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Dagiimaa Damdinkhuu
Proffesor Sabir
English 201A
1 September 2011

“Micheal Jackson’s 53rd Birthday: The World Celebrates”
By Tim Kenneally

Its already been two years since the greatest pop-star Micheal Jackson passed away. August 29th was the celebration of Micheal Jackson’s 53rd birthday. And people all over the world celebrated in their own ways. The biggest celebration of his birthday occurred in his birthplace Gary, Indiana, the whole town threw a four-day celebration that began over last weekend. There was a musical performances and a circus. Hundreds of fans showed up, also followed by the Jackson family, including his 13-year-old daughter, Paris, as well as his sons Prince, 14 and Blanket, 9, and his father Joe and his mother Katherine. The others that wasn’t able to make it to the Indiana celebration still found a way to celebrate.
Over the weekend the city of San Francisco also celebrated the pop-star’s birthday. There was a flashing mob dancing to “Thriller”. The dance group performed their way through the city’s Ferry Plaza to Union Square, into the Mission District’s Dolores Park and finished off at the Castro District.
Micheal Jackson influenced a majority of our artist’s today. The former Tribe Called Quest’s rapper Q-Tip performed a special tribute to Jackson at his concert in New York City’s Irving Plaza on Saturday. “Micheal Jackson was a huge influence on my music and was an inspiration to me and so many others, “Q-Tip told the press.
The big celebration of Micheal Jackson’s life and music will still continue on October 8 at the 74,500-seat Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The concert will be called “Micheal Forever – The Tribute Concert” performances by Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, the Jackson Brothers, Leona Lewis and Smokey Robinson and many more.
 

Manuel Flores
Proffesor Sabir
English201A
1september2011

Six years after Katrina happen, everyone is so grateful at the world because they a saved a city that was close to a brink of ruin. Although Katrina happens a lot of the residents say that Katrina wasn’t the problem, there were already problems in the city the hurricane simply just woke them up. This disaster has brought everyone together because of this near life death experience. lot of things are starting to go well for new Orleans they got a lot of help world wide and also the new Orleans saints won the super bowl just the thing everyone needed. The mayor was happy with everyone’s efforts “We finally have been given the opportunity to assume the responsibility that we failed at many, many years ago, and we’re not going to let anybody else take that from us” said the mayor of New Orleans. The disaster opened everyone’s eyes by changing the federal debt limit everyone protested so the government gives more aid to the people “It makes me very curious when I hear the governor of our state and I hear all of the congressmen, except for maybe one or two, talk about the need to reduce excessive federal spending while at the same time knowing that we need money to dredge the Mississippi River and to rebuild the coast of Louisiana,” Landrieu stated
 

Wilson 1
Malikah Wilson

Professor Sabir

English 201A 8-8:50am

1 September 2011
The Wrong Deal

In late August 2005 a disaster hit New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina changed many lives over a very short period. In this article from the web page “HIPHOPWIRED by Randy Roper” FEMA will be asking Katrina victims for the money they gave to them back. FEMA gave over $600 million to about 154,000 and supposedly overpaid the victims. The Katrina victims have been through to much and now FEMA after responding to the disaster very slow now they want to get back $22 million from each victim they gave money too. Five years ago and now FEMA is asking for something that is most likely gone. FEMA states “Future disaster victims aren't likely to have to deal with large recalls of cash. Government forecasters are expecting an above average Atlantic storm season, with three to six major hurricanes that have winds of 111 mph or higher. While no hurricane that strong has made landfall since 2005”, mind you this article was written in June 2011 and Hurricane Irene happened just last week and they say Irene is larger than Katrina so that means more money that they gave away that they now want back. Its like they jinxed there selves saying that statement. The government is in for a big trip. They have sent out letters that people will be getting very soon.

http://hiphopwired.com/2011/06/01/fema-wants-money-back-from-hurricane-katrina-victims/
 

Scott Ramos
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201 B 8:00 – 8:50
1 September 2011

"Kanye West's Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC"
By Lisa de Moraes

After Hurricane Katrina, NBC held a one hour special where rapper, Kanye West expressed his disappointment in the federal response in
helping victims in New Orleans. West and Mike Myers were paired up and expected to be reading information off a teleprompter. Myers turn
is first and he summarizes the overall landscape of New Orleans. West is to follow; he obviously chooses not to read from the teleprompter, and speaks how he feels federal action is moving too slow. He continues to give examples of how he see’s the media portraying images being caught during the hurricane. Kanye describes, “You see a black family, it says, “They’re looting.” “You see a white family, it says, “They’re looking for food.” At this time Myers is surprised to say the least, struggling to stay focused.
Myers continues reading, explaining devastation and rebuilding processes. Myers gives back Kanye the microphone who boldly states “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” After this, NBC cut from Myers and West who’s telecast was far from expected. NBC’s parent company later stated “Tonight’s telecast was a live television event wrought with emotion.”

