Tag Archive for 'disaster'

Refugee V. Evacuee Disaster Languaging After the Hurricane

June 2nd, 2008 by admin

Language is a behavior potentially under our control, and a powerful loop: it’s how we act upon the world, and how the world acts upon us. It’s how we express our thoughts and feelings, and it also influences our thoughts and feelings. It is probably not possible to have a feeling without a tho…

Katrina - What Its Like To Be An Evacuee

June 1st, 2008 by admin

With less than twenty four hours to go before hurricane Katrina hit land my wife and I started to pack up the car to leave St Bernard Parish Louisiana. We had to have the brakes repaired only an hour before we left. We had to depend on the kindness of a neighbor who was frantically working on the…

Why We Build Cities on Swamps

May 1st, 2008 by admin

One man’s single-minded determination built this city on a swamp, on territory claimed by the enemy. Years later, Hitler decreed it should be wiped off the face of the earth. The name of the city? St. Petersburg, Russia’s Window on Europe, Venice of the North, City of Light, is quite simply the…



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