Research Response-Berger

 

Michael Berger 

    The profile that I had a look at was over Burnell Cotlon and how he overcame the difficulties of Hurricane Katrina. Cotlon had been bouncing around managing different fast-food chains after hurricane Katrina destroyed his neighborhood. Once He was able to move back to the ninth ward he saw that people were having to travel to a different city in order to shop for the things that they needed. So he went to open up his own shop but it was his mother that had to encouraged him to do so, saying “ think about what your next steps in life is gonna be. Maybe it’s some type of business of your own.”(Isay 150). In do this, he was able to help his community and find his calling. What I take away from this is, sometimes you can find your calling by looking around and seeing what people need. Filling that need just maybe what you want to do. 

     My research question was, What contaminated the ninth wards’ grounds? This stuck up to me in the reading because it had said that Cotlon could not move back because of contamination. So my original thought of this was the flood water pick of so chemicals from a field and dumped them there, or some kind of treatment plant was damaged and was leaking somethings. What I had found out on the other hand might be worse. “feet below the grass was 20 feet of compacted industrial waste riddled with 49 cancer-causing chemicals.”( Pierce Paragraph 3)The resound why the ninth ward is liking because the floodwaters likely pulled these chemicals to the surface and they to wait for them to be cleaned up or dissipate on its own. 

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34637/poison-streets/

Here are some of the effect of chemicals getting into the water like what happened in the ninth ward.

Research response-Pietro

 Pietro Pozzi

English 1109 @ 1:30-3:30

11/17/2020

Research Response Exercise 

The profile that I am going to analyze is about Dawn Maestas, Ink Removal Specialist. Her ex-boyfriend violently abused of her, she came out of that situation and used it as an experience for doing good in people that struggled or are struggling with domestic violence. After her toxic relationship she found her passion in tattoo removal, the first tattoo she removed was the name of her husband that he tattooed on her. Now, she helps other women that were in her situation by removing their tattoos for free. Nicole, one of her patience that struggled with domestic violence too, said: “The first time you removed one of my tattoos, I was just like, Wow. I don’t feel like prisoner in my body anymore. Each time you removed one, I felt like I was taking ownership of my myself again. I wasn’t a prisoner in my body anymore, and that felt good” (Isay, 164).  

Dawn went away from her abusive husband when she was 28 years old, for the next ten years she tried to get her head straight and she studied to be an aesthetician. Just before she took her board exams, she saw a TV program about laser removal, immediately signed up for a class, she fell in love with it and she has been doing it ever since. Dawn removes tattoos for free for people that cannot afford to pay for it, because today some jobs don’t hire you because you have tattoos on your body. She developed a system to organize this tattoos removal, as she says: “It’s offered to the first 10 people who call on the second Tuesday of each month. They will get an appointment for a free tattoo removal on the following Saturday. Although it’s pretty much first-come, first-served, Maestas says she does some weeding out, and the tattoos must be from neck up or wrist down” (Dawn Maestas removes, 1). 

 

This picture, in my opinion, it is already hard to look at it even knowing that is just two actors impersonating in the character for the picture. I can’t imagine how horrifying it would be to live this reality.