In-Class Zeitoun Blog

In the book, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Zeitoun stays behind when the storm was arriving. His wife and children left him because they know he is a stubborn man and would do what he says. Zeitoun stays back to tend his business by protecting his tools and other houses he has been working on. Later on in the book, after Hurricane Katrina passes, he paddles with his canoe helping any stranded survivors. At one point, he helps a very old woman who didn't know how to swim. As Zeitoun speaks with his wife Kathy on the phone, Kathy wants him to leave the hurricane site, but he says " I feel like I'm supposed to be here, its Gods will" (Eggers 124). As this is said, it can be added that Zeitoun's personality changes in a religiously destined type of perspective. He believes that there was a reason he is participating in that situation at that particular moment. I believe this is important because if Zeitoun wasn't to believe in "God's will" or destiny, the situation he is in now would have been changed dramatically. He most likely would have vacated that area to meet up his wife and kids instead of thinking he belongs there at that moment. 

In-Class Blog #4 "Zeitoun"

  In the book, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Zeitoun and Kathy plays the main character role. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, who simply goes by the name Zeitoun, is a devoted hard-working, stubborn Muslim that is devoted to his family. He began sailing the world with his older brother, Ahmad Zeitoun, and settled in New Orleans as a successful painting contractor. As for Kathy, Zeitoun’s wife was a recent converted Muslim who worked day by day to support her child Zachary, till she married Zeitoun and had more children. Kathy & Zeitoun are a happy couple that works together in their business.

  Later on in the book, a Hurricane named Katrina is soon to hit New Orleans. Kathy doesn’t seem to be worried till their Mayor on the news tells them to evacuate soon. Kathy is then alarmed and soon packs up to get ready to leave. However, Zeitoun, doesn’t seem distressed about the Hurricane. He tells Kathy what is there to be “worried” about and explains he needs to watch over the houses he’s working on (Eggers51). Kathy knows how stubborn her husband can be, they never evacuated in other storms before and didn’t think they need to do so now. Nevertheless, Kathy understands her husband’s point and then leaves to one of her family’s house for the evacuation

Blog # 3 Revision Of Blog #2

   My name is Ibrahim.In this blog I am responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on climate change. In this assignment,I was told to explain the science of climate change to an outsider reader who knows nothing about the topic, using two essays from the book Global Warming Reader by Bill McKibben.
    

  According to facts and evidence from the book Global Warming Reader,it can be said that the temperature on earth is slowly increasing thus making it hard for us humans to live in.This is because the rising temperature can lead to insufficient food & the rise of water level by the melting of the north and south pole icebergs and the dehydration of crops & animals which then can lead them to die. The rise of the water level may also cause natural disasters and many other catastrophe. This is what may happen if Earth's temperature keep adding up.
  
   On page 76 of the chapter The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,the International Panel on Climate Change a.k.a (IPPC) states that "Human activities are modifying the concentration of the atmospheric constituents that absorb or scatter radiant energy". What this quote is trying to explain is that,due to us humans activity , the earths natural course of depleting carbon dioxide and keeping itself balanced has been unorganized. So these carbon dioxide stay's in our atmosphere and heat's up the climate.This is called the Greenhouse Effect.       

  Also,on page 70 of the chapter The Anthropocene, Paul J. Crutzen & Eugene F. Stoermer explains "In a few generations ,mankind is exhausting the fossil fuels that were generated over several hundred million years.Coal burning and oil burning is at least two times larger than the sum of all natural emissions". By reading these evidence, i think people aren't really paying much attention to their environment. Or else why would they choose to hurt their world just to kill themselves. Mankind have evolved rapidly from barbarian's to a civilization. But the cost of this lead us to destroy our atmosphere. Changing our way just a little can do so much to our earth and i think its time we all learn that.

Paraphrase

From 1888 to 1938, humans have increased about  150,000 million tons of co2 in the air. (Callendar 33)

To List For Revision

- Find more evidence for climate change and global warming to support my idea
- Write more about how I feel about the city not being able to be prepared.
The most challenging part about this assignment i think would be being able to type a 5 page essay without getting off topic and to fit in some  parts of the article and the book The Global Warming Reader in the essay. I need to be able to get better at finding more evidence and to write more.