Levee

The great social theorist and philosopher, Isaiah Berlin once stated, “Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.” In simpler terms, Berlin is saying that to cure injustice and poverty, men may use revolution and reform but they cannot “live only by fighting evils”, they must also live by…

“Arise children of the fatherland // The day of glory has arrived […] To arms, citizens // Form you battalions // March, march!” Sung by provincial troops, from Marseillais, as they marched into Paris during the French Revolution, the Marseillaise was a nationalistic rallying call against tyranny and foreign invasion for all citizens. Although there was great variety to French culture before the revolution, and French was not even the language every Frenchman spoke, from the Revolutionary era…

Freedom to be who you are, freedom to stay out late, and do whatever I wanted to do. What I did not consider was the fact that I was here to learn. My parents were not dishing out 40,000 so that I could drink “black out buckets” all night at the Levee, and neglect my studies. Thankfully this realization came sooner rather than later, and I was able to adjust so that I could have an academically successful career. This is reflected in my week 2 blog reflection when I talked about my experience of…

Poverty: Arguably, the main struggle of the family in Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle, is that of money. In fact, if the family was well off financially, almost none of their problems would be of existence, and the story wouldn't be nearly as controversial. Take the beginning of the novel for example when the family foreshadowed all the misery they would face due to monetary issues, “Jurgis, too, had heard of America. That was a country where, they said, a man might earn three rubles a day; and…

The concept of colonization was not new to European history. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon conquered and liberated countries along Europe, not only gaining resources but territories, and civilizing the cultures. Similarly, European leaders believed it was their duty to colonize. During the period of 1880 to 1914, European nations began to colonize the continent of Africa. Various leaders of the nations recognized the potential of Africa. They believed that it could benefit their country…

polluted area in Michigan is a poor black community (ER), was this by chance? Or was there little regard to these people because they had little to no political influence and were therefore unimportant? During Hurricane Katrina, many of the areas facing levee failures were primarily black. Officials and environmental regulators failed to provide proper flood and hurricane standards, leaving poor black sectors of New Orleans to take the heaviest financial loss and mortality rates. If there was…

how we left it. But it didn’t matter how much I knew about what was coming, the change was done, the storm had come. “Clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter” what they tell us (17). They are simply a window through which we can predict change, not a levee with which we can prevent change. It is the intersection between prediction and prevention that makes the master of nature, but all I had were the TVs and pictures telling me what I would find when I got home. The most significant line in this…

In Lake County the threat of a tornado is possible anywhere and anytime within the county. Flooding is a hazard that can occur within the area due to the geological make up the soil, rain fall, and levee failure due to the river level. Dangers of toxic accidents are prominent in this area due to the hauling of chemicals and products from trucks and trains through the county. This area is prone to winter blizzards and icing. Earthquakes are another…

Traditionally, historians believe that the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars saw the advent of a new kind of warfare, different from earlier wars. While both conflicts contained aspects of earlier wars, like high casualty rates, new Enlightenment philosophies pushed the French into reorganizing their military, creating inflammatory rhetoric, and developing new, devastating military tactics. Examining the dichotomy between military and civilian life, the purpose of war, and how…

One sure way to make even the closest of friends hate you is to be a traitor. Nobody likes a traitor. Turn against your friends, your military, or your country and you may go down in history for your treachery. People will hate you for years and years to come. Judas Iscariot, who some Christians may recognize as the man who betrayed Jesus Christ, is still taught about and looked down on today. Benedict Arnold and Robert Hanssen, two American traitors, were passionately hated for years until…