Source cited: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090300165.html
 

Jackelin Ruiz-Ortiz
Professor Sabir
English 201B
1 September 2011

Hurricane Katrina Six Years Later

After the levees in New Orleans failed, 80,000 jobs lost, and 100,000 residents killed, and so many houses were destroyed, New Orleans is back in motion thanks to all the support it’s gotten and the people that stayed strong. Many Celebrities such as Brad pit, Sandra bullock, Irvin Mayfield and Kermit Ruffin, all cooperated in helping make New Orleans a better place, by creating free clinics, starting charities, music bands, and school assistance for kids. Katrina opened everyone’s eyes “Katrina woke us up. Katrina stood us up. It was a near-death experience for most of us,” the mayor said. “We finally have been given the opportunity to assume the responsibility that we failed at many, many years ago, and we’re not going to let anybody else take that from us.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-daltonbeninato/katrina-6-years_b_941143.html#s343678&title=Cheering_the_Opening
 

Ajenay Camp
Professor Sabir
English 201A
1 September 2011

Michael Jackson's 53rd Birthday: The World Celebrates

June 25th 2009 was a day that had not only the United State in many tears and frustration, but the whole entire world. On this very day we lost a musical legend, the king of pop himself Michael Jackson. It seems like it was just yesterday. For many it also felt like the world was at an abrupt halt. It was an unfortunate lost for many and although the king has been gone for over two years now we celebrate his life and many accomplishments as though he were still here. From his early success to his legendary music, one of the major celebrations that are celebrated in many different parts of the world in different ways is his birthday. One of the biggest celebrations happened in Michael’s birthplace Gray, Indiana where the city held a four day celebration for the king, attended by hundreds of fans and family members as well. Although Gary Indiana isn’t down the street from us here in the bay area, that didn’t mean that we counted celebrate as well. In the city of San Francisco many dance classes got together and put together a flash mob dance to the internationally known song "Thriller". The performance went from city's Ferry Plaza to Union Square and made its way into the Mission District's Dolores Park, as well as the Castro District. So you see that no matter where you are in the word Michael Jackson is and will continue to be the human being that brings the world together in remembrance of his life.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/idUS144544246620110829
 

Michelle Nam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A
1 September 2011

New Orleans in motion six years later
By Karen Dalton Beninato

This article reflects how Hurricane Katrina disaster effects six years later. It went to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the New Orleans had failed. Many of the people had came out and the volunteers helped clean up the mess . The city thanked those volunteers who had came by. Many of the high file boosters were in Hollywood of the south. Also at New Orleans when the Hurricane Katrina had happened Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis had found a place call the Ellis Marsalis Center which was from the Habitat for Humanity's Musicians Village. One of the high school employee at Warren Easton high school Sandra Bullock's did an event called the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. The funds will be in good use. There was a lot of non profit projects organization to get back where New Orleans should be before the Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-daltonbeninato/katrina-6-years_b_941143.html#s343678&title=Cheering_the_Opening
 

Michelle Nam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
1 September 2011

New Orleans in motion six years later
By Karen Dalton Beninato

This article reflects how Hurricane Katrina disaster effects six years later. It went to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the New Orleans had failed. Many of the people had came out and the volunteers helped clean up the mess . The city thanked those volunteers who had came by. Many of the high file boosters were in Hollywood of the south. Also at New Orleans when the Hurricane Katrina had happened Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis had found a place call the Ellis Marsalis Center which was from the Habitat for Humanity's Musicians Village. One of the high school employee at Warren Easton high school Sandra Bullock's did an event called the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. The funds will be in good use. There was a lot of non profit projects organization to get back where New Orleans should be before the Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-daltonbeninato/katrina-6-years_b_941143.html#s343678&title=Cheering_the_Opening
 

