Eassy 3 links

http://www.laguardia.edu/zeitoun/plot.html

http://www.laguardia.edu/zeitoun/9-11.html

http://www.laguardia.edu/zeitoun/aftermath.html


Note 1: The National Hurricane Center described Katrina as “an extraordinarily powerful and deadly hurricane that carved a wide swath of catastrophic damage and inflicted large loss of life.” This storm destroyed entire neighborhoods, took nearly 2,000 lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to live as refugees as they relocated.  This storm was the most expensive natural disaster to ever affect the United States, with over $81 billion dollars in property damage alone.  This was not the only cost.  As transportation and oil distribution routes were impassable, many of the region’s industries (including oil production) were severely damaged. Though the Bush Administration had a $105 billion budget for reconstruction, this only covered a portion of the real economic costs.


Note 2:

In Class Blog 5/19

    Hello my name is James and I am writing another in class blog for my ENG 101 class.  The chart the Professor  gave us is about "Anti-Islamic Hate Crime Incidents".  It give the number of crime from 1995 to 2008.  The number of crime went up dramatically within 2001, I think we all know the reason but if not it because of 9/11.  Many people at that time blame the Islamic people or Muslims for what happen that day.  It kind of funny how things change from 1995 to 2001 because before 2001 there was very very little crime, especially in 1998 because during that time there was the least amount of crime for the Islamic people.  Safe to say crime is slowing back down after 2006 and let just hope it stay that way.

instagram 5/12

Hi it me James and at the moment my instagram is acting up, but I'm looking at classes within a fellow classmate and photos the teacher posting and I must say they are nice.  In all honesty I don't see what if have to do with the assignment or the class topic, but still they are nice pics.

In class blog 5/12 Zeitoun

   Hello once again it is me James writing a class blog about Zeitoun and how i can use certain passages from the book into my final essay.  The goal of this assignment is to explain the most important lesson we should take from Zeitoun's experience as we think through future climate catastrophes.  Some questions that will be ask are, how does the book Zeitoun change the way we should think about future disasters? What do we learn from the text about how New Yorkers should prepare themselves personally, emotionally, and financially?  We see many examples of this throughout the book. From the beginning before the storm to see things Zeitoun and his family could have prevent things or prepare to to after math to learn from Zeitoun experience and mistakes.
     One example of this is in the beginning of the book when Kathy ask "You hear about the winds? It killed three in Florida so far" and Zeitoun just ignored his wife knowing the information about Hurricane Sandy was arriving (22).  We can compare this to the average citizen in New York because as a fellow New Yorker we are not use to natural disasters and can be stubborn in result ignoring very important signs.  This one passage in the book is a key element for the eassy because it open the door to so many things.

In class blog 5/5

    Hi my name is James and I am writing a blog about the book "Zeitoun".  The story basically is about Zeitoun experience with Hurricane Katrina.  He stayed behind and throughout the part I'm up to in the book he feel he have a purpose within the crisis in New Orleans .  Many claims are being made about why he stayed but after going back and forth on twitter with the class and re-reading key passages on the book one reason i see he stayed is because of his personal beliefs.  He is living up to his his family name especially his brother because he is brave, strong and true (116). Other example are just him being helpful like when  him and a friend is trying to save a lady(100).   He thought of the story of Noah so maybe that why he save the animals also within the book (94).  In the end Zeitoun heart is in the right place and he is doing a good thing while you can disagree with his methods.

Essay Links

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/29/nation/la-na-nn-new-york-hurricane-sandy-20121029

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19933026/mta-subways-ready-for-hurricane-sandy

http://www.nyc.gov/html/recovery/downloads/pdf/sandy_aar_5.2.13.pdf

4/7/14

 
   Hi my name is James and I believe we were not ready for Sandy because of the many deaths and property damage.  Our response to the storm was negative for everyone!!! From the "Superstorm Sandy- a people's Shock?" shows that the poor and working-class people are far more vulnerable to a climate crisis.  One keyword that stood out to me was "vulnerable".   Using this keyword in the reading, the writer trying to say that the lower class people are easier to fall or be effected in certain disasters.  In result of Hurricane Sandy many people lost their lives, their was more unemployment rates and it seem the government and big companies are having there way with the city.  It seem the main people who took effect to this crisis was the poor and middle class people.  I find it scary  to know if I owned a mom-and-pop store and it get destroyed, a bigger store like Walmart would take is place.  No matter how much I would try and fight the bigger corporations would bully me out of whats mine.

