Cadon Story English 4 Personal Narrative Essay #1 5 September 2017 “The Flood” The Great Flood of 2016 caught everyone in South Louisiana by surprise. During this time, everyone needed to come together and help one another in this hard time and that is what me and my family did to help the ones who needed it the most and one of those people ended up being my best friend who was going through the worst time possible. The role I played during the flood helped make me realize how thankful I am for the things i have and that I am blessed to live every day. When we started realizing that Louisiana would soon be covered in water me and my family decided to get my dad’s boat and …show more content…
As we are crossing through yards that look like lakes we ended up hitting a pole in the ground and flipped the boat and luckily it was just me and my dad because if we had a full boat then there is no telling what would have happened to the other people because the jet ski was small and it was a long ways away to dry land but as we are trying to find someone to help us and suddenly, we see a man on a jet ski who comes and picks us up and brings us to dry land. This was like a hero act because the current was bad and there is no telling what the water would have done to me and my dad if that man wasn’t there to help bring us to the bank to call my brother. Now with the boat being sunken we called some people to help pull it out the water and the good thing was no damage was done and nothing was lost when it flipped and the best thing was that it wasn’t his good boat he uses all the time. But throughout the flood everyone was doing heroic acts by helping animals and people when it’s just acts of kindness and doing what they need to be …show more content…
As days passed on the water was rising and eventually it was too late for us to do anything and our house took on water and it went from us helping people clean and gut their house to us having to do it. It is a tough time to see your house flood and you couldn’t do anything about it we are just blessed that we only got a few inches so we were able to save a lot of our furniture and valuables. In this situation, you could say another hero action happened when my friends and other family showed up to help us clean out the house and get it ready to be redone and back to normal. With this help from them we couldn’t thank them enough for what they did and took their spare time away to stop what they had planned and to help
Many service projects have had an impact on my life, but the significant one is the time that our group put together Blessing Bags. The Blessing Bags were bags put together for homeless people. This project had an impact on my life because at one point in time, my family struggled. We did not have a stable home and we had to continue movie because of the living expenses. It is very difficult to buy many products that are needed for personal hygiene, especially if someone does not have a stable home. There are many people that live in the streets and it breaks my heart. Whenever I see homeless people, I give them what I can. Although my family did not become homeless, I could not imagine living in the streets without any food, clothing, or products
A brave hero often risks his/her lives to save someone else. In Zeitoun, Dave Eggers tells us a story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the hard working Syrian American owner of a contracting company in New Orleans. Zeitoun and his wife Kathy ran the company together. They have three children named Nademah, Safiyah, Aisha. Kathy has a child from her first marriage. Zeitoun is very closed with his family and he takes his family like nobody else. When hurricane Katrina landed in 2005, endless number of people were affected. Mayor Nagin ordered a first time ever mandatory evacuation. Kathy moved with the children to her sister’s house in Baton Rouge. Zeitoun refused to leave with his family because he didn’t want lose his properties, but at the same time, his customers trusted him and gave him their house keys to check on their houses, which caused his separation with his family. This illustrates that Zeitoun is a responsible, powerful, trustworthy, and unselfish person. During the hurricane, Zeitoun was using a canoe rescuing people. Due to the lack of rescue work, many people didn’t get enough supports at that time. Zeitoun had the courage to sacrifice his family, safety, and selfish needs for saving the people.
In the article, “The Man in the Water” the author, Roger Rosenblatt, shows humans potential selflessness. After a plane crashes into the ocean, one man, the hero of the story, saves the lives of many before saving himself. As the rescuers were handing down the floaties to bring people to safety, every time one was given to this man he risked his life and handed it to someone else. Every time that he decides to save someone else he is one step closer to dying, and he knows that too, but instead he helps those in need around him. Although in the end he did not survive, what he did had effects on those watching. It showed people that any person could be a hero. The man in the water was a man with courage, and no fear, he sacrificed his life for the life of many who may not have survived if it wasn't for him or what he had done. While nature was against him and the people he fought against it to let those people live the rest of their life. In the article, the author, Roger Rosenblatt demonstrates the potential heroism and
The loss of community was acutely felt by the former Buffalo Creek residents, who had previously been a very tight knit people. This was demonstrated by the fact that post-disaster euphoria was completely absent after the flood. Usually this euphoria arises when the survivors realize that the community is still existent and alive. However in Buffalo Creek there was not a shred of community left to cause celebration. This was due in part to HUD’s housing regulations that not only worsened the feeling of isolation, but also because of the massive destruction caused by the flood itself. After the sudden and violent incident the pain of the survivors would continue far into their future. The chronic pain and suffering resulting from the loss of community and the effects of it on would linger for years.
