Good
afternoon class, I am back writing in response from Naomi Kliens writing
"Blanking the Beach" sharing if New York completed its job towards
the people who suffered from Hurricane Sandy. New york specially the
Housing Authority was really careless and incompetent towards it job and responsibilities.
In the chapter Blanking the Beach, Naomi Klien writes about the Tsunami that
hit Sri Lanka in 2004 and how the community that lived on the beach did not
contribute to the economic growth of the country. If they were moved to a
different place their “place could be put to a more profitable use” (Klien,67).
Government is doing what they planned before the wave just making the “buffer zone
looked like little more than an excuse” (Klien,67). Buffer zone is when people
or communities are moved and government uses their place to more profitable
use. This shows the negligence of Sri Lanka’s government towards its people. Instead
of helping the victims Sri Lanka made that place into a vacation spot for the
rich. After Hurricane Sandy many people from New York were displaced from their
homes and NYCHA did not fix their homes. They were sent back to the homes that
were “unlivable” to begin with.
Good ideas. Like other students, though, it's tricky comparing Klein's stuff on Sri Lanka with the city' response to Sandy. You might see some related ideas, as you describe here, but we need to slow down the connection. If you have a claim about Sandy in your paper, for example, you'll need to prove that claim with evidence based on NYC-Sandy, and then in the critical thinking find a relationship to the Klein stuff on Sri Lanka. Keep in mind the keywords are for critical thinking, at the bottom of the quote sandwich, not the top of the paragraph, when you're still needing to support a claim. But this is all just stuff to consider for revision. The blog post here is good.
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