Here is the link for the workbook from Teaching the Levees
Your assignments are as follows
Group #1 - Complete the questions pertaining to "God's Will" on p. 20 of the viewing guide (the page will say "12) on the bottom of the actual viewing guide; it's 20 in the PDF).
Group #2 - Complete the questions pertaining to "Explosions"
Group #3 - Complete the questions pertaining to "Day One"
Be prepared to share answers in a discussion format on Thursday!
Gods Will Section
ReplyDelete1. I truthfully am not sure who Phyllis LeBlanc is , but I am assuming shes the woman they showed at least five times and I do remember her taking an awkward pause in one of the many testimonials. The break was one of confusion and of disbelief. A sort of how-could-this-ever-happen sentiment.
2. Anyone who "prepared" for the storm was in a way reactive because it was made clear 3 days prior that evecuation was required. As for the reactive action, it was across the board. From individual preparation to government, no one was truly prepared for this hurricane but those who avoided it.
3.The dome served as the only structure able to withstand the hurricane and it was used as shelter by those who could no evacuate. I believe it to be the best effort brought out by the state to aid the citizens of new orleans.
4. Parts of the roof began to leak causing many people of field level to move to upper levels
5. It seemed as if the worst had come. The full proof, fail safe, had just cracked and now all hope was slowly diminishing
1. Because of of the Levees were broken and the city's closer to the water were going to have high water levels.
ReplyDelete2. Because it could be flooding on to the streets.
3.Someone who is the first to get to a situation, and FEMA is designed to be more of a vacume to clean up the mess, than a first responder.
4. That they weren't told to help those who stayed.
5. They are similiar because both were great natural disasters of their time.
1. Hurrican katrina did not hit New Orleans directly it hit the east side of it more.
ReplyDelete2. The explosions that people heard were the hurricane breaking the leeves.
3. Spike Lee does think the leeves were broken up by showing his prespective in peoples opinions.
4. The leeves were supposely fixed after Hurricane Betsy but this turned out not to be true.
5. When Hurricane Betsy hit the leeves were not high enough so it flooded new orleans.
6. Hurricane Pam was an experimental hurricane towards the leeves.
7. Yes i think the government should be blamed for lying to the people that the leeves were fully built to its potential.
8. This disaster was a human failure because the leeves broke at about a category 3.
9. I guess the leeves were blown up due to te racial difference.
1. I honestly don't remember who Phyllis LeBlanc is. She must have been a victim of the disatrous Katrina Hurricane and was probably affected by it.
ReplyDelete2. To prepare for the storm, people fled with their families. Some people drove away, some walked to the superdome. Yet, there were some people who did not prepare for the storm. They stayed in their homes because they thought that the storm wouldnt be as disasterous. Some of them had also suffered through hurrican Betsy, so they thought they could endure this one as well.
3. People flocked to the superdome because they couldnt drive away. They depended on public transportation to get around, and when this wasnt accessible they walked to the superdome. This was also a place to escape when there was a hurricane comming. I dont know where the convention center was and I dont know how it was used.
4. The roof of the superdome started leaking because of the strength of the storm. It couldnt withstand all the pressure, I'm assuming, so it leaked.
5. This scene affected me in a way. I felt responsive because these people who were affected by it lived in a major U.S city, like New York and I dont know what I would do if a disasterous storm like Katrina were to hit us.
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ReplyDelete1. I vaguly remember who Phyllis LeBlanc is but I clearly remember her talking about god and praying and her saying how she was praying and she got her husdanb praying and they we all "prayed up".
ReplyDelete2. Different people prayed in different ways. Some people decided to evacuate New Orleans, while many decided to stay. A lot of them were indecisive about wether they should stay or leave. Families refused to leave if even one member would not leave. The superdome the main refuge place as hundreds of people poured in to seek shelter and aid.
3. I don't know where the convention center was or what purpose it served but I do know about the superdome. People flocked to the superdome to seek shelter and aid. The superdome's large size helped contain the vast number of people and supplies and protected them from the storm.
4. The roof of the superdome was damgaged due to the severity of the storm;it started to leek.
5. It affected me by making me angry that greater measure weren't taken to aid these people, that the federal government didn't ste in soon enough.
EXPLOSIONS:
ReplyDelete1.Katrina hit New Orleans, as well as, Florida, Louisiana, and Missisippi.
2. The explosions that people heard were the levees breaking.
3. (The article is cut off) But from what i got to read and what i saw in the video in class i would think that Spike Lee believes the levees were blown up, due to the past events.
4. The levee system of New Orleans was a thick cement wall blocking the water from flooding the city since they are below sea level.
5. The levees were dynamited during Hurricane Betsy to save the French Quarter.
6. Hurricane Pam was a simulated Hurricane created in 2004 for a 5-day exercise at State Emergency Operations Center at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that was created to help people prepare for a Hurricane hitting Louisiana, specifically the New Orleans area. It created a storm surge that topped the levees in New Orleans, flooding the city.
7. I don't think anyone is to blame for the levees not holding.
8. The disaster was a natural event. The damages were due to nature but the amount of lives lost might be considered to be human failure because they didnt evacuate when told to do so.
9. The levees that were blown up in 1927 was named The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. They were blown up by dynamite to create an artificial crevasse at Caernarvon, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 14 miles below New Orleans. The crevasse was created to take pressure off levees at New Orleans.
Explosions
ReplyDelete1)Katrina didn't directly hit New Orleans, it just passed it.
2)The explosions that people heard were the levees breaking.
3) Spike Lee doesn't think the levees were blown up, he just thinks the government knew that a natural disaster like that couldn't be withstood by the levees. I think it's a but far fetched to say the government did it, but the people who built it should have known.
4) The levee system in New Orleans is a series of concrete walls that surround the city to protect from overflowing waters.
5) The levees were poorly built, some say were intentionally breached to save the French Quarter, but this was highly unlikely due to the fact that most people living there were poor.
6) Hurrican Pam was a simulated category 5 hurricane that was able to predict the amount of damage that would inflict upon New Orleans.
7) The only to blame are the people who knew the amount of damage a category 5 hurricane can do, and did not improve the levees.
8) What made it a disaster was a human failure because if the levees were actually built strong and right, a lot of the damage could have been prevented.
9) The levees were blown up to create holes in the ground to fill up with water if their was excess amounts.
1.) The water got as high as the houses in certain areas.
ReplyDelete2.)Because of the fact the water wasn't goin down people feared it would increase.
3.) im not too sure?
4.) Calling 911 to show wether the police would actually come or not.
5.)The episode of Pompeii was death to there city. I guess there trying to show the amount of force the hurricane hit inorder to kill such a numerous amounts of deaths.
-Angelique Lewis