Assignment Two Thesis TEMPLATE: Blogging the Peer Review

Thesis Statements

Think of it like this, perhaps:

Your job is to consider three things, or groups, or groups of people:

people with some money in New Orleans (EX: Zeitouns)
people without some money in NO (Lower 9th Ward)
people with money called the GOVERNMENT (Bush, FEMA, etc)

and figure out:

what role did money play for these groups? how did it affect the decisions people made in the storm?

Templates

Money played a complex role in how people reacted to Hurricane Katrina. For some in the Lower Ninth Ward, lack of access to cash created a situation where____________________. Meanwhile, some middle-class people in NO like the Zeitouns had to face difficult choices, such as ______________________________________. All the while people faced these difficult choices and situations, the US government, who had money, chose to_______________________. In light of all these examples, I feel that money _______________________ during Hurricane Katrina and ______________________________. In this essay, I will show how each of these groups faced a different kind of Hurricane due to the power money had in their ability to make certain kinds of decisions.


Paragraph Two

The Zeitouns in Dave Eggers book Zeitoun had an interesting experience of Hurricane Katrina because _______________________ [relate to thesis]. For example, Kathy ____________afjadklfjasdfkljadfkljadfkljasd

Paragraph Three

People in the Lower Ninth Ward faced difficult circumstances because, generally, many did not have access to money. For them, their choices were based around_________________________. This means that ___________________________. For example, dfdafdfasdklsd;fkljasd;

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