Ruben Aponte
Hello fellow bloggers, today's work is for a English assignment asking to write about whether New York City was adequately prepared for hurricane Sandy. My belief is that New York City response to hurricane Sandy was inadequate. The reason for this thought is that I feel public services meant to help hurricane victims did a poor job at relocating most people. In addition, public funds to help victims who lost their homes was not enough to compensate for the physical and emotional damage received. Hurricane victims were also prohibited from returning to their land because government officials claimed the land to be unsafe. According to the passage Blanking The Beach "Militarized gentrification"(chap 64). The implied meaning of the quote suggest the declaration of using brute force to claim land that is already owned in a attempt to modernize. This connects to my idea of New York City's inadequacy because city officials purposely allowed "militarized gentrification" to private companies. This kind of government favoritism explains why city residents who lost their homes are now living in homeless shelters with not financial aid from the city. In addition, this is important because the city instead of helping residents is using natural disasters to exploit residents for profit.
the assignment was about the city response to hurricane sandy. i see your point but you jumped to connect your thesis to a different article before you give examples and evidence of the claims that you stated before. where is the prove that open land in new york was used to modernize land and take it away from the original owner, give real examples. over than that the connection was smart to the greet idea that you chose.
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