Issues in St. Louis

Dress for success is a non-profit organization that focuses on providing professional clothing for low income women seeking employment.

Senior Olympics is not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping seniors live a more healthy and active lifestyle.

Better Business Bureau, St. Louis is an organization that rates businesses by the complaints and recommendations provided by the community.

Research Questions

What crimes were committed by the victims of Katrina out of the necessity to survive?

What did the US do to help residents evacuate before Katrina hit?

*What more could the US have done to prevent deaths and to help survivors? In what ways in the US responsible and how did they fail to respond?

I look forward to continuing my research about how the US neglected it's own citizens. I am curious to learn about the strength of the levies and possible conspiracy theories. Ultimately, I must learn more about the government's evacuation procedures while knowing that the storm would soon hit. I must learn what steps were taken to rescue survivors and the reasons behind the delayed response.

Prisoner of her past

Prisoner of her past

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hurricane katrina

http://www.amnestyusa.org/demand-dignity/fight-poverty-with-human-rights/human-rights-and-poverty-in-the-gulf-coast/page.do?id=1021235

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/200/09/0902_050902_katrina_levees.html

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/HurricaneKatrina/blame-delayed-response-katrina/story?id=1102467

I'm interested in researching the government delayed response and lack of preparation before and after Katrina. I look forward to looking about the strength on the levees and seeing what more, the government could have actually done. This catastrophic event led to an enormous amount of deaths and many resorted to crime to simply survive. 

Discussion 115- 139

1.) I am curious if Leopold or Stanly could actually be gay. Leopold's hate for women might indicated something although he did sleep with 16 year old, girl prostitutes.

2.) I think some of the questions were not open ended enough. They seemed to only take a short time to discuss and then we'd move on.

First Reading

"Statistics about mass murder are often hard to prove. but if this number turned out to be even half as high, I thought, the Congo would have been one of the major killing grounds of modern times"(3).

This quote sets up what we will read in the rest of the book. It will discuss how the European countries came into the Congo, nearly causing a genocide. It is set up to show the harsh and cruel ways of imperialism. Africans were not being helped by imperialism but were only being abused according to Hochschild. Many Africans lost their live due to the selfishness of imperialist leaders.

Will this book discuss any good that came out of imperialism for Africans? Was there any good?

Is this book to solely demonstrate the negatives and immorality of European imperialists in the Congo?

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Thought at the end of Class- September 9

What did you learn?
I learned about imperialism, western expansion and the spread of europian life to other countries through colonization.

What are you curious to learn more about?
I'm curious to learn more about what countries started as main powers and how individually, each country gained their independence.