Blog post # 18

I chose Hurricane Katrina as the artifact for my essay. I used the article from Janet Gates in our books, about the red and blue states, in my essay. I wrote about how the hurricane started and the effects of it. I gave an opposing view from a writer who stated that the United States spends billions on saving Katrina victims, and bombing the Iraqis, yet Africa has millions of starving people who we won't help out. This is probably because they have nothing to offer us. For example, we can benefit from IRaq because of the oil.....still writing my essay..