Thursday, September 03, 2009
Hurricane Katrina Narratives Cyber-Extra Credit and posted homework assignment
Some students have Katrina stories to share. If you'd like to share yours, post it here for extra credit.
Post your first and second drafts of the paraphrase of the article here also (homework due August 31).
Post your first and second drafts of the paraphrase of the article here also (homework due August 31).
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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.
I turned in the article with my homework and was waiting to get it back so that I could do the resource since I could not find the article online.
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.
I turned in the article with my homework and was waiting to get it back so that I could do the resource since I could not find the article online.
# posted by 
: 10:51 AM
: 10:51 AM
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.
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.
# posted by : 9:43 PM
: 9:43 PM
Elizabeth Garcia
8-8:50
Date:8-29-09
Newspaper Article
Literal Paraphrase
The Times-Picayune
“Across New Orleans area, residents commemorate
Hurricane Katrina’s fourth anniversary”
After the fourth anniversary that Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, which affected over 1,400 lives and flooding hundreds of thousands of households, inhabitants all over the area got together on Saturday to remember the day which marked their lives.
On the location of the disastrous levees breaches as well as the Superdome, in which many thousands of people obtained shelter among the filth, towards the shore of lethal waves initially came out the sea. People spoke the names of the dead and grieving the people who are still stressing to recover from their loss.
Many contributed in the reconstruction assignments to help out dislocated people return home. Many activities such as art shows, picnics, and musical performances happened during the day, as well as protests between neighborhoods with optimistic signs of improvement while seeing destroyed homes in harsh of hard work accomplishments, along with the long path yet to be.
Not like the initial two years of Hurricane Katrina this anniversary did not concern an outwardly never-ending line of media from the world, not even the president went to visit the development of the city. 2008 is in bare difference this year when Hurricane Gustav obligated a huge evacuation, when the tempest changed directions moving away many people that would have had a very devastating experience once again.
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8-8:50
Date:8-29-09
Newspaper Article
Literal Paraphrase
The Times-Picayune
“Across New Orleans area, residents commemorate
Hurricane Katrina’s fourth anniversary”
After the fourth anniversary that Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, which affected over 1,400 lives and flooding hundreds of thousands of households, inhabitants all over the area got together on Saturday to remember the day which marked their lives.
On the location of the disastrous levees breaches as well as the Superdome, in which many thousands of people obtained shelter among the filth, towards the shore of lethal waves initially came out the sea. People spoke the names of the dead and grieving the people who are still stressing to recover from their loss.
Many contributed in the reconstruction assignments to help out dislocated people return home. Many activities such as art shows, picnics, and musical performances happened during the day, as well as protests between neighborhoods with optimistic signs of improvement while seeing destroyed homes in harsh of hard work accomplishments, along with the long path yet to be.
Not like the initial two years of Hurricane Katrina this anniversary did not concern an outwardly never-ending line of media from the world, not even the president went to visit the development of the city. 2008 is in bare difference this year when Hurricane Gustav obligated a huge evacuation, when the tempest changed directions moving away many people that would have had a very devastating experience once again.
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