Karly Segrave Case Study

As I begin to read Lydia’s story, I recall the days that led up to the named storm, Hurricane Katrina. It was the year 2005. Most of the people I came in contact with were tracking the storm and wondered if the storm would come our way. We spoke of how we would prepare for the storm. I was afraid because my husband was on the road and I was alone to take care of my five-year-old child and my home. Lydia was brave as she rode out the storm.

As my fifteen-year-old roommate falls to pieces, panic rises in my chest like a leaping flame. She lets out muffled screams and chilling sobs as she buries her face against the pillow. I kneel beside her and whisper reassurances. “You’ll be okay.” “No one will hurt you.” I pray she hears me but I know she doesn’t. She is trapped somewhere else - somewhere she revisits every day, like a bad song stuck in her head for life.

Unfortunately, the loss of housing occurs frequently and takes a psychological toll on the people affected by depression. Desmond displays how Arleen is very troubled when she gets evicted, thrown into the cold, and stranded with nothing. It takes a toll mentally when she realizes she has no home to get away from the cold, but also the eviction will be on her record for the next move. When people get evicted there is so much going against them, that mentally they can’t keep up and become depressed. Desmond describes the depression of a Hispanic woman and her three children during an eviction. At first, she had “borne down on the emergency with focus and energy,” then she started wandering the halls “aimlessly, almost drunkenly, her face had that look, the movers and the deputies knew it well”(125). Desmond adds, “It was the look of someone realizing that her family would be homeless in a matter of hours”(125). With vivid imagery, Desmond truly shows the mindset of a woman who knows she lost everything. Eviction scars people and that it makes a lasting mark on how they mentally feel as if they are worthless.

In addition to so many events, the loss of the beloved home in….. was difficult the poverty level that immensely impacted all the children. Poverty is abuse at its core. Going hungry night after night, day after day, is a prolonged agony of the worst

She was alone, she was scared, she had no idea that her normal life would be taken away for the next eighteen years… and hope is the sole reason that she survived it. For kidnap victim, Jaycee Dugard, the word “hope” brings back a flood of emotions and memories. In her chilling memoir, “A Stolen Life”, she describes a very personal experience in which she encountered at age eleven, where she soon learned just how important hope was. Dugard never saw it coming when a man named Phillip Garrido stole her from that bus stop on just another normal morning… or so she thought. Soon after, he took her away and held her hostage in his backyard for almost two decades. Interestingly enough, she has miraculously turned this cruel situation into a very inspiring story. Therefore, she proves to us that even if you’re living out your worst nightmare, you still have something to live for. For this reason, Dugard puts together a descriptive setting, her absurd relationship with her abductor, and personal symbols to illustrate how just a little hope can be the essence of surviving any situation life throws at you.

Ronita’s grandmother, who has obesity, diabetes, and heart problems, support the family with her disability insurance, Ronita’s youngest brother, Donnell, has cerebral palsy and frequent seizures, and also receives disability. Her mother and older brother are unemployed, like most FEMA trailer park residents. Her father, a day laborer, was murdered 5 years earlier. The family’s phone was disconnected, so Ronita could not reach her family when she went into early labor.

Ha’s life is turned inside out when the war is coming near her home, which leads to her family moving to America. The experience that Ha is going through is similar to what refugees have to go through. “Refugees are every day who are forced to flee their homes because they are afraid to stay in their home country” (Model Essay). Articles like, “Children of War,” and “Refugees: Who, Where, Why,” explain what refugee children have to go through when they are forced to leave their homes. Before Ha left her home, she was a playful, careless, easy-going girl, and selfish.

As the hurricane passed, we heard on the news the winds had reached 120 mph. The hurricane was classified as a Category 3. I didn’t know what that meant, nor did I care at the time what mattered was we were all fine. Looking back now, I think being with friends in a house with a basement made of concrete walls seemed more

It is pretty strange when Tretheway has not been ridden out the storm at that time, yet her ability to extend that empathy to the local residents is undeniable. Thetheway refacts all the deaths and “bodies washed away” (65) through the lens of witnesses – her family and the whole community – with emotional depth and

After reading a portion of Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith by Vincanne Adams, it is difficult to wrap my head around the horrible effects of Hurricane Katrina. At the time of Katrina, I was about 8 years old. I remember seeing the news and hearing people talk about it, and I thought it was frightening. However, I do not think that it registered properly in my mind. Even as I got older, and there was still mention of it, I never fully understood what really happened until I read this book. It is very easy to throw something off to the side and think “Oh, it’s not that bad” because the media only shows people getting help and they tell us that conditions are improving. No one spoke of the tragedies and lasting effects written by Adams. In this essay, I would like to discuss the issues presented throughout chapters four and five surrounding the environment, the people, and the government in New Orleans.

It was a seemingly ordinary California night—warm and peaceful— as I turned a corner and walked down a street of makeshift tents, the only place hundreds of men, women, and children could call their homes. The smell of alcohol and trash was overpowering. Used needles and garbage were everywhere. People picked through the trash searching for anything that could keep them alive. The street was eerily quiet as everyone kept to themselves. These people were suffering, and I could not bear to watch any longer.

This is a documentary that highlights the events that surround hurricane Katrina. It lays a focus on the state as well as the federal government response to the disaster and tries to identify why the reaction was inefficient and slow. This video begins by showing how the government had prepared for this hurricane. It shows that various bodies in the country issued warnings on relation to Katrina. Some of the warnings issues stated that the hurricane will be the largest ever witnessed in the country and that New Orleans will be inhabitable. The first duty of the authorities was to evacuate residents of New Orleans.

Thousands of people lay dying, stranded from the deadly Hurricane Katrina, a natural disaster destroyed many homes in New Orleans. This powerful hurricane killed thousands of people and impacted the entire United States economy. Hurricane Katrina cost billions of dollars in damages. Even ten years later, the city continues to recover from the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Many of the hurricanes’ victims still continue to recover from the financial and emotional effects. The severity of Hurricane Katrina’s flooding left the city underwater for weeks, due to issues with the levees. Hurricane Katrina struck land on August 29th, 2005, leaving New

In the wake of hurricane Katrina a huge amount of families were displaced. However, amidst all the houses that had been washed away was Mr. Gettridge whose house still had four walls and was in a position to still be rescued. Not only was the house in a position to be rescued, but his determination to rescue the house was so deep and strong. He showed deep enthusiasm to rebuild his house again so that his wife would once more have a place to stay. Despite there being hardness in finding it possible to find any learning points and freshness in an 83-year-old man’s tale, it was so modest to see the zeal of Herbert Gettridge need have rebuild the house he once built in 1943. It is in this house that the he and his wife were able to raise nine children. The producer of the story goes to extreme ends so as to document and follow Gettridge, finding all the where about of his whole extended family for a period of almost 18 months from 2006. Gettridge is a

Those days that Sandy hit New Jersey, those dominant 80 mph winds would hit the windows and the rushing rain causing torrents across the flooded street.After eight long, aggravating, tense days we were going back home.We packed up and got into the car. It was a long ride through that deserted highways and the flooded streets. As we enter Brigantine we saw all the destroyed houses. We drive deeper into the island to go to our neighborhood and see more devastation. We drive toward the street I lived on and every single lawn had a pile of trash and destroyed furniture. The only house that didn’t have a pile of waste on it was mine.