Hurricane Katrina a catastrophe that changed lives of many peoples, people were left without food and water for days. That storm itself did a great damage lead to the massive flooding,
In both the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh the God or Gods create a flood to destroy mankind. In Gilgamesh,the Gods decide something needs to be done because the humans are being loud and disturbing the Gods. In the Bible's version of the flood story, God regrets creating mankind because the humans have become evil God chooses Noah and his family to start a new beginning.
Noah’s Ark is the story of a man who builds a boat for animals and his family to escape a fatal flood. The flood was caused by God because he was dismayed by the evilness of humans. In the end, Noah, most of the animals and his family survived and God swore that he would never destroy humankind again. The Flood of Gilgamesh is a story in which the gods are infuriated by the obnoxious behavior of humans, so Utnapishtim builds a boat to save his family and animals from a destructive flood. They survived and the Gods gave Utnapishtim immortality thanking him for his actions and apologized for destroying humankind.
The phrase “Biblically Inspired” makes people believe that the movie will be the same as the story in the Bible, when, upon examination, the movie is found to contain little from the Bible. Therefore, Noah creates an unrealistic expectation of the Bible, creating an entirely alternative story, hiding the lies behind the “Biblically inspired” phrase.
It was a warm rainy June night the humidity was high which made it even harder to breathe on the crammed boat. My family was asleep on the constantly rocking boat suddenly the boat shook, but my family was still fast asleep. I couldn’t seem to fall asleep so I got up and stepped out on the cold wet steel boats upper deck to get some air. When I got outside I realized that it was pouring bucket sized rain. I saw increasingly large waves crash furiously against the lower deck. Hard water droplets pelted my face, I could taste the salt water in my mouth from the spray of the ocean. Suddenly A massive wave slammed hard against the ship and almost swallowed the boat. Wind gusts started kicking up. I held onto the rail grasping it as if it were my prized possession. Suddenly I was blown
An example, of heroes are all those people who have fought and some who lost their lives on September 11. Many random bystanders helped dozens of people get out during the time of the collapse and still went back in with the firefighters to save many more lives. Even former U.S Marines put their uniforms back on to help search through the rubble
The two stories closely parallel each other, though Gilgamesh was written down before 2000 BCE and the version in Genesis was compiled ca. 400 BCE. Biblical writers probably knew of the much older myth but revised it so that it fit with their own history and worldview. They intended it to fit with their own mythology. Despite the many similarities between the two stories, this difference in intention is revealed in a number of motifs that distinguish the biblical story from the ancient myth:
Stories of a primeval flood exist in all parts of the world, virtually every branch of the human race has traditions of a Great Flood that destroyed all of mankind, except one family.
As a child I suffered an event that framed my life, a catastrophe that would change my life at least temporarily. This catastrophe changed things all around me, things in my family changed and things at home changed ever since that day. I remember we were all exited, we were going on a family vacation to different regions of Colombia.
In, Noah and the flood, god’s punishment of destroying the world with a flood, I believe was justified. It was justified because the lord saw the earth filled with evil, which lead him to think about a consequence for human creatures. The lord felt sick of his creation even stating, “ Every scheme of his heart’s devising was only perpetually evil”. The lord was referring to his human creation showing how furious he was towards these creatures that lead to him to create the flood. The usage of the flood in my opinion was a great way to eliminate human creatures because this caused them to suffer and drown to death. The lord didn’t just want to kill them instantaneously but make them think of the sins they conducted, while they drowned. When
Many years ago when I was a freshman in high school, an event happened to me that changed my life for the better. My friend invited me to go hiking with him and his sister. He was going to go hiking in Yosemite. The following day I prepared myself mentally and physically in order to accomplish this hike.