In Class blog 3/17/14

  Hello my name is James Hull and I am currently reading the book "The Climate Casino" for my ENG 101 class.  I made this blog to inform you of two different graphs I saw in the book.  Figure 12 graph on page 62 and figure 10 graph on page 52. I thought these were two interesting and important graphs.
    The graph on page 52 of "the Climate Casino" is a graph showing how stable the temperatures was in Greenland. I also notice within a few year the temperature increased dramatically. I like how Figure 10 graph show the climate results of Greenland  over the last 7,000 years. It showed how settled Greenland climate was and how it started change over the years. Figure 12 graph on page 62 is an illustration of a tipping point for Greenland Ice sheet. At first to me the graph was hard to understand because of the arrows, but I think the arrows is either a cycle of the ice sheets or the result of temperature change effect on the ice sheets. William Nordhaus
  

3/24 class blog

Hello my name is James and today in my ENG 101 class we read each other essays and gave feedback to one another.  I actually like how it went, thought is was gonna be worse.  I'm always nervous about these things.  We have to write a letter to the mayor of NY about if we prepared for climate change or not.  My classmates told me that i had a good introduction and made it clear of what I'm writing about.  I may have trouble focusing on one topic at a time though but that is easy to fix.  So far so good on this essay. Good thing because it due in a week.  Also funny thing is I just now learn how to double space so I probably wrote more than expected but I'm not complaining.  I'm looking foward to handing in my paper.

2 in class blog of 3/24

  Hello again its me James and I'm in my ENG 101 class.  A little while back we had to write our first blog on this article called "New York Is Lagging as sea and Risks Rise, Critics Warn". After looking over the article again i found some stuff to use for my first essay.
     I don't believe New York City  is prepared for global warming one example is the flooding in 2011.  In their article Mireya Navarro state that the states and federal agencies should be investing in protection like sea gates that could close during a storm.   I don't agree with the idea of the writer, I can't picture any funding towards it.  NYC should prepare for disasters like flooding but a huge gate blocking everything I think will cause problems after the storm unless with this gate we can put up and take down easily.

First Blog in Class

    Hi my name is James and recently I been reading a book called " The Climate Casino".  In the beginning of the book their was two sentences that easily stood out to me for some reason.  "Global Warming is one of the defining issues of our time.  It ranks along with violent conflicts and economic depressions as a force that will shape the human and natural landscapes for the indefinite future." I thought it was interesting because its true when you sit down and think about it.  With all the chemical waste and pollution society is creating we are destroying the earth.  Studies show if we continue at this rate the earth won't last long .  The gases cause by the the people pollution is heating up the earth which in result is melting.  With the ice melting our water levels are rising.  Soon major cities like NewYork will be flooded out.  I strongly agree with these two sentences because our last few storms was out of the norm.
     
    
   

First blog

 Hello my name is James Hull and I just read an article called "NewYork is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn"; I will analyze the opinions of the public based off the article while adding my own perspective.  This article is about NewYork City and its preparations for flooding and other climate changes.  As a fellow New Yorker, based on my past personal experience with a storm, I feel the city is not ready for flooding.  The need to improve their public transportation system as well as the structure of their buildings is a must.  We can't get prepared that easily like the other cities because it would cost too much to fix everything we needed.
   DOB from the NewYork Times article told his story about how he was trying to travel on the Path train when the flooding in 2007 happened. He explained how they had to change the train's course due to the high amount of flood waters. He wondered what would have happened  if he was traveling through the flood as it was happening and what the city would have done in that situation. It feel like the city should have been more prepared. Rama68 thinks just because we have expensive condos that NewYork can afford to fix the cars so they can float during floods. I notice Rama68 is from San Francisco and may not understand the process for that is not that easy and would probably cost more money than the condos he ranting about. His idea is a unrealistic concept. Mitch M ask where are the dramatic changes. For years we been warned about global warming changes but nothing is happening. I disagree with Mitch statement because climate changes may not be happening faster than expected but it is happening.