In-Class Zeitoun.

Zeitoun's decision to stay in the city while the storm was heading toward their direction, made him felt secure that he could handle the situation. After his family had begged him to evacuate the city with them to go to a safer place, Kathy figured that she needed to leave with the kids or otherwise the storm will keep them in the city. Zeitoun's main argument to stay in the city was that he needed to make sure that everything was fine with their properties since he never thought that this storm will be different from the others he had witnessed so far. Hours later the storm hit the city, and within minutes New Orleans was completely flooded. However, he was not afraid of what could happen to him because he felt that he needed to be there to help who ever was in need. All this situation made Zeitoun exited because even though he was not away with his family, he was helping people or animals who really needed to be rescued. In addiction Zeitoun was "in high spirit', and he 'felt invigorated (Eggers 123).'" Meaning that, instead of being tired since he was paddling all over his neighborhood in a second hand canoe that he had storage in the garage, he was full of energy like if his inner light had told him that he made the right choice by staying in the city. furthermore, it shows that even thought Zeitoun was in well economic situation, and he had all the opportunities  to travel to safer place with the most precious thing he had, his family, he just did not listen to all the crazy things kathy was saying which ended up being true, he just stood.

Group #1

The most important thing someone needs to know from the “Causes of the Russian Heat Wave and the Pakistan Flood,” by Dr. Jeff Masters is how this two phenomena actually happen. First of all, the Russian heat wave of 2010 occurred due to a strange twist in the jet stream that was stock in the same area for about a month.  The jet stream is like a river of air with about an altitude of 30,000-50,000 feet. These jet streams also have different types of airs, depending on the place. For instance, there is a potent “subtropical” jet that pass over the southern Europe as well as a light “polar” jet across northern Europe. In addiction, the polar jet stream has an extratopical cyclone that is responsible for the majority of the rain over the midlatitudes and also work as a mixer between cold, arctic air, and warm tropical air. Meaning that, if this polar jet stream move from it current location, then, the air will be insanely hot and super dry.

In the other hand, the Pakistan flood happened because a polar jet stream move, and it mix with the “Pakistan’s usual summer monsoon rains” creating the worse flood in Pakistan history. It’s obvious that these two phenomenon were related to each other.

Blog # 1

My name is Andreina Urena, and in this blog I am responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on climate change. The assignment asked me to read an article in the New York Times “New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics warn” by Minerva Navarro. In this blog I will discuss the main points of this article as well as I have to focus in the opinion of the “Reader’s Pick” of the article.

This article is basically saying that New York City is not prepared to fight climate change. For instance, the infrastructure of the majority of buildings has not being built to resist a flood and since the city is surrounded by water, then, New Yorkers should be aware of the magnitude that a catastrophe like this could cause. In the other hand, the article also point out that if NYC is hit by a flood, then, the city will have to spend billions of dollars to restore it, and to prepare it for futures floods.

I agree with Jim Gordon from the “Readers Pick” because he sounds very realistic when he says that NYC “is like treating the symptoms without curing the disease.” Meaning that the city should be aware of what is really causing sea water to rise like trying to reduce  carbon pollution which is one of the most dangerous factor to contribute to climate change instead of being thinking about constructing barrels to stop the water coming from the ocean when they keep contaminating the air.

Diagnostic

Every time people move they have to get used to the new place as well as the climate. I used to live in a country where it was always hot, the Dominican Republic. In this place all four seasons where hot and humid, even in winter which is the coldest season in many places of the world.  However, I remember that some years it felt chill and I had to wear a jacket to go to school in the mornings, and when I had to go out in during the nights. Years later, I had to move to the United States, but I did not have an idea of how the environment was going to be. When I got here it was summer, so I thought it was like in my country, but later on I noticed it was getting cold and cold as the days when on. I also remember that I told my mother that we would freeze because ever time I had to go out it was insanely cold. Then, when I saw the first snow storm I was terrify because outside looked like it was a huge freezer full of snow, and everybody used to laughed about the crazy things I used to said. furthermore, it was very hard for me to get used to that type of environment because I had to wear to much clothes, fight with the cold, and struggle with the snow all over the place. But what make this situation worse at the beginning of all the years I had been in this country, was that every time it is cold even  in my country I used to get sick. Meaning that with this horrible weather, until the present day, I am always sick during the entire winter. So, that is something that remains me of country which I miss with all my heart.

"To Do" list

• Well, according to my classmates my letter-essay sounds more like an essay, so Rashad recommended me to loosen up a little bit. Also, they told me that i should give my personal opinion. So, based on this, for my revision, I will try to make sound more like a letter, and I will of course include my personal information.
• What I find more challenging in this assignment is to combine the information that I have with my opinion since that was part of my weakness for this assignment.
• Something that I will like to be better with this writing is actually keep doing as I have been doing so far because my classmates feedback were mostly positives.