Class Inequality Impacted Individuals On The Lower End Of The Scale

55). This is because things like a small flood would effect croplands differently than an urban center. A crop my actually benefit from silt deposits but the New York Stock Exchange would not. However, when disasters increase in scale they almost always have a significant impact on the economy (World Bank & United Nations, 2010, p. 55). Unfortunately, even though these impacts may be short-term there are third order effects on the economy. After Hurricane Katrina many areas were completely abandoned but many more were bought by developers pushing out the lower income populations, completely changing the local economy. This also highlights the different effect that disasters have on different demographics. As an example, the economies of developing countries are effected more by disasters then those of developed nations (World Bank & United Nations, 2010, p. 56). Although this may be because of population density or lack of infrastructure, it shows that demographics as well as the disaster itself have influence over the impact on local economy and

There will be plenty of dangers to you and yours during a crisis, and one of the bigger threats will come from those, who up until the crisis, felt they were entitled to a life. A life, which is provided by the hard work of others. Will their attitudes change just because there is a catastrophe, probably not?

Living in a society that does not help its people to live comfortably and provide facilities for them to achieve their demands, is harmful. One of these harmful affections is “social inequality” in each diverse society. Social inequality occurs when resources in each society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. The United States contains one of the most common social inequalities for its population and that is “social stratification and mobility” and the government should strictly investigate this social inequality for people who are living in the United States.

The calamitous natural phenomenon known as Hurricane Katrina brought terrible side-effects to lower-class African Americans. A catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina changed the lives of the lower-class African Americans forever because of the devastation from several effects. People today are more prepared for a natural disaster because “Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to hit the United States coast within the last 100 years” in New Orleans (Brianna Frank). Most of these ramifications of Hurricane Katrina came from the phycological, economic and medical effects due to this natural disaster,

In the wake of natural disasters, the minorities of America are down the pecking order in the government’s list of priorities. Specifically seen in the African-American people, the government fails to provide speedy response time, supplies and other aid, as well as providing substantial compensation for the families devastated by disasters, which could have been preventable or deterred from causing more havoc. In many cases, the African-American people were exposed to poor living conditions, living in undesirable areas, and a lack of wealth, education, and preventative warnings of oncoming disasters. This can be seen in the cases of the 1900 great hurricane of Galveston, Texas and the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave, but the greatest example of

Race and class identity of various groups of people render a great deal of influence on the experience one faces after a natural disaster. Unfortunately, oppression comes along with the quality of life for poor and middle classes. Thus, the experiences of higher and lower social classes are vastly different in terms of physical and psychological effects on the people. Higher social classes have the ability to restore any damages caused from a natural disaster in a timely manner, such as Hurricane Matthew. On the contrary, those people of the lower economic and social classes affected by the hurricane in Haiti, Bahamas, and Jamaica this past weekend will take a number of months or even years to rebuild their prior lifestyles. On pg. 4 in the

USA is a very big country with a lot of people and the social classes are very important. We can see that social class plays big part of people’s life. Everyday people are working, studying, trying to be better. Even though right now it’s time when everyone has many opportunities in his life, anyway there is a gap between classes and groups of people with same features. And your background probably will build your future. And we need to find what kind of class we have right now and look into these classes. The main idea is that Social Classes still exist and it’s most general part of U.S.A society. There are three reasons why gap between groups still exist.

Another reason the majority are not in readiness of an emergency situation is because, as Dennis Mileti stated, “ Individuals underperceive risk” (Ripley 43). As a person who has been studying ways to warn people of disasters for over 30 years, Mileti believes that we tend to discount low probability, high consequence events. When we think of a disaster, the routine thought is to assume that the probability is so low that it could never possibly happen to us. “Not this plane ride, not this drive, not this time” is what we tell ourselves, making us doubt the high risk situation. In Chapter 2 of Ripley’s book, she recounts an interview that she did with the daughter of a man who underestimated the power of Hurricane Katrina. The 85 year old man, Patrick Turner, had survived the past two hurricanes that hit Louisiana before Katrina did (Ripley 24). When he heard of the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, he did not take it as serious as he should have because the warnings the government gave about this tsunami were the same as the last two and the last two hurricanes ended up not being that bad. Before the last hurricane, Turner spent over 10 hours on the road evacuating only to find out that it was not severe. Because of the wrong preparation

Economic insecurity is a problem that many Americans face. Families and individuals dealing with economic insecurity are often one disaster away from falling prey to poverty. Such disasters can range from natural disasters to health issues, issues with employment, or marital problems. If one or more of these disasters occurs to individuals living on the verge of poverty it might cause them to fall into poverty. Different individuals and families living on the economic margins are not affected in the same way because the different disasters that they experience influence their lives and perceptions in a unique manner.

People can not put on the news without seeing at least one story about social inequality or injustice, if everyone knows about these inequities why are they not being solved? Inequities are not limited to America, social inequity is a global problem making it extremely important to raise awareness of the topic. Inequities such as racism and sexism impact teenagers in America, but to counteract this persecution authors can use various genres of literature to promote tolerance and reduce the effects of inequities. Racism and sexism violates people’s rights in schools, the workplace, and almost every place in the world. Through the words of authors, society can learn the harmful effects of these inequities, and learn how

I also think the homeless population is a vulnerable population that required a lot of help. When it comes to the homeless population, it does not mean one individual, but it can be a group of families or children. Being homeless you can be young or old. The homeless population are already have limit resources to them such as notify information, transportation, and medical needs. In an event of a disaster, it is important to find a solution to help the homelessness people to be at a safe shelter. One of the most important aspect and challenge when it comes to helping the homeless population is communication. Since they do not have access to technology to provide them information about a disaster, there must be a way to spread the words

Data obtained by assessing social vulnerability must be implemented within each phase of the emergency management process; mitigation, response, and recovery. First, to effectively respond and recover from incidents emergency management agencies must concentrate on the mitigation phase to prevent incidents from happening in the first place. This is achieved through a thorough hazard/vulnerability analysis (HVA). This type of analysis assesses the risk of physical, economic, and social vulnerability within all communities of a given jurisdiction (Lindell et al., 2006, p. 165). Additionally, the basis of the HVA allows emergency managers to effectively plan for disaster by creating pre-planned responses to disasters (rather than improvised response) and staging resources to locations with the highest probability of risk; ultimately contributing to the mitigation and response phases.

Second, in emergency situations, people of higher economic standing fare better. Hurricane Katrina is an example of this. The data set shows that the higher economic classes had a much better chance

income disparities on society is due to functionalist perspective. this theory refers that income disparities is a necessity to have order and control between society; because of this way everyone has an important role with different function on the society. Additional causes of income disparities due to factionalist perspectives is based on family structure because some born with rich parents (based on families income). Then, technology makes with the pass of the time that many jobs disappear and are replaced with machines. Another cause, is growing markets because people prefers to go to big business than low business. The next one, is immigration because it change the supply labor for low-skilled labor. The last, is property rights affect

The article written by Robin Spence starts out explaining how the risk of natural hazards has highly increased over the last century. Richer countries have developed ways to decrease the loss of life from earthquake situations and also made “modest” progress in reducing casualties in storm and flood related events. Poor countries have seem to make progress as well in combating the loss of life due to earthquakes however they have not been as fortunate combating the loss of life in storms and other hazardous situations. The article asks “Why, when scientific understanding of the causes of these events is increasing rapidly and engineering skill to design against them is so highly developed, do these large death tolls continue and the financial losses continue to mount? And what should nations, cities, employees, families, for example, be doing about it? (Spence, 2011)”