Today is the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the worse natural disaster at that time to hit American shores. Presently there are many New Orleanian residents still in the disapora, displaced and then stuck in cities and towns throughout America. A lot of families here at College of Alameda are here as a result of this displacement.
Today is also the birthday of America and the world's most celebrated artists, Michael Jackson, who died about 2-3 years ago.
You have a choice: Find an article that looks at New Orleans or the Gulf Region, six years after Katrina (specifically hip hop's response if possible) or an article on Michael Jackson (something current). He would have been 53 today.
Read the article, bring the article to class, and be prepared to share it tomorrow.
Today is also the birthday of America and the world's most celebrated artists, Michael Jackson, who died about 2-3 years ago.
You have a choice: Find an article that looks at New Orleans or the Gulf Region, six years after Katrina (specifically hip hop's response if possible) or an article on Michael Jackson (something current). He would have been 53 today.
Read the article, bring the article to class, and be prepared to share it tomorrow.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 8:37 AM
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Sebastian Chastang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11am-11:50am
29 August 2011
Summary to the Sixth-Anniversary Post Hurricane Katrina Article
The basis of the article was on the unity presented by the prominent figures from that community. These self-less figures all have successful backgrounds in music and education.
Their combined passions for the project brought it about. The projects goal is to reach into the community and see what the very issues are so that change can be brought about.
The reason why the name Ellis Marsalis was chosen is because he wanted to bring the best out in you by allowing you to find and do things your own way. He was a man on a mission that is projected to the inhabitants of the center to show them that they should follow their dreams and to make sure they do things "Their way".
Stephanie Kiick
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
1 September 2011
Summary of Article
On August 25, 2011 a private ceremony was held in the upper 9th ward of Musicians Village in New Orleans for the grand opening of the Ellis Marsalis Center of Music. Ellis Marsalis senior has been very popular jazz pianist and an icon in musical education for decades, mainly at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and the University of New Orleans. The musical, educational and community center took a year-long effort to fund. The efforts began when Harry Connick Jr, a former student of Ellis Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis's son, manager Ann Wilkins and the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity teamed up to put a musical and community center in the Musicians Village. The village has been the home to many displaced musicians from the devastating Hurricane Katrina. The Ellis Marsalis' main focus is for Musicians' Village students to, “perpetuate New Orleans music and culture” (Spera, par. 5), but also give assistance to community members. Marsalis and Connick kept the center free to everyone except the insurance on the instruments which is supplied by the center. The Ellis Marsalis Center includes a large studio, a multipurpose performance hall with a stage, recording accessibility, a computer lab, a small music library, rehearsal rooms, a central courtyard, a toddler park, music classes, as well as after school programs and activities. The center took most of the funding help from live performances, private donations, efforts from Habitat for Humanity, but mostly The Dave Matthews Band who gathered 1.5 million dollars from performances. Executive director of the Ellis Marsalis Center, Michele Jean-Pierre says, “Access is sometimes and issue...Adolescents in New Orleans need structure... Music is so much a part of the fiber of this culture...Music instruction is not as easily accessible post-Katrina” (par. 21).
Works Cited
Spera, Keith. “Ellis Marsalis Center for Music opens in Musicians' Village.” New Orleans Times: Time-Picayune 25 Aug. 2011. 29 Aug. 2011 (http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2011/08/ellis_marsalis_center_for_musi.html)
Samuel Yihdego
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11am-11:50am
29 September 2011
The Sixth-Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
It has been six years since hurricane Kathrina devastated the State of New Orleans and Parts of Alabama and Mississippi. As we know hurricane is one of the major natural disasters. Consequently, "an estimated 1700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands lost" (New York Times August 25, 2011). The damages to property are in billions of dollars borne from the incident. However, the government has reacted immediately, to save the life of the citizens. Even after this devastating natural disaster was over, the government has taken care of the victims by providing basic accommodations until they found their permanent place to settle. Six years later, New Orleans showed one of the most rapid progresses, in many ways, in the United State.
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