Jasmine Guillot
Professor Sabir
English 201B
1 September 2011

Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Irene
In the article “The Contrast between Katrina and Irene” from blacknews.com, it is about the difference between the two hurricanes and how both have deeply affected the world and how Irene is more dangerous than Katrina. With Hurricane Katrina, not that many people were concerned with it and did not call for help as soon as possible. Many celebrities did help build homes and sent a lot of money but the sad thing was that the president at the time, George W. Bush, did not really care or really help just like he did not really do anything when 9-11 occurred.
With Irene, the government is more concerned than they were with Katrina. The President right now is Barack Obama is now more in action than Bush ever was. The time that they were supposed to help give relief, they did not because they felt that that was the need to do because they were under George Bush’s law. At the time, they were not thinking about what the people need but more of what the president wants. In the second paragraph in the article, the author talks about how the governments were not as prepared as much as they were with Irene, “The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was in a total ‘fog’. Applicable National Guard response was initially lethargic and very slow. The Governor of Louisiana was in a state of ‘ice’. The Department of Homeland Security and the military were equally slow and inept. Our governmental activities concerning Katrina were initially a national disgrace. It was the darkest days of the George W. Bush administration,” (2nd paragraph). The governments did not pay attention due to the fact that Bush did not command or make any decisions on helping people from the South who not only lost their homes but many lives. Referring to what Kanye said about George Bush not liking black people or minorities in general is probably true due to the fact that he did not respond quickly as he should have. The reason why it is different now is the fact that we have a responsible president and a government who is not too slow on actions.
Six years later, Katrina remains an important and effective part of history as well as the new hurricane Irene.
 

Jason Lee
English 201 A/B
Professor Sibir
9/1/2011
Katrina Reconstruction
In the wake of Hurricane Irene, the east coast of the United States was hit with devastation effecting in the last week of August 2011, a unique sight of power from Mother Nature was at display for the world to blog and compare to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Article I founded in Hattieshurg American posted on August 27 reminds everyone even though Irene was a strong phenomenon hurricane, Katrina was worse by the concentrated amount of loss lives and damages that was associated with major storms of this magnitude. The article states that lack of preparedness was the factor why so many people on that day lost their lives estimated at 1800. So when Irene and this upcoming storm named Lee people are aware to be ready either stockpiling on supplies or evacuating from the areas and informing loves ones and others by blogging or using on line social networks such as Face Book or MySpace to spread the word out so many people can be saved with the hopes of rebuilding their towns and communities, one brick at a time.
Work Cited
“Hurricane Katrina: Six years later” Hattieburg American 27 August 2011
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011108280326
 

Chris Nguyen
Professor Sabir
English 201 B
1 September 2011
A Tribute to Jackson Riles Fans and Family Summary
In the article “A Tribute to Jackson Riles Fans And Family” by James C. McKinley Jr. states that even after two years after his death, there is always something involving him or his fractious family have some sort of controversy. The tribute concert that is planned at Wales in October is creating a disagreement between Janet Jackson and two brothers against their mother and four other siblings. With questions about the promoters intentions, the Jackson estate has refused to give its blessing. Because of all the feelings on the concert, promoters are have planned to hold a conference with the many leaders of fan organizations to debate about what is going to happen with the concert. The “driving force” of the concert, Chris Hunt has stated that none of the Jackson are getting rich from the concert. Part of the profit are to be giving two AIDS Project Los Angeles and the Prince’s Trust, which were some of the many charities that Jackson supported while still alive. Because he hasn’t stated how much of the profit are going to charities, many fans of Jackson are starting to think that they are just planning this event as a profit concert in disguise. According to Mr. Hunt, he thought he had approval of the whole family with just Jackson’s mother’s approval. Lawyers of the executors are telling Mr. Hunt and is company are not aloud to use Jackson’s intellectual property, which include is name, photographs, or his music videos. So far they are only aloud to have their performers, Christina Aguilera, Ne-Yo, Smokey Robinson, and Cee Lo Green, to sing Jackson’s songs if it is for a one-time tribute. Nathalie Smythe states “ We reckon without Michael Jackson’s estate at helm, this tribute is nothing more than a money grab for investors”. Judge by the remarks of fans, this concert does not have to many good reviews so far. The worst move Mr. Hunt has made in planning for this concert was announcing that the Kiss rock band would be performing at the concert, which stupid because Gene Simmons told the public back in 2005 that he believes that Mr. Jackson did indeed molested children. Mr. Hunt and his company have made it pretty clear to the fan that the concert is more of a profit for them than it is going to be a tribute to Mr. Jackson and donation to the charities.
 

