Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/25/world/asia/china-climate-change-resettlement.html?ref=world
NY Times
October 25, 2016
"The “lake” part of Miaomiao Lake Village turned out to be nothing but a tiny oasis more than a mile from the cookie-cutter rows of small concrete-block houses."
"Instead, these people who once herded sheep and goats over expansive hills now feel like penned-in animals, listless and uncertain of their future."
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I really love the way the author is able to capture the way that many people of the Miaomiao Lake Village were deceived, by explaining the "lake" as a tiny oasis surrounded by "cookie-cutter rows of small concrete-block houses." This lucid description of the environment in witch these people live, paints a picture that almost everyone can imagine. The author is making something ordinary such as an over populated town, something extraordinary by using vivid descriptions. the second quote is similar to the first in that it exemplifies the way the citizens were deceived, and their roles of living free and herding animals switched resulting in them being herded into an unwanted way of living.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
Words Matter #1
Words Matter #1
"‘This Is the Only Shelter We Have’: Storm-Battered Haitians Huddle in Caves"
NY Times
October 17th 2016
"When the rain comes at night in these distant mountains, the people flee what homes they have left. They race down hills threaded with stones and ragged palm branches, the earth the color of rust."
"For four days and nights, they huddled in its womb before emerging, frightened the hurricane might return. They slept on a floor of stacked boulders near the cave’s mouth, lighting small fires for warmth and light."
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I really love these two excerpts from an article about the damaging effects of Hurricane Matthew. The author really chose to make the ordinary extraordinary by describing simple events such as rain and wind in immense detail that really engulfs the reader into the story as if he/ she were actually there. I particularly like the phrase about the survivors huddling in the caves womb, because it really brings to life how that cave is a save place of refuge, to escape such tragic events.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/americas/haiti-hurricane-matthew-caves.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
"‘This Is the Only Shelter We Have’: Storm-Battered Haitians Huddle in Caves"
NY Times
October 17th 2016
"When the rain comes at night in these distant mountains, the people flee what homes they have left. They race down hills threaded with stones and ragged palm branches, the earth the color of rust."
"For four days and nights, they huddled in its womb before emerging, frightened the hurricane might return. They slept on a floor of stacked boulders near the cave’s mouth, lighting small fires for warmth and light."
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I really love these two excerpts from an article about the damaging effects of Hurricane Matthew. The author really chose to make the ordinary extraordinary by describing simple events such as rain and wind in immense detail that really engulfs the reader into the story as if he/ she were actually there. I particularly like the phrase about the survivors huddling in the caves womb, because it really brings to life how that cave is a save place of refuge, to escape such tragic events.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/americas/haiti-hurricane-matthew-caves.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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