ENCW 205 Fall 2021
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 16th, 2021
What happened in Louisiana was cataclysmic, I was only three years old when the hurricane hit and I never heard much about it growing up besides the name. Learning how poorly the situation was handled was sickening. Hurricane Katrina affected how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works today. It’s more effective now and has […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 8th, 2021
In September 1965, Hurricane Betsy was the worst storm that ever hit the coast in Louisiana. Up until Katrina, it was the benchmark in national disasters in the minds of residents because it caused such a disaster on the people that it left 76 people dead (reports vary on the number) and cost more than […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 6th, 2021
[posted on behalf of a student] Hurricane Katrina was not handled well and became the catalyst for change of how incident managements were handled. There were many failures on the federal level. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and other agencies, at the time of Katrina did not require for the people in leadership positions to […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 5th, 2021
What struck me the most about watching the 2006 documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts was how despite the horrific effects of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the United States and all of its people forgot about the citizens who needed them the most. Interestingly, it got me thinking about what I […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 5th, 2021
Before I watched this documentary, I was totally unaware of the impacts of Hurricane Katrina. Of course I had heard the name and had known it had flooded New Orleans. However, I was unaware of the mismanagement of disaster relief as well as the depth of the flooding. I was also unaware of the racial […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 5th, 2021
When the Levees Broke is a gut-wrenching documentary that truly opens one’s eyes to the horrors that Americans are subject to, both by nature and the government. Spike Lee does an amazing job piecing together accounts, interviews, and footage alike into an emotionally charged film. This documentary shows precisely what art can achieve by expression, […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 4th, 2021
One of the things that stood out the most to me in When the Levees Broke was the incorporation of music throughout what we’ve seen of this documentary so far, especially how some of the chosen music seems to drastically conflict with the story the documentary is trying to tell us. There were many times, more […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 3rd, 2021
This article from The Washington Post was written by Kevin Ambrose last August, and it was eye-opening to see the effects and the way that the city has grown since the Hurricane Katrina sixteen years ago. After watching the first part to the HBO documentary on Tuesday, I was curious to see if anyone made any […]
Posted in When the Levees Broke on Nov 3rd, 2021
There are bodies everywhere Bodies on the roof Bodies in the water Bodies in the streets Bodies in houses Young and old All genders Bodies of color White bodies Some alive Some dead See how they languish in the heat Observe- as they cry out for help Witness them looting Walmart for survival […]