Aman Bharji
Professor Sabir
English 201B
4 September 2011

"Ludacris Text-Book extravaganza for the Youth"

Today,the Hip-Hop culture has expanded over fields that back in the day a rapper wouldn't take part in. The "Sterotype' of a rapper isn't usually an icon for the world,but more of a person who influences youth or adults through music, and this article really shows how The HIp-Hop culture,hence many established artist can really make a impact on a bigger stage.

In this article, Ludacris(Chris Bridges)has made a drastic impact on the Community that was once destroyed by hurricane Katrina six years ago. Ludacris teamed up with a website and organization to create a positive vibe in a broken hearted community. Togeather, they had a massive book drive which for schools in order to provide kids with better knowledge and opportunities to succeed in my eyes. At the end of the drive, they brought in about 250,000 textbooks, had 100,000 students brought in to help restock 69 libraries,within the community known as the Recovery School District.I think that if more Hip-Hop Artist and all around everybody that is an icon to America helped charities or even started Charities that could open opportunities for a lot of youth to succeed in the future. When A community is hit like new Orleans was , it would have been hard to start from scratch and Ludacris and his team came in and planted a positive note for NO to start with.
 

In the article F--- Katrina: New Orleans Hip-Hop Remembers the Hurricane, the 26-year-old artist known as "Fifth Ward Weebie" specializes in a New Orleans style of hip-hop called bounce. He tweaked one of his songs on a hot Houston night last October to reflect the then-recent hurricane, punctuating it with a new two-word chorus:The second word was a boisterous “KATRINA!” The first was the F-bomb.Fifth Ward Weebie released the "Katrina Song" as a single on Thanksgiving after its initial club debut.
“It [brought] some comic relief to our situation,” he said. “I mean, who better else to do it but the Bounce King?”
The artist from the Fifth Ward of New Orleans articulated the evacuees' frustrations in a way that made them laugh.
“He’s being funny, but he’s really making sense,” said Kenneth Williams, a 31-year-old New Orleans DJ who goes by the name DJ Chicken. “I know it sounds like a joke, but the way he switched it up and flipped it, it’s like a bounce song with a purpose.”
For nearly two decades, the essence of bounce music has been two beats — Triggaman and Brown Beat — first introduced in record samples from the late 1980s. There are the ubiquitous shout-outs to New Orleans’ neighborhoods or wards, usually a “Fifth Ward, where y’at? Sixth Ward, where y'at?” And the pre-Katrina subject matter was almost exclusively about sex.
Weebie twisted everything in the "Katrina Song." He even managed to change up the shout-outs: “I said the West Bank running, Uptown ain’t nothing. New Orleans East over, go and get the bulldozers.”
But while Weebie chose to create a way for the New Orleans diaspora to bounce off their worries, other local rappers recorded messages rooted in protest songs of old.
“When I think about Katrina and anything that has to do with music, and that [Katrina] song, it wasn’t nothing funny to me — at all,” said Mia Young, a rapper known as Mia X. “Because people, they’re dead, and they’re not coming back.” Many of these songs are brutal in their criticism of government officials and agencies, but they’re also filled with hope for a renewed New Orleans. At 36 years old, Mia X could be considered the godmother of New Orleans bounce music.
She was the first female artist to be signed to Master P’s No Limit record label in the 1990s. Young’s grandmother’s great-grandmother came to New Orleans from Haiti.
“Ride through my city,” she raps on “My FEMA People," her Katrina song. “Beirut. Iraq. Ride through my city. I ride and cry all through the city. Looking for the culture all through the city. We were left for dead for vultures all through the city. It’s so much bigger than the weather.”Her song follows the travails of many a hurricane victim, including the red tape.
“Everything under water, everything gone, bill collectors stalking me on my phone. So if you’re waiting on me, then I’m waiting on FEMA,” she raps. Tragedy strikes when Young was not in New Orleans for Katrina, several of her relatives died in the days following the storm. “I did it mainly for the people grabbing you by your arm and just telling you one horror story after the next, one bloody story after the next,” she said. “They have this hopelessness in their eyes like nobody believes them or everybody wants them to shut up.”
David Evans, a musicologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, said it's not uncommon for musicians to put themselves in the shoes of the victims following a natural disaster.
 

