress, and to hear from the people advices on how to speed up the process.
On August 29,2005, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. It killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi, and damaging $40 billion property. Later in a month, Hurrican Rita cause an additional billion dollars of damage, and 11 death.
Obama stated that the recovery has not been very good. On February 2008, he made a speech, offering help to the city. He hire police officers, repair schools, improve public transit, finish rebuilding the levee system and offer finacial ad.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/29/national/w030403D59.DTL
 

Mai Bee Lor
English 201A

Literal paraphrase: Gulf Coast Rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina Means Developing the Work Force by Adam Stone on March 20, 2009

The Gulf Coast was a victim of several hurricanes with Katrina being the most destructive one. It left the coast with eighty one billion worth of damages. Even before the hurricane, there weren’t enough workers. With the hurricane it has caused the whole coast to
become weak. They started hiring anyone with no experiences to help rebuild the city. McManus
has brought in thousands of trained workers to help rebuild. A private group known as the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Initiative (GCWDI) came and has trained over twenty thousand workers in different construction skills. With all this help, it has made it possible to rebuild the coast.
Funds were coming from everywhere. Members themselves helped out with five million cash. The U.S. Department of Labor gave five million, Louisiana helped fifteen million. Other organizations like emergency grants, community block grants also funded them. Everyone in the
coast had specific responsibility. The city colleges were responsible for training workers. Planners and teachers were responsible for marketing and hiring people. All this helped to create
the big picture.
Positive outlook of the situation is the GCWDI has exceeded with their goal of training twenty thousand new construction workers by the end of this year. The foundation for this rebuilding is the federal government and the community colleges. Although Katrina caused a large amount of damages, this situation has given many people the opportunity and the chance to earn more money with a better job. Some of these people were making minimum wage before
the hurricane.

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/disaster/Gulf-Coast-Rebuilding-After.html
 

By: Arely Razo
To: Professor Sabir 8-9
Date: 27 August 2009
Re: Paraphrase for article

A man named Ray who is sixty-nine now lives in Alameda. To some people he is known as “Big Chief.” (Rumple A3).
Ray used to live in New Orleans and was respected as a “Mardi Grass Indian.”( Rumple A3). The reason that he came to live in the area of Oakland was because of the cultural carnivals that took place there and it also gave him the opportunity to see the world as a different place.
Katrina occurred four years ago on a Saturday. It was because of the storm that everything in New Orleans was ruined, water over filled the whole area, many people did not survive, and many had to leave there homes to find refugee.
Ray is a lucky person that has been able to start a new life in Oakland.
He has now found a place that he feels safe at. It feels to Ray that the reason that he came to live in the Bay Area was because of what type of Indian he was. For many years he has taken part in the rituals of Indians that took place in New Orleans. Currently he has accumulated a group of people to make his own tribe about forty years ago.
It is because of the good relationship that he had with people that he happened to come upon, while he was presenting himself, that he is able to be where he is today.
Turned in article so could not do resource and could not find it online.
 

Matthew Young
201A
September 6, 2009

Analysis/Reflection-Summary
4 Years later after Katrina


My name is Matthew Young, and I think 4 years later after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region, people in that region and especially New Orleans have been treated unfair and unfortunately it’s currently affecting their lives. I’m not saying it just because it shows on TV and you hear of this on radio stations and Google it on computers, but by experience also. While I was living in Tyler, TX, right by the state of Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast Region on August 29th, 2005. I was in the eight grades going to the ninth grade at the time. We didn’t get to much of the effect where I was living at because we wasn’t by a lot of water like New Orleans, but we had a lot of accidents because there was a lot of trees nearby. After the hurricane my family from New Orleans was forced to move and stay with my Aunts and Uncles and other family members in Tyler, TX, and few of them didn’t like what was going on in terms of moving from their homes into another place where they would have to be forced to call home. They would begin to adjust to it. My cousins would to school with me and make the best of it. I had 4 cousins at my school from New Orleans. We went to John Tyler High School. They were there for some time and when my mother and I decided to move back to California after 4 ½ years living in Texas, they would also return back home to New Orleans. If I was to guess to why they returned home, I would think that they probably missed New Orleans, and is doing all they can do in order to maintain and rebuild their homes, as well as their lives. As well as everybody else in that city and region that effected by Hurricane Katrina.


The hurricane killed nearly more than 1,800, and left thousands of people homeless and without shelter for days. Many residents from New Orleans cant really return back home because there isn’t any room, meaning there aren’t many homes for them. They can just only hope and wait that one day they see their city of New Orleans rebuilt with new homes so that they could return back home and enjoy what they once had before the tragedy.


Currently the Union Movement is spending up to $1 billion dollars, working to rebuild the communities in the community and throughout the region. New jobs, schools, medical care, and homes are slowly but surely developing till this day. Workers are more than ready to fill in new jobs so that they can provide for them and their families. Over 400 workers are ready for the new jobs there. More homes are being rebuilt from old-wooden homes, into stronger and newer-bricked homes.



President Obama promised in his campaign to address this problem, but has failed to do so. I think it would take more effort from the president and our country in order to rebuild the city of New Orleans and the rest of the region. And I think the president should live up to what he has promised to the people in the region so it can benefit them as well as him because it would show that he truly cares for the nation. Right now Iraq is rebuilding quicker than the city of New Orleans. That shows that they truly care about their country and that they want to see the people in their country do well and try to succeed. The victims from New Orleans as well as the rest of the region shouldn’t have to struggle with schools, jobs, medical-care, and homes because its not their fault that that the hurricane took place and caused a lot of damage in their communities. The president and governments should want to help rebuild and fix the current problems with the region, just like Iraq did with their country. Maybe we can, and hopefully 4 years later in 2013, it could improve for not only the people of New Orleans or the rest of the region, but for the nation as a whole.
 

DeMel Deon Bullock
English 201A
8-8:50

Our new president ordered almost a dozen council associates to set travel to the south and obtain report of how much work is done and how efficient we can work at this.
While traveling to a different state for relaxation, our president states, “What we will do is take care of our country in order for our country to care for themselves.”
With the horrific nature attack in the Southern part of our country, left was well over millions of dollars destroyed to the states. Within a month following, the destroyed price of property continued to increase, including the toll of injured people.
Our president admits to the lack of reasonable time of response the government took in this matter.
Our president states, “ we will not allow a barrier to cease progressions.” Everyone, including people in high power must work together to complete task, instead of standing on the opposite side of the people in need.
 

Kevan Peabody
8-9
8/30/2009

The article that I looked up was titled” Katrina Hits Gulf Coast Hard Census.” The article talked about what Katrina was, and the effects of Katrina. It was a very good article that I thought was credible. Katrina was a big storm that destroyed the gulf coast. Mostly every thing along the coast was ruined. It was a big disaster that no one expected to happen.
Katrina killed many people. Because of Katrina, federal funding became very low. There was not enough money to rebuild the gulf coast. Many people lost their homes, health care, and also they were not able to get an education because the schools were trashed. Four years after Katrina hit their was not much change from the effects it had on the gulf coast. Still many of the homes and businesses in the gulf coast were messed up.
The population in the gulf coast decreased by 17,000 people. Many people left because they were low income and couldn’t afford to stay in the gulf coast. Today people from Katrina have move to cities like Oakland, san Francisco, and other parts of the bay area. They still are adjusting to their new environment but are happy to live in nice cities