After hurricane Sandy hit New York many places were destroyed. Long Island Beach, Coney Island, Rockaway, and Staten Island. For the past few days I have been collecting news articles on the destruction of hurricane Sandy. With Sandy came time of struggle and help. Many people have no homes, nothing left to them except the clothes on their bodies. Since the hurricane many people are now homeless and need they help they didn`t need before. Many volunteers are helping by donating and providing many necessary items but even with all the help Staten Island doesn`t feel the same.
Watching from out side my window I see many cars go by. Constant ambulances and fire trucks pass by. people going back and fourth. Even with the constant sirens I doesn`t sound the same around here. In the articles it says that people came back to a house that was no longer their. Many things were swept out of homes and people were stuck on the thought " what do we do next?" These people when from big mansion homes to nothing but a temporary shelter. Many people are struggling to get back on their feet again but it is hard. I saw Father Capidano Boulevard ( South Beach Staten Island) and it looked awful from nice beach front houses to ice cream trucks slammed into a home and sidewalk concrete being broken down and houses being buried into the cracks. There are not too many things left.Luckily there's help. This is now the new reality. Poverty and how people can other comes situations like this.
Many people are positive and can bare the sadness other are just stuck on what to do next. Its necessary to help those who most need it. Here in Staten Island people need all the help they can get. This has become a serious poverty struck over many people and i see it everyday.
Observe your surroundings-
- Damage from hurricane
- Popularity
- Peer Pressure
- Families
As I`ve been looking out my window lately and things are kind off the same. Same traffic every morning, same amount of cars crossing in front of my street but not the same feeling. Around my neighborhood things are quiet as always but there are more sirens and less people walking in the streets. A few miles away from my house are the serious damages of Staten Island, were homes used to be and were peoples beds and closets used to be. Over all you can see the commotion Although their is help from volunteers the poverty that is growing is tremendous. Some people are beginning to feel their reality. Their new life style is just to hard for them to get used to they are living like many impoverished people every were.
Poverty is affecting their life like many others, especially with this economical crisis that`s going on in nowadays its harder to get enough money to help everyone. Many now need jobs because their old ones were flooded or damaged. Many jobs are also not needing of employ's so its tougher to find a job.Its also getting harder for many people but for others their is a path of success. Success to having a house and their old way of life back to them but for now.
Along with struggle comes success and many people can find this success in many things like finally getting a home or getting a job. But the government should also give their hand out to those who mostly need it and offer homes or materials that most need but don`t have. They should provide them a temporary home to live untill they are ready to move out. They should especially help those who have young children give them supplies needed to try and sustain them for a while. These are very helpful and needed solutions to the consequences of hurricane sandy.
Write an original literary piece-
Rain
It drips upon my face
Cooled water of sadness.
is it true the sky is mad?
is it sad?
Why cant it just go away
I guess rain really does ruin
a good day.
I see it
drip drop but it won’t
Stop.
It goes and
keeps on pouring.
Why rain
must you ruin a good
DAY?
This poem is
about all the rain that has been going on lately. Ever since hurricane Sandy,
the nor eastern and the rain/ snow a few days ago. Is nature trying to tell us something?
A warning? Everything was fine till the new of the hurricane came after that the
weather has been acting weird. We can`t play with these ‘signals’ that out
earth is trying to give us. Near the Gowanus waters have been contaminated as
well as many areas. We need to be more aware and pay attention to surroundings
as well as increasing high temperatatures.
I think that we should prepare now for any other
natural disasters coming our way. We need
to protect our fellow citizens from potentially being in the positions that others
are in. something as simple as to evacuate please do follow orders because
that’s a family less that is not killed by the disaster
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