Sody Enkhbayar
Professor Sabir
English 201A
5 September 2011

F--- Katrina: New Orleans Hip-Hop Remembers the Hurricane!
By Sara Bonisteel

In the article F--- Katrina: New Orleans Hip-Hop Remembers the Hurricane, the 26-year-old artist known as "Fifth Ward Weebie" specializes in a New Orleans style of hip-hop called bounce. He tweaked one of his songs on a hot Houston night last October to reflect the then-recent hurricane, punctuating it with a new two-word chorus:The second word was a boisterous “KATRINA!” The first was the F-bomb.Fifth Ward Weebie released the "Katrina Song" as a single on Thanksgiving after its initial club debut.
“It [brought] some comic relief to our situation,” he said. “I mean, who better else to do it but the Bounce King?”
The artist from the Fifth Ward of New Orleans articulated the evacuees' frustrations in a way that made them laugh.
“He’s being funny, but he’s really making sense,” said Kenneth Williams, a 31-year-old New Orleans DJ who goes by the name DJ Chicken. “I know it sounds like a joke, but the way he switched it up and flipped it, it’s like a bounce song with a purpose.”
For nearly two decades, the essence of bounce music has been two beats — Triggaman and Brown Beat — first introduced in record samples from the late 1980s. There are the ubiquitous shout-outs to New Orleans’ neighborhoods or wards, usually a “Fifth Ward, where y’at? Sixth Ward, where y'at?” And the pre-Katrina subject matter was almost exclusively about sex.
Weebie twisted everything in the "Katrina Song." He even managed to change up the shout-outs: “I said the West Bank running, Uptown ain’t nothing. New Orleans East over, go and get the bulldozers.”
But while Weebie chose to create a way for the New Orleans diaspora to bounce off their worries, other local rappers recorded messages rooted in protest songs of old.
“When I think about Katrina and anything that has to do with music, and that [Katrina] song, it wasn’t nothing funny to me — at all,” said Mia Young, a rapper known as Mia X. “Because people, they’re dead, and they’re not coming back.” Many of these songs are brutal in their criticism of government officials and agencies, but they’re also filled with hope for a renewed New Orleans. At 36 years old, Mia X could be considered the godmother of New Orleans bounce music.
She was the first female artist to be signed to Master P’s No Limit record label in the 1990s. Young’s grandmother’s great-grandmother came to New Orleans from Haiti.
“Ride through my city,” she raps on “My FEMA People," her Katrina song. “Beirut. Iraq. Ride through my city. I ride and cry all through the city. Looking for the culture all through the city. We were left for dead for vultures all through the city. It’s so much bigger than the weather.”Her song follows the travails of many a hurricane victim, including the red tape.
“Everything under water, everything gone, bill collectors stalking me on my phone. So if you’re waiting on me, then I’m waiting on FEMA,” she raps. Tragedy strikes when Young was not in New Orleans for Katrina, several of her relatives died in the days following the storm. “I did it mainly for the people grabbing you by your arm and just telling you one horror story after the next, one bloody story after the next,” she said. “They have this hopelessness in their eyes like nobody believes them or everybody wants them to shut up.”
David Evans, a musicologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, said it's not uncommon for musicians to put themselves in the shoes of the victims following a natural disaster.
 

Ben Towers

Professor Wanda Sabir

English 201 B M-TH 8 am

1 September 2011

Hurricane Katrina And Irene

In this assignment “President Obama” was quoted throughout this article in the New York Times. Obama was comparing the most resent devastation that had happened on the east coast. President Obama emphasized coming together to rebuild their communities brick by brick. He also talked about the disaster response. This was a major problem when hurricane Katrina occurred. President Obama wanted the response from military and other organizations more effective than in the past. This was a major problem when Hurricane Katrina hit land and tore into New Orleans a few years ago. President Obama related the Two Hurricanes and emphasized the importance of the cleanup effort of Hurricane Irene. I think that president Obama had a good message to the American people. He encouraged us that many natural disasters might happen but it can’t shake the foundation that we have created here in America.
 

