Friday, September 30, 2011

Who Is To Blame For Hurricane Katrina?

During and after Hurricane Katrina, there had been much accusations on who was to blame for the destruction for the thousands of people dead and the destruction of their city. The main country had been the United Sates. This statement can be proven in many ways, such as the fact that they didn't pay any attention to the situation during the Bush presidency and had waited several days until they had taken any kind of action. During those several days people were still dying and were left in poverty, trying to recover after what they had lost. It can be portrayed that they had showed little interest in trying to solve the situation. One example that is very important is the fact that the levee had broken. If they had started building it due to Hurricane Betsy, why hadn't they been able to perfect it to withstand powerful hurricanes? They were deliberately wasting people's time through all the lying and unjust actions they had taken, which would soon turn to consequences. Additionally, it is shown how one of the ways New Orleans had been spoken negatively about was through "Fog of War." This can be explained by how as news started spreading nationwide, soon, this information would be twisted until it formed many rumors that had been explaining New Orleans in a negative way. One of these negative impacts was the rumor of people staring to rape babies. These rumors began to change many of the civilians attitude due to the fact that they had the belief that due to this hurricane, it would tear up an entire community to the point to where it will never come back and recover. One of the things that should've changed in order to bring a solution was decreasing the issues with the government. The head of FEMA, Michael Brown should've taken initiative as well as the head of the Department of Homeland Security. One of the many actions that would've been taken was helping the community during and after this horrific tragedy in order to be able to last and cope with the water causing much damage.They shouldn't have waited that long in order to make a change. Due to the actions the United States had taken, it had put one of their cities in one of the most devastating situations ever. It can show how this country doesn't give any care for the people, rather in getting their power and not giving an amount of money in order to show an effort in order to save our people and help our city come through this hurricane. It can show through their effort in this and in many things the kind of people they are.

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