D’Ann Penner received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied

Besides the author’s writing style, the plot of this book was very interesting and sad. Jamal’s older brother was in jail due to murder and his mother is a single parent that has to work nearly 24 hours a day to support Jamal and his

A good way the book was presented was the fact it all happened within fifty four minutes, and the reader knows as some of the minutes pass. It was also presented out of four different eyes. This is both good and bad to me. I think it’s good because it shows how everyone is feeling in their own perspectives throughout the shooting. I also think it’s bad because it tends to get confusing, and it’s hard to keep it all in order. The clarity of the events get scrambled, but I think that was a way she wanted to write it because everyone felt so scrambled, and so were the thoughts they had. One thing I really enjoyed in the book was the fact that the language was a typical teenage language. It would be something my friends and I would say. It makes you really connect with the book. I think the authors attitude towards the subject is serious, she wants to show her readers how much of a problem this is and how important it is in today’s society. Nobody ever writes about the negative part of the world, and she did exactly that in a respectful way. I think the connection to the authors treatment to the subject was the research she did really helped her keep the book interesting, but also she wanted to remain respectful for those who actually have been involved in a tragic event like the one in the book. She treated the subject like she had been through it. The author made it feel like I have been through it, and that

This book was definitely interesting to read and it wasn’t a bad book, but the characters were all over the place and it was really confusing trying to figure out who is who in the story because Annie had a big family and a lot of friends. I also thought that the author L.M. Elliott did a nice job blending the historical fact of the Civil war in with the book. I think that a lot of the book was accurate. It was just a little confusing with the characters, but it was a good

You don't find this type of historical book interesting very often, but this one was. Everyone who I know has read or is currently reading it agrees. Learning and discovering different perspectives and stories that are sad but exciting are what made me continue reading this book. I never got bored of the book. There was never a dull moment. Somewhere in a span of 2 pages, there would be a problem, or something bad would happen. It kind of felt like a mystery to me. I would try and think, with all the things that have happened are they going to make it to their destination. Are they going to get to Florida, Greece, or Cuba? Also, now knowing in detail what people in the 1900’s and now are facing makes me feel educated in a way, which I like. Reading what sacrifices these characters and their families had to do to survive really moved me in a way a book hasn't done to

When one reads a book or article, conflict, setting, and point of view are critical to understand what they're reading. “I Survived, Hurricane Katrina, 2005”, by Lauren Tarshis is a fiction book based on the event of Hurricane Katrina. The novel is about a young boy who lost his family, and is trying to survive. The nonfiction resource “Hurricane Katrina Coverage for Central Alabama” by the National Weather Service is also about Hurricane Katrina but, the author took a different way of writing it. The website basically summarizes Hurricane Katrina and the damage effects of it. Hurricane Katrina was a serious event, and both of these resources helped inform everybody about it but, took very different approaches while doing it, both, the nonfiction

In the book, I Survived Hurricane Katrina a boy and his family struggle to survive Hurricane Katrina.The boy is split from his family and has to depend on himself, as well as the people around.The author's purpose of writing that book is to educate about what happened in hurricane katrina.This book kind of did change me because it made me more aware on the topic of hurricanes, and the destruction that it causes.

One of the most unique things about New Orleans particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries where this image is derived from was race and racism. People were excluded or included, considered inferior or superior based on the race they belonged to. To this end, Indians, and African Americans were classified on the lower end of the race totem pole while whites were seen as superior. Furthermore, one’s stance in society or occupation was determined by their race. The whites were majorly businessmen and land owners presiding over big farms that they owned. The blacks and the Indians were mostly peasants ‘owned’ by the white people and forced to work on the farms of the white people against their will owing to the fact that they were imported from their original residences as slaves (Appleby, Eileen and Neva 18). It is, therefore, clear that race and racism played a significant role in helping define New Orleans as we know it today. Bringing racism to the fore provides a platform upon which it can be alleviated to help

7) I can imagine myself re-reading this book again in 10 years because this book is amazing and it is perfect for teenagers and young adult readers. This book is griping and beautifully written. When reading this book you get thrown into the apocalyptic setting. I would recommend this book to my friends because I loved it and all the other books in the series. It’s just great.

In the novel, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, the main character, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, is an immigrant of Syria who stays in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and is arrested due to the suspicion of looting, but really is arrested because of his race and how he looks. Zeitoun’s faith and loyalty to his community and home is tested through the many obstacles of Hurricane Katrina and including his religion, racism, and his very own dignity. The author, Dave Eggers who is also the speaker in novel, proves all examples of Zeitoun’s challenges credibly in the text.

There are man people that think this book is amazing and there are people that think this book is just not educational they say it brings back the past of things that don't happen any more. I think this book is a good book and explains the things that matter. The book basically show how blacks were treated back in the bay. It gives great examples of how life was back then and on how many people view black not just one opinion.

Book Review: Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by

The recovery effort following Hurricane Katrina presented various challenges for many communities throughout New Orleans trying to rebuild their lives. The Village of Versailles is one such community, however, the Vietnamese-American community that populates the village has a history of being ignored and marginalized from decisions impacting their home, particularly with regards to the opening of the Chef Menteur landfill.

In December of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, tearing through the levee systems, and resulting in massive flooding that eventually covered 80% of New Orleans (1), leading to the most significant number of deaths by the storm. As images of Hurricane Katrina were displayed on front pages and television sets across the counry, Katrina became a strategic research site for sociological theory and research of how identity shapes a natural disaster (1). In this essay, I want to explore the fate of New Orleans. How will climate change affect human populations and which human populations will it affect? To do this, I will need to review both scientific and socially scientific papers to understand what the future of New Orleans and southern Louisiana will look like. Though this concept is technically broad for the limitations of this paper, I will review several pieces of literature to begin to gain an understanding of the social and ecological situations at play.

This book was filled with passages and quotes that made a lasting impression on me not only for the content they contained but also the way that they were written. One passage that really stuck with me was the bottom passage on pages 202-203. This passage left an impression on me for many reasons but mainly because it described such violent events that happened in Chicago that I never knew about which was quite a wake up call. I did not even know that race riots ever happened in Chicago and to find out that they were as violent and deadly as they were shocked me quite a bit. Now a days, I never hear anyone talking about the race riots that happened in Chicago which is surprising because by looking back at those times in our history it shows how much our society has grown and improved. These race riots changed the course of Chicago's history which is why it is surprising to me that I have never even heard of them before.

In the light of, the director makes good points through the whole movie about what they went through. I like this movie because it gives me more information of the people who were involved or who were there during that time. Like, Ann Lee Coper (Oprah Winfrey), Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo), and the rest of the people who help fight for African Americans to be able to vote. The movie also shows the difficult and the happy time they went through. Even the problems with their family. No matter what’s going on, they were still focus and full invested in having freedom. What I learned from this movie was that they did not let all the obstacles of what they went through mess up their main goal because of that I am able to take those lesson for my