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A 4 page paper which examines the opinion of those who argue that the levees in New Orleans may have been intentionally destroyed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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are many opinions regarding many elements of the aftermath as people argue it was a racial reaction and others argue that the government was less than organized about helping people.
It was, in many ways, an embarrassment for the nation in many ways and it is likely that the root of the problems in terms of reaction and events will
never really be known. One question that puzzles many people involves the involvement of the government in relationship to the levees in New Orleans that ultimately broke and flooded the
poor. The following paper examines the opinion that the breaking of the levees was not necessarily an accident. Opinion: New Orleans Levees The editorial/opinion that serves as the
foundation of this paper is written by an individual from New Orleans, Amanda Phillips, who states, "So many Americans have Katrina fatigue and blame the victims for their predicament when
the flooding was a government-designed disaster." She indicates that while maintenance of the levees was a problem there were other problems as well that were known to the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers who ultimately designed the levees (Phillips). A recent film that examines many of these, and other, issues concerning Hurricane
Katrina and New Orleans is the Spike Lee Film "When The Levees Broke." In this film there the viewer can find the opinions and experiences of many different individuals and
it is noted that the levees were known to be incapable of handling the event that was Katrina. The levees, begun seriously after the 1965 Hurricane Betsy were still not
completed by the time Katrina hit, indicating that the Corps of Engineers were seriously in error. Phillips indicates that, "The corps ignored
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