Personal Position Analysis : Natural Disasters

There are times when a disaster for horrific event brings out the best in people not the worst. We see this right here at home when there is a tornado or a hurricane. Many times people band together to help others through the hard times. People will donate clothes, food, blankets, all to families who have lost everything and have nothing. Also as i said before families did take jews in to protect them. An article from healthland.time.com in 2011 says, “Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future.”(Solnet) Sometimes disasters bring us together as communities in a way nothing else can. Our first reaction is to take care of ourselves but when the smoke clears we tend to help each other out. However this is rare it always seems to be that more people take care of themselves first and that's why it is such a big deal when people put others first. Whenever somebody does something good there is extensive news coverage and a large amount of conversation about it. This shows that it is not the normal thing. We are so used to people not helping but hurting others that we are blown away when somebody does something good. Really bad things tend to take our minds off the everyday problems and stresses that we have. We put all of our effort and attention into the bigger problem and tend to stop solving our smaller ones. This can be a good thing because it relieves our stress but it also helps us procrastinate and let some of our responsibilities

The book is written exceptionally well and is very easy to follow. With an overwhelming amount of evidence and an incisive argument, Steinberg is able to skew the focus from a political agenda and powerfully raise questions in the mind of the reader. Steinberg brings light to the widely overlooked aspect of human influence with regard to natural disasters. The research presented is able to effects show the effects this neglect of information has had on an overwhelming number of poor victims. This book is a valuable read and presents numerous issues that need to be brought to the attention of both national and local officials. As stated by Oxford University Press, “Acts of God is a call to action that needs desperately to be

Organizations over the past few decades have come to realize two things, there are a limited number of people in the government that are able to respond to natural disasters or large scale disaster effectively and that the government only has so many available resources to offer during a time of crisis. Another fact is, that private sector companies and non-profit entities, such as the Red Cross, have the ability to be more prepared due to their vast network of stores and distribution centers and their leisure, they indeed do have a unique responsibility

”Just over 95 percent of the state now faces severe drought conditions and nearly 60 per cent is in exceptional drought” (Source2). A lot of people are dependent on water. If we run out of water we won’t be able to do stuff like take showers, wash dishes, and sometimes go to the restroom. We could not take care of people that are sick and need water. Also cleaning your clothes would be a problem.

On the federalist side, it can be argued that the constitution cannot be comprehensive about all situations and powers, and therefore this power is an implied power (loose interpretation of the Constitution). On the other hand, states rights supporters point the 10th amendment, which states that any powers not specifically given to the federal government in the Constitution is given to the states (strict interpretation of the Constitution). In a more broader and holistic scope, this article digs at what we want the government to be structured as, how it is currently structured, and how can we change the structure to how we want (which in this case, the article claims is not possible, and therefore the federal government should relinquish the power to grant federal aid to natural disasters). The article also notes that because of how the federal government has been structured historically, it will be hard to ease off the dependence on the federal government to help, and will take time for states to adapt to being responsible of providing relief

The cost of homelessness is quite high, and the federal government does very little to put funding into lowering the number of homeless we have

The question you may ask yourself is why this is happening and why did only few people know until recently. To answer what is causing this, the government has taken 7.3 million acres of land and made such a complicated and confusing process to make businesses and create jobs for these people who live in extreme poverty, forcing them to depend on them for food and handouts.

The united states, annually spends out of the 80 federal help programs roughly 1.03 trillion dollars in welfare. Yet the 46.5 million people in the USA living in poverty only see $600 - $800 of it a month. When they could be given

ring one of the worst droughts in the state’s recorded history” (Source2). The people have a right to basic sources.“Officials say at least 1,300 people have lost their water in and around East Porterville” (Source2). More people don't have water,

Can you imagine living in a nauseating, vile, and disgusting manner? Well Californians can. Currently, the state of California is in the midst of a severe drought. This drought is one of the worst droughts in the state’s recorded history. Due to this drought, more than a thousand of California’s residents have lost their water. The drought sparks a conflict for the residents. People can not bathe, use their toilets, wash their dishes, or do anything with water. Because of the overuse of groundwater, a law is being established in the California State Legislature that would maintain aquifer, the pumping of groundwater, for the first time in history. In other words, residents would not be able to pump water which is naturally available under their

There is no immediate crisis relief in the United States . After an event happens, our government deliberates for as long as they think they need to, discussing what should be done. Gen. George S. Patton speaks against laggard planning; "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." The U.S. government should take a word of advice from one of its most revered generals. Our government debates quite well, they also examine things very thoroughly, but these debates also slow the action down. The process in which the government makes decisions is laggard because of all the formalities and "red tape".

Consequently there are also the endless treks to the laundromat for the family wash and the supermarket for drinking water, not to mention the horror of the nightly dishes.’’ Officials say at least 1,300 people have lost their aquifer in and around East Porterville, nearly three hours’ drive north of Los Angeles, making the town’s residents some of the hardest hit victims of the three-year-old drought.there saying that people are being depleted of their water so their stealing their

“Sometimes,” she says, nodding towards her youngest child, “when she needs to go, I just take her outside” (Source2). There is a drought in California, and people are struggling because they don’t have any water to be able to do simple things such as to take a bath, wash clothes or do the dishes. Even parents like the one above in the quote take their kids outside to use the bathroom.Those are just a few of the consequences that the citizens struggle through every day.

The concern of natural disasters is very restricted. People that don't face these issues are not aware of what is going on or they are and just do not care because it does not have a impact on them. Since I was a child I’ve always noticed that somewhere in the world that people mostly people of color is suffering. This would mainly be they are facing some kind of hardship in they life and they cant seek help.

In the crisis zone people fail to receive water sometimes for several days at a time.