Selma Adam

Professor Wanda Sabir

English 201A 8-8:50 AM

September 1, 2011


King of Pop Michael Jackson’s 53rd Birthday: Fans, Family Celebrates

Aug. 29 would have been the 53rd birthday of the globally beloved "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, who died suddenly on June 29, 2009. While the music industry's big names paid tribute to the Legend at 2011 MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday, his family visited his childhood home in Gary, Ind. The family was led by Michael’s mother, Katherine Jackson. The family was joined by hundreds of fans who camped outside the Indiana home over the weekend before tuning in to MTV’s 2011 Video Music Awards. The Christian Post quoted the teenager Paris Jackson telling a local television station, WLS-TV that she “enjoyed seeing her father’s
fans.
 

Charbri Drain Drain 1
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8:00-8:50
1 September 2011
In the article, Katrina’s 6th Anniversary Finds Gulf Coast on Mend, it talks about the hurricane when it first happened and the progress they have made while trying to rebuild the states. When Hurricane Katrina first hit, almost nobody wanted to move back. Now that the years have past, majority of the people that had lived there before wants to move back to their hometown. A new tradition has been created since people started moving back. People get together and walk around the neighborhoods that have been rebuilt, and whosever life had been lost on that street they would hang a wreath on the tree.
The article also discuss the number of people that were killed which was more than 1,800. Although the people had to go theough such a horrible ordeal, everybody still has hope in rebuilding their communities.
 

Shanell Byias
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8:00-8:50am
1 September 2011
King of Pop
In this article, Michael Jacksons 53rd birthday: the world celebrates in Yahoo news the journalist Tim Kenneally is stating how many people celebrated Michael Jacksons 53rd birthday on August 29 2011. He is missed by many people throughout the country and his legend still lives on forever. In Indiana there was a four day celebration for him that started previous weekend which had attracted many fans and also his family had attended. San Francisco, Ca also celebrated his birthday with a semi-organized dance to “Thriller” which ended in the Castro District. These events that took place were just a couple of great tributes that occurred in remembrance of the King of Pop MJ. Michael Jackson. He touched many of his fans he also inspired his fellow musician and many new artists out. Though Michael Jackson is no longer alive his soul will forever live on with all of his contributions.
Source/citation:http://news.yahoo.com/michael-jacksons53rd-birthday-world-celebrates-233204096.html
 

Lyla Holloway
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201B 1:30-3:20
9 September 2011

Michael Jackson’s Heal the World

In the music video Heal the World showed injured, homeless and abandoned children. The affects of war on the citizens mainly the children. War tanks are in the sitting background with a little redhead girl standing wearing a dress holding a yellow flower.
In Micheal's lyrics he sings, “Make it a better place for you and me…”. With soldiers standing guard holding guns you see kids running past a cars on fire. It sadness me to see the violence that families must live with on a daily basis. I reminds me of the senseless killings of children centered in the heart of East Oakland.
Various races are shown in the video as the theme changes. Now guns are dropped, kids are clean, and wearing smiles. Everyone is standing still holding lit candles as the song plays on ,”Heal the world…” I really enjoyed viewing the video and appreciated Micheal’s inspirational ending of the song.
 

Alissa Franklin
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:30-3:20
1 September 2011

This letter shows the effect Hurricane Katrina have had on everyone. I do not think life has been the same since it occurred. It is obvious people are still devastated by losing there loved ones. As I am when losing a relative or close friend. It is very hard to move on knowing that those effected by Hurricane Katrina have not been given the supplies they need to survive. This country should have come together, to made sure of this coming about. It is sad to be a part of a country when so many things are promised to you and you see so little impact it has on our communities.
 

Sabrina Ehrenfeld
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:30-3:20
1 September 2011

The hurricane katrina affected a lot of people, something that will never be repairable. In new orleans, people are still devastated and traumatized about the situation of losing their homes, families, loved ones. But wouldnt you react the same way if you lost a family friend or a loved one you cared about? People should be treated from this traumatic
horrific thing that happened. People are now staying in shelters, and are being fed Because, now people need to find homes, and other places to stay, others were injured and hurt. The community should find a way to help create houses again, and cooperate at a time like this. Everyone should work together to help the environment, and to think about the future of everyones lives. Katrina really helped us realize, that this can happen anywhere and to be prepared, Just like an earthquake.