poverty

Every time I sit down and open the internet and search “poverty”, the articles that pop up are all just so profound. There are many ways that a person or a city in this case, can reach poverty. This particular article was about a serious natural disaster that causes poverty just three days ago. On Thursday, Tropical Storm Hanna drowned the city of Gonaives, Haiti. The flooding is just the cover of the book. The details get worse. As you may know, Haiti isn’t the most civilized place. Therefore, there are many people who live through “poverty.” The most shocking information that I got out from this article is heartbreaking. Children at three orphanages were starving. It wasn’t only that, a convoy out of the U.N base was going to the orphanage; However, because the damage of the flood, the convoy couldn’t complete the excursion. Therefore, the children at the orphanage are probably still waiting as I write this paper. According to the author, there are not just couple tens of children, but tens of thousands of children. Now that is serious. Nonetheless, other people who are not orphanages are also impacted seriously from this flood. 250,000 people were affected by this storm, and this is only in the Gonaives region. Moreover, 70,000 people and 150 homes were damaged to some cost. Furthermore, as I am writing now, approximately half of the homes of the Gonaives region remain flooded. "These people lost everything," he [Bernard Chauve] said. "They have no water, no food. It is very bad." (CNN).

Although typical articles have authors, I could not find the author for this particular article. However, I am confident to say that the article is unbiased. Based on my past observations of using CNN, they author does a really good job of pointing out facts and opinions from every perspective. Also, the quotes and dictions used in the articled fit in best to describe the gravity of the situation to its full extent.

"The situation in Gonaives is catastrophic," Daniel Rouzier, Haiti chairman of Food for the Poor, wrote in an e-mail. "We, just like the rest of the victims ... have limited mobility. You can't float a boat, drive a truck or fly anything to the victims."

Anger and frustration was growing at the inability or unwillingness of the government and the international community to help. (CNN).

This quote was used to describe the sympathy of the chairman of Gonaives on the impact of the flood.

All in all, the articles on CNN can communicates its message lucidly to the readers by using their quotes and dictions to put and image of the situation into the reader’s mind.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/04/haiti.floods.ap/index.html