Katrina Hurricane

This hurricane is known as one of the most terrible of the history of the U.S, not only for the killing rate , which was 1.836 people approximately , but for the quantity of money , known too as the most expensive disaster in the U.S. with a record of 75 millions of dollars. The most severe loss of life and property damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana.

At the beginning it started as a hurricane level one (according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, which classify the tropical cyclones or tropical storms that becomes hurricanes) in the Bahamas, the 24 of august of 2005 ,touching land in Florida causing floods, lost of electricity for more than a million of houses, and a rate of eleven deads. But it was getting stronger during its stay in the gulf of Mexico, becoming a hurricane level five now known as the fourth strongest storm in the Atlantic with winds of 280 km/h., And the deadliest hurricane since the 1982 Okeenchobee Huricane ,which in September of the 1982 struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida, killing at least 4,078 people.


It touched land once more the 29 of august of 2005 in Louisiana as a very big hurricane, this time as a level three with winds of 205km/h.

The secuence of the pass of the hurricane was:

The 23 of august, of august it is discovered a tropical depression.
The 24 of august, the depression gets stronger and it`s known as the tropical "storm Katrina."
The 25 of august, touch land in Florida as a hurricane level one, causing large damages.
The 26-28 of august take strength and gets bigger.
The 29 of august, touched land in Florida as Hurricane Level four.
30 of august, pass for Kentucky letting some counties declared a zone of disaster letting New Orleans in an 80% .
The 31 of august, there are some inundations in the north east of U.S and winds with rain in Canada.
The 1st of September, there are some rests of the hurricane at the north of Canada being totally disintegrated.

Here i let you a link that i found for watching videos of the disaster that Hurricane Katrina
let behind. There is one where a man describes the Hurricane, watch it is very interesting.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5954521938928173924

(to watch the video, copy the link and put it in the writing bar.)

John Donne : "The Sunne Rising"

1- who's the speaker and who's speaking to?

1- A lover is talking to the sun.

2- type of vocabulary (loving, violent, angry, etc)

It has a violent vocabulary, this you can see it from the very beginning.
(Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,Why dost thou thus,Through windowes,
and through curtaines call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?)


3- alliterations, metaphors, comparisons, assonances, personifications.

 Here you can find personificaton in the sense that the person who is speaking,
is giving human attributes to the sun, like to interrupt, or visit to someone.
Other example is in the lines where says: Thine age askes ease,saying that
he is old and must to have a rest.),or :

...Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide

 Late school boyes, and sowre prentices,

 Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride, Call countrey ants
to harvest offices,...(telling to the sun to go and talk or tell the news
that the king will ride, and to speak with the ants so they start they work,etc.)

Metaphor: Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us?

Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? (the sunshine is always giving the new that
is the end of the night, and in this case, the end of the time to the lovers
of being together.)

...Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare...

Alliterations : Call countrey ... Love, all alike... could eclipse and cloud them with a winke... Thou sunne art halfe as happy’as wee... Thine age askes ease... To warme the world.


Comparison: Princes doe but play us; compar’d to this,All honor’s mimique; All wealth alchimie.


4- what's the poem about?

This poem is about the beginning of the day and the dislike of somebody
because of this, due it is the end of the time for lovers for being together,
The night has always represented the evil as well as the dark and the romantic,
and the day, the end of it. So in this case marks the end of a season for love.



... it is a very strong poem, where you can see in a very interesting way, the desire of a lover for the sun not to come, but understanding at the end, after express his feelings, the meaning and importance of its
arrive, and finally telling to the sun to shine for the lovers, and that it will be welcome inside the room.
A very good poem, although it was difficult to understand and analyze, the meaning and the passion that the speaker shows, makes it more interesting and difficult to stop reading it.

We all can see how the internet has influenced in our lives. Even getting to the extream.

One of the greatest media for comunication...that has been used for better or for worst, but communication at the end.

Lots of teenagers with problems, or that can`t find an ending to them, use this kind of web pages to express this "secret feelings" in an anonymous way.

Having an space just let your phone number, to build a "blogspot", a "fotolog", or a forum, is enough to create an instance to get this people in contact.
I do not see anything wrong with this, i believe that is their problem or decision if they want to commit or not a suicide...The striking of this to me is the quantitie of people who is interested in this kind of actions, and the kind of people who do it. People who maybe have simple troubles with their families, nighbours, brothers, etc. But more interesting, people who have such an extream philosophical postures or vews of the world, and make this big act of demostration of their beliefs, people who don`t do this decition only for troubles, but beliefs.

It maybe someone who lives next to you and you may never know until the fact has being done.

generally people that you`ll never think that has a suicidal tendency... but poor peolpe?
why are the less in this kind of records?, maybe just because the different points of view that the life has given to them, i leave the question open...

The asian culture is one of the most recognizble suicidal culture, which in only five years can double the death rate. as we can see in the news today in te article:

Tracking an Online Trend, and a Route to Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/world/asia/23korea.html?pagewanted=1

here you can see the corporations that has been created to stop this kind of actions, and the methods that they are using. As eliminating the blogs with names relationated with suicides, investigatin about people who have web relationated pages, and traking the page to find out which is the end of the creation of the site to catch or see if the owner of this web has a shady past.

Here you can see the corporations that have been created to stop this kind of actions and the methods that they are using as eliminating blogs with names related ro suicides, investigating about people who have related web sites, and traking the page to find out which is the purpose of the creation of the site to catch or see if the owner of this web has a shady past
Here i leave you a free collection of articles about suicides and suicide attempts bublished in The New York Times.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/suicidesandsuicideattempts/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier

The Ghost Song... compleat!

Awake. Shake dreams from your hair my pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day the day's divinity First thing you see. A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon Couples naked race down by it's quiet side And we laugh like soft, mad children Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy The music and voices are all around us. Choose they croon the Ancient Ones the time has come again choose now, they croon beneath the moon beside an ancient lake Enter again the sweet forest Enter the hot dream Come with us everything is broken up and dances. Indians scattered, On dawn's highway bleeding Ghosts crowd the young child’s, Fragile eggshell mind We have assembled inside, This ancient and insane theater To propagate our lust for our life, And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets. The barns have stormed The windows kept, And only one of all the rest To dance and save us From the divine mockery of words, Music inflames temperament. Ooh great creator of being Grant us one more hour, To perform our art And perfect our lives. We need great golden copulations, When the true kings murders Are allowed to roam free, A thousand magicians arise in the land Where are the feast we are promised? One more thing Thank you oh lord For the white blind light Thank you oh lord For the white blind light A city rises from the sea I had a splitting headache From which the future's made

...The begining of something... i hope.